A place where people are taken to receive medical care. This hospital has a large red cross on the front, often used as a symbol for health care.

Hospital

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

A stethoscope with a round resonator and two earpieces. Shown in black, blue, green, or red, depending on the platform.

Stethoscope

A symbol displaying&nbsp;of a rod with a <a href="/snake/" title="🐍 Snake">snake</a> entwined around the outside in a downward-spiral shape.

Associated with medicine and health care services such as doctors or hospitals. A similar and related symbol called the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medicine">Caduceus</a> is frequently used in the <a href="/flag-united-states/" title="🇺🇸 Flag for United States">United States</a>.

Staff of Aesculapius

A sickly-green face with concerned eyes and puffed, often red cheeks, as if holding back vomit. May represent physical illness or general disgust. Not to be confused with <a href="/face-vomiting/">🤮 Face Vomiting</a>.

Differs from other smileys conveying sickness, including <a href="/face-with-thermometer/">🤒 Face With Thermometer</a> (used especially for colds and flus) and <a href="/face-with-head-bandage/">🤕 Face With Head-Bandage</a> (physical injury).

Nauseated Face

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 bed with a gender-unspecified person sleeping in it, as at a <a href="/house/">house</a>, <a href="/hotel/">hotel</a>,&nbsp;hostel, or other sleeping accommodation. Used especially for various content concerning <a href="/sleeping-face/">sleeping</a> as well as beds, furniture, housing, relaxing, and other bedroom activities.

Shown with a headboard at the left&nbsp;and footboard with a person under the covers, head on the pillow. Most platforms suggest a wooden frame and feature blue or red sheets.

The appearance of the person varies. Apple and Facebook&#39;s designs show only the hair of the sleeper, Apple&#39;s black and Facebook&#39;s brown and tousled. Other major vendors show the head of the sleeper in default yellow with short, brown or blonde&nbsp;hair. Skin tone support is not recommended for this emoji, though it is supported&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://emojipedia.org/sleeping-accommodation-type-4/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550338562835000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHzfwaURXq7FmOe4Z-btvsniTcb0Q" href="/person-in-bed-medium-skin-tone/" target="_blank">on some platforms</a>.

Vendors implement the same style&nbsp;of bed as for&nbsp;their <a href="/bed/">🛏️&nbsp;Bed</a>, but with a sleeper in it.

Sleeping Accommodation

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 symbol representing Blood Type A. Displayed as the letter A on a red background.

Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter A

A basic crutch made of metal and rubber.

Crutch

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 medical syringe, as used to administer a vaccine&nbsp;or draw <a href="/drop-of-blood/">blood</a>. Generally depicted at a 45&deg; angle with a needle to the upper right.

Commonly used for content concerning health, medicine, and related professions as well as various senses of needles, drugs, tattoos, blood, or more recently&nbsp;&ndash; <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/vaccine-emoji-comes-to-life/">coronavirus vaccination</a>.

Originally used for the representation of blood donation, and displayed with blood in the barrel. In 2021 many platforms are switching to a more general-purpose empty syringe.&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-7.0/syringe/">Google</a> and <a href="/facebook/1.0/syringe/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> designs previously featured green liquids.

Syringe

A yellow face with a half-frown and white bandage wrapped around its head, often depicted partially over one eye. May represent physical injury or pain but also emotional hurting, sometimes for ironic effect.

Differs from other smileys conveying illness, such as <a href="/nauseated-face/">🤢 Nauseated Face</a> (appearing as if it&rsquo;s going to vomit) or <a href="/face-with-thermometer/">🤒 Face With Thermometer</a> (used especially for colds and flus).

Face with Head-Bandage

A capsule of medicine. Generally depicted at a 45&deg; angle, half red, half yellow. Commonly used for content concerning health, medicine, and related professions as well various types of drugs.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/pill/">previously featured</a> a blue-and-white capsule with two round pills, one orange, the other white. <a href="/google/android-6.0.1/pill/">Google</a> and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/pill/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> designs previously featured blue in their capsules.

Pill

A red drop of blood.&nbsp;May be used to talk about bleeding, injury,&nbsp;blood donation, or&nbsp;menstruation.

Drop of Blood

A symbol representing Blood Type B.&nbsp;Displayed as the letter B&nbsp;on a red background.

Sometimes used online to replace the letter C at the start of words&nbsp;in reference to the Bloods street gang&#39;s <a href="http://kollegekidd.com/news/bomtpon-rapper-yg-explains-bloods-replacing-c-words-with-letter-b/">practice&nbsp;of turning words like cool&nbsp;into&nbsp;bool</a>. This has expanded in some instances to starting any word with the letter B, or more specifically, this emoji which makes it more&nbsp;🅱️lear that a letter has been replaced.

Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter B

An ambulance, used to transport <a href="/face-with-medical-mask/" title="😷 Face With Medical Mask">patients</a> between their <a href="/house/" title="🏠 House Building">home</a> and the <a href="/hospital/" title="🏥 Hospital">hospital</a>.

Ambulance

A yellow face with scrunched, X-shaped eyes spewing bright-green vomit. May represent physical illness or disgust, more intensely so than <a href="/nauseated-face/">🤢 Nauseated Face</a>.

Face with Open Mouth Vomiting

A symbol representing Blood Type AB.&nbsp;Displayed as the letters AB on a red background.

Negative Squared AB

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

Released 2023-08-22, JoyPixels 8.0 was the first release from the company to support <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0">Emoji 15.0</a>.

Released on World Emoji Day,&nbsp;JoyPixels 7.0 introduces support for <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0 </a>within the&nbsp;freemium emoji set.

This update also revised a significant number of emoji designs, as has come to be expected from a JoyPixels release.

Released 2021-07-08,&nbsp;JoyPixels 6.6 updated hundreds of emoji designs, including the syringe emoji which had its contents and two blood drops removed. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-6-6-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Released 2021-01-27,&nbsp;JoyPixels 6.5&nbsp;was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-6-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Released 2020-06-23,&nbsp;JoyPixels 6.0&nbsp;was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-6-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Released 2020-01-29, JoyPixels 5.5 was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-5-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Released 2019-06-20, JoyPixels 5.0 (previously known as EmojiOne) was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>. A large number of emoji designs were also <a href="/joypixels/5.0/changed/">modified</a> in this release. More about this <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-5-0-emoji-changelog/">update</a>.

A minor update which modifyied&nbsp;a number of existing emoji designs. No new emojis were added in this release. This follows <a href="/joypixels/4.0/">EmojiOne 4.0</a> from 2018, which added <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a> support for the first time. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojione-4-5-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Released as EmojiOne 4.5 and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 4.5. The last release to use the EmojiOne branding.

Released on 2018-08-21 and the first release from EmojiOne to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>. This was the first release to be branded as JoyPixels&nbsp;for consumer goods licensing, while remaining EmojiOne for digital licenses. The majority of designs were updated with a new style in this release. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojione-4-0-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Released as EmojiOne 4.0&nbsp;and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 4.0.

EmojiOne 3.1 added support for <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>, and made tweaks and changes to a number of other emojis.

Released as EmojiOne 3.1&nbsp;and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 3.1.

Version 3.0 of EmojiOne included a complete redesign of every emoji, new licensing terms, and support for&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a>&nbsp;additions. This update was released on April 20, 2017.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-one-goes-premium/">Learn more about this release</a>.

Released as EmojiOne 3.0&nbsp;and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 3.0.

This release added&nbsp;support for the <a href="/rainbow-flag/" title="🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Flag">rainbow flag emoji</a>. The last completely free and open source release of this set, which <a href="https://github.com/EmojiTwo/EmojiOne-archive">remains archived</a>&nbsp;under its original name.

Released as EmojiOne 2.2.5.

2.2.5

The first release of EmojiOne to include support for emojis from <a href="/unicode-9.0/">Unicode 9.0</a>. View <a href="http://emojione.com/releases/2.2.4/">details</a>.

Released as EmojiOne 2.2.4.

2.2.4

Changes in Emoji One 2.2 include redesigns and tweaks of&nbsp;624 emoji images. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-one-releases-big-spring-update/">Overview</a>&nbsp;or see <a href="http://emojione.com/releases/2.2.0">more details</a>.

Changes to the appearance of 225 emojis. <a href="http://emojione.com/releases/2.1.0/">More details</a>.

Released as EmojiOne 2.1.

Emoji One 2.0 &mdash; referred to upon&nbsp;launch as&nbsp;The 2016 Collection&nbsp;&mdash; was a major update to <a href="/joypixels/1.0/">version 1.0</a>, and added support for <a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">emoji modifiers</a>, <a href="/zero-width-joiner/">ZWJ</a> sequences, and the latest emojis from Unicode 8.0.

<a href="/nintendo/">Nintendo Switch</a> uses emojis from EmojiOne 2.0.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-one-launches-2016-collection/">More about this update</a>.

The first release of EmojiOne, branded as &quot;Emoji One&quot; at the time, and later rebranded under the name &quot;JoyPixels&quot;.

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