The female version of <a href="/person/">🧑 Person</a>.

Woman

A&nbsp;pale skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

<ul>
	<li>Type 1 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;Pale white; blond or red hair; blue eyes; freckles</li>
	<li>Type 2 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;White; fair; blond or red hair; blue, green, or hazel eyes</li>
</ul>

This is a combination of type 1&nbsp;(pale white) and type 2 (white). Despite the descriptions, Apple&rsquo;s artwork tends to display this type-1-2 skin tone modifier with dark hair.

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-1-2

Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.

View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.

Zero Width Joiner

An industrial factory, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flue-gas_stack">flue-gas stacks</a> releasing exhaust into the air.

Factory

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Man Factory Worker: Light Skin Tone

Woman Factory Worker: Light Skin Tone

The head of a&nbsp;classic robot. Commonly depicted as a vintage, tin&nbsp;toy robot with circular eyes, a triangular nose, knobs for&nbsp;ears, a light and/or antennae atop its head, and a grill-like mouth similar to a <a href="/grimacing-face/">grimace</a>. Colors vary across platform, but its head is metallic on most platforms.&nbsp;

May be used of topics concerning robotics, electronics, computer programming, futurism, and science fiction. It also enjoys a range of idiosyncratic applications, such as conveying a sense of weirdness and fun as well as alarm, surprise, and excitement, given its wide-eyed, teeth-gritting expression.

Also often used to discuss artificial intelligence and various AI-branded products and features, though the <a href="/sparkles">✨ Sparkles</a> emoji has become the go-to symbol to represent AI within tech platforms.

Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Robot Face

A man working in a&nbsp;<a href="/factory">factory</a>&nbsp;setting, depicted as wearing overalls and protective headgear while holding an active welding gun.

Man Factory Worker

A woman working in a&nbsp;<a href="/factory">factory</a>&nbsp;setting, depicted as wearing overalls and protective headgear while holding an active welding gun.

Woman Factory Worker

A bus used for public transport in cities and towns. Could also be used as a <a title="🏫 School" href="/school/">school</a> bus.

The front of a <a title="🚌 Bus" href="/bus/">bus</a>, showing the windscreen, as well as wing mirrors in some versions of this emoji.

Oncoming Bus

A type of bus that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus">uses overhead electrical wires</a> for power. Appears similar to a cross between a <a title="🚌 Bus" href="/bus/">bus</a> and a <a title="🚋 Tram Car" href="/tram-car/">tram car</a>.

Trolleybus

A small bus or minivan&nbsp;designed to carry fewer people than a full-sized <a href="/bus/" title="🚌 Bus">bus</a>. Displayed in white on most platforms&nbsp;(green <a href="/facebook/3.0/minibus/">on Facebook</a>).

Minibus

A car&nbsp;shown from the side, facing right-to-left. Appears as a red car on almost all platforms (which <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedOnesGoFaster">goes faster</a>), though earlier Google designs displayed the vehicle as either <a href="/google/android-11.0/automobile/">silver</a> or <a href="/google/android-7.0/automobile/">blue</a>.

Facebook&#39;s first design for this emoji was also <a href="/facebook/1.0/automobile/">blue</a>.

Automobile

A car&nbsp;being shown from the front. The windscreen and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_(vehicle)">hood</a> (bonnet in British English) of the car can be seen&nbsp;facing forward.

This car shows in red or blue on most platforms. It was <a href="/google/android-11.0/oncoming-automobile/">previously</a> silver on Android.

Oncoming Automobile

A red or turquoise pickup truck. Used to talk about trucks or modes of transportation in general.

Pickup Truck

A delivery truck, most likely carrying <a href="/package">packages</a>&nbsp;of online purchases.

Delivery Truck

A large articulated lorry consisting of a tractor and a trailer connected by a pivoted bar. Most likely hauling stock for different companies and services, such as the items on sale within <a href="/department-store">department stores</a>.

Articulated Lorry

A motorcycle, otherwise known as a motorbike used for sport/racing purposes. For a transport-based motorcycle, use a <a title="🛵 Motor Scooter" href="/motor-scooter/">motor scooter.</a>

Racing Motorcycle

A motor scooter, which may be displayed as any type of motorbike with or without a step-through frame. Distinct from the <a href="/motorcycle/" title="🏍 Racing Motorcycle">racing motorcycle</a>, which is used for sport, not transport.

