A speaker cone displayed with three sound waves, generally used as an icon to indicate the increasing of volume on a phone or computer.

Speaker with Three Sound Waves

The silhouette of a person speaking. Faces left-to-right, with lines demonstrating speech being expelled. Sometimes used in the context of shouting&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining">mansplaining</a>.

Speaking Head in Silhouette

A dish antenna, as used to send or receive information to or from a communication <a href="/satellite/">satellite</a>&mdash;or <a href="/alien/">👽 Extraterrestrial Life</a>. Generally depicted as a mounted, metal dish with its antenna positioned at 45&deg; to the upper right.

Commonly used to represent satellite <a href="/television/">television</a>, <a href="/radio/">radio</a>, and internet, as well as broadcasting, streaming, cellular, and wireless services or technologies. May also represent various concepts of signals and transmission.

Several platforms, including Microsoft and Twitter, feature curved, radiating lines, as if transmitting data.

Satellite Antenna

A speaker with a red line through it, indicating muted volume or silencing&nbsp;of audio.

Speaker with Cancellation Stroke

A speaker cone displayed without any sound&nbsp;waves.

Speaker

A speaker cone displayed with one sound&nbsp;wave, generally used as an icon to indicate the decreasing&nbsp;of volume on a phone or computer.

Previously displayed&nbsp;with two sound waves on Android, instead of one.

Speaker with One Sound Wave

The speak no evil monkey, called Iwazaru (Japanese for &ldquo;say not&rdquo;), one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys">Three Wise Monkeys</a>. Depicted as the brown <a href="/monkey-face/">🐵 Monkey Face</a> with hands covering its mouth.

The Three Wise Monkeys represent the proverb see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, frequently interpreted as&nbsp;a call for discretion or willful ignorance.

Often used as a playful way to convey I can&rsquo;t believe what I just said!, express a mischievous Oops!, or communicate a secret-keeping I won&rsquo;t say a word. May be used to similar effect as <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭 Face With Hand Over Mouth</a> or <a href="/zipper-mouth-face/">🤐 Zipper Mouth</a>.

See also <a href="/see-no-evil-monkey/">🙈 See-No-Evil Monkey</a> and <a href="/hear-no-evil-monkey/">🙉 Hear-No-Evil Monkey</a>.

This emoji is considered <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/how-the-monkey-emoji-is-racist/">racist in some contexts</a>, particularly when used to disparage, insult, and abuse people with dark skin, especially Black people.

Speak-No-Evil Monkey

A loudspeaker used to make announcements in public areas such as schools, or sporting grounds.

Public Address Loudspeaker

A microphone, as used for <a href="/radio/">radio</a> broadcasting or studio recording. Most platforms depict a vintage, silver microphone, like the <a href="https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/75-years-shure-unidyne-55">Shure Unidyne 55</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning radio, broadcasting, music, recording, and podcasts.

Not to be confused with the handheld <a href="/microphone/">🎤&nbsp;Microphone</a>, associated with live singing.

Studio Microphone

Headphones, used to listen to music or other forms audio, such as podcasts.&nbsp;Most platforms display this emoji with large over-ear headphones in shades of black, blue, and gray.

Apple previously displayed&nbsp;this emoji as <a href="/apple/ios-10.0/headphone/" title="🎧 Headphone on Apple iOS 10.0">iconic iPod white earbuds</a>, followed by black&nbsp;<a href="/apple/ios-10.2/headphone/">Beats headphones in 2016</a>, and in 2021 switched <a href="/apple/ios-14.5/headphone/">to display white AirPods Max</a>.

Headphone

Die Face-3

An <a href="/ear/">ear</a> shown with a hearing aid, worn by a&nbsp;person with hearing loss. The style shown in Behind The Ear (BTE), but this can represent any form of hearing aid.

Ear with Hearing Aid

L2/09-026

L2/07-257

Emojipedia

GitHub

Slack

Discord

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.

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;.

🔊 Speaker High Volume on undefined 2.1

🔊 Speaker High Volume on undefined 2.1

Description

Upcoming events

Latest news