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

Octagonal Sign

Shows a map of the country of Japan, which is the only country to have its own emoji map. Other countries can be found on the <a href="/globe-showing-americas/" title="🌎 Earth Globe Americas">various globe emojis</a>, or the <a href="/world-map/" title="🗺 World Map">world map emoji</a>.

Silhouette of Japan

A decorative symbol that appears like a golden flower, but found in all manner of logos, symbols, and patterns. This symbol forms part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Scout_Emblem">World Scout Emblem</a>, amongst other uses.

Fleur-de-lis

A set of red, orange (amber) and green traffic lights, used at intersections. Less common than the <a title="🚦 Vertical Traffic Light" href="/vertical-traffic-light/">vertical traffic light</a>.
Similar in appearance to the <a href="https://www.apple.com/anzsea/v/osx/c/images/design/controls_large.png">traffic light controls</a> in the upper-left of every OS X windows.

Horizontal Traffic Light

A set of red, orange (amber) and green traffic lights, used at intersections. More common than the <a title="🚥 Horizontal Traffic Light" href="/horizontal-traffic-light/">horizontal traffic light</a>.

Vertical Traffic Light

The word new, shown enclosed in a square.

Squared New

A sign indicating the location of a <a href="/bus/" title="🚌 Bus">bus</a> stop by the side of a road.

Some&nbsp;platforms display&nbsp;this as a red, white and blue sign which can be found in parts of Japan. This interpretation has a slight resemblance to&nbsp;the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Globe">Pepsi Globe</a>.

Other&nbsp;platforms base this emoji design&nbsp;on bus stop signage of&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/emojipedia/status/834368235202105345">other regions</a>.

Bus Stop

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 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

Representation of&nbsp;hot springs with steam rising&nbsp;from a circular tub. This is the common symbol used to represent an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onsen">onsen</a> on <a href="http://www.japan-ryokan.net/onsen" title="🗾 Silhouette Of Japan">maps in&nbsp;Japan</a>.

Hot Springs

A Tanabata tree, a type of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_tree">wish tree</a> on which people hang wishes written on paper and other decorations during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata">Tanabata</a>, a Japanese festival celebrating two heavenly lovers. Depicted as one or two stalks of green bamboo, on which hangs one or more slips of paper, generally red.

Often used to represent various plants or as a green accent color.

Apple&rsquo;s design includes a yellow star decoration. Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/tanabata-tree/">previously</a> displayed a green branch with three, variously colored pieces of paper.

Tanabata Tree

A Japanese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadomatsu">kadomatsu</a>, composed of pine leaves and bamboo shoots. Traditionally placed outside homes in Japan around the New Year to welcome spirits for a plentiful, happy year ahead.

Depicted as three shoots of <a href="/tanabata-tree/">bamboo</a>, arranged vertically at different heights in a wooden container, arrayed with pine leaves.

Often used to represent various plants or as a green accent color.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s kadomatsu is adorned with red berries, as is Facebook&rsquo;s, which also includes pink <a href="/cherry-blossom/">cherry blossoms</a>.

Pine Decoration

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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.

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

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.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

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

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

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

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.

HTC devices use their own emoji images, which are separate from the flat-color <a href="/google/">Google emojis</a>. These emoji images appear on devices such as the HTC 10 and&nbsp;HTC U11.

As of 2016, only a subset of emojis are supported by HTC. Non-smiley emojis show on HTC devices using the Noto Color Emoji font from Google.

HTC Emoji List — Emojis for HTC Sense

An original emoji set created for HTC devices. Designed by <a href="http://etherbrian.org/htc.html">Brian Brasher</a>.

Sense 7

HTC Sense 8.0, released on April 12, 2016, was the first&nbsp;version of HTC Sense to <a href="https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/buyers-guides/htc/137341-htc-sense-8-0-vs-sense-7-0-new-features-tweaks-and-changes-reviewed">hide the version number</a> on devices. This version is still available when using the <a href="http://www.htc.com/us/software/htc-sync-manager/">HTC Sync Manager</a> app.

HTC Sense 8 added support for smileys in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>&nbsp;but&nbsp;removed all other custom emoji designs. Most emojis on modern HTC devices now use the&nbsp;<a href="/google/">Google Emoji set</a>. Sense 9.0 <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/farewell-to-htc-emojis/">does not make any additional changes</a> to the emoji set available in Sense 8.

🔰 Japanese Symbol for Beginner on HTC Sense 8

🔰 Japanese Symbol for Beginner on HTC Sense 8

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