Previously displayed with&nbsp;a gendered appearance, now shown as <a href="/neutral/">gender neutral</a> on most platforms.

previously-gendered

A <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag For Great Britain">British</a> guardsman, known as a foot guard. Wears a tall black hat with a yellow chin-strap. Must look straight ahead at all times, even when tourists attempt to distract them.

Guardsman

Man Guard

Woman Guard

Quids in! A banded stack of pound banknotes, the paper currency of the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> (<a href="/flag-england/">England</a>, <a href="/flag-wales/">Wales</a>, <a href="/flag-for-northern-ireland-gbnir/">Northern Ireland</a>, and <a href="/flag-scotland/">Scotland</a>). Color and detail vary across platforms, but widely depicted as purple&nbsp;&pound;20 notes with the pound sign,&nbsp;&pound;.

Commonly used for various content concerning wealth and money, not restricted to the U.K.&nbsp;

Samsung&#39;s design&nbsp;displays &pound;10 notes.

Banknote with Pound Sign

The flag for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, which may show as the letters GB&nbsp;on some platforms.&nbsp;<a href="/flag-england/">England</a>, <a href="/flag-scotland/">Scotland</a> and <a href="/flag-wales/">Wales</a>&nbsp;also have individual emoji&nbsp;flags.

Flag: United Kingdom

Two swords with steel blades in an X shape, as crossed for combat between two knights or warriors. Generally depicted as straight, double-edged blades with brown or black, cross-shaped hilts, points directed up.&nbsp;Commonly used as a symbol for battle, fighting, or a contest, as in sports.

Sometimes shown with golden handles. Several vendors implement the same design as for their <a href="/dagger/">🗡️&nbsp;Dagger</a>.&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/crossed-swords/">previously featured</a> stylized, white swords on a green square, as a sign or icon of war.

May be paired with (or defended by) <a href="/shield/">🛡️&nbsp;Shield</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/hammer-and-pick/">⚒️&nbsp;Hammer and Pick</a> or <a href="/hammer-and-wrench/">🛠️&nbsp;Hammer and Wrench</a>.

Crossed Swords

A&nbsp;ribbon and medallion generally&nbsp;awarded&nbsp;to a&nbsp;person in the military for heroic acts.

Military Medal

The face of a princess; a girl or woman wearing a small <a href="/crown/" title="👑 Crown">crown</a> or tiara. Could also be used to represent a Queen or other royalty.

Princess

The flag for England, a country in the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. May&nbsp;show as the letters&nbsp;gbeng.

Flag: England

A person wearing a crown.

<a href="/princess/">👸 Princess</a> and <a href="/prince/">🤴 Prince</a> were added in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Person With Crown was created to represent royalty without being overly specific about gender.&nbsp;

Person with Crown

The flag for Scotland, a country in the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>.&nbsp;May&nbsp;show as the letters&nbsp;gbsct.

Flag: Scotland

A gold crown with jewels on the sides. Representative of a King, Queen, or other form of Royalty.

Crown

A round military helmet with a chinstrap. All platforms depict a green helmet, with some designs featuring a green camouflage pattern.

Military Helmet

The flag for Wales, a country in the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. May&nbsp;show as the letters&nbsp;gbwls.

Flag: Wales

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

A squirt gun (water pistol), as used to <a href="/sweat-droplets/">spray water</a> for fun.

On major platforms, depicted as a green or orange toy gun with an orange tip and barrel pointed left.&nbsp;Google&nbsp;and Facebook&rsquo;s designs include mounted reservoirs.

Originally depicted as a classic handgun, as a revolver or other pistol. In 2016, <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/">Apple switched its design</a> from weapon&nbsp;to toy; other major vendors followed suit by 2018. Deprecated emoji sets or smaller platforms still display the emoji as a handgun.

Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/pistol/">initially displayed</a> the emoji as a toy ray gun before switching to a revolver, then squirt gun. Google <a href="/google/android-4.4/pistol/">once featured</a> a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunderbuss">blunderbuss</a>.

Pistol

A shield, as blocks swords in close combat. Color and style varies across platforms, but generally depicted in a <a href="/kite/">kite</a> shape with a metal border and simple pattern.

Commonly used to represent various content concerning battle, defense, security, and protection.

Apple and Microsoft&rsquo;s designs feature a red and white sawtooth pattern, Facebook and WhatsApp&rsquo;s blue and white checkers.

May be paired with (or fending off) <a href="/crossed-swords/">⚔️&nbsp;Crossed Swords</a> or <a href="/dagger/">🗡️&nbsp;Dagger</a>.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/japanese-symbol-for-beginner/">🔰&nbsp;Japanese Symbol for Beginner</a>.

Shield

Male royalty, intended as a gender pair for the <a href="/princess/" title="👸 Princess">princess emoji</a>. Shown as a <a href="/man/" title="👨 Man">man</a> with a crown.

