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Symbols

Flags

A balloon on a string, as decorates a <a href="/birthday/">birthday</a> party. Generally depicted in red, though WhatsApp&rsquo;s is pink and Google&rsquo;s orangish-red.

Commonly used to convey congratulations and celebration, especially when wishing someone&nbsp;a happy birthday.

<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/balloon/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/balloon/">Samsung&#39;s</a> balloons were previously blue;&nbsp;<a href="/softbank/2000/balloon/">SoftBank&#39;s</a>&nbsp;was shown floating in the sky.

Balloon

A golden ball, split in two halves in a shower of multicolored confetti and streamers.

Like <a href="/party-popper/">🎉 Party Popper</a>, commonly used to convey congratulations and celebration, as on <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&rsquo;s Eve</a>, <a href="/birthday/">birthdays</a>, <a href="/wedding-marriage/">wedding days</a>, <a href="/graduation/">graduations</a>, and other special occasions or good times more generally.

Its design across platforms&mdash;and&nbsp;inclusion in <a href="/au-kddi/type-c-2/confetti-ball/">early sets from au by KDDI</a>&mdash;suggest&nbsp;the emoji is a Japanese <a href="https://jisho.org/search/kusudama">kusudama</a>, a decorative ball used at such festive occasions as opening ceremonies.

Confetti Ball

A Japanese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_chime#Eastern_and_Southern_Asia">wind chime</a>. Depicted as a glass bell with a strip of paper suspended from its clapper, often decorated with <a href="/cherry-blossom/">cherry blossom</a>-like flowers.

Occasionally used for content concerning various senses of wind and chime. Thanks to its appearance, often used to represent jellyfish.

Wind Chime

A yellow face with a party hat blowing a party horn as confetti floats around its head. Used for celebrating joyous occasions (such as <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&#39;s Eve</a> or <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a>) and enjoying good times more generally.

Apple&rsquo;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚&nbsp;Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a>.

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Face with Party Horn and Party Hat

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>.

A circus or birthday clown displayed with white face makeup, a red nose, exaggerated eyes and smile, and two tufts of hair (red or blue). Commonly used&nbsp;as&nbsp;comment on <a href="/tiktok/">TikTok</a> or other social media platforms to indicate that a person&nbsp;is foolish, idiotic and/or selfish.

May instead describe something that is creepy or <a href="/face-screaming-in-fear/">scary</a>. Sometimes used as an unflattering alias for Donald Trump.

Clown Face

The face of a girl, smiling. Most platforms feature the girl&#39;s hair in&nbsp;pigtails.

Variants include <a href="/child/">👦 Child</a> and <a href="/boy/">👦 Boy</a>.

Girl

A face blowing the wind, as a personification of nature (e.g., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Nature">Mother Nature</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_wind">North Wind</a>) who creates the wind by blowing air from its mouth. Depicted as a gray, profile of a human face, generally with a feminine appearance, blowing swirls from her mouth to the right.

May be used to represent windy weather.&nbsp;Occasionally used to represent clouds, fog, smoke, and smoking. Not to be confused with Dashing Away, though their applications may overlap.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design is blue, as is Facebook&rsquo;s, whose design most clearly suggests a woman&rsquo;s face. WhatsApp&rsquo;s design depicts a cloud with a face, as Samsung&rsquo;s <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/wind-face/">previously</a> did.

Wind Blowing Face

A present or gift in a box tied with a bow, as given on a <a href="/birthday/">birthday</a> or <a href="/christmas/">Christmas</a>. Box and ribbon color vary across platforms, but commonly depicted as a gold box with a lid wrapped with a red ribbon.

Commonly used to represent gifts and presents on various holidays, celebrations, and special occasions.

Samsung&rsquo;s design features a red ribbon tied around a blue box with white dots. WhatsApp&rsquo;s present is wrapped with blue paper and red ribbon.

Wrapped Present

A child with no gender specified.&nbsp;This emoji may be used to talk about children in a gender-inclusive way.

Variants include&nbsp;<a href="/girl/">👧 Girl</a> and <a href="/boy/">👦 Boy</a>.

Child

A round yo-yo with its string coming out. It appears in various colors and&nbsp;designs across platforms, occasionally with a&nbsp;<a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>&nbsp;on its side.

WhatsApp&#39;s yo-yo design displays the company&#39;s logo.

