🚩 Previously displayed a gendered appearance, now shown as gender neutral on most platforms.

previously-gendered

A construction worker wearing a hard-hat (safety helmet). Has a high visibility vest or <a href="/hammer/" title="🔨 Hammer">hammer</a> in some variations.

Some platforms display a green cross on the <a href="/rescue-workers-helmet/" title="⛑ Helmet With White Cross">helmet</a> which is used in Japan as a safety reminder in <a href="/construction/" title="🚧 Construction Sign">construction</a> zones. It is also commonly seen on the <a href="http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Met">Met</a>&nbsp;helmet in the game&nbsp;Mega Man.

Construction Worker

A yellow face wearing a white surgical mask, as used by <a href="/health-worker/">health workers</a> in <a href="/hospital/">hospitals</a>&nbsp;as well as the general public during a <a href="/coronavirus/">pandemic</a>. May be worn&nbsp;to avoid <a href="/face-with-thermometer/">sickness</a> or spreading airborne diseases.

Displayed with closed eyes on most platforms. Google,&nbsp;and WhatsApp show&nbsp;this emoji with neutral eyes.&nbsp;Apple changed this emoji to show with smiling eyes&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/mask-wearing-emoji-now-smiles/">in iOS 14.2 and above</a>, as did Microsoft in their <a href="/microsoft/windows-11-november-2021-update/">Windows 11 November 2021</a> update.

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>.

Face with Medical Mask

A sign used to indicate roadwork or <a href="/construction-worker/" title="👷 Construction Worker">construction</a>. Generally shown as yellow and black diagonal stripes, and often used to physically block access to a road or area. May be used to imply a website or project&nbsp;in progress or under construction.

Construction Sign

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 construction site generally depicted as a tower crane shown lifting steel or other building materials.

Building Construction

A <a href="/house/" title=" 🏠 House Building">house</a> which is&nbsp;unoccupied, and has become derelict. In a state of disrepair.

Derelict House Building

A red, octagonal sign. Used in many countries as a stop sign.

Octagonal Sign

A police officer wearing&nbsp;a blue hat&nbsp;with a gold badge or shield in the middle.

See also <a href="/woman-police-officer/">👮&zwj;♀️ Woman Police Officer</a> or&nbsp;<a href="/man-police-officer/">👮&zwj;♂️ Man Police Officer</a>

Police Officer

A man wearing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turban">turban</a>; a form of customary headwear&nbsp;worn by Sikhs or Muslims.

Man with Turban

A person wearing a gua pi mao; a type of Chinese hat. Sometimes referred to as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skullcap">skullcap</a>.

Man with Gua Pi Mao

The male version of the <a href="/construction-worker/">👷&nbsp;Construction Worker</a> emoji.&nbsp;Currently identical in appearance to the non-gendered base emoji.

Man Construction Worker

The female version of the <a href="/construction-worker/">👷&nbsp;Construction Worker</a> emoji.

Woman Construction Worker

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 red brick or bricks. Depicted in a loose stack, a single object with holes, or as built into wall, as of a <a href="/house/">house</a>, <a href="/school/">school</a>, or other structure.

Commonly used for various content concerning building and construction. May also be used for figurative bricks, e.g., slang brick, &ldquo;extremely cold (weather).&rdquo;

Brick

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 round, black, cartoon-styled hole, as a manhole or a <a href="/flag-in-hole/">hole (cup) in golf</a>. May be used to represent various types of literal or figurative holes, e.g., black holes, rabbit holes.

Hole

L2/09-026

L2/07-257

Emojipedia

GitHub

Slack

Discord

Construction Worker: Light Skin Tone

Construction Worker: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Construction Worker: Medium Skin Tone

Construction Worker: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Construction 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

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 and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

&nbsp;

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

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.

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Skype

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

Twitter Emoji Stickers

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

&nbsp;

JoyPixels

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 minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

Noto Emoji Font

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

OpenMoji

A licensable emoji design set.

&nbsp;

Icons8

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

emojidex

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Messenger

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.