Motor Scooter

A motorized wheelchair. Most platforms show a red and black or blue and black wheelchair. Distinct from <a href="/wheelchair-symbol/">♿ Wheelchair Symbol</a> which is used as signage to indicate accessible facilities.&nbsp;See also <a href="/woman-in-motorized-wheelchair/">👩&zwj;🦼Woman in Motorized&nbsp;Wheelchair</a> or <a href="/man-in-motorized-wheelchair/">👨&zwj;🦼Man in Motorized Wheelchair</a>.

<a href="/manual-wheelchair/">🦽 Manual Wheelchair</a> was approved at the same time as this emoji.

Motorized Wheelchair

An auto rickshaw, often referred to as a&nbsp;tuk tuk.&nbsp;This motorized version of a&nbsp;cycle rickshaw is&nbsp;used for transport in many regions of the world. Generally this emoji&nbsp;has three wheels&nbsp;and open sides without doors.

Auto Rickshaw

A small boat powered by an engine. Also known as a&nbsp;speedboat or powerboat.

Motor Boat

A flame, as produced when something is on fire. Depicted as a red, orange, and yellow flickering flame.

Commonly used for various metaphorical expressions related to fire, including the slang hot (&ldquo;attractive&rdquo;) and <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/its-lit/">lit</a> (&ldquo;excellent&rdquo;).

<a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a>&nbsp;displays&nbsp;🔥 Fire&nbsp;next to two users who are on a&nbsp;snapstreak, or have been messaging for more than three consecutive days.

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Fire

The glittering flashes of sparkles. One of the world&#39;s most popular emojis, it is generally depicted as a cluster of three, yellow&nbsp;four-point stars, with one large sparkle and two small ones to its left or right.

Commonly used to indicate various positive sentiments, including love, happiness, beauty, gratitude, and excitement, as well as&nbsp;newness or cleanliness.

May also be used as <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/its-not-just-you-the-sparkles-emoji-is-everywhere/">a form of ✨emphasis✨ or to convey sarcastic or mocking tones</a>.

As of late 2023, an icon similar to the sparkles emoji is also often used within tech platforms to represent a feature that utilizes&nbsp;artificial intelligence.

Both <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/sparkles/">Microsoft</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/sparkles/">Twitter&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;sparkles were&nbsp;previously&nbsp;multicolored, while&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s sparkles were previously depicted on a night sky, suggesting <a href="/sparkler/">firework sparklers</a>.&nbsp;

<a href="http://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1075074100412985345">Twitter&#39;s mobile app uses</a> ✨ Sparkles as a button users can tap to toggle between latest and top tweets on their timeline.

Similar emojis&nbsp;with less implied meaning include&nbsp;<a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>, <a href="/glowing-star/">🌟 Glowing Star</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/dizzy/">💫 Dizzy</a>.

<div id="professor_prebid-root">This emoji predates emojis inclusion within <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode</a>. The earliest incarnation of this emoji could be found in Japanese emoji keyboards in <a href="/docomo/1999/sparkles">1999</a>, specifically within the <a href="/docomo">Docomo</a> emoji set designed by&nbsp;Shigetaka Kurita.</div>

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Sparkles

An orange safety vest with reflective lines across the chest and&nbsp;over the shoulders.

Used in the <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ sequence</a> <a href="/service-dog/">🐕&zwj;🦺 Service Dog</a>, which was approved at the same time.&nbsp;A safety vest can also be seen in the designs of <a href="/construction-worker/">👷 Construction Worker</a> on multiple&nbsp;platforms.

Safety Vest

A construction helmet, which is worn by the <a href="/construction-worker/" title="👷 Construction Worker">construction worker</a> emoji in some emoji sets.

The cross on the helmet (shown in the Apple&nbsp;version of this emoji) is used in Japan as a safety reminder in&nbsp;<a href="/construction/" title="🚧 Construction Sign">construction</a>&nbsp;zones. It is also commonly seen on the&nbsp;<a href="http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Met">Met</a>&nbsp;helmet in the game&nbsp;Mega Man.

Helmet with White Cross

A claw hammer, as used for driving or removing nails. Generally depicted with a metal head and wooden&nbsp;handle, positioned at a 45&deg; angle with the head at the upper left.

Commonly used for content concerning tools, building, and construction as well as various senses of breaking or smashing. May also represent hard work or be applied to hammer-related expressions, e.g., nailed it.

<a href="/apple/ios-5.1/hammer/">Apple</a> and <a href="/facebook/1.0/hammer/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> designs previously displayed a gavel, <a href="/softbank/2006/hammer/">Softbank&rsquo;s</a> a mallet. Not to be confused with <a href="/pick/">⛏️&nbsp;Pick</a> or <a href="/axe/">🪓&nbsp;Axe</a>.

