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Flags

A wave of water, as breaks at the beach. Depicted as a blue wave with a foamy, white crest, curling to the right.

May be used to represent water in general, various bodies of water like oceans, and water activities, such as&nbsp;<a href="/person-swimming/">swimming</a>, <a href="/person-surfing/">surfing</a>, and <a href="/sailboat/">sailing</a>. May also&nbsp;be used to represent metaphorical waves.

Apple&rsquo;s design resembles the iconic wave in&nbsp;Japanese artist Hokusai&rsquo;s famous woodblock print, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa">The Great Wave off Kanagawa</a>&nbsp;(ca. 1830).

Water Wave

A seashell, as found at the <a href="/beach-with-umbrella/">beach</a>. Generally depicted as an empty, spiraling, white seashell, as grown by a sea <a href="/snail/">snail</a> or home to a hermit crab. Positioned at various angles across platforms.

Often used for various content concerning beaches, ocean and ocean life, and summer fun.

Apple&rsquo;s design <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/spiral-shell/">previously</a> resembled a clam shell, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/spiral-shell/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> a snail shell. <a href="/google/android-7.0/spiral-shell/">Google&rsquo;s</a> was previously blue.

Spiral Shell

A person swimming in a pool, the <a href="/water-wave/" title="🌊 Water Wave">ocean</a>, or another body of water.&nbsp;Lacked goggles&nbsp;on prior versions of iOS.

Swims facing to the left of screen on all major platforms.

Swimmer

A two-piece bikini, worn at the beach, pool, or on vacation at a <a href="/desert-island/" title="🏝 Desert Island">tropical destination</a>.

Shown in a variety of colors and patterns across different platforms.

Related emojis include <a href="/briefs/">🩲 Briefs</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/shorts/">🩳 Shorts</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/one-piece-swimsuit/">🩱 One-Piece Swimsuit</a>.

Bikini

A common fish, as swims in the water. Depicted as a generic, light-blue fish, often with a white underside, in full profile facing left, with fins and prominent gill cover.

May be used to represent a variety of other fish (freshwater or saltwater), <a href="/fishing-pole/">fishing</a>, metaphorical senses of fish, and fish as food, as consumed in the form of <a href="/sushi/">🍣 Sushi</a>. May be used to represent <a href="/pisces/">♓ Pisces</a>, the Fish, in the Western zodiac.

Not to be confused with <a href="/tropical-fish/">🐠 Tropical Fish</a> or <a href="/blowfish/">🐡 Blowfish</a>, though their applications may overlap. Vendors implement a similar design to the fish caught on the <a href="/fishing-pole/">🎣 Fishing Pole</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s fish was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/fish/">previously</a> yellow.

Fish

A person on a surfboard, riding&nbsp;on a wave in the ocean. Wears a wetsuit or&nbsp;board shorts in most versions.

Surfer

A fishing&nbsp;rod (pole) with a fish caught on the end.

Fishing Pole and Fish

A shark, a large, stealthy fish with many teeth. Generally depicted as a gray shark in full profile facing left, as a&nbsp;<a href="/dolphin/">tiger</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark">bull</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark">great white shark</a> hunting in the water. Shown with a white underside and three gills, its pointed nose and teeth-lined mouth curving down to a sharp dorsal fin and long, pointed tail.

Not to be confused with <a href="/dolphin/">🐬 Dolphin</a>.

Shark

A framed picture of a painting or photograph, as displayed in a gallery or on a household wall. Vendors feature various scenes, though generally a lush, sunny landscape of hills and <a href="/mountain/">mountains</a>, in a gold frame.

Commonly used for various content concerning&nbsp;art, museums, and interior design and decor. May also be used as an icon for a picture, as before an upload, link, or credit.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-11/framed-picture/">previously</a> showed <a href="/ninja-cat/">Ninja Cat</a>.&nbsp;An&nbsp;earlier Microsoft&nbsp;design&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/framed-picture/">featured</a>&nbsp;the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa">Mona Lisa</a>, as did a previous&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/framed-picture/">Samsung</a>&nbsp;design. Google&#39;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/framed-picture/">previously</a> displayed&nbsp;the scene depicted in its&nbsp;<a href="/national-park/">🏞️ National Park</a>&nbsp;emoji.

Frame with Picture

Quack! A duck, a waterbird with webbed feet. Depicted as a male (drake) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard">mallard</a> in full profile facing left, standing on its legs with gray and brown feathers, a yellow bill, and its distinctive green head.

May be consumed in the form of a <a href="/poultry-leg/">🍗 Poultry Leg</a>. Occasionally used as a substitute for the F-word, due to rhyming and Apple&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ducking">iPhone autocorrect</a>.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/duck/">previously</a> featured a yellow rubber ducky.

Duck

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 large ship, used for transport of people or cargo across the ocean. May be a cruise ship, commonly found around <a href="/palm-tree/" title="🌴 Palm Tree">tropical</a> locations.

Ship

A person shown in water with a ball,&nbsp;playing the sport of water polo.&nbsp;

Water Polo

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 volcano, erupting with smoke and lava.

