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Noto Color Emoji, Animated

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Flags

A satellite which orbits the earth, and is generally used for communications, weather, and GPS.

Satellite

A stylized representation of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_Star">shooting star</a>, a small, fast meteor that burns up in the atmosphere. Generally depicted as a gold, five-point star trailing&nbsp;yellow motion lines against a night sky, as if moving down to the left.

May be used for astronomical stars and other content concerning space. Also may be used for flair or flourish. Sometimes used as a visual reference to NBC&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_More_You_Know">More You Know</a> public service announcement, popular in the 1990s and featuring a&nbsp;shooting star logo.

Not to be confused with <a href="/dizzy/">💫 Dizzy</a>, <a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>, <a href="/glowing-star/">🌟&nbsp;Glowing&nbsp;Star</a>, or <a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Google&rsquo;s star was <a href="/google/android-8.0/shooting-star/">previously</a> trailed, without backdrop, by yellow lines, though these lines&nbsp;were blue in an even <a href="/google/android-7.0/shooting-star/">earlier</a> design. Microsoft&rsquo;s star was also previously&nbsp;trailed, without backdrop, by blue lines, though they were <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/shooting-star/">yellow before</a> that.

Shooting Star

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet">comet</a>, an icy, rocky space object that can form a tail of gas and dust when near the sun. Generally depicted as an icy-blue comet, as if streaking downwards in a night sky.

May be used for meteors and other celestial bodies, as well as for content concerning space more generally. Also occasionally used for flair or flourish.

Not to be confused with <a href="/shooting-star/">🌠 Shooting Star</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Samsung&rsquo;s comet is fiery-red, as is Apple&rsquo;s, which appears to be ascending. WhatsApp&rsquo;s comet is depicted in a starry, night sky, Apple&rsquo;s comet was <a href="/apple/ios-9.1/comet/">previously</a> descending and blue.

Comet

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way">Milky Way</a> &ndash; a galaxy of&nbsp;billions of stars that includes&nbsp;our own&nbsp;solar system and <a href="/globe-showing-americas/">planet earth</a>.

Shown by many platforms as a night sky, with silhouettes of mountains or hills in the foreground.

Milky Way

A rocket being propelled into <a href="/milky-way/" title="🌌 Milky Way">space</a>. Sometimes used to indicate a fast increase, for instance when referring to stocks going&nbsp;to the moon&nbsp;🚀 (rising quickly in price).

Rocket

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 flying saucer, sometimes referred to as an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). Previously shown on some platforms with an <a href="/alien/" title="👽 Alien">alien</a> at the controls and/or a beam of light emitting from the base.

Flying Saucer

A classic alien face. The oval, bare head of a gray or green alien with large black eyes and a slight, friendly smile.&nbsp;Samsung depicts nostrils, Facebook a nose.

May represent extraterrestrial life or topics concerning outer space, but commonly conveys a playful sense of weirdness&nbsp;or strangeness, as if someone or something is&nbsp;out&nbsp;there or&nbsp;from another planet.

Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Apple previously displayed&nbsp;a similar looking&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.getemoji.com/post/116839074745/what-does-the-alien-emoji-mean-on-ios-its-an">alien head in a box</a> as a placeholder for an unknown emoji, but now shows a boxed question mark.

Extraterrestrial Alien

A telescope, as used to gaze at <a href="/milky-way/">stars</a> and <a href="/ringed-planet/">planets</a> in the night sky. Shown with an optical tube mounted on a tripod, positioned at various angles and generally depicted as metal.

Commonly used for various content concerning astronomy, outer space, celestial objects, and science more generally. May also be used for various concepts of sight (e.g., spying, viewing).

Twitter&rsquo;s designs feature red hardware, as did as an older <a href="/google/android-8.0/telescope/">Google</a>&nbsp;design.

Telescope

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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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Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

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.

The Unicode Consortium approved the following characters as part of <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/">Unicode 7.0</a>, released on June 16, 2014.&nbsp;Support for these emoji characters rely on updates from platform vendors such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Initially, 250&nbsp;new characters in Unicode 7.0 were approved for emoji presentation, however this was later reduced to 103 Standard Additions which are listed below. The other characters remain part of Unicode, but are not recommended&nbsp;to be included as emojis.

The exception to this was the <a href="/left-speech-bubble/" title="🗨 Left Speech Bubble">Left Speech Bubble</a>, and as such wasn&#39;t initially specified on other platforms as an emoji. A later-accepted&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-spy-proposal/">proposal</a>&nbsp;updated this.

Select LG devices use their own emoji images which are different to those used on other Android devices.

Prior to 2016 all LG devices carried LG&rsquo;s own emoji designs. However, LG phones sold from 2017 between and early 2021 used the <a href="/google/">stock Android emoji set</a> from Google.

This changed in early 2021 with the rollout of Android 11 to <a href="/lg/velvet/">LG Velvet devices</a>, reviving and expanding the LG emoji set to include support for up to 2019&#39;s <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a> recommendations.

Note:&nbsp;<a href="/whatsapp/">WhatsApp</a>, <a href="/twitter/">Twitter</a>, and <a href="/facebook/">Facebook</a> have their&nbsp;own emoji designs&nbsp;which are used&nbsp;instead of Google or LG emojis in their respective apps on Android devices.

LG Emoji List [Updated: September 2021]

From early 2021, Android 11 began rollout out for LG Velvet devices in select regions.

Alongside Android 11 came the first update LG&#39;s emoji set <a href="/lg/g5/">since early 2016</a>, which reintroduced the vendor&rsquo;s own emoji set to eligible devices. From 2017 until this update, LG devices used the <a href="/google/">stock Android emoji set</a> from Google.

This update introduced emojis from 2016&#39;s <a href="/people/">Emoji 3.0</a>&nbsp;up to 2019&rsquo;s <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a> to the LG emoji set. It also revised many emoji designs within the <a href="/people/">😃 Smileys &amp; People</a> category.

Velvet

🛰️ Satellite on LG G3

🛰️ Satellite on LG G3

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