SoftBank

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Docomo

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

au by KDDI

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Mozilla

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard 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.

This update to Google&#39;s Noto Color Emoji set introduced support for 2023&#39;s <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a> recommendations.

Additionally, the family emojis have been changed to have a silhouette icon design, matching the new non-gender-specifying family emojis from&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a>.

First made available via Github on 2023-11-17, this update is expected to be&nbsp;released progressively across different Google platforms such as Chrome OS, Gmail, YouTube, and various Android devices.

15.1

First released as a&nbsp;color vector&nbsp;font file on 2022-09-14, this update to Google&#39;s Noto Color Emoji set introduced support for <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a> emoji such as <a href="https://emojipedia.org/shaking-face/">Shaking Face</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/pink-heart/">Pink Heart</a>.

This update also included minor revisions to select emoji designs,&nbsp;including all of the hand gestures.

The update was released progressively across different Google platforms such as Chrome OS, Gmail, and YouTube between September 2022 and their release within&nbsp;Android 13 in March 2023.&nbsp;

15.0

First made available via as a&nbsp;Developer Preview on&nbsp;2021-10-27, Android 12L was&nbsp;the first vendor update to&nbsp;include support for 2021&rsquo;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> recommendations. Devices running Android 12&nbsp;also began to receive this emoji update via subsequent security updates.&nbsp;

A total of 107 new emojis were introduced in this update, including <a href="/melting-face/">Melting Face</a>, <a href="/heart-hands/">Heart Hands</a>, and mixed skin tone support for <a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-emoji-14-0-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Android 12L

Released to eligible Pixel devices on&nbsp;2021-10-04, Android 12.0 updated the designs of almost one thousand previously available emojis.&nbsp;

The emoji design revised included in this update rolled out across a variety of Google platforms such as Gmail, Chrome OS, and YouTube Live Chat from July 2021. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/android-emoji-changelog-july-2021/">Read more about this update.</a>

Android 12.0

A&nbsp;feature drop&nbsp;exclusive to Google Pixel devices which added support for&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. Not available as part of a regular Android release, these updates began rolling out to Pixel users on 2020-12-09. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-emoji-13-1-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Android 11.0 December 2020 Feature Drop

Android 11.0&nbsp;was released on 2020-09-08.&nbsp;Updates in this release include full support for <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>&nbsp;as well as a significant number of design changes across the entire emoji set. These additions are included in <a href="https://itsfoss.com/fedora-33/">Fedora 33</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/android-11-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Android 11.0

A&nbsp;feature drop&nbsp;exclusive to Google Pixel devices which added support for&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>. Not available as part of a regular Android release, these updates began rolling out to Pixel users on 2020-03-02. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-march-2020-pixel-feature-drop-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Android 10.0 March 2020 Feature Drop

Android 10.0&nbsp;was released on 2018-09-03. Updates in this release include full support for <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>&nbsp;and a number of design changes, including gender-neutral versions of many emojis. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/android-10-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Android 10.0

Android 9.0 &ldquo;Pie&rdquo; was released on 2018-08-06 and was the first Android release to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>.

Design changes include&nbsp;the <a href="/pistol/">pistol emoji</a>&nbsp;switching&nbsp;from&nbsp;a weapon to an orange water pistol / squirt gun, gender-inclusive designs being used for the <a href="/family/">family emoji</a> where no gender is specified, and the removal of egg from the <a href="/green-salad/">green salad</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/android-9-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Android 9.0

Google Android 8.1 was released on December 5, 2017 without a gradual rollout to supported devices. This release <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-fixes-burger-emoji/">fixes the burger emoji issue</a> from&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-8.0/">Android 8.0</a>, as well as the emojis for <a href="/cheese-wedge/">cheese</a>, <a href="/beer-mug/">beer</a>, and <a href="/clinking-beer-mugs/">beers</a>.

Android 8.1

Android 8.0 &quot;Oreo&quot; was released on August 21, 2017. This update included a complete redesign of every emoji, including a transformation of all &quot;blob&quot;&nbsp;smileys into a more common circle shape.

