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

Negative Squared AB

A circle shown in the color of red. May be used to represent anything red.

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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 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 yellow face with raised or furrowed eyebrows and a <a href="/thermometer/">thermometer</a> in its mouth. Often depicted with red cheeks, as if feverish. May be used to represent a <a href="/hospital/">hospital</a> patient or person with a cold or flu.

Differs from other smileys conveying illness, such as <a href="/nauseated-face/">🤢 Nauseated Face</a> (appearing as if it&#39;s&nbsp;going to vomit) or <a href="/face-with-head-bandage/">🤕 Face With Head-Bandage</a> (physical injury).

Face with Thermometer

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

Drop of Blood

A lit, filtered cigarette, shown burning at different&nbsp;directions. Commonly used to represent various&nbsp;forms of smoking (e.g., tobacco, marijuana, vaping) as well as metaphorical senses of smoking.

Originally intended as a sign for a designated smoking area, as contrasted to <a href="/no-smoking/">🚭&nbsp;No Smoking Symbol</a>. This is&nbsp;illustrated in Samsung&rsquo;s <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/cigarette/">previous design</a> of a stylized, white cigarette on a blue background.

Smoking Symbol

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

Stethoscope

An apparatus for distilling, as used in medieval <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy">alchemy</a>. Generally depicted as a round flask with a neck angled down to the right. Positioned on a short stand and containing a mysterious green, purple, or blue liquid.

Commonly used for various content concerning chemistry and science more generally. May represent various liquids, such as potions or&nbsp;medicines, as well as metaphorical laboratories and experiments.

Thanks to the alembic&rsquo;s association with alchemy, this emoji may also convey a sense of magic. And, thanks to its resemblance to a glass pipe, some use the emoji&nbsp;to represent&nbsp;a bong or other drug paraphernalia.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/alembic/">previously featured</a>&nbsp;a copper still, as used for making <a href="/tumbler-glass/">whiskey</a>.

Alembic

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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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.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

Telegram

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.

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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.

An open right hand facing left, so as to show the palm of the hand with the thumb on the top and the pinky on the bottom.

This emoji was developed along with <a href="/rightwards-hand/">🫱 Rightwards Hand</a> to allow for the creation of <a href="/zero-width-joiner/">ZWJ Sequences</a> that depict <a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a> with two different skin tone modifiers applied, one to each hand.

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An open&nbsp;right hand facing right, so as to show the back of the hand with the thumb on the top and the pinky on the bottom.

This emoji was developed along with <a href="/leftwards-hand/">🫲 Leftwards Hand</a> to allow for the creation of <a href="/zero-width-joiner/">ZWJ Sequences</a> that depict <a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a>&nbsp;with two different skin tone modifiers applied, one to each hand.

Rightwards Hand

Two hands performing a handshake gesture, indicating a&nbsp;cordial greeting between friends or associates.

As of late 2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> recommendations, this emoji design has multiple <a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">skin tone modifier</a> options. Certain platforms did, however, support a small number of single skin tone options for the handshake emoji prior to 2021 (e.g. both <a href="/google/android-7.1/new/">Google</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/new/">Samsung</a> in 2017).&nbsp;<a href="/handshakes/">View all handshake emojis</a>.

Handshake

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Leftwards Hand: Medium Skin Tone

Leftwards Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Leftwards Hand: Dark Skin Tone

Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

Emojipedia Sample Images

Unicode 14.0 is the version of the Unicode Standard&nbsp;released on&nbsp;September 14, 2021.&nbsp;37 new emoji&nbsp;code points were added in this release,&nbsp;with all 112 new emojis (including sequences for skin tones)&nbsp;listed under <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>.

New emojis&nbsp;added in this release are update expected to come to major platforms in either late 2021 or early&nbsp;2022.

This release of this Unicode Standard was&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.unicode.org/2020/04/unicode-140-delayed-for-6-months.html">delayed from March 2021</a> due to COVID-19.&nbsp;

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	<li>📝&nbsp;<a href="https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode14.0.0/">Unicode 14.0 details on Unicode.org</a></li>
</ul>

A red rose. Depicted as a single, vertical red rose on a green stem.

Commonly used for <a href="/valentines-day/">Valentine&rsquo;s Day</a>, <a href="/mothers-day/">Mother&rsquo;s Day</a>, and other special occasions. May be more generally used to express such sentiments as love and romance. Also used as a symbol of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_(symbolism)#Socialism_and_social_democracy">socialism</a>&nbsp;or as a red accent color.

Not to be confused with <a href="/tulip/">🌷 Tulip</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Samsung&rsquo;s rose was <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/rose/">previously</a> pink.

Rose

A white heart emoji, used for love and affection. Also commonly <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">used to discuss&nbsp;someone passing away</a>.

An alternative character known as <a href="/white-heart-suit/">White Heart Suit</a>&nbsp;is also available, but not intended to have an emoji appearance.

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A heart emoji with an arrow through the center, like the arrow that cupid shoots for love.

Heart with Arrow

Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

A fist raised in the air that may be used as a celebratory gesture: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_pump">fist pump</a>.&nbsp;Can also be used to represent <a href="/keycap-digit-zero/" title="0⃣ Keycap 0">zero</a> items, due to a lack of any fingers being held up.

Sometimes used as a symbol of&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/the-resistance-will-be-emojified/">resistance</a>&nbsp;or defiance. Variations with darker skin tone are commonly used <a href="/raised-fist-dark-skin-tone/">to represent the #BlackLivesMatter movement</a>.

