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An orange-colored basketball. Originally intended to display as a basketball and a hoop, as per previous designs by <a href="/google/android-7.0/basketball/">Google</a>, <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/basketball/">Samsung</a>, and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/basketball/">Microsoft</a>.

This emoji can be sent on Facebook Messenger to unlock a <a href="http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2016/03/17/messenger-basketball/">hidden&nbsp;basketball game</a>.

Basketball and Hoop

A volleyball emoji, showing the round ball used in the sport. Played as part of the <a title="🏊 Olympics" href="/olympics/">Summer Olympic Games</a>.

Volleyball

A paper ticket, which may be for a theatre show, sporting event, or other ticketed performance. Shown in blue, yellow or grey on most platforms.

Ticket

A round, black and white ball used in the game of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football">soccer</a>, which is known as football in much of the world. See also: <a href="/world-cup/">emojis for the World Cup</a>.

Soccer Ball

A white baseball, with regulation red stitching. Used in the game of the same name, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball">baseball</a>.

Baseball

The oval-shaped ball used in the game of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_football">rugby</a>. Varies slightly in shape&nbsp;in the two main versions of the game: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union">rugby union</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_league">rugby league</a>.

The appearance of this emoji varies, with a brown leather appearance&nbsp;in Apple and Google&rsquo;s imagery,&nbsp;but a more popular&nbsp;white-with-highlight color in Twitter&rsquo;s&nbsp;design.

Rugby Football

A tennis racket (racquet) with a tennis ball. Only a ball is shown on certain platforms, including Apple, Twitter, and WhatsApp.

Tennis Racquet and Ball

This emoji displays the black 8 ball on most platforms, which looks similar to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_8-Ball">Magic 8-Ball</a> toy. This is despite the fact that emoji was originally created intending to represent game of billiards,&nbsp;of which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_(cue_sports)">pool</a> is a common version.

Samsung <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/pool-8-ball/">previously</a> displayed&nbsp;this emoji with a cue and triangular arrangement of&nbsp;colored balls, as did <a href="/google/android-4.4/pool-8-ball/">Google</a> and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/pool-8-ball/">Microsoft </a>(sans cue).

Billiards

A person with a ball, which is generally displayed as a basketballer running and dribbling (bouncing) the <a href="/basketball/" title="🏀 Basketball and Hoop">basketball</a>.

Person with Ball

The male version of the <a href="/person-bouncing-ball/">⛹&nbsp;Person With Ball</a> emoji.

Man Bouncing Ball

A softball, which is differentiated from a baseball by size (it is larger, though hard to tell in emoji form) and color (yellow, not white).

Softball

A wastebasket, as used to discard trash in an office. Generally depicted as a silver, wire-mesh container. Also known as a wastepaper basket, trash/garbage can, or rubbish bin.

Commonly used for various content concerning literal and figurative waste. May also be used in the context of <a href="/basketball/">basketball</a>. Sometimes paired with <a href="/fire/">🔥&nbsp;Fire</a> as a <a href="https://www.americandialect.org/dumpster-fire-is-2016-american-dialect-society-word-of-the-year">visual representation</a> of the slang expression dumpster fire (&quot;chatoic situation&quot;).

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/wastebasket/">previously depicted</a>&nbsp;a&nbsp;metal can/bin with a lid, as used for outdoor garbage&mdash;or lived in by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_the_Grouch">Oscar the Grouch</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/basket/">🧺&nbsp;Basket</a>.

Wastebasket

A basket, as used for storing or carrying such things as food or clothes. Appearance widely varies across platforms but generally depicted as woven from wicker with one or more handles. Commonly used to represent doing laundry or having a picnic.

Apple and WhatsApp&rsquo;s designs, featuring a white cloth, suggest a <a href="/bread/">bread</a> or picnic basket. Samsung&rsquo;s design displays green fabric, as knitted from <a href="/yarn/">yarn</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-11/basket/">previously</a> suggested&nbsp;a laundry basket by holding a blue garment or cloth.

Not to be confused with <a href="/wastebasket/">🗑️&nbsp;Wastebasket</a>.