Volcano

Three, light blue droplets, as sweat beads, splashing down to the right. Resembles&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexicon_of_Comicana">plewds</a>, stylized sweat droplets used in comics and animation to show characters working hard or feeling stressed.

May be used to represent various types of liquids, including sexual fluids. May also be used to represent various liquid-based slang expressions (e.g., drip, &ldquo;exceptional style, swagger&quot;).

Not to be confused with <a href="/droplet/">💧 Droplet</a>, though their applications may overlap.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/sweat-droplets/">Google</a>, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/sweat-droplets/">Microsoft</a>, and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/sweat-droplets/">Samsung&#39;s</a> design previously featured two, upwardly directed droplets.

Splashing Sweat Symbol

A whale, the massive marine mammal. Generally depicted as a light-blue whale in full profile facing left, with its tail curving down towards is huge mouth. Shown with a white, textured underside, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpback_whale">humpback</a> or&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale">blue whale</a>.

Not to be confused with the more cartoon-styled <a href="/spouting-whale/">🐳 Spouting Whale</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Apple and Google&#39;s whales have slightly open mouths, revealing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleen">baleen</a>.

Whale

A friendly, cartoon-styled whale, shown spouting water from its blowhole. Generally depicted as a light-blue whale in full profile facing left, with a round body and white underside, its tail held upright.

Often used with an affectionate tone. Not to be confused with the more lifelike <a href="/whale/">🐋 Whale</a>, though their applications may overlap.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s whale is gray, as <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/spouting-whale/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/facebook/1.0/spouting-whale/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> whales previously were. <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/spouting-whale/">Twitter&rsquo;s</a> whale was previously purple.

Spouting Whale

A <a href="/skull-and-crossbones/" title="☠ Skull and Crossbones">skull and crossbones</a>&nbsp;displayed on a black flag, used on pirate ships, also known as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_Roger">Jolly Roger</a>.

Pirate Flag

The female version of the <a href="/person-surfing/">🏄&nbsp;Surfer</a> emoji.

Woman Surfing

The male version of the <a href="/person-surfing/">🏄&nbsp;Surfer</a> emoji.

Man Surfing

A merperson who may be referred to as&nbsp;merfolk or merpeople in plural. May be used for the display of a mermaid,&nbsp;mergirl, <a href="/mermaid/">merwoman</a>, or <a href="/merman/">merman</a>.

Occasional shown wielding a&nbsp;<a href="/trident-emblem">trident</a>.

Merperson

A penguin, a flightless bird adapted to water and ice. Variously depicted as a full, black-bodied penguin with a white belly and orange bill or as a penguin head.

Often used with an affectionate or playful tone or in association with the cold. Occasionally used to represent a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffin">puffin</a>.

Apple and WhatsApp&rsquo;s designs feature a penguin head, with Apple&rsquo;s bearing a yellow patch on its head, as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_penguin">emperor penguin</a>. Other major platforms feature a penguin standing in full profile, facing forward or left.

Penguin

A lobster, a large crustacean with a prominent tail and pincers. Depicted as a reddish-orange lobster (as cooked) from above, with a long body and tail, short, tentacle-like eyes, and ten legs, the top of which are very large pincers.

Often used to represent lobster as food as well as in connection to the US state of Maine.

In its release year of 2018, Emojipedia&rsquo;s original sample image was criticized as anatomically incorrect but was shortly after <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/skateboard-dna-and-lobster-updated/">resolved</a>. That year, the transgender community <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/trans-activists-lobster-emoji-flag-charlie-craggs-unicode-nail-it-a8474476.html">embraced</a> the lobster as a symbol for their efforts for <a href="/transgender-flag/">Transgender Flag</a>&nbsp;emoji.

Samsung, WhatsApp, and Facebook&rsquo;s lobsters are depicted at an angle.

Lobster

A sunset-orange-colored tropical beverage in a stemmed glass, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(drink)#Rum_punches">rum punch</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_Tai">mai tai</a>. Served with a straw and fruit garnish. Many platforms include a cocktail umbrella, hence&nbsp;<a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UmbrellaDrink">umbrella drink</a>.&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/tropical-drink/">Samsung previously featured&nbsp;</a>an electric-blue concoction. See also&nbsp;<a href="/cocktail-glass/">Cocktail Glass</a>.

Tropical Drink

A silver shower head, streaming water to the left. Pressure level varies across platforms. <a href="/soap/">🧼&nbsp;Soap</a> not provided.

Commonly used for various content concerning bathing, washing, cleaning, and water. Shower heads are also featured in <a href="/bathtub/">🛁&nbsp;Bathtub</a> and <a href="/person-taking-bath/">🛀&nbsp;Person Taking a Bath</a>.

Shower

A white bathtub with a silver <a href="/shower/">shower</a> head. Often depicted as a cast-iron tub with claw-foot legs. Commonly used for various content concerning bathing, washing, cleaning, and bathrooms more generally.

