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Flags

A classic hourglass, its sand still flowing from the top to bottom bulb. Indicates time is still passing&mdash;but life is short. Color varies across platforms.

Commonly used for various content concerning time. May also be used for hourglass-shaped figures. Not to be confused with <a href="/hourglass-done/">⌛&nbsp;Hourglass Done</a>, whose sand has stopped flowing.

Hourglass with Flowing Sand

A wristwatch, as used for telling time. Appearance varies across platforms, but widely depicted as an analog timepiece with a white face and brown or black straps.

Used for various content concerning time, including watches as accessories. Apple&#39;s design is an Apple Watch, though <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/watch/">previously featured</a> a traditional watch before the product&rsquo;s release.

Watch

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

Time&rsquo;s up! A timer set to count down and sound an alarm after a designated amount of time, as used in the kitchen. Appearance varies by platform. Commonly used for various content concerning time, including countdowns and deadlines.

Apple, WhatsApp, and Facebook&rsquo;s designs resemble kitchen timers. Other designs may be confused with <a href="/mantelpiece-clock/">🕰️&nbsp;Mantelpiece Clock</a> or other clock emojis.

Timer Clock

An antique-styled mantel clock with a flat base and rounded case, as made of wood and brass and placed above a <a href="/fire/">fireplace</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning time.&nbsp;May also suggest a traditional home or old-time environment.&nbsp;

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/mantelpiece-clock/">previously</a> featured&nbsp;a more modern-looking, blue clock.

Mantelpiece Clock

A beach showing sand, and an umbrella for protection from the <a href="/sun/" title=" ☀️ Black Sun With Rays">sun</a>.

Beach with Umbrella

A classic hourglass, all of its sand having flowed into the bottom bulb. Indicates time has passed. Color varies across platforms.

Commonly used for various content concerning time. May also be used for hourglass-shaped figures. Not to be confused with <a href="/hourglass-not-done/">⏳&nbsp;Hourglass Not Done</a>, whose sand is still flowing.

Used on <a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a> to indicate a Snapstreak is soon to end.

Hourglass

A test tube, as used to conduct chemical experiments in a laboratory. Depicted as a clear cylinder, open at one end and containing a green liquid. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle.

May be used for various content concerning chemistry and science more generally. May also represent other liquids, such as potions or medicines, as well metaphorical laboratories and experiments.

Some platforms include volume markings or display the liquid as bubbling.&nbsp;WhatsApp&rsquo;s design features a blue liquid.

Test Tube

An analog, handheld timepiece used to measure elapsed time, as for athletic sprints.&nbsp;Appearance varies across platforms, but depicted with two or more control buttons on its top.

Used for various content concerning time.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/alarm-clock/">⏰&nbsp;Alarm Clock</a> or other clock emojis.

Stopwatch

An egg,&nbsp;displayed as a chicken egg with a white or light brown shell. Commonly used at&nbsp;<a href="/easter/">Easter</a>&nbsp;time. See also: <a href="/cooking/">🍳 Cooking</a>.

A tall glass of white milk, as from a&nbsp;<a href="/cow/">cow</a>&nbsp;but also other mammals, nuts, or plants. Most platforms depict a glass filled near to the brim, but some show a glass half-full&mdash;or half-empty.

Glass of Milk

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

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 single date on a calendar. Generally depicted as a page torn off from a daily desk calendar, displaying month&nbsp;and day on a white, square page.

Like <a href="/tear-off-calendar/">📆 Tear-Off Calendar</a> and <a href="/spiral-calendar/">🗓️ Spiral Calendar</a>, commonly used as an icon for specific upcoming events or memorial dates. Also used for various content concerning time, date, schedules, planning, and observances and&nbsp;occasions more generally.

The date shown is July 17. This date was first used by Apple as a reference to <a href="https://gizmodo.com/fun-fact-time-icals-birthday-is-today-279393">when iCal for Mac premiered at MacWorld Expo in 2002</a>. Since 2014 Emojipedia has celebrated&nbsp;<a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a>&nbsp;on July 17, because of this emoji.

