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JoyPixels Animations

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Microsoft 3D Fluent

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Mozilla

MSN Messenger

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Noto Color Emoji, Animated

Noto Emoji Font

OpenMoji

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SerenityOS

Signal

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Toss Face (토스페이스)

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People Holding Hands

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Symbols

Flags

The letter&nbsp;G, which can be used as part of a regional indicator pair&nbsp;to create <a href="/flags/">emoji flags</a> for various countries.

Regional Indicator Symbol Letter G

The letter&nbsp;B, which can be used as part of a regional indicator pair&nbsp;to create <a href="/flags/">emoji flags</a> for various countries.

Regional Indicator Symbol Letter B

The flag for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, which may show as the letters GB&nbsp;on some platforms.&nbsp;<a href="/flag-england/">England</a>, <a href="/flag-scotland/">Scotland</a> and <a href="/flag-wales/">Wales</a>&nbsp;also have individual emoji&nbsp;flags.

Quids in! A banded stack of pound banknotes, the paper currency of the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> (<a href="/flag-england/">England</a>, <a href="/flag-wales/">Wales</a>, <a href="/flag-for-northern-ireland-gbnir/">Northern Ireland</a>, and <a href="/flag-scotland/">Scotland</a>). Color and detail vary across platforms, but widely depicted as purple&nbsp;&pound;20 notes with the pound sign,&nbsp;&pound;.

Commonly used for various content concerning wealth and money, not restricted to the U.K.&nbsp;

Samsung&#39;s design&nbsp;displays &pound;10 notes.

Banknote with Pound Sign

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 <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag For Great Britain">British</a> guardsman, known as a foot guard. Wears a tall black hat with a yellow chin-strap. Must look straight ahead at all times, even when tourists attempt to distract them.

Guardsman

A postbox (mailbox, letterbox) with a <a href="/envelope/">letter</a> in its slot for collection. Generally depicted in red with a white envelope, styled after <a href="https://www.japanvisitor.com/japan-travel/japan-residents/japan-post">public postboxes in Japan</a>. May also evoke&nbsp;<a href="http://lbsg.org/photographs/lamp-boxes/">postboxes in the United Kingdom</a>.

Used for various content concerning postal deliveries and <a href="/e-mail/">email</a>. Microsoft&rsquo;s design was <a href="/microsoft/windows-11/postbox/">previously</a> blue, after U.S. mail collection boxes.

Postbox

A cup of a steaming-hot beverage, usually taken as coffee or&nbsp;<a href="/teacup-without-handle/">tea</a>. Sometimes shown on a saucer.

Samsung&#39;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/hot-beverage/">previously featured</a>&nbsp;a foamy-white tulip latte art design.

May be paired with the&nbsp;<a href="/frog/">Frog Face&nbsp;</a>to represent the snarky&nbsp;<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/but-thats-none-of-my-business">But That&#39;s None of My Business meme</a>. Relatedly, can also be used alone to represent&nbsp;&quot;tea&quot; as per the slang phrase &quot;spill the tea&quot;,&nbsp;used to request the sharing of gossip,&nbsp;news, or personal information.

Hot Beverage

A gold crown with jewels on the sides. Representative of a King, Queen, or other form of Royalty.

Crown

The flag for Gibraltar, which may show as the letters&nbsp;GI&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Gibraltar

The flag for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory">British Indian Ocean Territory</a>,&nbsp;which may show as the letters&nbsp;IO&nbsp;on some platforms. The same flag is used for <a href="/flag-diego-garcia/" title="🇩🇬 Flag for Diego Garcia">Diego Garcia</a>.

Flag: British Indian Ocean Territory

The flag for British Virgin Islands, which may show as the letters&nbsp;VG&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: British Virgin Islands

The flag for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland">Ireland</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;IE&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Ireland

The flag for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man">Isle of Man</a>,&nbsp;which may show as the letters&nbsp;IM&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Isle of Man

The flag for Scotland, a country in the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>.&nbsp;May&nbsp;show as the letters&nbsp;gbsct.

Flag: Scotland

The flag for Wales, a country in the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. May&nbsp;show as the letters&nbsp;gbwls.

Flag: Wales

The flag for England, a country in the <a href="/flag-united-kingdom/" title="🇬🇧 Flag for United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. May&nbsp;show as the letters&nbsp;gbeng.

Flag: England

A classic teapot with a wide bulbous body, a spout, a handle, and a lid. Can be used to talk about tea, tea time, or warm beverages in general.

May also be used to talk about gossip as in the expression spill the tea.

Teapot

The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong">Hong Kong</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;HK&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Hong Kong SAR China

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Flag: United Kingdom

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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

2008

Updated in 2006, this version of Softbank&#39;s emoji set is largely the same as the prior release, but with additional detail or shading on a number of emoji designs. Used throughout 2006&mdash;2007.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

🇬🇧 Flag: United Kingdom on SoftBank 1998

🇬🇧 Flag: United Kingdom on SoftBank 1998

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