Not a reference to the musician Prince, however the <a href="/man-singer/">man singer emoji on WhatsApp</a> does show a character that bears a heavy resemblance to this artist.

Prince

Queen’s Birthday

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Emojipedia

GitHub

Slack

Discord

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Guard: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Guard: Dark Skin Tone

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.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

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 used on the open-source SerenityOS.

SerenityOS

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

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.

Beginning its rollout for select Samsung devices on 28 March 2024, Samsung&#39;s One UI 6.1&nbsp;revised a considerable number of previously available emoji designs.

Many emojis had subtle modifications made to their outline, contrast, and shading, including the majority of&nbsp;<a href="/people">🧑 People</a> emojis. Meanwhile, many emojis within&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="/travel-places">🚀 Travel &amp; Places</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/objects">💡 Objects</a> categories were given more extensive redesigns.&nbsp;

One UI 6.1

Beginning its rollout for select Samsung devices on 30&nbsp;October 2023, Samsung&#39;s One UI 6.0&nbsp;featured a completely new design style for the majority of the vendor&#39;s emojis.

All smiley, food, and animal emoji designs have been revised in this update, as have the majority of the people emojis.

This is the most significant revision of the vendor&#39;s emoji set since&nbsp;February 2018&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/samsung/experience-9.0">Experience 9.0</a> update, which introduced a significant number of design revisions that were consistent with those used on other platforms.

This update also introduced support for the 2023 <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a> recommendation list.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-6-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

One UI 6.0

Beginning its rollout for select Samsung devices from October 2022, Samsung&#39;s One UI 5.0 provided support for both&nbsp;2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> and 2022&#39;s <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>&nbsp;recommendations.

Prior to the release of One UI 5.0, many Samsung users may have seen support for <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>&nbsp;emojis provided via <a href="/google/">Google&#39;s emoji design set</a>. This was due to Google&#39;s expansion of&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/faster-emoji-updates-on-the-way-for-android-apps/">Android AppCompat</a>&nbsp;in 2021.

A select number of users also reported seeing <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>&nbsp;designs in Samsung&#39;s emoji font when updating to One UI 4.1.1 in September 2022.

One UI 5.0

Beginning its rollout for select Samsung devices from&nbsp;mid-January 2022, this small emoji updated changed the design of Samsung&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a> emoji to be more consistent&nbsp;with those of other emoji vendors.

Additional devices received this emoji update alongside Samsung&#39;s&nbsp;One UI 4.1 update, which was made widely available in March 2022 after initially debuting with the Galaxy S22 series of devices a month earlier.

One UI 4.0 January 2022

Beginning its rollout on&nbsp;2021-11-15 for Samsung&#39;s Galaxy S21 series of mobile devices,&nbsp;Samsung One UI 4.0&nbsp;added support for <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>.

One UI 4.0

Beginning its rollout in late July 2021 to select Samsung&rsquo;s Galaxy Z devices, One UI 3.1.1 updated a small number of existing emoji designs.

Select devices running Samsung One UI 3.1 were also given this emoji update&nbsp;via a firmware update in August 2021.

One UI 3.1.1

Released alongside the Galaxy Note 20 on&nbsp;2020-08-21, Samsung One UI 2.5 added support for <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. This update also introduced a number of gender-inclusive designs for any emoji where gender is not specified. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-2-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

One UI 2.5

Samsung One UI 2.0&nbsp;began rolling out to users in February 2020.&nbsp;The first major devices to launch with this release were the&nbsp;Galaxy S20 and the Galaxy Z Flip.

This update provides support to the 136 gender-neutral person&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-zwj-sequences-three-letters-many-possibilities">ZWJ sequences </a>recommended in <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>. However, the previously-released&nbsp;<a href="/woman/">👩 Woman&nbsp;</a>variant designs are displayed&nbsp;instead of a new gender-neutral design.

The 30 people holding hands emojis recommended&nbsp;in <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;are absent from this update.

One UI 2.1

Samsung One UI 2.0&nbsp;began rolling out to users in January 2020.

This update corrected a <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsungs-emoji-adventures/">long-standing design oddity</a> in the Samsung emoji set, where the design for <a href="/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-u/">🇺 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U</a>&nbsp;displayed the letter V and <a href="/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-v/">🇻 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter V</a>&nbsp;displayed the letter U.

One UI 2.0

Samsung One UI 1.5 began rolling out to users in August 2019.&nbsp;The first major device&nbsp;to launch with this release was the Samsung&nbsp;Galaxy Note 10.

Updates in this release include full support for <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>, as well as&nbsp;a number of design changes&nbsp;including a change to the&nbsp;<a href="/people-with-bunny-ears/">👯 People With Bunny Ears</a> emoji designs.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-1-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

One UI 1.5

Samsung One UI 1.0 (formerly known as Samsung Experience 10.0) began rolling out to users in&nbsp;December&nbsp;2018. The first major devices to launch with this release were the Samsung Galaxy S10 series, announced on February 20, 2019.