Major platforms previously used a variety of dates on this calendar, but have changed in recent years to also show July 17, to avoid confusion on World Emoji Day.&nbsp;Some vendors still feature easter egg dates marking company&nbsp;founding&nbsp;or other milestones:

<ul>
	<li>📅 Apple: July 17 (Mac iCal announcement in 2002, later World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Google: July 17 (World Emoji Day; previously a generic monthly calendar)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Microsoft: a generic month</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Samsung: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/calendar/">previously</a> a monthly calendar turned to May)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;WhatsApp: Feb 24 (incorporation of WhatsApp in 2009)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Twitter/X: Jul 17&nbsp; (changed from&nbsp;March 21 which was&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/20">founding date</a>&nbsp;of Twitter in 2006; <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/calendar/">previously</a> July 15, the date Twitter launched)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Facebook: May 14 (birthday of founder Mark Zuckerberg; <a href="/facebook/2.0/calendar/">previously</a> a generic 3rd)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Huawei: September 15</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;JoyPixels: July 17&nbsp;(World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅 SerenityOS: 10</li>
</ul>

Discontinued:

<ul>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Messenger: August (first release&nbsp;of Messenger apps in 2011)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;LG: Mar 27 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;HTC: generic</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Mozilla: July 17 (World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;emojidex: Tuesday, Jan 12 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Softbank: generic</li>
	<li>📅 Docomo: 12 (suggesting the number of months in a year)&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
	<li>📅 au by KDDI: 12</li>
</ul>

Calendar

A single date on a calendar. Generally depicted as a page on a two-ringed, daily desk calendar, as flipped or torn off to change the date. Displays&nbsp;month and day on a white, square page, curled up at the bottom right.

Like <a href="/calendar/">📅 Calendar</a> and <a href="/spiral-calendar/">🗓️ Spiral Calendar</a>, commonly used as an icon for specific upcoming events or memorial dates. Also used for various content concerning time, date, schedules, planning, and observances and&nbsp;occasions more generally.

The date shown is July 17. This date was first used by Apple as a reference to <a href="https://gizmodo.com/fun-fact-time-icals-birthday-is-today-279393">when iCal for Mac premiered at MacWorld Expo in 2002</a>. Since 2014 Emojipedia has celebrated&nbsp;<a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a>&nbsp;on July 17, because of this emoji.

Major platforms previously used a variety of dates on this calendar, but have changed in recent years to also show July 17, to avoid confusion on World Emoji Day.&nbsp;Some vendors still feature easter egg dates marking company&nbsp;founding&nbsp;or other milestones:

<ul>
	<li>📅 Apple: July 17 (Mac iCal announcement in 2002, later World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Google: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/google/android-7.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 12, as months in the year)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Microsoft: a generic month</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Samsung: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 31)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;WhatsApp: Feb 24 (incorporation of WhatsApp in 2009)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Twitter: Jul 17&nbsp; (changed from&nbsp;March 21 which was&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/20">founding date</a>&nbsp;of Twitter in 2006; <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/calendar/">previously</a> July 15, the date Twitter launched)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Facebook: February 4 (date of founding in 2004; <a href="/facebook/2.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 31)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Huawei: September 15</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;JoyPixels: July 17&nbsp;(World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅 SerenityOS: 10</li>
</ul>

Discontinued:

<ul>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Messenger: August 9 (first release&nbsp;of Messenger apps in 2011)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;LG: March 27 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;HTC: generic 3</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Mozilla: July 17 (World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;emojidex: December 12 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Softbank: 12&nbsp;(suggesting the number of months in a year)&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
	<li>📅 Docomo: 12</li>
	<li>📅 au by KDDI: 12</li>
</ul>

Tear-Off Calendar

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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.

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

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.

SoftBank&nbsp;is a Japanese carrier&nbsp;which had its own emoji set for the years 1997&mdash;2016. SoftBank (known as J-Phone at the time) created the&nbsp;first known&nbsp;emoji set. The SoftBank emoji designs&nbsp;heavily influenced&nbsp;<a href="/apple/iphone-os-2.2/">Apple&#39;s original emoji font</a>&nbsp;which was&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/apples-emoji-evolution-1997-2018/">designed to be compatible with this set</a>&nbsp;when launching in Japan, due&nbsp;to iPhone being a SoftBank-exclusive phone when first released.

SoftBank&nbsp;<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.softbank.jp%2Fmobile%2Finfo%2Fpersonal%2Fsoftware%2F20170120-02%2F&amp;edit-text=">announced</a> it would switch to using Google emoji designs from 2016, for&nbsp;phones supporting <a href="/google/android-7.0/">Android 7.0</a> or above. SoftBank no longer releases&nbsp;updates to this emoji set.

📲 SoftBank Emoji List — Original Emojis from SoftBank in Japan

The last update to SoftBank&#39;s emoji set was released in 2014 and discontinued in 2016. This release added 277 new characters

A minor update to this set removed regional indicators in 2016, but otherwise delivered no new changes.

2014

First launched 1997-11-01 on the&nbsp;SkyWalker service which was&nbsp;launched in Japan on the&nbsp;DP-211SW mobile phone.&nbsp;May have been the first emoji set in existence. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/correcting-the-record-on-the-first-emoji-set/">More about this set</a>.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

⏳ Hourglass Not Done on SoftBank 1997

⏳ Hourglass Not Done on SoftBank 1997

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