This release also added support for <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a> including all new code points and&nbsp;subdivision flags for <a href="/flag-england/">England</a>, <a href="/flag-scotland/">Scotland</a>, and <a href="/flag-wales/">Wales</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/android-8-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Android 8.0

Released on October 20, 2016, Android 7.1 was the first Android release to include emoji professions, gendered emojis, single parent families, and the <a href="/rainbow-flag/" title="🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Flag">rainbow flag</a>. View <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/android-7-1-emoji-changelog/">all changes</a>.

Android 7.1

Android 7.0 Nougat&nbsp;is the first release of Android to support <a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">modifiers</a> for skin tone. Design changes from <a href="/google/android-6.0.1/">Android 6.0.1</a>&nbsp;include front-facing smileys, and a replacement of gender-neutral &quot;blob&quot; characters with male/female versions.

These emoji images are from the final version of Android 7.0 Nougat which was released on August 22, 2016.&nbsp;More <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/android-7-0-emoji-changelog/">about this update</a>.

Android 7.0

Android 6.0.1 was the first emoji release from Google to support <a href="/unicode-7.0/">Unicode 7.0</a>, <a href="/unicode-8.0/">Unicode 8.0</a>, and <a href="/zero-width-joiner/">ZWJ Sequences</a> for families and couples.

This update was&nbsp;released on&nbsp;December 7, 2015. Find out more about this update in the <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/android-6-0-1-emoji-changelog/">Android 6.0.1 Emoji Changelog</a>.

Android 6.0.1

Android 5.0 emojis were the first major revision to Google&#39;s emoji font after the introduction of color in <a href="/google/android-4.4/">Android 4.4</a>.

The primary changes in this update are to the appearance of human emojis (changed from white to yellow), and the addition of <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/209-new-emoji-flags-available-today/">209 emoji flags</a>.

Find out more about this update in the <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/android-50-emoji-changelog/">Android 5.0 Emoji Changelog</a>.

Android 5.0

Android 4.4 was the first release from Google to include support for color emoji designs&nbsp;and introduced a new bloblike gumdrop character which is used for various gestures and smileys.

This set of emojis was created by Google and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ic4design.com/top/google_emoji.html">IC4 Design</a>&nbsp;and first shown <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/15/google-hangouts-messaging-app/">at Google I/O</a> on May 15, 2013.

Android 4.4

The first version of Android with native emoji support was Android 4.1. Many emojis at this timed&nbsp;feature the Android alien, which made emotions difficult to discern at small sizes. The last release to feature this black and white emoji set was Android 4.3.

Color emoji support was added in&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-4.4/">Android 4.4</a>.

Android 4.3

A single date on a calendar. Generally depicted as a page torn off from a daily desk calendar, displaying month&nbsp;and day on a white, square page.

Like <a href="/tear-off-calendar/">📆 Tear-Off Calendar</a> and <a href="/spiral-calendar/">🗓️ Spiral Calendar</a>, commonly used as an icon for specific upcoming events or memorial dates. Also used for various content concerning time, date, schedules, planning, and observances and&nbsp;occasions more generally.

The date shown is July 17. This date was first used by Apple as a reference to <a href="https://gizmodo.com/fun-fact-time-icals-birthday-is-today-279393">when iCal for Mac premiered at MacWorld Expo in 2002</a>. Since 2014 Emojipedia has celebrated&nbsp;<a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a>&nbsp;on July 17, because of this emoji.

