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Flags

A water fountain, found in a&nbsp;park or other public space. Used for decorative purposes. A variety of styles of fountain are shown across different platforms.

Fountain

A national park, generally displayed with <a href="/mountain/" title="⛰ Mountain">mountains</a>, a river or stream, and <a href="/evergreen-tree/" title="🌲 Evergreen Tree">trees</a>.

National Park

A building shown with columns in a classical style, sometimes used to represent a courthouse, town hall, post office or stock exchange.

Classical Building

Foggy weather displayed as&nbsp;<a href="/fog/" title="🌫 Fog">fog</a> covering a bridge or cityscape, depending on the platform. For platforms that show a bridge, the red <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge">Golden Gate Bridge</a> is generally displayed.

Foggy

A cityscape showing a variety of highrise buildings during the daytime. Often featuring several <a href="/cloud">clouds</a> in the sky.

See also:&nbsp;<a href="/night-with-stars">🌃 Night with Stars</a>

Cityscape

A view of city buildings as the last light disappears from the sky. An orange (or blue) glow lingers, before the stars of the <a title="🌃 Night With Stars" href="/night-with-stars/">night sky</a> become visible.

Cityscape at Dusk

A lit-up bridge, shown at night.

Bridge at Night

A roller coaster in a theme park going down a dip in the ride. Three carriages can be seen with two people in each red carriage.

Roller Coaster

An umbrella, opened to provide cover from rain. Generally depicted with purple fabric and a hooked handle with several rain <a href="/droplet/">droplets</a> falling on its top.

Commonly used for various content concerning rainy weather.

Not to be confused with <a href="/umbrella/">☂️ Umbrella</a> or <a href="/closed-umbrella/">🌂 Closed Umbrella</a>, though their applications may overlap.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s umbrella is green. Google&rsquo;s umbrella was <a href="/google/android-7.0/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">previously</a> blue, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> red, and <a href="/facebook/1.0/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> once pink.

In 2016, a Durex <a href="http://thenextweb.com/lifestyle/2016/11/30/durex-condom-emoji/">poll</a>&nbsp;voted this emoji to (unofficially)&nbsp;represent&nbsp;condoms and safe sex for World AIDS Day.

Umbrella with Rain Drops

A single, light blue droplet, as of water, sweat, or tears.

May be used for various types of liquid. May also be used to expression sadness, as in <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a>,&nbsp;or for various liquid-based slang expressions (e.g., drip, &ldquo;exceptional style, swagger&quot;).

Not to be confused with <a href="/sweat-droplets/">💦 Sweat Droplets</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Droplet

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.&nbsp;

In July 2024, X / Twitter updated this emoji&#39;s design to once again show a real firearm. In August 2024 the firearm&#39;s design was changed, and also made available for iOS platforms.

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 symbol for potable (drinkable) water, usually shown with a faucet filling a drinking glass. Commonly used for various content concerning water, drinking, thirst, and dripping.

Some platforms, including Apple and WhatsApp, depict the emoji as an object while others feature a stylized, white faucet on a blue square, as a sign or icon of water that is safe to drink. Compare&nbsp;<a href="/non-potable-water/">🚱 Non-Potable Water</a>, which indicates water that is not safe to drink.

Apple&#39;s design&nbsp;<a href="/apple/ios-9.1/potable-water/">previously featured</a> a blue symbol design, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/potable-water/">Microsoft&#39;s</a> a cup filled with water.

Potable Water Symbol

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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.

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

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.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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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 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.

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.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

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.

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Emojis from early handheld devices from the late 1980s / early 1990s.

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Unicode 5.2&nbsp;pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by one&nbsp;year, and included many characters primarily sourced from the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07391-n3341.pdf">ARIB set of Japanese broadcasting symbols</a>.

The following characters were among those added to Unicode in 2009, several of which were given&nbsp;emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

Sharp is a Japanese electronics manufacturer.

During the late 1980s and into the 1990s they produced a series of personal digital assistants (PDAs; also known as &quot;organizers&quot; or &ldquo;pocket PCs&rdquo;) devices - early mobile devices are the predecessors of smartphones and tablets.&nbsp;

Sharp also produced related devices known as wapro (Japanese language word processors, also sometimes called &ldquo;electronic typewriters&rdquo;) that can be considered early laptops.

Several of these Sharp&nbsp;devices contained some of the earliest examples of emoji-like characters, many of which found their way onto other Japanese emoji sets and eventually into <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode</a>.

<img src="https://em-content.zobj.net/content/2024/05/10/emoji-present-on-the-sharp-pi-4000-gingerbeardman.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 375px;" />

Above: images from the Sharp&nbsp;Zaurus PI-4000, as recreated by&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/emoji-history-the-missing-years/">@gingerbeardman</a>.

These devices include the the PA-8500 (1988), WD-A521 (1990), WD-A551 (1991), Zaurus PI-3000 (1993), Zaurus PI-4000 (1994).

<img src="https://em-content.zobj.net/content/2024/05/10/emoji-present-on-sharp-pa-8500-gingerbeardman.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 578px;" />

Above: images from the Sharp&nbsp;PA-8500, as recreated by&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/emoji-history-the-missing-years/">@gingerbeardman</a>.

The emoji-like symbols found on these devices predate the earliest known emoji sets designed for mobile phones from <a href="/softbank/1997">Softbank</a> (1997) and <a href="/docomo/1999">Docomo</a> (1999), as well as Docomo&rsquo;s <a href="/pocket-bell">Pocket Bell</a> pager (1995).

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji in the Sharp emoji sets has been mapped to their modern Unicode codepoint, despite these sets existing before Unicode emoji standardization. Additionally, several emojis from these sets do not have a modern Unicode equivalent.

Released in June 1994, the Sharp Zaurus PI-4000&nbsp;was a personal digital assistant (PDA; also known as an &quot;organizer&quot; or &ldquo;pocket PC&rdquo;) that contained a set of over 150 emoji designs.

These designs were&nbsp;12x12 pixels in size, and have been re-created for display by&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/emoji-history-the-missing-years/">@gingerbeardman</a>.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji in this set has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing before Unicode emoji standardization. Additionally, several emojis from this set do not have a modern Unicode equivalent.

PI-4000

Released in October 1988, the Sharp PA-8500 was a&nbsp;personal digital assistant (PDA; also known as an &quot;organizer&quot; or &ldquo;pocket PC&rdquo;) that contained a set of 102&nbsp;emoji designs.

<img src="https://em-content.zobj.net/content/2024/05/10/emoji-present-on-sharp-pa-8500-gingerbeardman.jpg" style="height: 481px; width: 500px;" />

These designs were&nbsp;16x16 pixels in size, and have been re-created for display by&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/emoji-history-the-missing-years/">@gingerbeardman</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-earliest-emoji-sets-from-1988-and-1990-uncovered/">Learn more about this emoji set</a>.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji in this set has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing before Unicode emoji standardization. Additionally, several emojis from this set do not have a modern Unicode equivalent.

⛲ Fountain on Sharp PI-4000

⛲ Fountain on Sharp PI-4000

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