Hammer

A pickaxe, a tool with a curved spike for breaking up rocks in mining. Generally depicted with a metal head and wooden handle, positioned at a 45&deg; angle with the head at the upper left.

May be used for various content concerning building, construction, digging, mining, or rock climbing.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/hammer/">🔨&nbsp;Hammer</a> or <a href="/axe/">Axe</a>.

Pick

A hammer and pick, as used for breaking up rocks in mining, crossed in an X shape. Generally depicted as metal, mallet- and chisel-styled hammers with wooden handles. The heads of the tools face up, with the pick usually at the right. Often used for various content concerning tools, building, and construction.

Facebook implements the same designs as for its <a href="/hammer/">🔨&nbsp;Hammer</a> and <a href="/pick/">⛏️&nbsp;Pick</a>. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0/">previously featured</a> stylized, white tools on a green square, as a sign or icon of a mine.

Hammer and Pick

A hammer and wrench, as kept in a <a href="/toolbox/">toolbox</a>, crossed in an X shape. Depicted with metal tools facing up, the hammer positioned at the upper left. Most vendors implement the same design as for their <a href="/hammer/">🔨&nbsp;Hammer</a> and <a href="/wrench/">🔧&nbsp;Wrench</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning tools, building, construction, and work, both manual and digital.

Hammer and Wrench

A long silver saw with a wooden handle. Used to represent construction, carpentry, renovation, or tools in general.

Carpentry Saw

A metal wrench (spanner), as used for turning <a href="/nut-and-bolt/">nuts and bolts</a>. Depicted with two open, crescent-shaped ends or one open end and a closed, ring-shaped end. Generally positioned at a 45&deg; angle.

Commonly used for various content concerning tools, building, maintenance, and skilled trades like car mechanics and plumbing.

Wrench

A metal bolt with a nut threaded around it, as by a <a href="/wrench/">wrench</a>. Often positioned at a 45&deg; angle, the head of the bolt at the upper left. Commonly used for various content concerning tools, building, and construction. May also be used for other hardware, including screws.

Apple&rsquo;s bolt <a href="/apple/ios-9.0/nut-and-bolt/">previously resembled</a>&nbsp;a screw, <a href="/google/android-7.0/nut-and-bolt/">Google&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;a dumbbell; Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/nut-and-bolt/">previously featured</a> the nut and bolt separately.

Nut and Bolt

A round metal gear with teeth.

Used to talk about tools and engineering (both hardware and software). Also commonly used to indicate settings on user interfaces.&nbsp;May also represent hard work, e.g., grinding in sports.

Samsung&rsquo;s design originally&nbsp;featured a white gear icon on a green square.

Gear

A metal clamp or vice, as screwed to hold or compress materials like wood or metal. Depicted as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-clamp">C-clamp</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-clamp">F-clamp</a>, its screw in various positions.

Commonly used for various content concerning tools, equipment, and technology. May also represent file compression in computer science. An image of a clamp, for example,&nbsp;is featured in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinZip">WinZip</a> icon.

Twitter&rsquo;s clamp is red.&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/clamp/">previously featured</a> a clamp around a cardboard box.

Compression

A red box for holding and transporting tools, such as a <a href="/hammer/">hammer</a> and <a href="/wrench/">wrench</a>. Generally depicted as latched shut with silver hardware and a black handle.

Commonly used for literal or metaphorical tools, toolkits, and building.

WhatsApp&#39;s design includes a hammer in front. Google&rsquo;s design was <a href="/google/android-9.0/toolbox/">previously shown</a> as open with two wrenches and a pair of pliers.

Toolbox

A fire extinguisher, as used to put out small <a href="/fire/">fires</a>. Depicted as a red tank with a black hose and pressure gauge. Most platforms include an image of a flame on a white label.

Commonly used for various content concerning fire safety, emergencies, and literal and figurative fires.

Fire Extinguisher

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Woman Factory Worker: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Woman Factory Worker: Dark Skin Tone

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Apple

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Google Noto Color Emoji

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Samsung

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.

Microsoft 3D Fluent

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Microsoft

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

WhatsApp

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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Twitter / X

Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Facebook

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Huawei

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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JoyPixels

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.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Twitter Emoji Stickers

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

Sony Playstation

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

OpenMoji

An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

emojidex

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>.

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