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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

A&nbsp;microscope, as used in science laboratories to magnify small objects, such as <a href="/microbe/">cells</a> or <a href="/bug/">insects</a>. Depicted as a compound opitical microscope with an adjustable eyepiece, lens, arm, and slide&nbsp;stage mounted on a base. Generally shown as metal with the viewing apparatus facing left.

Commonly used for various content concerning science and research. May also be used for various senses of inspection (e.g., taking a closer took).

Google&rsquo;s design was <a href="/google/android-11.0/microscope/">previously</a> shown in red.

Microscope

Scientist: Light Skin Tone

Man Scientist: Light Skin Tone

Woman Scientist: Light Skin Tone

A yellow face with furrowed eyebrows looking upwards with thumb and index finger resting on its chin. Intended to show a person pondering or deep in thought.&nbsp;Often used to question or scorn something or someone,&nbsp;as if saying Hmm, I don&#39;t know about that. Tone varies, including earnest, playful, puzzled, skeptical, and mocking.

May be paired with <a href="/thought-balloon/">💭 Thought Balloon</a> or <a href="/light-bulb/">💡 Light Bulb</a> to represent&nbsp;thinking, (having) ideas, and learning.

Joins <a href="/hugging-face/">🤗&nbsp;Hugging Face</a>, <a href="/shushing-face/">🤫&nbsp;Shushing Face</a>, and <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face With Hand Over Mouth</a> as one of the few smileys featuring a hand.

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Thinking Face

A smiling yellow face with glasses, often with teeth showing, originally buck teeth on most platforms.

While this emoji is often used by people calling themselves nerds in a self-deprecating way, the nerdy glasses paired with buck teeth can, and often does, evoke anti-Asian stereotypes. The fact that the default color of emoji faces is yellow further pushes this emoji into racist &quot;<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/189200/asians-meet-new-yellow-emoji-with-frowny-face/">yellowface</a>&quot;&nbsp;territory.

Some platforms have redesigned nerd face&nbsp;over time to not have buck teeth, perhaps in acknowledgement of the harm this imagery&nbsp;may cause. Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and JoyPixels <a href="/google/android-7.0/nerd-face/">originally</a> <a href="/facebook/2.0/nerd-face/">featured</a> <a href="/joypixels/4.0/nerd-face/">designs</a> with buck teeth but have since changed (or completely removed) the teeth on nerd face.

Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, Samsung, and other platforms still use designs for this emoji that include buck teeth.

Nerd Face

A cartoon-styled representation of a collision. Depicted as a star-like, orange-and-yellow fiery burst, generally with one point extending to the bottom right, as if from the source of the collision.

May be used to represent various types of bangs, explosions, or crashes. Like <a href="/fire/">🔥 Fire</a> and <a href="/hundred-points/">💯 Hundred Points</a>, commonly used to represent something is excellent or exciting in some way.

Apple implements a version of 💥 Collision in its <a href="/firecracker/">🧨 Firecracker</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/camera-with-flash/">📸 Camera With Flash</a>.

Collision Symbol

A large cloud-like shape more commonly known as a thought bubble.

Used to represent thinking, or thoughts, and commonly used in&nbsp;comics to display the thoughts of a drawn character. May also be used to represent a dream, or daydream.

Thought Balloon

Mechanical Arm

Mechanical Leg

A red anatomical heart, shown with blue or purple veins on some platforms.

Sometimes used interchangeably with <a href="/red-heart/">❤️ Red Heart</a>.

Anatomical Heart

Pink anatomical lungs and trachea, shown with bronchial tubes on some platforms. Used in medical contexts to talk about lung health. Sometimes used in reference to taking deep breaths, hyperventilating, or breathing in general. Also used in the context of smoking or vaping.

Lungs

A bone which may be used for a dog to chew on, or as a part of the human body. The type of bone is not specified.

May be used to represent the NSFW term &quot;to bone&quot;.

Bone

A person working in the field of health care. This may be used to represent a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist.

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Health Worker

A man working in the field of health care. This may be used to represent a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist.

See also: <a href="/woman-health-worker/" title="👩‍⚕️ Female Health Worker">👩&zwj;⚕️&nbsp;Female Health Worker</a>

Man Health Worker

A woman working in the field of health care. This may be used to represent a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist.

See also: <a href="/man-health-worker/" title="👨‍⚕️ Male Health Worker">👨&zwj;⚕️ Male Health Worker</a>

Woman Health Worker

A person who is engaged in education. Generally depicted wearing a black graduation gown and cap, and occasionally holding a&nbsp;degree certificate or diploma.

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Student

A man who is engaged in education. Generally depicted wearing a black graduation gown and cap, and occasionally holding a&nbsp;degree certificate or diploma.

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Man Student

A woman who is engaged in education. Generally depicted wearing a black graduation gown and cap, and occasionally holding a&nbsp;degree certificate or diploma.

