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Emojipedia Sample Images

Facebook

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Instagram

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JoyPixels Animations

LinkedIn

Mastodon

Messenger

Microsoft

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Mozilla

MSN Messenger

Nintendo

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

Noto Emoji Font

OpenMoji

Roblox

Samsung

SerenityOS

Signal

Sina Weibo

Skype

Slack

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SoftBank

Sony Playstation

Telegram

TikTok

Tinder

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Twitch

Twitter Emoji Stickers

Twitter / X

Viber

VinSmart

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Yahoo! Messenger

Yo Status

YouTube

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Australia Day

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Chinese New Year

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Couples With Hearts

Diwali

Dragon Boat Festival

Earth Day

Easter

Emoji Movie

Fall / Autumn

Families

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Festivus

Four Twenty / 420

Gestures

Graduation

Guy Fawkes

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Hearts

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Juneteenth

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LGBT Pride

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New Year’s Eve

NSFW

Olympics

People Holding Hands

Pets

Purim

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Ramadan

Spring

St Patrick’s Day

Summer

Super Bowl

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Winter

Winter Olympics

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A microphone, used&nbsp;to amplify a person&rsquo;s voice when speaking or singing.

Previously shown with <a href="/musical-notes/">music notes</a> on most platforms, implying it to be used for a singer / singing.&nbsp;Today&nbsp;only Twitter&#39;s design retains these notes.

Microphone

A trumpet, a brass instrument played in jazz bands.

Trumpet

A person dancing, most&nbsp;commonly displayed as&nbsp;woman with one arm raised&nbsp;wearing a red dress,&nbsp;while dancing the salsa or flamenco. Often used to represent a sense of fun or as a positive affirmation, e.g. &quot;great! 💃&quot;

This emoji did not originally specify a gender, but was canonically deemed&nbsp;a woman&nbsp;when the&nbsp;<a href="/man-dancing/">🕺 Man Dancing</a>&nbsp;emoji was <a href="/emoji-3.0/">approved</a>. Google previously displayed this emoji <a href="/google/android-4.4/woman-dancing/">as a man</a>, then <a href="/google/android-5.0/woman-dancing/">a gender-neutral blob</a>&nbsp;character (in keeping with guidelines at the time).

Microsoft previously displayed this emoji&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/woman-dancing/">stick figure</a>, and Samsung has displayed this over various releases as a&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0/woman-dancing/">white boy</a>, <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-5.1/woman-dancing/">black boy</a>, and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/woman-dancing/">white girl</a>.

Dancer

A music note emoji,&nbsp;which can denote song lyrics, or other music related topics.

Displays as two eighth-notes (quavers in British English) connected with a beam. A single eight-note (quaver) was previously used in <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/musical-note/">Microsoft</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-7.0/musical-note/">Google&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;emoji designs.

Musical Note

A circular &lsquo;big top&rsquo; circus tent, with a <a href="/triangular-flag/" title="🚩 Triangular Flag On Post">triangle flag</a> on top.

Circus Tent

Used in traditional Japanese music such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh">Noh</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renga">Renga</a>,&nbsp;to indicate the start of a song. More specifically, the part alternation mark is displayed&nbsp;where the singer&rsquo;s part begins.

This symbol looks sort of like a lopsided capital M;&nbsp;or a <a href="/roller-coaster/" title="🎢 Roller Coaster">rollercoaster</a> track showing a dip, and then a drop off to the right.

Part Alternation Mark

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 microphone, as used for <a href="/radio/">radio</a> broadcasting or studio recording. Most platforms depict a vintage, silver microphone, like the <a href="https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/75-years-shure-unidyne-55">Shure Unidyne 55</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning radio, broadcasting, music, recording, and podcasts.

Not to be confused with the handheld <a href="/microphone/">🎤&nbsp;Microphone</a>, associated with live singing.

Studio Microphone

A woman singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

Woman Singer

A man singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

Man Singer

Two frosty mugs of&nbsp;<a href="/beer-mug/">beer&nbsp;</a>with frothy heads being clinked together, as done at a celebratory or convivial&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_(honor)">toast</a>&nbsp;(&ldquo;Cheers!&rdquo;). Several platforms include stylized lines to mark the clinking. See also&nbsp;<a href="/clinking-glasses/">🥂 Clinking Glasses</a>.

Clinking Beer Mugs

A level slider, as adjusts volume on a mixing console. Most platforms depict a silver and black channel fader with scale markings, set to various levels. Apple and Google&#39;s&nbsp;go&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven">up to eleven</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning audio recording and production as well as music more generally. May also be used for figurative senses of level, e.g., next level.

Thanks to its appearance, some may use the emoji to represent a <a href="/latin-cross/">Christian cross</a>.

Level Slider

Four control knobs, as adjust audio levels on a mixing console. Generally depicted as a silver square with black knobs, turned to various levels as indicated by white pointers and scale markings.

Commonly used for various content concerning audio recording and production as well as music more generally.

Control Knobs

A singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

Singer

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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.

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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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.

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.

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.

2006

2002

2001

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>.

🎤 Microphone on Docomo 2006

🎤 Microphone on Docomo 2006

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