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A bag or purse, used to carry personal items, often doubling as a fashion accessory.

The design of this emoji varies, with most platforms opting for leather-looking styles in brown or orange. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/handbag/">used to be pink</a>, but is now light brown. Twitter&rsquo;s purple design stands out among the other platforms.

Not to be confused with the smaller and handleless pouch emoji sometimes referred to as <a href="/clutch-bag/">👝 Clutch Bag</a>.

Handbag

A large department store, selling a range of products to the general public. Shown as a large building with a billboard.

Previously shown as a <a href="/shopping-bags/" title="🛍 Shopping Bags">shopping bag</a> on <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/department-store/">Windows</a>.

Department Store

A suitcase or bag, as used for traveling. Most platforms depict gray or blue rolling luggage with an extended handle. Commonly used for various content concerning traveling or taking trips, whether for business or leisure.

Apple&rsquo;s design features an old-fashioned, leather, trunk-styled case with graphic <a href="https://www.citylab.com/design/2013/05/lost-art-luggage-labels/5652/">luggage labels</a>/stickers, not to be confused with <a href="/briefcase/">💼&nbsp;Briefcase</a> or <a href="/handbag/">👜&nbsp;Handbag</a>. Google and Facebook also include such stickers.

May be stored in a <a href="/left-luggage/">🛅 Coin Locker</a> or inspected at <a href="/customs/">🛃&nbsp;Customs</a>.

Luggage

A wristwatch, as used for telling time. Appearance varies across platforms, but widely depicted as an analog timepiece with a white face and brown or black straps.

Used for various content concerning time, including watches as accessories. Apple&#39;s design is an Apple Watch, though <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/watch/">previously featured</a> a traditional watch before the product&rsquo;s release.

Watch

A small pouch with a clasp, generally used to hold coins. Sometimes called a &ldquo;coin purse.&rdquo;

Color varies by platform, though most platforms have a pink, blue, or turquoise bag with a silver or gold (gray or yellow) clasp.

Not to be confused with <a href="/clutch-bag/">👝 Clutch Bag</a>, which can look like a coin person on some platforms, due to lack of relative scale in emoji designs.

Purse

A small pouch, somewhere between the size of a <a title="👜 Handbag" href="/handbag/">handbag</a>, and a <a title="👛 Purse" href="/purse/">purse</a>.

Pouch

Two colorful shopping bags, as contain&nbsp;consumer items bought at a <a href="/department-store/">department store</a>. Depicted as gift bags in various bright colors, patterns, sizes, and positions across platforms. Apple&#39;s design, for instance, features a pink bag with light-pink dots in front of a gold bag with yellow stripes.

Commonly used for various content concerning retail shopping, stores, goods, and <a href="/wrapped-gift/">gifts or presents</a>. May also convey a sense of indulgence or self-care, &agrave; la retail therapy.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/shopping-bags/">previously</a> included&nbsp;tissue paper, and was depicted as&nbsp;a <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/shopping-bags/">bag of groceries</a> prior to that.

Shopping Bags

A school bag Emoji (also called a satchel) used by children attending school to carry books, lunch, and other personal belongings.

School Satchel

Lipstick&nbsp;shown with&nbsp;the lid removed. Displays in a shade of red on most platforms, except WhatsApp and Twitter which have a more&nbsp;a pinkish color.

Lipstick

A place to store notes and other office materials. Primarily used by older people.

Generally&nbsp;shown as a brown case with a handle on top, and a silver or gold colored clasp on the front. Facebook shows two leather straps on the front.

Briefcase

An icon representing the place where <a href="/luggage">luggage</a> can be collected from after the completion of a journey on the likes of an <a href="/airplane">airplane</a> or <a href="/ferry">ferry</a>.

Baggage Claim

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

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.

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 <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.

👜 Handbag on Docomo 2013

👜 Handbag on Docomo 2013

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