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Woman Student

A person standing in front of a chalkboard (aka blackboard) with the intention of teaching a class. Often shown holding a&nbsp;<a href="/closed-book/">📕 Closed Book</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(rod)">pointer</a>.

Teacher

A man standing in front of a chalkboard (aka blackboard) with the intention of teaching a class.&nbsp;Often shown holding a&nbsp;<a href="/closed-book/">📕 Closed Book</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(rod)">pointer</a>.

Man Teacher

A woman standing in front of a chalkboard (aka blackboard) with the intention of teaching a class.&nbsp;Often shown holding a&nbsp;<a href="/closed-book/">📕 Closed Book</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(rod)">pointer</a>.

Woman Teacher

A microbe, as a bacterium grown in a <a href="/petri-dish/">🧫 Petri Dish</a> or observed under a <a href="/microscope/">🔬 Microscope</a>. Generally depicted as a squiggly, single-celled microorganism with prominent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilium">cilia</a>. Color, shape, and position vary across platforms.&nbsp;Commonly used to represent bacteria, viruses, and germs and disease more generally.

In 2020, this emoji became <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/spread-of-the-coronavirus-emoji/">primarily used</a> in reference to <a href="/coronavirus/">Coronavirus / COVID-19</a>.

Apple&#39;s version of this emoji most closely represents a virus, while others from&nbsp;Samsung, Microsoft and&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;appear as bright green bacteria. Other versions of this emoji also appear mainly as bacteria:&nbsp;Facebook&#39;s is&nbsp;indigo, and WhatsApp&rsquo;s purple. Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-9.0/microbe/">previously displayed</a> five microbes in&nbsp;different, bright colors.

Microbe

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

Factory

A liquid-in-glass thermometer, as used to measure temperature. Depicted at various angles with a red liquid risen from the bulb to various levels on the scale. Commonly used for content&nbsp;concerning high temperatures, including <a href="/sun/">warm weather</a>, illness (<a href="/face-with-thermometer/">having a fever</a>), and various slang senses of hot.

Thermometer

A single, light blue droplet, as of water, sweat, or tears.

May be used for various types of liquid. May also be used to expression sadness, as in <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a>,&nbsp;or for various liquid-based slang expressions (e.g., drip, &ldquo;exceptional style, swagger&quot;).

Not to be confused with <a href="/sweat-droplets/">💦 Sweat Droplets</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Droplet

Clear safety goggles. When this emoji was approved in 2018 it was&nbsp;implied to be safety goggles rather than swimming goggles. A year later&nbsp;<a href="/diving-mask/">🤿&nbsp;Diving Mask</a>, which is&nbsp;similar in design&nbsp;but used&nbsp;to represent swimming goggles rather than safety goggles,&nbsp;was approved.

Goggles

A white coat worn in a science laboratory.

Lab Coat

An electric battery, as used to power such devices as a <a href="/flashlight/">flashlight</a>. Generally depicted as an upright, green cylinder, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA_battery">AA</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_battery">D cell</a>, with white indicators for its positive (facing up) and negative terminals.

Commonly used for various content concerning electricity, charging, energy, and power, especially in figurative senses. Its green color also suggests the icon for battery power on&nbsp;a cell/<a href="/mobile-phone/">mobile phone</a>.

Apple&rsquo;s design includes a <a href="/high-voltage/">voltage symbol</a>; WhatsApp&rsquo;s battery is blue.

Battery

A <a href="/battery/">battery</a> with a minimal amount of power remaining, indicated by the color red. Used to show low power or energy and the need to be plugged in or recharged.

Low Battery

An <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus">abacus</a>, an ancient tool used to count and calculate by moving beads. Depicted as a wooden frame with four or more rows or columns of variously positioned and colored beads.

Used for various content concerning mathematics and science (education) as well as calculations,&nbsp;counting, and numbers more generally.

Designs from Apple&nbsp;and Facebook resemble a Chinese abacus (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suanpan">suanpan</a>), as did a <a href="/microsoft/windows-11/abacus/">previous</a> Microsoft design. By one reckoning, Apple&rsquo;s red-beaded&nbsp;design displays the number 108 and Emojipedia&#39;s, 12,031,981.

Abacus

A light bulb, as screwed into a <a href="/couch-and-lamp/">lamp</a> to light a room. Depicted as an incandescent bulb with a silver base, often shown with filament and a soft, yellow-white glow.

Commonly used to represent ideas (as over a head in a cartoon), thinking, and learning, often as paired with <a href="/thinking-face/">🤔 Thinking Face</a> or <a href="/thought-balloon/">💭 Thought Balloon</a>. May also represent various&nbsp;senses of light and brightness.

Electric Light Bulb

A bar graph generally showing three different-colored, vertical rectangles at various heights, as compares values across a category. Commonly used to represent various types of data, information, facts, figures, and charts more generally.

Several platforms, including Apple, depict&nbsp;(left to right) a green, red (lowest), and blue bar (highest). Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/bar-chart/">previously</a> included&nbsp;four bars, with yellow being the highest.

Bar Chart

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