WhatsApp has its own emoji designs which are displayed on all WhatsApp for Android and WhatsApp Web.

One emoji supported by WhatsApp but no other platform is the&nbsp;<a href="/flag-for-texas-ustx/">Texas Flag emoji</a>. This is a valid subdivision flag supported by Unicode, but not listed within any Unicode emoji release and as of 2019 is not supported by any other major vendors.

In 2021 WhatsApp introduced a&nbsp;<a href="/refugee-nation-flag/">Refugee Nation Flag</a> as a <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ sequence</a>. Like the <a href="/flag-for-texas-ustx/">Texas Flag emoji</a>, this&nbsp;flag is&nbsp;not supported by any other major vendors.

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Names and meanings of all the emojis in WhatsApp for iPhone, Web, Android and Windows and new WhatsApp emojis for Android. Browse the list of WhatsApp emojis here.

💬 WhatsApp Emoji Meanings — Emojis for WhatsApp on iPhone, Android and Web (Updated: January 2023)

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Apple

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Clubhouse

Discord

Docomo

Dropbox

emojidex

Emojipedia Sample Images

Facebook

GitHub

Google Noto Color Emoji

Huawei

Icons8

Instagram

JoyPixels

JoyPixels Animations

LinkedIn

Mastodon

Messenger

Microsoft

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Mozilla

MSN Messenger

Nintendo

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

Noto Emoji Font

OpenMoji

Roblox

Samsung

SerenityOS

Signal

Sina Weibo

Skype

Slack

Snapchat

SoftBank

Sony Playstation

Telegram

TikTok

Tinder

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Twitch

Twitter Emoji Stickers

Twitter / X

Viber

VinSmart

WeChat

Yahoo! Messenger

Yo Status

YouTube

Zoom

Australia Day

Bastille Day

Birthday

Black Friday

Black Lives Matter

Canada Day

Carnaval

Chinese New Year

Christmas

Cinco de Mayo

Coronavirus

Couples With Hearts

Diwali

Dragon Boat Festival

Earth Day

Easter

Emoji Movie

Fall / Autumn

Families

Father’s Day

Festivus

Four Twenty / 420

Gestures

Graduation

Guy Fawkes

Halloween

Handshakes

Hanukkah

Happy

Hearts

Holi

Independence Day

International Women's Day

Jobs & Roles

Juneteenth

Kisses

Laughing

LGBT Pride

Love

Mardi Gras

MLB World Series

Mother’s Day

Music

New Year’s Eve

NSFW

Olympics

People Holding Hands

Pets

Purim

Queen’s Birthday

Ramadan

Spring

St Patrick’s Day

Summer

Super Bowl

Thanksgiving

Valentine’s Day

Veterans Day

Wedding / Marriage

Winter

Winter Olympics

Working From Home

World Book Day

World Cup

World Emoji Day

Smileys

People

Animals & Nature

Food & Drink

Activity

Travel & Places

Objects

Symbols

Flags

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 yellow face with closed eyes, mouth slightly open, and a blue snot bubble coming from its nose. <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SnotBubble">Snot bubbles</a> indicate a character is tired or sleeping in anime or manga.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/sleeping-face/">😴 Sleeping Face</a>&nbsp;

While sometimes used to convey sadness, dissastification, or illness, Sleepy Face is also not to be confused with <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a>, <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥 Sad but Relieved Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets.&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/">previously featured</a> two, cartoon-styled, <a href="/zzz/">sleeping-symbol&nbsp;Zz&rsquo;s</a> overhead.

A <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/sleepy-face/">previous</a> Microsoft design appeared similar to <a href="/relieved-face/">😌 Relieved Face</a>.

Sleepy Face

A yellow face with eyes closed and mouth letting out three, cartoon-styled&nbsp;<a href="/zzz/">Zzz</a>&rsquo;s overhead to indicate it&#39;s sound asleep. The Zzz&rsquo;s appear&nbsp;blue or purple across most platforms. May also represent boredom (slang, snooze).