Yo-Yo

Firework emoji, showing a explosion of colored light in the night sky, used for any number of celebrations such as <a href="/new-years-eve/" title="🎊 New Year’s Eve Emoji List">New Year&#39;s Eve</a>.

Colors vary by platform, and may include pink, purple, yellow, blue, and green.

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Fireworks

A sparkler: a form of hand-held firework often used at parties and celebrations. The sparkler is lit at one end, and&nbsp;held at the other.&nbsp;

Most platforms display this with the lit end held down, as is the style for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senko_hanabi">senko hanabi</a>&nbsp;(&quot;incense-stick fireworks&quot;) which is&nbsp;a traditional&nbsp;sparkler from&nbsp;from Japan.

Firework Sparkler

A party popper, as explodes&nbsp;in a shower of confetti and streamers at a celebration. Generally depicted as a gold party hat, striped on some platforms, at a 45&deg; angle, with multicolored confetti and streamers coming from its opening at the upper right. Twitter&rsquo;s cone is red.

Like <a href="/confetti-ball/">🎊 Confetti Ball</a>, commonly used to convey congratulations and celebration, as on <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&rsquo;s Eve</a>, <a href="/birthday/">birthdays</a>, <a href="/wedding-marriage/">wedding days</a>, <a href="/graduation/">graduations</a>, and other special occasions or good times more generally.

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Party Popper

Leaves, as fluttering in a spring or summer breeze. Depicted as one or two green, almond-shaped leaves, with gray or blue motion lines, as if swirling in the air or as the wind blowing through the trees.

May be used to represent the season of <a href="/fall-autumn/">fall/autumn</a>, trees, and nature more generally.

Not to be confused with <a href="/fallen-leaf/">🍂 Fallen Leaf</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Leaf Fluttering in Wind

A large rotating wheel, often found at a carnival or fair.

Ferris Wheel

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

A frosted cake with lit candles, as presented for a birthday celebration. The style of cake widely varies across platforms. With white frosting and&nbsp;<a href="/strawberry/">strawberries</a>, Apple and Google&rsquo;s designs suggest&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-japanese-eat-cake-christmas-180961556/">Japanese Christmas cake</a>. Other vendors depict a chocolate, pink, and/or sponge cake.

Birthday Cake

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Emojipedia

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.

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

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

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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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 used on the open-source 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.

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.

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

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.

Skype has a series of emoji-like emoticons which have their own distinct animated appearance.

A subset of Skype emoticons were available in Microsoft Teams before the 3D versions of Microsoft&#39;s new Fluent emoji set began <a href="https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1491752269880115200">rolling out in February 2022</a>.

The Skype emoticon set differs from the emoji set from parent company Microsoft, which is used as&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/">the system-wide emoji font in&nbsp;Windows 10</a>.

Skype uses its own system of shortcodes to enter each emoticon, for instance:

<ul>
	<li>:^) = 🤨</li>
	<li>(cwl) = 😂</li>
	<li>(stareyes) = 🤩</li>
</ul>

These shortcodes are replaced by the emoticon within Skype. If using a Unicode-compatible emoji code point, this will be given the system-wide emoji appearance:&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> set on Skype for Windows, <a href="/apple/">Apple</a> set on Skype for macOS or iOS, <a href="/samsung/">Samsung</a> set on phones using&nbsp;OneUI.

The majority of&nbsp;Skype Emoticons have&nbsp;equivalents in the Unicode Standard, while a number of emoticons go beyond what is offered by the standardized emoji set. For example, Skype&#39;s offers&nbsp;variety of additional pride-related flags alongside <a href="/pride/">🏳️&zwj;🌈 Pride</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/transgender-flag/">🏳️&zwj;⚧️&nbsp;Transgender Flag</a>, such as those shown below.

<img alt="" src="https://em-content.zobj.net/content/2021/07/15/pride-flags-x4-genderflux.gif" style="width: 448px; height: 80px;" />

Emoticons and emojis used in Skype and Microsoft Teams.

Skype Emoticons

A Unicode-adjacent subset of Skype&#39;s current animated emoticons. Released in summer of 2015.

These animated emoticons are created via shortcodes.

For purposes of display on Emojipedia, the emoticons from Skype Emoticons 1.2 have been assigned a&nbsp;codepoints from a Unicode-equivalent emoji.

🎈 Balloon on Skype Emoticons 1.2

🎈 Balloon on Skype Emoticons 1.2

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