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Symbols

Flags

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

A yellow and green shield symbol, called a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshinsha_mark">Shoshinsha Mark</a>. Must be displayed by drivers in Japan for one year after they receive their drivers licence.

Similar to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-plate">L-Plates</a>&nbsp;used to identify learner drivers in other countries.

Japanese Symbol for Beginner

A pointed knife with a steel blade, as used for thrusting in close combat. Generally depicted as double-edged with a black, brown or gold&nbsp;cross-shaped hilt and positioned at 45&deg; angle, often with its tip at the lower left.

May represent knives and other bladed weapons (cf. <a href="/crossed-swords/">⚔️&nbsp;Crossed Swords</a>) as well as various senses of cutting and stabbing. Often applied to medieval or fantasy content.

Google&rsquo;s design&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-9.0/dagger/">previously</a> featured&nbsp;an icy-blue blade and <a href="/sparkles/">sparkles</a>, suggests a dagger <a href="/elf/">elves</a> may wield in fantasy.

May be paired with (or defended by) <a href="/shield/">🛡️&nbsp;Shield</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/kitchen-knife/">🔪&nbsp;Kitchen Knife</a>.

Dagger Knife

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 traditional Japanese Castle (城, shiro or jō), usually made from stone and wood.

Japanese Castle

A castle, in a style&nbsp;that can be found in <a href="/flag-france/" title="🇫🇷 Flag for France">France</a>&nbsp;and other parts of <a href="/flag-european-union/" title="🇪🇺 Flag for European Union">Europe</a>.

European Castle

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 knife with a long steel blade, as a <a href="/woman-cook/">chef</a> uses to slice <a href="/cut-of-meat/">meat</a> or vegetables. Depicted with a black or brown handle and positioned at a 45&deg; angle, often with its point at the lower right.

May be used for content concerning cooking and food preparation, but often represents various senses of cutting and stabbing.&nbsp;Its Unicode name, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_kitchen_knife">Hocho</a>, means &ldquo;kitchen knife&rdquo; in Japanese and refers to a variety of knives used in <a href="/flag-japan/">Japan</a>.

Not to be confused with <a href="/dagger/">🗡️&nbsp;Dagger</a> or <a href="/crossed-swords/">⚔️&nbsp;Crossed Swords</a>.

Hocho

Creatures with pointed ears and human-like faces. <a href="/woman-elf/">Female</a> and <a href="/man-elf/">male</a> elves are available.

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

A triangle or set square, as used by engineers or architects to draw <a href="/straight-ruler/">straight lines</a> at angles. Variously depicted as a metal, wood, or plastic right triangle with length markings, its hypotenuse to the right.

Commonly applied to a range of disciplines, including art, design, building, architecture, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). May also represent various concepts of angles and measurement.

Triangular Ruler

A diamond-shaped kite with a tail. This emoji appears in various colors across platforms.

Kite

A locked (closed) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padlock">padlock</a>, as used to secure a latch or <a href="/chains/">chain</a>, or as an icon for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security">secure internet connection</a>, private account, or locked device. Generally depicted with a gold base and silver shackle. WhatsApp&rsquo;s design is silver.

Commonly used for content concerning safety, security, privacy, and protection as well as various senses of lock, e.g., locked in/down.

This emoji <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojipedia-now-with-https/">does not display in page titles</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;Apple&rsquo;s Safari web browser, presumably to prevent less reputable sites from pretending to be secure (encrypted using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS">HTTPS</a>).

See also: <a href="/locked-with-pen/">🔏 Locked With Pen</a> and <a href="/locked-with-key/">🔐 Locked With Key</a>.

Lock

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon">dragon</a>, a mythical creature resembling a giant reptile found in the folklore of many cultures. Depicted as a green, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon">Chinese-styled dragon</a> in full profile facing left. Generally shown with a curling, snake-like body, clawed feet, yellowish scales on its back, horn-like structures on its head, and whisker-like tendrils by its nostrils.

