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Yee-haw! A yellow smiley wearing a wide-brimmed, brown-leather cowboy hat. Its smile varies across platforms.&nbsp;May convey a sense of exuberance, whimsy, confidence, adventure, or other sentiments.

Several vendors, including Apple, feature&nbsp;the same expression as their <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>.

Face with Cowboy Hat

A mountain shown with two peaks and blue sky. Similar to the <a href="/snow-capped-mountain/" title="🏔 Snow Capped Mountain">snow capped mountain emoji</a>.

Mountain

The face of a horse, generally facing left. Depicted as a light or reddish-brown horse with a dark brown or black mane, and, on many platforms, a light-colored muzzle.

Not to be confused with the full-bodied <a href="/horse/">🐎 Horse</a> or <a href="/horse-racing/">🏇 Horse Racing</a>, though their applications may overlap. Some vendors implement a&nbsp;similar design in <a href="/unicorn/">🦄 Unicorn Face</a> and <a href="/zebra/">🦓 Zebra</a>.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s horse is facing left, as Facebook&rsquo;s <a href="/facebook/1.0/horse-face/">previously</a> was. Microsoft&rsquo;s horse was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/horse-face/">previously</a> looking straight ahead, as was <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/horse-face/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a>, shown with a goofy, full-toothed grin. Softbank <a href="/softbank/2006/horse-face/">previously</a> featured a full-bodied horse.

Horse Face

A horse, a hoofed mammal used for riding and racing. Depicted as a brown horse in full profile galloping to the left, with a dark, flowing mane and tail.

May be used to represent various types of horses and their metaphorical senses (e.g., mustang, stallion).

May also be used as a compliment to an attractive person.

One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese zodiac</a>.a

Not to be confused with <a href="/horse-face/">🐴 Horse Face</a>, <a href="/carousel-horse/">🎠 Carousel Horse</a>, and <a href="/horse-racing/">🏇 Horse Racing</a>, which features a jockey on its back.

Apple&rsquo;s horse is wearing a green saddle blanket, Facebook&rsquo;s a blue blanket with saddle. SoftBank&rsquo;s design <a href="/softbank/2006/horse/">previously</a> featured a racing horse with a jockey.

Horse

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a cow looking straight ahead. Variously depicted as a white, brown, or multicolored cow face with a neutral expression, short horns, and a pink or brown muzzle.

Often used with a more affectionate tone than the full-bodied <a href="/cow/">🐄 Cow</a>.

Facebook&rsquo;s design <a href="/facebook/2.0/cow-face/">once featured</a> a more lifelike, brown cow face.

Cow Face

An ox, a bovine used as a draft animal. Depicted in brown in full profile on all fours facing left, with a tail and short horns.

One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese zodiac</a>. Often used to represent<a href="/taurus/"> ♉ Taurus</a> (the Bull) in the Western zodiac. 2021 is Year of the Ox.

Often used to represent a bull and occasionally paired with <a href="/pile-of-poo/">💩 Pile of Poo</a> to stand in for slang terms.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/water-buffalo/">🐃 Water Buffalo</a>.

A national park, generally displayed with <a href="/mountain/" title="⛰ Mountain">mountains</a>, a river or stream, and <a href="/evergreen-tree/" title="🌲 Evergreen Tree">trees</a>.

National Park

A cow, a bovine farmed for its meat or milk. Depicted in full profile on all fours facing left with a black-and-white patched coat (as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holstein_Friesian_cattle">Holstein Friesian</a>) and, on many platforms, a pink udder and horns.

May be used to represent the animal, its food products, or black-and-white coloring. See also <a href="/cow-face/">🐮 Cow Face</a>.

Microsoft&#39;s&nbsp;cow was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/cow/">previously</a> brown, as was <a href="/facebook/2.0/cow/">Facebook&#39;s</a>, which had&nbsp;a bell around its neck.

The sun rising over a mountain range, early in the morning.

Sunrise Over Mountains

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 cactus, a spiky plant that grows in very dry regions. Depicted as a light-green <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro">saguaro</a> cactus with two side arms covered in spines.

May be used to represent various succulents, <a href="/desert/">deserts</a>, Southwestern culture, or the Wild West.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s cactus is topped with three red flowers.

Cactus

A banjo with a round body and a long neck. Used to talk about banjos or music in general.

Banjo

A yellow face with simple, open eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general pleasure and good cheer or humor.

Not to be confused with <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>&nbsp;or <a href="/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes</a>, which have the same smiles but more expressive eye shapes.&nbsp;

This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/grinning-cat/">😺 Grinning Cat Face</a>.

