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A honey bee, a busy, flying insect that lives in a hive and makes <a href="/honey-pot/">honey</a>. Depicted as a black-and-yellow bee with clear or white wings and a stinger.&nbsp;Variously facing left in full profile or shown from above.

May be used to represent various types of bees (e.g., bumblebee) and wasps (e.g., hornets, yellow jackets). May also be used to accent black-and-yellow colors or patterns. Popularly used in connection with singer and superstar <a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/04/beyonce-lemonade-lemon-emoji/">Beyonc&eacute;</a> (nicknamed Queen Bey) or for metaphorical queen bees.

Honeybee

A classic spider web (cobweb), as spun by a <a href="/spider/">🕷️ Spider</a> to catch prey. Depicted as a white, symmetrical, wheel-shaped web, as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_web#Orb_web_construction">orb web</a>,&nbsp;with six or eight equal sectors.

Commonly used during Halloween, to represent the superhero&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man">Spider-Man</a>, or for a metaphorical web, net, or network. Not to be confused with <a href="/snowflake/">❄️ Snowflake</a>.

Spider Web

A spider, an eight-legged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid">arachnid</a> that spins a web. Depicted as a common black spider, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_house_spider">house&nbsp;spider</a>&nbsp;or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_funnel-web_spider">funnel-web spider</a>, often shown from above with its large abdomen oriented at the bottom.

See also <a href="/spider-web/">🕸️ Spider Web</a>. Commonly used during <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a> and to represent the superhero <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man">Spider-Man</a>.

Facebook&rsquo;s spider is facing left. Google&#39;s spider <a href="/google/android-8.0/spider/">was previously</a> upside down, suspended from a thread, though now is&nbsp;facing&nbsp;left.&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/spider/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> spider was previously a black widow, while&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/spider/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> was brown.

Spider

A butterfly, a beautiful winged insect whose larva is a <a href="/bug/">caterpillar</a>. Depicted with its wings outspread, as a blue-and-black <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpho">morpho butterfly</a> or orange-and-black <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly">monarch butterfly</a>.

May be used to represent a moth and ideas of beauty and happiness.

Samsung&rsquo;s butterfly <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/butterfly/">previously</a> resembled a monarch.

Butterfly

A flower that has blossomed. Depicted as a flower with white or yellow petals, as a daisy, with a golden center.

Commonly used for <a href="/valentines-day/">Valentine&rsquo;s Day</a>, <a href="/mothers-day/">Mother&rsquo;s Day</a>, and other special occasions. May be more generally used to convey such ideas&nbsp;as love, appreciation, and happiness. Also used as a yellow or white accent color.

Not to be confused with <a href="/sunflower/">🌻 Sunflower</a> or <a href="/cherry-blossom/">🌸 Cherry Blossom</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Google&#39;s flower was&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-7.0/blossom/">once</a>&nbsp;pink.&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/blossom/">Microsoft&#39;s</a> was previously yellow, <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/blossom/">Samsung&#39;s</a> white.

Blossom

A ladybug (ladybird, lady beetle), a <a href="/beetle/">beetle</a> with a round, red shell with black spots. Generally depicted as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinella_septempunctata">seven-</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinella_novemnotata">nine-spotted</a> ladybug shown from above on its six legs, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna">antennae</a> and its&nbsp;distinctively red-and-black, halved shell.

May be used a symbol of good luck.

Facebook&rsquo;s ladybug is shown on its legs facing forward.

Lady Beetle

A golden-yellow pot&nbsp;of honey, as made by&nbsp;<a href="/honeybee/">bees&nbsp;</a>and desired by&nbsp;<a href="/bear/">bears</a>. Shown with the sweet substance oozing down its sides, often with a honey dipper inside the small vessel.&nbsp;

May be used figuratively, as the term of endearment &ldquo;honey.&rdquo;

Honey Pot

A generic bird. Variously depicted as a blue or red bird, as a bluebird or cardinal, shown standing in full profile, or as a bird head.&nbsp;Both designs&nbsp;show the bird facing left.

May be used for a variety of wild and pet birds as well as for metaphorical senses of bird (e.g., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par_(score)#Birdie">birdie</a> in <a href="/flag-in-hole/">golf</a>).

Apple and WhatsApp&rsquo;s designs feature a grayish bird head. Google, Samsung, and Facebook&rsquo;s designs suggest a bluebird, Microsoft and Twitter&rsquo;s a cardinal. Google&rsquo;s bird <a href="/google/android-4.4/bird/">previously</a> resembled a canary, <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/bird/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> was previously green, and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/bird/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/twitter/twemoji-2.0/bird/">Twitter&rsquo;s</a> birds were once blue.

Bird

A bug, or insect, generally depicted as a caterpillar, which becomes a <a href="/butterfly/">🦋 Butterfly</a>. Shown in full profile facing left, inching&nbsp;up on the back&nbsp;of its green, segmented, and&nbsp;textured body. Often featuring&nbsp;black stripes or yellow dots and tentacles on its head.

May be used to represent various insects, worms, and related animals. May also be used for&nbsp;metaphorical senses of bug.

Twitter&rsquo;s bug is purple. Apple&rsquo;s bug is hairy with a red head and legs and black stripes on its body. Facebook&rsquo;s&nbsp;bug also has a yellowish-orange head. <a href="/google/android-7.0/bug/">Google</a> and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/bug/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> bugs previously resembled an orange centipede or millipede, and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/bug/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> had a cartoon-styled face with a purple nose.

