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A hotel building,&nbsp;displayed on most platforms as a building with many windows and a letter H on the front.

Can be easily confused with the <a href="/love-hotel/" title="🏩 Love Hotel">Love Hotel</a>, or <a href="/hospital/" title="🏥 Hospital">Hospital</a> emoji.&nbsp;Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/hotel/">previously</a>&nbsp;depicted this emoji as a&nbsp;bed.

Hotel

A series of three Zs making a Zzz. Represents sleeping, snoring, dreaming, or any sleep-related state. Can also be used in some contexts to represent something that is&nbsp;boring.

Sleeping Symbol

A person tipping their hand by their shoulder as if they&rsquo;re carrying a tray of drinks or flipping their hair. Originally called Information Desk Person.

This emoji is commonly used to express sassiness or sarcasm.

While no gender is specified, <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/person-tipping-hand/">many</a> <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/person-tipping-hand/">early</a> <a href="/google/android-4.4/person-tipping-hand/">designs</a>&nbsp;displayed this emoji as a woman. Google&rsquo;s 2014 design shows <a href="/google/android-5.0/person-tipping-hand/">a blob wearing white gloves and a pillbox hat</a>. Microsoft&rsquo;s 2015 design shows <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/person-tipping-hand/">a woman doing this gesture while winking</a>, a facial expression that further reinforces the sassy and sarcastic uses of this emoji.

Information Desk Person

A bed with a gender-unspecified person sleeping in it, as at a <a href="/house/">house</a>, <a href="/hotel/">hotel</a>,&nbsp;hostel, or other sleeping accommodation. Used especially for various content concerning <a href="/sleeping-face/">sleeping</a> as well as beds, furniture, housing, relaxing, and other bedroom activities.

Shown with a headboard at the left&nbsp;and footboard with a person under the covers, head on the pillow. Most platforms suggest a wooden frame and feature blue or red sheets.

The appearance of the person varies. Apple and Facebook&#39;s designs show only the hair of the sleeper, Apple&#39;s black and Facebook&#39;s brown and tousled. Other major vendors show the head of the sleeper in default yellow with short, brown or blonde&nbsp;hair. Skin tone support is not recommended for this emoji, though it is supported&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://emojipedia.org/sleeping-accommodation-type-4/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550338562835000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHzfwaURXq7FmOe4Z-btvsniTcb0Q" href="/person-in-bed-medium-skin-tone/" target="_blank">on some platforms</a>.

Vendors implement the same style&nbsp;of bed as for&nbsp;their <a href="/bed/">🛏️&nbsp;Bed</a>, but with a sleeper in it.

Sleeping Accommodation

A generic, high-rise office building. Generally found in cities, and most active during business hours.

The office building shown in Twemoji 2.0 is of <a href="https://foursquare.com/v/twitter-hq/4ee0ecde29c2c6e332924109?openPhotoId=506e210ae4b06f9dbabdd728">Twitter HQ</a> in San Fransisco.

Office Building

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_hotel">love hotel</a> is a hotel that can be hired <a href="/smirking-face/" title="😏 Smirking Face">by the hour</a> instead of as <a href="/person-in-bed/" title="🛌 Sleeping Accommodation">accommodation</a> for the evening.

Sometimes mistaken for a get well soon emoji&nbsp;due to the similarity in appearance to the <a href="/hospital/" title="🏥 Hospital">hospital</a>. The Microsoft version of this&nbsp;emoji previously&nbsp;displaying <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/love-hotel/">a bed with a heart above it</a>.

Love Hotel

Ding! A call bell, as pressed at a front&nbsp;desk or reception&nbsp;to alert staff for service, such as from a <a href="/person-tipping-hand/">concierge</a> or bellhop (porter) to carry <a href="/luggage/">luggage</a> at a <a href="/hotel/">hotel</a>. Generally depicted as a golden <a href="/bell/">bell</a> on a wooden stand.

Commonly represents alerts or notifications to bring attention to important content. May also be used of various content concerning the hospitality and service industries.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/bellhop-bell/">previously</a>&nbsp;featured&nbsp;a silver bell radiating yellow rays, as if ringing.

Bellhop Bell

A timepiece set in advance to startle a person awake at the designated time with its two bells. That is, before hitting snooze.&nbsp;Appearance varies across platforms, but depicted as a classic, wind-up, bedside alarm clock, often red in color.

May be used for various content concerning alarms, alerts, <a href="/person-in-bed/">sleeping</a>, waking, and time more generally.

Alarm Clock

A symbol showing two or three people standing in a square with up and down arrows above them. Most platforms feature a simple blue and white design.

Mostly used to talk about elevators. Also used metaphorically to talk about moving or leveling&nbsp;up or down.

Elevator

A bed, made up for sleeping in a <a href="/house/">house</a>, <a href="/hotel/">hotel</a>, or other <a href="/person-in-bed/">sleeping accommodation</a>. Shown with a headboard at the left, footboard, mattress, pillow, and sheet. Most platforms suggest a wooden frame and feature blue or red sheets.

Commonly used for various content concerning beds, furniture, and housing as well as <a href="/sleeping-face/">sleeping</a>, relaxing, and other bedroom activities.

Vendors implement the same style of bed for <a href="/person-in-bed/">🛌&nbsp;Person in Bed</a>, but without a sleeper under the covers.

A couch (sofa) with a floor lamp on the right, as in the&nbsp;living room of a <a href="/house/">house</a>. Color and style of the couch and lamp vary widely by platform.&nbsp;Used for various content concerning furniture and housing as well as resting and lounging.

Couch and Lamp

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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.

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

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, Roblox, 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.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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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 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 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.

Emoji designs from an early handheld device from 1990.

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 <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a> 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.

2002

2001

A color version of Docomo&#39;s first emoji set. These emoji designs have been on display within the&nbsp;Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City since 2016.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

2000

The first emoji set from Japanese carrier Docomo (styled NTT DoCoMo in 1999). One of the most successful early emoji sets due to its use on multiple devices. Designed by Japanese interface designer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigetaka_Kurita">Shigetaka Kurita</a>, these minimalistic graphics were used on multiple devices, and evolved to <a href="/docomo/2013/">a vector graphic implementaiton in 2013</a>.

Commonly cited as the first emoji set, it is more accurate to deem this one of the first emoji sets. An emoji implementation from competing Japanese carrier <a href="/softbank/1997/">Softbank predated this set with a 1997 emoji release</a>.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

🏨 Hotel on Docomo 2000

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