See also <a href="/dragon-face/">🐲 Dragon Face</a>. One of the 12 animals of the&nbsp;Chinese zodiac. Commonly used on&nbsp;<a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese New Year</a>&nbsp;and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George%27s_Day">St. George&#39;s Day</a>. Also used for various medieval&nbsp;and fantasy content.

Apple&#39;s dragon is holding a glowing blue orb, as a <a href="/crystal-ball/">🔮 Crystal Ball</a>. Facebook&#39;s dragon is bluish in color. Microsoft&#39;s dragon was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/dragon/">previously</a> red, <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/dragon/">Samsung&#39;s</a> a more cartoon-styled, baby&nbsp;dragon holding a blue orb.

Dragon

The face of a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon">dragon</a>, a mythical creature resembling a giant reptile found in the folklore of many cultures. Depicted as a green, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon">Chinese-styled dragon</a> looking straight ahead or facing left. Often shown with huge nostrils, baring large teeth and a red tongue, with antler-like structures on its head, whisker-like tendrils by its nostrils, and a green or yellow mane.

See also <a href="/dragon/">🐉&nbsp;Dragon</a>. One of the 12 animals of the&nbsp;Chinese zodiac. Commonly used on&nbsp;<a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese New Year</a>&nbsp;and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George%27s_Day">St. George&#39;s Day</a>. Also used for various medieval&nbsp;and fantasy content.

Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Microsoft&#39;s dragon face was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/dragon-face/">previously</a> red and looking straight ahead. <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/dragon-face/">Samsung&#39;s</a> dragon face previously resembled a red, friendly, cartoon-styled <a href="/angry-face-with-horns/">imp</a> with horns.

Dragon Face

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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.

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.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

The Unicode Consortium approved the following characters as part of <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/">Unicode 7.0</a>, released on June 16, 2014.&nbsp;Support for these emoji characters rely on updates from platform vendors such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Initially, 250&nbsp;new characters in Unicode 7.0 were approved for emoji presentation, however this was later reduced to 103 Standard Additions which are listed below. The other characters remain part of Unicode, but are not recommended&nbsp;to be included as emojis.

The exception to this was the <a href="/left-speech-bubble/" title="🗨 Left Speech Bubble">Left Speech Bubble</a>, and as such wasn&#39;t initially specified on other platforms as an emoji. A later-accepted&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-spy-proposal/">proposal</a>&nbsp;updated this.

Facebook&nbsp;emojis appear for users of the Facebook&nbsp;website, Facebook Android app, Messenger for web, and Messenger for Android. Facebook apps for&nbsp;iOS&nbsp;use native emojis for their respective platform&nbsp;instead of Facebook&#39;s own emoji images.

Support for <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> is available for global Facebook users.

<h2>Reactions</h2>

Facebook provides animated &ldquo;emoji&rdquo;&nbsp;reactions to posts.&nbsp;Reactions&nbsp;do&nbsp;not correspond to specific emojis in the Unicode standard, but approximate these characters:

<ul>
	<li>👍 Like &mdash; Thumbs Up</li>
	<li>❤️ Love &mdash; Beating Heart</li>
	<li>😂 Haha &mdash; Laughing Face</li>
	<li>☺️ Yay &mdash; Smiling Face (discontinued)</li>
	<li>😯 Wow &mdash; Surprised Face</li>
	<li>😢 Sad &mdash; Crying Face, showing an animated tear</li>
	<li>😡 Angry &mdash; Red / Angry / Pouting Face</li>
</ul>

<img alt="" src="https://em-content.zobj.net/content/2015/10/11/facebook-emoji-reactions.gif" />

<h2>New Reactions for COVID-19&nbsp;</h2>

In March 2020, Facebook <a href="https://twitter.com/alexvoica/status/1251090864878821377">added</a> a&nbsp;Care&nbsp;emoji reaction as an additional option in response to <a href="/coronavirus/">COVID-19</a>. This is displayed similarly to&nbsp;a <a href="/hugging-face/">hugging face</a> holding a <a href="/red-heart/">red love heart</a>.