Major platforms previously used a variety of dates on this calendar, but have changed in recent years to also show July 17, to avoid confusion on World Emoji Day.&nbsp;Some vendors still feature easter egg dates marking company&nbsp;founding&nbsp;or other milestones:

<ul>
	<li>📅 Apple: July 17 (Mac iCal announcement in 2002, later World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Google: July 17 (World Emoji Day; previously a generic monthly calendar)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Microsoft: a generic month</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Samsung: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/calendar/">previously</a> a monthly calendar turned to May)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;WhatsApp: Feb 24 (incorporation of WhatsApp in 2009)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Twitter: Jul 17&nbsp; (changed from&nbsp;March 21 which was&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/20">founding date</a>&nbsp;of Twitter in 2006; <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/calendar/">previously</a> July 15, the date Twitter launched)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Facebook: May 14 (birthday of founder Mark Zuckerberg; <a href="/facebook/2.0/calendar/">previously</a> a generic 3rd)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;JoyPixels: July 17&nbsp;(World Emoji Day)</li>
</ul>

Discontinued:

<ul>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Messenger: August (first release&nbsp;of Messenger apps in 2011)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;LG: Mar 27 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;HTC: generic</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Mozilla: July 17 (World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;emojidex: Tuesday, Jan 12 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Softbank: generic</li>
	<li>📅 Docomo: 12 (suggesting the number of months in a year)&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
	<li>📅 au by KDDI: 12</li>
</ul>

Calendar

A black or gray box with a label holder, containing <a href="/card-index/">card index dividers</a> with multicolored tabs, as used to organize and store files.&nbsp;Apple and Facebook&rsquo;s designs include a lid.

Commonly used for various content concerning paper or computer files, organization, and various types of data, information, and professional or academic work.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/card-file-box/">previously resembled</a> a shoebox.

Card File Box

A timepiece set in advance to startle a person awake at the designated time with its two bells. That is, before hitting snooze.&nbsp;Appearance varies across platforms, but depicted as a classic, wind-up, bedside alarm clock, often red in color.

May be used for various content concerning alarms, alerts, <a href="/person-in-bed/">sleeping</a>, waking, and time more generally.

Alarm Clock

A single date on a calendar. Generally depicted as a page on a two-ringed, daily desk calendar, as flipped or torn off to change the date. Displays&nbsp;month and day on a white, square page, curled up at the bottom right.

Like <a href="/calendar/">📅 Calendar</a> and <a href="/spiral-calendar/">🗓️ Spiral Calendar</a>, commonly used as an icon for specific upcoming events or memorial dates. Also used for various content concerning time, date, schedules, planning, and observances and&nbsp;occasions more generally.

The date shown is July 17. This date was first used by Apple as a reference to <a href="https://gizmodo.com/fun-fact-time-icals-birthday-is-today-279393">when iCal for Mac premiered at MacWorld Expo in 2002</a>. Since 2014 Emojipedia has celebrated&nbsp;<a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a>&nbsp;on July 17, because of this emoji.

Major platforms previously used a variety of dates on this calendar, but have changed in recent years to also show July 17, to avoid confusion on World Emoji Day.&nbsp;Some vendors still feature easter egg dates marking company&nbsp;founding&nbsp;or other milestones:

<ul>
	<li>📅 Apple: July 17 (Mac iCal announcement in 2002, later World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Google: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/google/android-7.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 12, as months in the year)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Microsoft: a generic month</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Samsung: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 31)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;WhatsApp: Feb 24 (incorporation of WhatsApp in 2009)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Twitter: Jul 17&nbsp; (changed from&nbsp;March 21 which was&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/20">founding date</a>&nbsp;of Twitter in 2006; <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/calendar/">previously</a> July 15, the date Twitter launched)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Facebook: February 4 (date of founding in 2004; <a href="/facebook/2.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 31)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;JoyPixels: July 17&nbsp;(World Emoji Day)</li>
</ul>

Discontinued:

<ul>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Messenger: August 9 (first release&nbsp;of Messenger apps in 2011)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;LG: March 27 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;HTC: generic 3</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Mozilla: July 17 (World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;emojidex: December 12 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Softbank: 12&nbsp;(suggesting the number of months in a year)&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
	<li>📅 Docomo: 12</li>
	<li>📅 au by KDDI: 12</li>
</ul>

Tear-Off Calendar

A paper ticket, which may be for a theatre show, sporting event, or other ticketed performance. Shown in blue, yellow or grey on most platforms.

Ticket

A spiral-bound calendar. Generally depicted as a monthly calendar, with a red or blue header. Apple and Samsung&rsquo;s pages are curled up at the bottom right, as to flip for a new&nbsp;month.

