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JoyPixels Animations

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Microsoft 3D Fluent

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Mozilla

MSN Messenger

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Noto Color Emoji, Animated

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Samsung

SerenityOS

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Toss Face (토스페이스)

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Twitter Emoji Stickers

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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 <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag For Great Britain">British</a> guardsman, known as a foot guard. Wears a tall black hat with a yellow chin-strap. Must look straight ahead at all times, even when tourists attempt to distract them.

Guardsman

Man Guard

Woman Guard

Quids in! A banded stack of pound banknotes, the paper currency of the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> (<a href="/flag-england/">England</a>, <a href="/flag-wales/">Wales</a>, <a href="/flag-for-northern-ireland-gbnir/">Northern Ireland</a>, and <a href="/flag-scotland/">Scotland</a>). Color and detail vary across platforms, but widely depicted as purple&nbsp;&pound;20 notes with the pound sign,&nbsp;&pound;.

Commonly used for various content concerning wealth and money, not restricted to the U.K.&nbsp;

Samsung&#39;s design&nbsp;displays &pound;10 notes.

Banknote with Pound Sign

The flag for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, which may show as the letters GB&nbsp;on some platforms.&nbsp;<a href="/flag-england/">England</a>, <a href="/flag-scotland/">Scotland</a> and <a href="/flag-wales/">Wales</a>&nbsp;also have individual emoji&nbsp;flags.

Flag: United Kingdom

Two swords with steel blades in an X shape, as crossed for combat between two knights or warriors. Generally depicted as straight, double-edged blades with brown or black, cross-shaped hilts, points directed up.&nbsp;Commonly used as a symbol for battle, fighting, or a contest, as in sports.

Sometimes shown with golden handles. Several vendors implement the same design as for their <a href="/dagger/">🗡️&nbsp;Dagger</a>.&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/crossed-swords/">previously featured</a> stylized, white swords on a green square, as a sign or icon of war.

May be paired with (or defended by) <a href="/shield/">🛡️&nbsp;Shield</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/hammer-and-pick/">⚒️&nbsp;Hammer and Pick</a> or <a href="/hammer-and-wrench/">🛠️&nbsp;Hammer and Wrench</a>.

Crossed Swords

A&nbsp;ribbon and medallion generally&nbsp;awarded&nbsp;to a&nbsp;person in the military for heroic acts.

Military Medal

The face of a princess; a girl or woman wearing a small <a href="/crown/" title="👑 Crown">crown</a> or tiara. Could also be used to represent a Queen or other royalty.

Princess

The flag for England, a country in the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. May&nbsp;show as the letters&nbsp;gbeng.

Flag: England

A person wearing a crown.

<a href="/princess/">👸 Princess</a> and <a href="/prince/">🤴 Prince</a> were added in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Person With Crown was created to represent royalty without being overly specific about gender.&nbsp;

Person with Crown

The flag for Scotland, a country in the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>.&nbsp;May&nbsp;show as the letters&nbsp;gbsct.

Flag: Scotland

A gold crown with jewels on the sides. Representative of a King, Queen, or other form of Royalty.

Crown

A round military helmet with a chinstrap. All platforms depict a green helmet, with some designs featuring a green camouflage pattern.

Military Helmet

The flag for Wales, a country in the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. May&nbsp;show as the letters&nbsp;gbwls.

Flag: Wales

A yellow face with its right hand saluting. Used as a sign of respect.

The expression of the face of this emoji can vary across platforms, with some designs featuring a <a href="/neutral-face">neutral</a> face while others are shown smiling to various degrees.&nbsp;

Apple and Huewai&#39;s designs notably only display half a face, likely to make the saluting hand more prominent when this emoji is viewed in smaller sizes.

<div id="professor_prebid-root">This emoji went viral across Twitter in late 2022 following the&nbsp;news that the platform would be dramatically reducing its staff numbers as part of a company-wide restructuring following its acquisition by Elon Musk. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/10-years-of-viral-emoji-moments/">Learn more here.</a></div>

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Saluting Face

A squirt gun (water pistol), as used to <a href="/sweat-droplets/">spray water</a> for fun.

On major platforms, depicted as a green or orange toy gun with an orange tip and barrel pointed left.&nbsp;Google&nbsp;and Facebook&rsquo;s designs include mounted reservoirs.

Originally depicted as a classic handgun, as a revolver or other pistol. In 2016, <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/">Apple switched its design</a> from weapon&nbsp;to toy; other major vendors followed suit by 2018. Deprecated emoji sets or smaller platforms still display the emoji as a handgun.

Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/pistol/">initially displayed</a> the emoji as a toy ray gun before switching to a revolver, then squirt gun. Google <a href="/google/android-4.4/pistol/">once featured</a> a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunderbuss">blunderbuss</a>.

Pistol

A shield, as blocks swords in close combat. Color and style varies across platforms, but generally depicted in a <a href="/kite/">kite</a> shape with a metal border and simple pattern.

Commonly used to represent various content concerning battle, defense, security, and protection.

Apple and Microsoft&rsquo;s designs feature a red and white sawtooth pattern, Facebook and WhatsApp&rsquo;s blue and white checkers.

May be paired with (or fending off) <a href="/crossed-swords/">⚔️&nbsp;Crossed Swords</a> or <a href="/dagger/">🗡️&nbsp;Dagger</a>.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/japanese-symbol-for-beginner/">🔰&nbsp;Japanese Symbol for Beginner</a>.

Shield

Male royalty, intended as a gender pair for the <a href="/princess/" title="👸 Princess">princess emoji</a>. Shown as a <a href="/man/" title="👨 Man">man</a> with a crown.

Not a reference to the musician Prince, however the <a href="/man-singer/">man singer emoji on WhatsApp</a> does show a character that bears a heavy resemblance to this artist.

Prince

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Guard: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Guard: 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.

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.

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 phone carrier known for launching&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode">i-mode</a>.

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.

💂 Guard on Docomo 2002

💂 Guard on Docomo 2002

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