Basket

A white piece of paper secured by a silver clip on a brown clipboard, as used as a writing surface when standing. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing, especially in sports.

Many platforms indicate text with dark lines. WhatsApp&rsquo;s design shows lined paper. Facebook&rsquo;s features the easter egg of a table with first names and numbers, perhaps as birthdates:

Matt 3/28 
Louie 4/30 
Alexa 6/17 
Brian 8/06

Apple&rsquo;s design also features an easter egg, addressed Dear Katie and signed Take care from <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a> with the text of its 1997&ndash;2002 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different">Crazy Ones/Think Different</a> ad campaign:

Here&rsquo;s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They&rsquo;re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can&rsquo;t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Clipboard

A goat, a sturdy,&nbsp;hoofed animal raised for its meat and milk. Depicted as a light brown, white, or multicored goat in full profile on all fours facing left, a scraggly beard,&nbsp;upright tail,&nbsp;and brown or yellow horns curving back.

Frequently used as a visual shorthand for the slang expression <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/g-o-a-t/">GOAT</a>, or the Great of All Time, often said of athletes and in particular&nbsp;the late&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant">Kobe Bryant</a>.

Often considered one of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese zodiac</a>. Also often used to represent <a href="/capricorn/">♑ Capricorn</a> in the Western zodiac.

<a href="/apple/ios-6.0/goat/">Apple</a>, <a href="/google/android-7.0/goat/">Google</a>, and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/goat/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> goats were previously white, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saanen_goat">Saanen goat</a>. Facebook&rsquo;s design previously featured only a goat face.

Goat

The flag for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania">Lithuania</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;LT&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Lithuania

L2/09-026

L2/07-257

Emojipedia

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.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

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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Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

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 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.

NTT Docomo (previously styled as DoCoMo) is a Japanese mobile phone carrier known for launching the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode">i-mode</a>&nbsp;mobile internet service in early 1999.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode">i-mode</a>&nbsp;contained one of the earliest emoji sets, designed by&nbsp;interface designer&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigetaka_Kurita">Shigetaka Kurita</a>. While Kurita&#39;s 1999 emoji set is commonly cited as the first emoji set, it is more accurate to deem this <a href="/softbank/1997/">one of the first emoji sets</a>&nbsp;as earlier examples have been located, albeit on less-popular platforms than Docomo&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode">i-mode</a>.

Notably in 1995, Docomo produced a popular <a href="/pocket-bell">Pocket Bell</a> pager that allowed users to send each other&nbsp;simple pixel <a href="/red-heart">heart</a>&nbsp;(❤) and&nbsp;<a href="/telephone">telephone</a> (☎) symbols.&nbsp;The popularity of this feature amongst Japan&#39;s youth has consistently been cited by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigetaka_Kurita">Shigetaka Kurita</a>&nbsp;as a direct source of inspiration when creating <a href="/docomo/1999">Docomo&#39;s 1999</a> emoji set.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji design within every pre-2010 emoji set has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite these sets existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

Early emoji sets from Japanese carrier Docomo, including the often-cited 1999 emoji set designed by Shigetaka Kurita.

NTT Docomo

The final original emoji set from NTT Docomo. Initially installed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/service/docomo_mail/appli/deco/pictograph/index.html">on carrier handsets running&nbsp;Android 4.3 and 4.4</a>&nbsp;and later discontinued&nbsp;and replaced with <a href="/google/">standard Google emoji designs</a> on&nbsp;phones from NTT Docomo in Japan.

2013

An updated version of the NTT Docomo emoji set <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070108235809/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp:80/binary/pdf/service/imode/mail/imode_mail/emoji_convert/pictogram.pdf">first in use in 2006</a>&nbsp;and remaining in use <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080920215707/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp:80/binary/pdf/service/mail/imode_mail/function/emoji_convert/pictogram.pdf">until at least 2008</a>. This is the version of the Docomo emoji set&nbsp;<a href="https://stories.moma.org/the-original-emoji-set-has-been-added-to-the-museum-of-modern-arts-collection-c6060e141f61">displayed</a> at the Museum of Modern Art.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

2006

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

🏀 Basketball on Docomo 2000

🏀 Basketball on Docomo 2000

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