<img alt="" src="https://em-content.zobj.net/content/2020/05/03/facebook-care-new-emoji-react-2020.jpg" style="width: 100%;" />

This Care emoji&nbsp;is not available as a standardized Unicode emoji, and can only be used in reactions to Facebook posts.

<img src="https://em-content.zobj.net/content/2020/05/01/facebook-new-reactions-2020-emojipedia.gif" style="width: 100%;" />

<h2>Emoticons and Stickers</h2>

Facebook has an emoticon implementation which uses <a href="http://emojicodes.com">Facebook-specific codes</a> to show a color emoticon, as well as an extensible sticker collection.

<h2>Facebook Emojis</h2>

Names, descriptions and images of all new emojis on Facebook. Copy and paste emojis to use on Facebook, Messenger, or other platforms.

👍 Facebook Emoji List — Emojis and Reacts for Facebook [Updated: 2023]

Beginning its&nbsp;staged global rollout from 2023-02-27 onwards, this update to the Facebook emoji set included support for all emojis from <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>, including the plain&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/pink-heart/">🩷 Pink Heart</a> emoji.

15.0

Beginning rollout on 2022-04-20,&nbsp;this update to Facebook emoji set included support for all&nbsp;emojis from <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>.

This update also introduced support for various&nbsp;<a href="/people-holding-hands/">🧑&zwj;🤝&zwj;🧑 People Holding Hands</a> emojis from 2019&#39;s <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a> recommendations.

14.0

Beginning rollout in July 2021, this update to Facebook emoji set included support for all&nbsp;emojis from <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>.

13.1

Beginning rollout across global Facebook users in July, Facebook&#39;s 2020 emoji update&nbsp;included brand new emojis from <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoij 12.1</a> and <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a> as well as new gender neutral designs for a large number of previously-released people emojis.

The update did&nbsp;not, however, include the&nbsp;<a href="/people-holding-hands/">🧑&zwj;🤝&zwj;🧑 People Holding Hands</a>&nbsp;or <a href="/person-bald/">🧑&zwj;🦲&nbsp;Person: Bald</a> variations recommended in <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>.

13.0

Facebook&#39;s&nbsp;4.0 emoji set was released in August 2019 with support added for&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>. A number of designs were changed in this release.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/facebook-4-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

A minor update which added support for the proposed <a href="/transgender-flag/">Transgender&nbsp;Flag</a>.

Facebook 3.0 was released gradually over the second half of 2018 and was the first release to from Facebook to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>. This was the first Facebook emoji release to feature highly detailed, glossy emoji designs, as well as the first major release after the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/facebook-discontinues-messenger-emojis/">discontinuation</a> of the&nbsp;<a href="/messenger/">Messenger</a> emoji set. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/facebook-3-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

A minor update to Facebook&#39;s emoji set that changed the <a href="/pistol/">pistol emoji</a> to show a water pistol / squirt gun design.

2.2.1

This update added support for 125 new family emojis with skin tone modifiers. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/facebook-adds-black-family-emojis/">More about this update</a>.

Facebook 2.1 added support for <a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a> and <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>.

Facebook began testing this emoji update&nbsp;in September 2016. This updat&nbsp;showed&nbsp;for all website users as of February 2017.

This release added&nbsp;compatibility with emojis from <a href="/unicode-7.0/">Unicode 7.0</a>, <a href="/unicode-8.0/">Unicode 8.0</a> and <a href="/unicode-9.0/">Unicode 9.0</a>.

None of the emojis in Facebook 2.0 are shared&nbsp;with the original set from 2014. Additionally, this release&nbsp;is&nbsp;separate from Facebook <a href="/messenger/">Messenger emojis</a>.

The first version of&nbsp;Facebook&#39;s emoji images. This set&nbsp;expanded upon the limited set of <a href="http://emojicodes.com">emoji codes</a> available in prior versions of the Facebook website. Support was limited to emojis included in <a href="/unicode-6.0/">Unicode 6.0</a>, though many were omitted. Designed by <a href="http://etherbrian.org/facebook.html">Brian Brasher</a>.

🛡️ Shield on Facebook 1.0

🛡️ Shield on Facebook 1.0

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