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Flags

Previously displayed with&nbsp;a gendered appearance, now shown as <a href="/neutral/">gender neutral</a> on most platforms.

previously-gendered

A person on a surfboard, riding&nbsp;on a wave in the ocean. Wears a wetsuit or&nbsp;board shorts in most versions.

Surfer

Man Surfing

Woman Surfing

A person swimming in a pool, the <a href="/water-wave/" title="🌊 Water Wave">ocean</a>, or another body of water.&nbsp;Lacked goggles&nbsp;on prior versions of iOS.

Swims facing to the left of screen on all major platforms.

Swimmer

A two-piece bikini, worn at the beach, pool, or on vacation at a <a href="/desert-island/" title="🏝 Desert Island">tropical destination</a>.

Shown in a variety of colors and patterns across different platforms.

Related emojis include <a href="/briefs/">🩲 Briefs</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/shorts/">🩳 Shorts</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/one-piece-swimsuit/">🩱 One-Piece Swimsuit</a>.

Bikini

A wave of water, as breaks at the beach. Depicted as a blue wave with a foamy, white crest, curling to the right.

May be used to represent water in general, various bodies of water like oceans, and water activities, such as&nbsp;<a href="/person-swimming/">swimming</a>, <a href="/person-surfing/">surfing</a>, and <a href="/sailboat/">sailing</a>. May also&nbsp;be used to represent metaphorical waves.

Apple&rsquo;s design resembles the iconic wave in&nbsp;Japanese artist Hokusai&rsquo;s famous woodblock print, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa">The Great Wave off Kanagawa</a>&nbsp;(ca. 1830).

Water Wave

A common fish, as swims in the water. Depicted as a generic, light-blue fish, often with a white underside, in full profile facing left, with fins and prominent gill cover.

May be used to represent a variety of other fish (freshwater or saltwater), <a href="/fishing-pole/">fishing</a>, metaphorical senses of fish, and fish as food, as consumed in the form of <a href="/sushi/">🍣 Sushi</a>. May be used to represent <a href="/pisces/">♓ Pisces</a>, the Fish, in the Western zodiac.

Not to be confused with <a href="/tropical-fish/">🐠 Tropical Fish</a> or <a href="/blowfish/">🐡 Blowfish</a>, though their applications may overlap. Vendors implement a similar design to the fish caught on the <a href="/fishing-pole/">🎣 Fishing Pole</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s fish was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/fish/">previously</a> yellow.

Fish

A seashell, as found at the <a href="/beach-with-umbrella/">beach</a>. Generally depicted as an empty, spiraling, white seashell, as grown by a sea <a href="/snail/">snail</a> or home to a hermit crab. Positioned at various angles across platforms.

Often used for various content concerning beaches, ocean and ocean life, and summer fun.

Apple&rsquo;s design <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/spiral-shell/">previously</a> resembled a clam shell, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/spiral-shell/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> a snail shell. <a href="/google/android-7.0/spiral-shell/">Google&rsquo;s</a> was previously blue.

Spiral Shell

A person running, with a large stride and arms outstretched.&nbsp;May be&nbsp;wearing a <a href="/running-shirt/" title="🎽 Running Shirt With Sash">running shirt</a>.

This emoji does not specify a gender, but is shown as a man on most platforms. See also:&nbsp;<a href="/woman-running/" title="🏃‍♀️ Woman Running">🏃&zwj;♀️&nbsp;Woman Running</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="/man-running/">🏃&zwj;♂️ Man Running</a>.

Runner

A shark, a large, stealthy fish with many teeth. Generally depicted as a gray shark in full profile facing left, as a&nbsp;<a href="/dolphin/">tiger</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark">bull</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark">great white shark</a> hunting in the water. Shown with a white underside and three gills, its pointed nose and teeth-lined mouth curving down to a sharp dorsal fin and long, pointed tail.

Not to be confused with <a href="/dolphin/">🐬 Dolphin</a>.

Shark

A beach showing sand, and an umbrella for protection from the <a href="/sun/" title=" ☀️ Black Sun With Rays">sun</a>.

Beach with Umbrella

A person shown in water with a ball,&nbsp;playing the sport of water polo.&nbsp;

Water Polo

A sailboat, otherwise known as a sailing boat or yacht. &nbsp;Uses wind as the source of propulsion to move around a body of water.

The color of the sails in this emoji&nbsp;vary by platform, with vendors displaying blue sails, orange sails, or a mix of red, yellow, orange, blue or white.

Sailboat

A person doing a cartwheel, representing the sport of gymnastics.

In June 2023 this emoji was at the center of a viral trend (Ba&rsquo;t 🤸 malungkot 🤸 ang 🤸 beshy 🤸 ko?) based on a scene from an episode of the Philippine television drama anthology show <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpakailanman">Magpakailanman</a>.

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Person Doing Cartwheel

The female version of the <a href="/person-surfing/">🏄&nbsp;Surfer</a> emoji.

The male version of the <a href="/person-surfing/">🏄&nbsp;Surfer</a> emoji.&nbsp;Currently identical in appearance to the non-gendered base emoji.

A skateboard emoji, usually showing the board&nbsp;from the top.

Twitter&#39;s design shows the under-side of the board, as did a <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-october-2018-update/skateboard/">previous</a> Microsoft design.

Emojipedia&#39;s sample image was&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/skateboard-dna-and-lobster-updated/">modelled after Tony Hawk&#39;s skateboard</a>.

Skateboard

A sunset-orange-colored tropical beverage in a stemmed glass, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(drink)#Rum_punches">rum punch</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_Tai">mai tai</a>. Served with a straw and fruit garnish. Many platforms include a cocktail umbrella, hence&nbsp;<a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UmbrellaDrink">umbrella drink</a>.&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/tropical-drink/">Samsung previously featured&nbsp;</a>an electric-blue concoction. See also&nbsp;<a href="/cocktail-glass/">Cocktail Glass</a>.

Tropical Drink

A palm tree, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecaceae">tree-like plant</a>, as grows by the sea. Depicted as a palm tree&nbsp;with long, green, feather-like leaves and a tall, brown, segmented trunk.

May be used to represent beaches, tropical climates and cultures, summer fun, and vacations (holidays). Vendors&nbsp;implement a similar tree in their <a href="/desert-island/">🏝️ Desert Island</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s palm tree bears <a href="/coconut/">coconuts</a>, as Samsung&rsquo;s <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/palm-tree/">previously</a> did. <a href="/apple/ios-9.1/palm-tree/">Apple&rsquo;s</a> palm tree previously had more erect palms.

Palm Tree

An open parachute floating through the air with a human steering. Most platforms feature a ram-air design. Colors vary across platforms.

Parachute

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Person Surfing: Light Skin Tone

Person Surfing: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Person Surfing: Medium Skin Tone

Person Surfing: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Person Surfing: Dark Skin Tone

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.

Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.

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