Several platforms, including Apple and Facebook, feature <a href="/soap/">soap</a> bubbles or suds. Samsung&rsquo;s design displays streaming water from the shower head.

Vendors implement <a href="/person-taking-bath/">🛀&nbsp;Person Taking a Bath</a> with the same or a similar emoji, but with a person soaking in the tub.

Bathtub

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

A large, open umbrella, as provides shade at a beach or patio. Generally depicted as a striped umbrella inserted into a patch of sand and tilted to the right.

Commonly used for various content concerning the beach, summer vacations (holidays), sunny weather, and relaxing outdoors.

The color of the stripes varies&nbsp;across platforms; Apple (no sand) and Samsung&rsquo;s are red and yellow, while Google,&nbsp;Twitter and Facebook&rsquo;s red and white, and WhatsApp&rsquo;s <a href="/rainbow/">rainbow</a>-colored.&nbsp;Google&rsquo;s was <a href="/google/android-8.0/umbrella-on-ground/">previously</a> blue and white.

Not to be confused with <a href="/search/?q=umbrella">other umbrella-related emoji</a>, such as <a href="/beach-with-umbrella/">🏖️ Beach With Umbrella</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Umbrella on Ground

A dolphin, a sleek marine mammal known to be social and intelligent. Generally depicted as a light-blue dolphin with a white belly in full profile facing left, its short snout curving down to a prominent dorsal fin and tail, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose_dolphin">bottlenose</a> dolphin leaping in the air.

May be used for various content concerning <a href="/person-swimming/">swimming</a>, oceans, <a href="/beach-with-umbrella/">beaches</a>, and summer fun. Not be confused with <a href="/shark/">🦈 Shark</a>.

WhatsApp and Facebook&rsquo;s dolphins are gray, as <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/dolphin/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/dolphin/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> previously were.

Dolphin

A blowfish (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraodontidae">puffer</a>), which puffs up and becomes spiky when alarmed. Depicted as an orange or brown blowfish in full profile facing left, with small fins, a white underside, and a round, spiky body, as if inflated.

Called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu">fugu</a> in Japan, where it&rsquo;s consumed as a delicacy.

May be to represent a variety of fish (saltwater or freshwater), <a href="/fishing-pole/">fishing</a>, metaphorical senses of fish, and fish as food, as consumed in the form of <a href="/sushi/">🍣 Sushi</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/fish/">🐟 Fish</a> or <a href="/tropical-fish/">🐠 Tropical Fish</a>, though their applications may overlap. See also <a href="/fishing-pole/">🎣 Fishing Pole</a>.

Google&rsquo;s blowfish was <a href="/google/android-7.0/blowfish/">previously</a> blue, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/blowfish/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> yellow, and <a href="/facebook/1.0/blowfish/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> white.

Blowfish

An octopus, a sea animal with eight legs, known to change color and release&nbsp;ink. Generally depicted as a pink or orange octopus facing forward, with a large, round head, prominent eyes, and its tentacle-like arms raised at its sides. Platforms vary in the number of arms shown, ranging from four to the full eight, with several designs featuring suckers on them.

Not to be confused with <a href="/squid/">🦑 Squid</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Twitter&rsquo;s octopus is purple. Apple&rsquo;s has a friendly, cartoon-styled appearance. <a href="/google/android-7.0/octopus/">Google</a> and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/octopus/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> octopuses previously looked surprised, while <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/octopus/">Microsoft&#39;s</a>&nbsp;suggested an <a href="/alien-monster/">👾 Alien Monster</a>.

Octopus

A palm tree, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecaceae">tree-like plant</a>, as grows by the sea. Depicted as a palm tree&nbsp;with long, green, feather-like leaves and a tall, brown, segmented trunk.

May be used to represent beaches, tropical climates and cultures, summer fun, and vacations (holidays). Vendors&nbsp;implement a similar tree in their <a href="/desert-island/">🏝️ Desert Island</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s palm tree bears <a href="/coconut/">coconuts</a>, as Samsung&rsquo;s <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/palm-tree/">previously</a> did. <a href="/apple/ios-9.1/palm-tree/">Apple&rsquo;s</a> palm tree previously had more erect palms.

Palm Tree

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 sailboat, otherwise known as a sailing boat or yacht. &nbsp;Uses wind as the source of propulsion to move around a body of water.

The color of the sails in this emoji&nbsp;vary by platform, with vendors displaying blue sails, orange sails, or a mix of red, yellow, orange, blue or white.

Sailboat

An otter, the playful water mammal in the weasel family. Depicted as a light-brown otter on its back, with its forepaws held together and whiskered face to the left, generally with its long tail curled up.

May be used to refer to certain members of the <a href="/pride">LGBTQ</a> community, a la the slang term &quot;otter&quot;.

Apple&rsquo;s otter is in water, holding a stone, as is Microsoft&rsquo;s.

Otter

A diving mask with a snorkel,&nbsp;used for scuba diving or other underwater activities. Colors vary across platforms.

<a href="/goggles/">🥽 Goggles</a> is similar in design, but used primarily to represent safety goggles rather than swimming goggles.

Diving Mask

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