This release changed&nbsp;a number of emoji designs, including many animals and&nbsp;the <a href="/calendar/">📅 Calendar</a> emoji which changed to&nbsp;show&nbsp;July 17. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-1-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

One UI 1.0

Samsung Experience 9.5 was released alongside the Galaxy Note 9 on 2018-08-24. This was Samsung&#39;s first release to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-experience-9-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Experience 9.5

An updated set of emojis that began appearing for users with newer builds of&nbsp;Samsung Experience 9.0 since&nbsp;April 2018. Listed here as Experience 9.1, due to likelihood of this being the emoji set to be installed in the release following version 9.0. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-experience-9-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Experience 9.1

Samsung Experience 9.0 began rolling out to most users from the week of February 12, 2018 alongside the Samsung Android Oreo (Android 8.0)&nbsp;release.&nbsp;First&nbsp;<a href="https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-experience-9-0-beta-now-available">released as a beta</a> in November 2017, this&nbsp;comes standard on the new Samsung Galaxy S9.

Notable updates in this release include yellow becoming the default color for emoji skin tone (instead of pale white)&nbsp;and designs that are more consistent with those used on other platforms such as&nbsp;the <a href="/face-with-rolling-eyes/">rolling eyes emoji</a>.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-experience-9-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Experience 9.0

Samsung Experience 8.5 was released alongside&nbsp;released the&nbsp;Galaxy Note 8 in September 2017 running Android 7.0 Marshmallow.

Experience 8.5

Samsung Experience 8.1&nbsp;was released to the public on 21&nbsp;April 2017 alongside the Galaxy S8. This update fixed&nbsp;the design for the <a href="/crossed-fingers/">Crossed Fingers emoji</a>, and included other minor design updates.

This update ran&nbsp;Android Nougat 7.0: the same releases as the original Samsung Nougat update. This version also&nbsp;contains the same number of emojis as the previous release.

Experience 8.1

Samsung Experience 8.0 was released on&nbsp;January 19, 2017 and&nbsp;brought compatibility with <a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a>, with new professions added, gendered emojis, and the rainbow flag.

A limited range of Samsung devices started <a href="https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-begins-rollout-of-android-7-0-nougat">receiving</a> this update from January 19, 2017.

Experience 8.0

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recieved an update on 22 September 2016, commonly referred to&nbsp;as the &quot;green battery update&quot;.

TouchWiz 7.1 (aka TouchWiz Grace UX 7.1) brought Unicode 9 emoji support to Samsung phones for the first time, as well as support for skin tone modifiers. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/samsungs-biggest-ever-emoji-update/">More on this update</a>.

TouchWiz 7.1

Galaxy Note 7 launched with TouchWiz 7.0&nbsp;(aka TouchWiz&nbsp;Grace UX 7.0) running Android 6.0.1 on&nbsp;August 19, 2016.&nbsp;This update&nbsp;contained&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/new/">257 new flag emojis</a> and changes to a number of designs including returning the&nbsp;<a href="/red-heart/">❤️&nbsp;Red Heart</a> emoji to a red color.

A number of emojis were <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/removed/">removed</a> in this release including&nbsp;<a href="/latin-cross/">✝️ Latin Cross</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/star-and-crescent/">☪️ Star and Crescent</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/double-exclamation-mark/">‼️ Double Exclamation Mark</a>. Others that were removed were either non-RGI (non-standard) emojis (such as <a href="/lips/">Lips</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/black-star/">Black Star</a>), or returned in a later release&nbsp;(<a href="/crossed-flags/">🎌&nbsp;Crossed Flags</a>).

<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/galaxy-note-7-brings-flag-emojis/">More about this update</a>.

TouchWiz 7.0

Touchwiz 6.0 launched with Samsung&#39;s release of Galaxy S7 running&nbsp;Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.

This update contained&nbsp;new emojis for the first time since the launch of the <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-5.1/">Galaxy S5</a>&nbsp;(there were no new emojis on Galaxy S6).&nbsp;View the <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-galaxy-s7-emoji-changelog/">Galaxy S7 Emoji Changelog</a> for more details.

Touchwiz 6.0

TouchWiz 5.1 launched on the&nbsp;Samsung Galaxy S5 running&nbsp;Android 4.4.2.

The TouchWiz 5.1&nbsp;emojis are generally the same as those provided on the Galaxy S4 (TouchWiz Nature UX 2), with only a few <a href="/camera-with-flash/">additions</a> and <a href="/woman-dancing/">modifications</a>.

TouchWiz 5.1

TouchWiz Nature UX 2 launched on the Samsung Galaxy S4 running&nbsp;Android 4.2.2 on 27 April 2013.

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