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Grinning Face

A yellow face with smiling eyes and full-toothed grin, as if saying Cheese!&nbsp;for the camera.&nbsp;Teeth may be smoothed-over or crosshatched. Often expresses a radiant, gratified happiness. Tone varies, including warm, silly, amused, or proud.

<a href="/apple/ios-6.0/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">Prior to 2017</a>, Apple&#39;s design resembled its&nbsp;<a href="/grimacing-face/">😬 Grimacing Face</a>.

Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes

A cut of uncooked red meat, as a T-bone or rib-eye steak, with the light, white marbling of fat.

May be used for sexual slang.

Cut of Meat

A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general happiness and good-natured amusement.

Similar to <a href="/grinning-face/">😀 Grinning Face</a>&nbsp;but&nbsp;with taller, more excited eyes.&nbsp;

Smiling Face with Open Mouth

A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general happiness and good-natured amusement.

Similar to&nbsp;<a href="/grinning-face/">😀 Grinning Face</a> and <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃&nbsp;Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>, but with warmer, less excited eyes.

This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/grinning-cat-with-smiling-eyes/">😸&nbsp;Grinning Cat Face With Smiling Eyes</a>.

Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes

A dry sand-covered desert. Generally depicted via a <a href="/cactus">cactus</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;a large rock formation. Often also features a depiction of a blistering <a href="/sun">sun</a>.

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Desert

A brown bison&nbsp;shown in full profile with horns, a beard, and woolly mane. Also called a buffalo in North America.

Bison

A hunk of unspecified meat on a white bone, as associated with cartoon cavepersons&nbsp;or food in anime and manga (Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=7wnj1oyzr87929sk6yztcllt">ano&nbsp;niku</a>, &ldquo;that meat&rdquo;).

This emoji was shown&nbsp;as a&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-4.4/meat-on-bone/" title="🍖 Meat on Bone on Google Android 4.4">steak&nbsp;</a>in Android 4.4.

Meat on Bone

A rice plant, as grown before harvesting and processing. Depicted as a sheaf of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryza_sativa">Asian rice</a> with green leaves and yellow seed heads drooping over to the right or left. Sometimes assumed to be wheat.

May be used to represent a variety of cereal grains (e.g., wheat, corn, oats, sorghum) as well as crops, fields and harvests, and farming more generally.

This emoji is occassionally used in the place of the word &#39;white&#39;&nbsp;as in, a <a href="/light-skin-tone/">white skin tone</a>. This form of <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/voldemorting-ultimate-seo-diss-resident-linguist/">Voldemorting</a>&nbsp;is potentially due to the similarity of the words &#39;white&#39; and &#39;wheat&#39;, and used&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/kp0boe/what_is_the_deal_with_using_the_grain_emoji/">in online discussions</a>&nbsp;where it is&nbsp;undesirable to have the actual word written out.

Ear of Rice

A yellow face with big glasses, a large nose, thick eyebrows, and a mustache. Used to represent someone in disguise.

The features of this particular disguised face are taken from the &ldquo;Groucho Mask&rdquo; or &ldquo;Groucho Glasses,&rdquo; designed in the likeness of the caricature played by Julius Henry Marx in the Marx Brothers&#39; films. These comedic films were popular in the 1930s and &lsquo;40s, and the mask has been a mainstay of joke shops since <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/books/there-ain-t-no-sanity-claus.html">as early as the 1940s</a>.

Other emoji faces in disguise include <a href="/superhero/">🦸 Superhero</a> and <a href="/supervillain/">🦹 Supervillain</a>.

Disguised Face

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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.

Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.

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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An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

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.

Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

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.

The Unicode Consortium accepted the following emoji 72 emojis&nbsp;for Unicode 9.0. This update&nbsp;was released&nbsp;on June 21, 2016. Most vendors added support for this update within the 2016 calendar year.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-9-0-released-with-72-new-emojis/">Sample images and more about Unicode 9.0</a>.

<a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a> was published in late 2016, which added additional emoji professions.

<h2>New in Unicode 9</h2>

Original sample images from Emojipedia&nbsp;visualizing how new emojis may look when they come to fruition.&nbsp;These mockups are created at the candidate stage in a glossy&nbsp;style, and may or may not resemble final versions from each platform vendor.

Please feel welcome to use these images in&nbsp;press coverage,&nbsp;with attribution to&nbsp;Emojipedia. When using any of these images online,&nbsp;a link to this page would be appreciated. These original images are &copy; 2022&nbsp;Emojipedia.

Sample images from Emojipedia for upcoming emojis.

🤠 Cowboy Hat Face on Emojipedia Sample Images 4.0

🤠 Cowboy Hat Face on Emojipedia Sample Images 4.0

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