Apple

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Clubhouse

Discord

Docomo

Dropbox

emojidex

Emojipedia Sample Images

Facebook

GitHub

Google Noto Color Emoji

Huawei

Icons8

Instagram

JoyPixels

JoyPixels Animations

LinkedIn

Mastodon

Messenger

Microsoft

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Mozilla

MSN Messenger

Nintendo

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

Noto Emoji Font

OpenMoji

Roblox

Samsung

SerenityOS

Signal

Sina Weibo

Skype

Slack

Snapchat

SoftBank

Sony Playstation

Telegram

TikTok

Tinder

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Twitch

Twitter Emoji Stickers

Twitter / X

Viber

VinSmart

WeChat

WhatsApp

Yahoo! Messenger

Yo Status

YouTube

Zoom

Australia Day

Bastille Day

Birthday

Black Friday

Black Lives Matter

Canada Day

Carnaval

Chinese New Year

Christmas

Cinco de Mayo

Coronavirus

Couples With Hearts

Diwali

Dragon Boat Festival

Earth Day

Easter

Emoji Movie

Fall / Autumn

Families

Father’s Day

Festivus

Four Twenty / 420

Gestures

Graduation

Guy Fawkes

Halloween

Handshakes

Hanukkah

Happy

Hearts

Holi

Independence Day

International Women's Day

Jobs & Roles

Juneteenth

Kisses

Laughing

LGBT Pride

Love

Mardi Gras

MLB World Series

Mother’s Day

Music

New Year’s Eve

NSFW

Olympics

People Holding Hands

Pets

Purim

Queen’s Birthday

Ramadan

Spring

St Patrick’s Day

Summer

Super Bowl

Thanksgiving

Valentine’s Day

Veterans Day

Wedding / Marriage

Winter

Winter Olympics

Working From Home

World Book Day

World Cup

World Emoji Day

Smileys

People

Animals & Nature

Food & Drink

Activity

Travel & Places

Objects

Symbols

Flags

An arrow, pointing right.

See the glossary for information on the term&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#black" title="📖 Glossary">black</a>&nbsp;in unicode character names.

Black Rightwards Arrow

An arrow&nbsp;pointing to the left, with a&nbsp;curved hook at the other end. Similar in appearance to a sideways&nbsp;U Turn symbol, or&nbsp;a&nbsp;reply&nbsp;icon in an email application.

Leftwards Arrow with Hook

An arrow, pointing&nbsp;up.

See the glossary for information on the term&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#black" title="📖 Glossary">black</a>&nbsp;in unicode character names.

Upwards Black Arrow

An arrow pointing diagonally&nbsp;in an up-right, or north-east direction.

North East Arrow

Two arrows pointing right while&nbsp;crossing over one another. Used to indicate&nbsp;putting music on shuffle:&nbsp;randomizing the order of&nbsp;tracks&nbsp;in the upcoming playlist. May also be used to indicate two items switching places.

Twisted Rightwards Arrows

An arrow pointing diagonally&nbsp;in an down-right, or south-east direction.

South East Arrow

An arrow, pointing down.

See the glossary for information on the term&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#black" title="📖 Glossary">black</a>&nbsp;in unicode character names.

Downwards Black Arrow

An arrow pointing diagonally&nbsp;in an down-left, or south-west direction.

South West Arrow

An arrow, pointing left.

See the glossary for information on the term&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#black" title="📖 Glossary">black</a>&nbsp;in unicode character names.

Leftwards Black Arrow

An arrow pointing diagonally&nbsp;in an up-left, or north-west direction.

North West Arrow

Circular arrows pointing in a clockwise direction. Used in music player applications to&nbsp;loop a track or album continuously. Commonly used to repesent a&nbsp;retweet on Twitter.

Clockwise Rightwards and Leftwards Open Circle Arrows

Arrows pointing in a clockwise direction, with a number 1 badge in the lower corner.  Used in music player applications to loop a track or album once.

Clockwise Rightwards and Leftwards Open Circle Arrows with Circled One Overlay

An arrow&nbsp;pointing to the right, with a&nbsp;curved hook at the other end. Similar in appearance to a sideways&nbsp;U Turn&nbsp;symbol, or&nbsp;a&nbsp;forward icon in an email application.

Rightwards Arrow with Hook

Arrow Pointing Rightwards Then Curving Upwards

Arrow Pointing Rightwards Then Curving Downwards

Clockwise Downwards and Upwards Open Circle Arrows

Two arrows&nbsp;forming a circle, pointing in an anticlockwise direction. Similar to symbols sometimes used for&nbsp;refresh&nbsp;or&nbsp;rotate. May also be used to indicate a task&nbsp;is in progress.

Previously showed <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-creators-update/counterclockwise-arrows-button/">in a clockwise direction</a> on Windows.

Anticlockwise Downwards and Upwards Open Circle Arrows

A rectangular map of the world. Generally depicted as a paper map creased at its folds, Earth&rsquo;s surface shown in green on blue ocean.

Commonly represent maps, travel, exploration, and geography. May also represent various content concerning the world as a whole, e.g., global or international issues.

<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/world-map/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/world-map/">Samsung&rsquo;s design</a> previously depicted outlines of the continents.

World Map

A pushpin, as used to indicate a location on a <a href="/world-map/">map</a>. Generally depicted as an upright pin with a red, round head.

Commonly used to indicate locations and notably featured in the <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pushpin-emoji-detour">Pushpin Emoji Detour</a> and <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/distance-between">Distance Between</a> memes on Twitter. Also used unofficially as an icon for Pinterest or Google Maps.

Facebook&rsquo;s pin is oriented at a 45&deg; angle, as were previous designs on several other platforms.

Not to be confused with <a href="/pushpin/">📌 Pushpin</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Round Pushpin

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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.

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.

Unicode 1.1 were pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by 17 years, and included many characters primarily sourced from the Zapf Dingbats font.

The following characters were added to Unicode in 1993 and many were given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

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

A higher resolution, non-animated emoji set released by SoftBank 2010 and in use until 2012-2013.

2010

An update to the SoftBank emoji set&nbsp;<a href="https://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%2Fcorp%2Fgroup%2Fsbm%2Fnews%2Fpress%2F2008%2F20080603_03%2F&amp;edit-text=&amp;act=url">released at the end of&nbsp;June 2008</a>, sometimes referred to as&nbsp;SoftBank 3G.

This version added more detail to each character and was the first SoftBank release to show the majority of smileys as round characters rather than square edge-to-edge designs.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

➡️ Right Arrow on SoftBank 1997

➡️ Right Arrow on SoftBank 1997

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