Raised Fist

A yellow face with its right hand saluting. Used as a sign of respect.

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Saluting Face

A brown heart, often used&nbsp;discuss topics related to racial identity 🧑🏽🧑🏾🧑🏿

The least used of the nine colored hearts (❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎).

Brown Heart

A heart shaded completely black. May be used to express morbidity, sorrow, or a form of dark humor, but despite the color remains <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">most commonly used for love and affection</a>.

Black Heart

Two hands raised in the air, celebrating success or another joyous event.

<a href="/au-kddi/type-d-2/raising-hands/">Originally&nbsp;animated</a> to show hands being raised, as might be done along with the the exclamation&nbsp;Banzai!&nbsp;in Japan. Now more commonly only shows the hands in the air.

Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration

A fist displayed in a&nbsp;position to punch someone, or to fist-bump another person.

Shown as a right hand on all supported platforms. An equivalent left-handed version does not exist.

Fisted Hand Sign

Two hands placed firmly together, meaning please&nbsp;or&nbsp;thank you&nbsp;in Japanese culture.&nbsp;A common alternative use&nbsp;for this emoji is for prayer, using the same gesture as&nbsp;praying hands. It can also represent&nbsp;a respectful greeting or show of adoration many in Southeast Asian religions and cultures, such as the Hindu namaste or Buddhist a&ntilde;jali mudra.

Rarely used as&nbsp;a&nbsp;high-five, despite often being suggested as one by emoji keyboard search features. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojiology-folded-hands/">More about this emoji and its possible meanings</a>.

A previous&nbsp;version of this&nbsp;emoji&nbsp;displayed a <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Apple iOS 6.0">yellow burst of light behind the two hands</a>&nbsp;on iOS. Android once&nbsp;showed a blob-character with <a href="/google/android-5.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Google Android 5.0">closed eyes and folded hands</a>.

Person with Folded Hands

A cartoon-styled representation of a collision. Depicted as a star-like, orange-and-yellow fiery burst, generally with one point extending to the bottom right, as if from the source of the collision.

May be used to represent various types of bangs, explosions, or crashes. Like <a href="/fire/">🔥 Fire</a> and <a href="/hundred-points/">💯 Hundred Points</a>, commonly used to represent something is excellent or exciting in some way.

Apple implements a version of 💥 Collision in its <a href="/firecracker/">🧨 Firecracker</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/camera-with-flash/">📸 Camera With Flash</a>.

Collision Symbol

Two hands clapping emoji, which when used multiple times can be used&nbsp;as a round of applause.

Clapping Hands Sign

A sign on a post, commonly used to promote ideas, causes, or make announcements. Often used used in the context of politics to represent a lawn sign or a poster brought to a protest. Also seen in commercial advertising.

Shown with indiscernible writing or not writing at all, this emoji is flexible in its use. WhatsApp shows a peace sign, which tilts the meaning away from commercial use.

Placard

A fist pointing left, which may be used in conjunction with the <a href="/right-facing-fist/" title="🤜 Right-Facing Fist">right-facing fist</a> to complete a <a href="/oncoming-fist/" title="👊 Fisted Hand Sign">fist-bump</a> gesture.

Left-Facing Fist

A fist pointing right, which may be used in conjunction with the&nbsp;<a href="/left-facing-fist/" title="🤛 Left-Facing Fist">left-facing fist</a>&nbsp;to complete a&nbsp;<a href="/oncoming-fist/" title="👊 Fisted Hand Sign">fist-bump</a>&nbsp;gesture.

Right-Facing Fist

Most commonly known as a ✌️&nbsp;Peace Sign, but traditionally called&nbsp;as a Victory Hand.&nbsp;Two&nbsp;fingers held up on one hand making a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign">V sign</a>.

The reverse of this symbol is considered an offence gesture in <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag For United Kingdom">British</a> culture, similar to giving the <a href="/middle-finger/" title="🖕 Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended">middle finger</a>.

Victory Hand

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Raised Fist: Dark Skin Tone

A&nbsp;raised hand, showing the reverse side of the palm.&nbsp;May be paired with the forward-facing <a href="/raised-hand/" title="✋ Raised Hand">raised hand emoji</a>.

Raised Back of Hand

A person with its&nbsp;hand in the air, as if it wants to ask or answer a question.

Generally displayed as a woman, but is not defined as one particular gender.&nbsp;Previously showed&nbsp;a blob-like gender-inclusive character&nbsp;in the Google artwork.

Happy Person Raising One Hand

A hand held up showing its palm. May be used to mean stop, or as a high-five.

Raised Hand

A bottle of lotion for the skin, such as moisturizer or sunscreen (sunblock). May be used for other hygienic liquids, including shampoo and <a href="/bathtub/">body wash</a>, as well as beauty products.

Appearance varies across platforms, but commonly depicted in white and gold colors. Some platforms, like Apple and Twitter, feature a bottle with a pump while others show a cylinder with a cap.

Lotion Bottle

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The Unicode Consortium accepted the following emoji 72 emojis&nbsp;for Unicode 9.0. This update&nbsp;was released&nbsp;on June 21, 2016. Most vendors added support for this update within the 2016 calendar year.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-9-0-released-with-72-new-emojis/">Sample images and more about Unicode 9.0</a>.

<a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a> was published in late 2016, which added additional emoji professions.

<h2>New in Unicode 9</h2>

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