Like <a href="/calendar/">📅 Calendar</a> and <a href="/tear-off-calendar/">📆 Tear-Off Calendar</a>, commonly used as an icon for specific upcoming events or memorial dates. Also used for various content concerning time, date, schedules, planning, and observances and&nbsp;occasions more generally.

Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook&rsquo;s design feature a generic month. WhatsApp&#39;s design shows in a green header February, when it was incorporated in 2009. Apple, Samsung, and JoyPixels&rsquo;s designs show the month of July, when <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a> falls on the 17th, a date Google&#39;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/spiral-calendar/">used to</a> specifically display.

Spiral Calendar Pad

A card index, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolodex">Rolodex</a>, once used to organize and access cards containing the information of personal or business contacts. Depicted as a black or gray rotating device with a contact card displayed, including a graphic and text.

Occasionally used to represent contact details/information and&nbsp;business cards. Thanks to its appearance, this emoji&nbsp;is sometimes mistaken for such things as documents or word processing.

Apple&rsquo;s design features a picture of its <a href="/woman/">👩 Woman</a>, identified as Jane Appleseed (<a href="/apple/ios-6.0/card-index/">previously</a> <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a>) with the following contact details as an easter egg:

appleseed@me.com 
125 Main St. 
City Name, CA 95014 
Work: (408) 123-4567 
Home: (400) 765-4321

95014 is the zip code (postcode) for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Park">Apple&rsquo;s corporate headquarters</a> in Cupertino, California.

JoyPixels features its <a href="/woman-health-worker/">👩&zwj;⚕️ Woman Health Care Worker</a>.&nbsp;WhatsApp&#39;s design also shows the picture of a woman.

Card Index

A rectangular map of the world. Generally depicted as a paper map creased at its folds, Earth&rsquo;s surface shown in green on blue ocean.

Commonly represent maps, travel, exploration, and geography. May also represent various content concerning the world as a whole, e.g., global or international issues.

<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/world-map/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/world-map/">Samsung&rsquo;s design</a> previously depicted outlines of the continents.

World Map

A yellow face with a party hat blowing a party horn as confetti floats around its head. Used for celebrating joyous occasions (such as <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&#39;s Eve</a> or <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a>) and enjoying good times more generally.

Apple&rsquo;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚&nbsp;Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a>.

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Face with Party Horn and Party Hat

A classic hourglass, its sand still flowing from the top to bottom bulb. Indicates time is still passing&mdash;but life is short. Color varies across platforms.

Commonly used for various content concerning time. May also be used for hourglass-shaped figures. Not to be confused with <a href="/hourglass-done/">⌛&nbsp;Hourglass Done</a>, whose sand has stopped flowing.

Hourglass with Flowing Sand

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 spiral-bound, yellow, hardcover notebook. Intended to depict a financial ledger, as used in accounting.

Commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, reading, and schooling. May also be used as a yellow accent color.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/ledger/">Google</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/ledger/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> designs were previously blue.

Ledger

A classic yellow pencil. Depicted as a graphite pencil, like a U.S. #2 or European HB, with a sharpened tip and pink eraser. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, with its tip at the lower left or right. Commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, and schooling.

Samsung&rsquo;s pencil was <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/pencil/">previously red</a>, Google&rsquo;s <a href="/google/android-7.0/pencil/">green</a>.

Pencil

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

A spiral-bound, flip-style notepad or notebook of lined paper, as used for everyday note-taking. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing.

Most platforms depict a notepad opened to an empty, white page, sometimes shown curled at the bottom. Microsoft&rsquo;s design is shown closed, with a yellow cover.

Spiral Note Pad

A classic hourglass, all of its sand having flowed into the bottom bulb. Indicates time has passed. Color varies across platforms.

Commonly used for various content concerning time. May also be used for hourglass-shaped figures. Not to be confused with <a href="/hourglass-not-done/">⏳&nbsp;Hourglass Not Done</a>, whose sand is still flowing.