Generally used instead of <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪 Sleepy Face</a> to convey sleep&nbsp;or sleepiness.

Sleeping Face

A timepiece set in advance to startle a person awake at the designated time with its two bells. That is, before hitting snooze.&nbsp;Appearance varies across platforms, but depicted as a classic, wind-up, bedside alarm clock, often red in color.

May be used for various content concerning alarms, alerts, <a href="/person-in-bed/">sleeping</a>, waking, and time more generally.

Alarm Clock

A hotel building,&nbsp;displayed on most platforms as a building with many windows and a letter H on the front.

Can be easily confused with the <a href="/love-hotel/" title="🏩 Love Hotel">Love Hotel</a>, or <a href="/hospital/" title="🏥 Hospital">Hospital</a> emoji.&nbsp;Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/hotel/">previously</a>&nbsp;depicted this emoji as a&nbsp;bed.

Hotel

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_hotel">love hotel</a> is a hotel that can be hired <a href="/smirking-face/" title="😏 Smirking Face">by the hour</a> instead of as <a href="/person-in-bed/" title="🛌 Sleeping Accommodation">accommodation</a> for the evening.

Sometimes mistaken for a get well soon emoji&nbsp;due to the similarity in appearance to the <a href="/hospital/" title="🏥 Hospital">hospital</a>. The Microsoft version of this&nbsp;emoji previously&nbsp;displaying <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/love-hotel/">a bed with a heart above it</a>.

Love Hotel

A series of three Zs making a Zzz. Represents sleeping, snoring, dreaming, or any sleep-related state. Can also be used in some contexts to represent something that is&nbsp;boring.

Sleeping Symbol

A tent, used for protection from wind and rain when camping.

Facebook&#39;s version of this emoji&nbsp;shows it at night time, under stars, as did previous designs from <a href="/apple/ios-9.1/tent/">Apple</a>, <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/tent/">Samsung</a>, and <a href="/twitter/twemoji-2.4/tent/">Twitter</a>. Microsoft&#39;s design does not feature stars, but it does include a&nbsp;<a href="/crescent-moon/">crescent moon</a>.

Tent

A bed, made up for sleeping in a <a href="/house/">house</a>, <a href="/hotel/">hotel</a>, or other <a href="/person-in-bed/">sleeping accommodation</a>. Shown with a headboard at the left, footboard, mattress, pillow, and sheet. Most platforms suggest a wooden frame and feature blue or red sheets.

Commonly used for various content concerning beds, furniture, and housing as well as <a href="/sleeping-face/">sleeping</a>, relaxing, and other bedroom activities.

Vendors implement the same style of bed for <a href="/person-in-bed/">🛌&nbsp;Person in Bed</a>, but without a sleeper under the covers.

A large cloud-like shape more commonly known as a thought bubble.

Used to represent thinking, or thoughts, and commonly used in&nbsp;comics to display the thoughts of a drawn character. May also be used to represent a dream, or daydream.

Thought Balloon

A yellow face with eyes closed and mouth wide open covered by a hand. Captured mid-yawn, this may represent having insufficient sleep, or to imply boredom with a person or topic.

Not to be confused with&nbsp;<a href="/sleepy-face/">😪 Sleepy Face</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="/sleeping-face/">😴 Sleeping Face</a>, which often convey actually being asleep, or&nbsp;<a href="/tired-face/">😫 Tired Face</a> which is tired as in &quot;fed up&quot;.

Yawning Face

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 night sky with stars, depicted on major platforms as a <a href="/sunset/" title="🌇 Sunset Over Buildings">cityscape</a> at night.

Night with Stars

A sun rising, early in the morning.&nbsp;Can be difficult to&nbsp;distinguish from a sunset in some versions of this artwork.

Sunrise

A classic teddy bear, as snuggled by a <a href="/child/">child</a>&nbsp;when going to sleep.

