A circle shown with a diagonal arrow pointing out the top-right, used as a representation for&nbsp;men.

Male Sign

A circle shown with a crossed vertical line beneath it, used as a representation for&nbsp;women. Often used on <a href="/international-womens-day/">International Women&#39;s Day</a>.

Female Sign

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 symbol intended to convey aspects of femininity and masculinity. May be used as a complement to <a href="/female-sign/" title="♀️ Female Sign">♀️ Female Sign</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/male-sign/" title=" ♂️ Male Sign">♂️ Male Sign</a> for gender-inclusive or gender-fluid people.

Mercury

A dark brown&nbsp;skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

Type 5 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;&nbsp;Dark brown; Middle Eastern skin types

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-5

A moderate brown&nbsp;skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

Type 4 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;Moderate brown; typical Mediterranean skin tone &mdash; Rarely burns, always tans well

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-4

A black&nbsp;skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

Type 6 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;Deeply pigmented dark brown to black

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-6

A cream white&nbsp;skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

Type 3 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as: Cream white; fair with any hair or eye color; quite common

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-3

A&nbsp;pale skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

<ul>
	<li>Type 1 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;Pale white; blond or red hair; blue eyes; freckles</li>
	<li>Type 2 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;White; fair; blond or red hair; blue, green, or hazel eyes</li>
</ul>

This is a combination of type 1&nbsp;(pale white) and type 2 (white). Despite the descriptions, Apple&rsquo;s artwork tends to display this type-1-2 skin tone modifier with dark hair.

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-1-2

Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.

View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.

Zero Width Joiner

The male version of <a href="/person/">🧑 Person</a>.

A copyright symbol, a circled capital letter C for copyright.

Copyright Sign

A registered trademark symbol, a circled capital letter R for registered.

Registered Sign

A trademark symbol, the letters TM&nbsp;displayed&nbsp;after a word that is trademarked.

Trade Mark Sign

A symbol commonly used to represent those in the transgender community. Used within the draft emoji sequence for the&nbsp;<a href="/transgender-flag/">Transgender&nbsp;Flag emoji</a>, and also given emoji presentation on Samsung devices.

Shows as a plain text character on other platforms.

Male with Stroke and Male and Female Sign

A flag with horizontal&nbsp;pale&nbsp;blue and pale&nbsp;pink stripes with a single white stripe in the middle, used as a Transgender or Transgender Pride flag and commonly seen at <a href="/pride/">Pride events</a>.

Transgender Flag

An elderly man gray&nbsp;(grey) hair, and visible wrinkles. Balding in many versions of this artwork, such as Apple and Microsoft&nbsp;designs.

Older Man

The face of a boy, smiling.

Previously differentiated from&nbsp;<a href="/man/">👨 Man</a>&nbsp;on <a href="/google/android-5.0/boy/">Android</a>&nbsp;by wearing a cap, and on iOS by the lack of&nbsp;any facial hair.

Variants include&nbsp;<a href="/child/">👦 Child</a> and <a href="/girl/">👧 Girl</a>.

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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

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

SerenityOS

Unicode 1.1 were pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by 17 years, and included many characters primarily sourced from the Zapf Dingbats font.

The following characters were added to Unicode in 1993 and many were given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

Male Sign

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