Used on <a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a> to indicate a Snapstreak is soon to end.

Hourglass

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

Telegram

An emoji set from au by KDDI; a Japanese mobile phone carrier. Using black and white emoji&nbsp;characters&nbsp;<a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/">from 1999</a>, this set <a href="/au-kddi/type-d-1/">gained animation in the early 2000s</a>&nbsp;before moving to static, <a href="/au-kddi/type-d-3/">high resolution designs</a>.

In 2012, au&nbsp;replaced its custom designs with <a href="/au-kddi/type-f/">a new set</a> heavily inspired by, and designed to be compatible with, emojis from NTT Docomo.

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

First available in May 2012, this emoji set is the first from au by KDDI to unify designs to largely mimic the set from NTT Docomo,&nbsp;providing&nbsp;greater cross-platform consistency. This was the first and only emoji set from au to move away from <a href="/au-kddi/type-d-3/">realistic designs</a> to more abstract symbols.

Shigetaka Kurita, the creator of the first Docomo designs, is <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2013/3/4/3966140/how-emoji-conquered-the-world">reported to have assisted with this effort</a>.

Type F

A higher resolution version of au&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="/au-kddi/type-d-1/">Type D-2</a>&nbsp;emoji set, but without animation. This emoji set was the last revision from au which featured designs unique to the company. Available as early as 2003, this set was in common use from 2005&mdash;2012 on au devices.

The <a href="/au-kddi/type-f/">following release</a> unified designs to more closely match those from NTT Docomo.

Type D-3

A higher resolution version of au&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="/au-kddi/type-d-1/">Type D-1</a>&nbsp;emoji set available on higher end devices at the time. Replaced by <a href="/au-kddi/type-d-3/">Type D-3</a>, which uses the same designs but without animation, and at a higher resolution.

Type D-2

A complete redesign which followed <a href="/au-kddi/type-c-2/">Type C-2</a> from au. Animated, relatively low resolution pixel art. <a href="/au-kddi/type-d-2/">Type D-2</a>&nbsp;features the same range and designs, at a higher resolution. First available from August 2001, but in common use in 2003. Used on older devices than the Type D-2 set.

Some changes from the previous release <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031010032355/http://au.kddi.com:80/email/au_dakara/emoji/">were noted on the KDDI website</a>.

Type D-1

Type C-2 redesigned all emojis from <a href="/au-kddi/type-b-3/">Type B-3</a> and expanded the number of smileys available from one to seven. The new designs in this released used&nbsp;more vibrant colors, and this is the first set from au to include <a href="/au-kddi/type-c-2/pile-of-poo/">💩&nbsp;Pile of Poo</a> which had been <a href="/softbank/1997/pile-of-poo/">available</a> on some SoftBank (n&eacute;e J-Phone)&nbsp;as early as 1997.

Created in 2000, but potentially not in widespread use until&nbsp;2002. Replaced by <a href="/au-kddi/type-d-1/">Type D-1</a> in 2003.

Type C-2

The same set of characters as available in <a href="/au-kddi/type-b-2/">Type B-2</a>&nbsp;with similar designs that included additional shading and detail.&nbsp;Available from August 2000, and&nbsp;commonly seen on au devices in&nbsp;2001-2002. This character set was supported <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071009235732/http://developer.openwave.com:80/documentation/xhtml_mp_css_reference/icons.html#674480">in the OpenWave Mobile Browser 6.2</a> on au devices.

Replaced in 2002 by <a href="/au-kddi/type-c-2/">Type C-2</a>, which used entirely different designs.

Type B-3

A color revision of the previous <a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/">Type A-2 emoji set</a> from au. Many characters retained their design in this colorization, while other designs were also updated.

Available from August 2000, this set is closely related to the <a href="/au-kddi/type-b-3/">Type B-3</a> set available in a similar timeframe.

Type B-2

An early set of emoji designs from Japanese phone carrier&nbsp;au, available for monochrome devices. Included as part of the&nbsp;EZweb service which launched in May 1999.

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