Depicted as a brown, stuffed toy bear, shown seated with its arms to the sides, hind paw pads facing forward, and a friendly smile on its face. Google, WhatsApp, and Twitter&#39;s&nbsp;designs include a <a href="/ribbon/">ribbon</a> around the&nbsp;neck, while Facebook&#39;s is wearing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_tie">bow tie</a>.

Commonly used to convey something or someone is cute or cuddly (e.g., teddy bear as a term of endearment) as well as other warm, loving sentiments (e.g., get well soon). May also be used for various content concerning toys and children more generally.

Not to be confused with <a href="/bear/">🐻 Bear Face</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Teddy Bear

A house, otherwise known as a home when someone is living in it. Suitable for a couple or larger family, other perhaps housemates.

Distinct from an apartment building due to its detached form, this house is likely in the suburbs of a city or a&nbsp;rural area.

House Building

A campsite featuring a <a href="/tent/" title=" ⛺ Tent">tent</a> and a <a href="/evergreen-tree/" title=" 🌲 Evergreen Tree">tree</a>, and perhaps a campfire. Similar to the <a href="/tent/" title="⛺ Tent">tent</a> emoji.

Camping

A couch (sofa) with a floor lamp on the right, as in the&nbsp;living room of a <a href="/house/">house</a>. Color and style of the couch and lamp vary widely by platform.&nbsp;Used for various content concerning furniture and housing as well as resting and lounging.

Couch and Lamp

Ding! A call bell, as pressed at a front&nbsp;desk or reception&nbsp;to alert staff for service, such as from a <a href="/person-tipping-hand/">concierge</a> or bellhop (porter) to carry <a href="/luggage/">luggage</a> at a <a href="/hotel/">hotel</a>. Generally depicted as a golden <a href="/bell/">bell</a> on a wooden stand.

Commonly represents alerts or notifications to bring attention to important content. May also be used of various content concerning the hospitality and service industries.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/bellhop-bell/">previously</a>&nbsp;featured&nbsp;a silver bell radiating yellow rays, as if ringing.

Bellhop Bell

A liquid-in-glass thermometer, as used to measure temperature. Depicted at various angles with a red liquid risen from the bulb to various levels on the scale. Commonly used for content&nbsp;concerning high temperatures, including <a href="/sun/">warm weather</a>, illness (<a href="/face-with-thermometer/">having a fever</a>), and various slang senses of hot.

Thermometer

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Person in Bed: Light Skin Tone

Person in Bed: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Person in Bed: Medium Skin Tone

Person in Bed: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Person in Bed: Dark Skin Tone

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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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.

Microsoft&#39;s Teams software includes 3D renderings of the Fluent emoji set that make its debut within <a href="/microsoft/windows-11-november-2021-update/">Windows 11&#39;s November 2021</a> update.&nbsp;

As of February 2022, this update is available for select Microsoft Teams users, but&nbsp;is expected to be available for all users across both Work &amp; School and Home additions in the near future.

Initially <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-fluent-emoji-designs-from-microsoft/">previewed</a> ahead of <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a> 2021, many of these 3D emoji renderings are also animated.

A subset of Skype emoticons were available in Microsoft Teams before the 3D&nbsp;Fluent&nbsp;set began&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1491752269880115200">rolling out in February 2022</a>. Many of Skype&#39;s unique shortcodes-based emoticons have also been given a&nbsp;3D&nbsp;Fluent&nbsp;design within Microsoft Teams.

Emoticons and emojis used in Microsoft Teams, including animated 3D Fluent emoji designs.

Microsoft Teams Emoji List

Beginning its rollout in early April 2023, this update to the animated Fluent emoji set introduced support for emoji recommendations from up to 2022&#39;s <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>.

🛌 Person in Bed on Microsoft Teams (3D Animated) 14.0

🛌 Person in Bed on Microsoft Teams (3D Animated) 14.0

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