An ant, a small, industrious insect that lives in a colony. Depicted as a black or red ant in full profile on its six legs facing left, with a prominent abdomen and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_(biology)">antennae</a>.

May be used to represent various insects or other <a href="/bug/">bugs</a>.

Facebook&rsquo;s ant&nbsp;is&nbsp;red, as was a previous <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/ant/">Microsoft</a> design. <a href="/google/android-7.0/ant/">Google&rsquo;s</a> ant was previously blue,&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/2.0/ant/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> black.

A lizard, a scaly reptile with a long tail. Depicted as a light-green lizard on all fours from above, generally looking left with large eyes, a lightly textured or colored back, and toes outspread, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko">gecko</a>.

May be used for a variety of wild and pet lizards.

Google&rsquo;s lizard was <a href="/google/android-7.0/lizard/">previously</a> brown.

Lizard

A cricket, a hopping insect that makes a chirping sound. Depicted as a brown or green cricket in full profile on its six legs facing left, with long <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_(biology)">antennae</a> and large, bent back legs.

May resemble or be used to represent a grasshopper&nbsp;(including locusts)&nbsp;and other <a href="/bug/">bugs</a>. May also be used to represent metaphorical <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-watching-crickets-silence">crickets</a>, or &quot;silence,&quot; as of a disapproving or uninterested audience.

Not to be confused with <a href="/cricket-game/">🏏&nbsp;Cricket Game</a>, the sport.

Google&#39;s cricket was <a href="/google/android-8.0/cricket/">previously</a> green.

Cricket

A snail, a slow-moving, snail-like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollusca">mollusk</a> in a spiraling <a href="/spiral-shell/">shell</a>. Generally depicted as a brown snail in full profile facing left or right, with a brown, textured shell and tentacle-like eyes.

May be used to represent a slug and&nbsp;various senses of slow.

Twitter&rsquo;s snail has a purple body and yellow shell. Microsoft&rsquo;s snail <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/snail/">previously</a> had a green body.

Snail

A mosquito, a type of bloodsucking fly. Depicted as a brown or black mosquito on its six, long legs, with wings, long abdomen, and needle-like mouth. Variously shown from above or facing left.

May be used to represent various insects, other <a href="/bug/">bugs</a> and bug bites, and insect-borne diseases (e.g., <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/malaria/index.html">malaria</a>). May also be used for metaphorical pests.

Facebook&rsquo;s mosquito&nbsp;has a red abdomen, as if filled with <a href="/drop-of-blood/">blood</a>.

Mosquito

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of bear, looking straight ahead. Depicted as a brown bear with round ears and a tan muzzle.&nbsp;Resembles a <a href="/teddy-bear/">teddy bear</a>.

Often used with an affectionate tone. Does not have a full-bodied bear emoji counterpart.

May be used to refer to certain members of the <a href="/pride">LGBTQ</a> community, a la the slang term &quot;bear&quot;.

Available as an Apple <a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Samsung&rsquo;s bear was <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/bear/">previously</a> golden brown.

Bear Face

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

Crown

A badger, a stocky mammal in the weasel family with a&nbsp;long, pointed head. Generally depicted in full profile on all fours facing left, with a gray coat, black-and-white-striped face, and short tail.

Google&rsquo;s design used to feature a friendly, cartoon-styled black-and-white badger face. Facebook&rsquo;s badger is sitting on its hind legs.

Badger

A scorpion, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid">arachnid</a> with <a href="/lobster/">lobster</a>-like pincers and a stinging tail. Depicted as a light-brown scorpion from above, often facing left, with its pincers and curving stinger raised. Shown with six or, accurately, eight legs in addition to its pincers.

Often used to represent <a href="/scorpio/">♏ Scorpio</a> in the Western zodiac.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s scorpion is reddish in color.

Scorpion

A pink <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibiscus">hibiscus</a>, a flower that grows in warm climates. Depicted as a single, deep-pink hibiscus flower with green leaves and prominent, yellow stamen.

Commonly used for <a href="/valentines-day/">Valentine&rsquo;s Day</a>, <a href="/mothers-day/">Mother&rsquo;s Day</a>, and other special occasions. May be more generally used to convey such ideas&nbsp;as love, happiness, and beauty. Also used as a pink&nbsp;accent color and in association with Hawaii&nbsp;and other Polynesian places and cultures.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/hibiscus/">Google</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/hibiscus/">Samsung&#39;s</a> hibiscus flowers were&nbsp;previously&nbsp;orange.

Hibiscus

A sunflower, a tall, round&nbsp;flower with large yellow petals. Depicted as a single, vertical sunflower with a large, dark-brown center on a green stem.

Commonly used for <a href="/mothers-day/">Mother&rsquo;s Day</a>&nbsp;and other special occasions. May be more generally used to convey such sentiments happiness and love. Also used as a yellow accent color and in association with summer and farming.

Not to be confused with <a href="/blossom/">🌼 Blossom</a>, which is yellow on many platforms.

Sunflower

A green or brown beetle shown with antennae and six legs. Can be used to talk about beetles, bugs, or insects in general.

Not to be confused with <a href="/lady-beetle/">🐞 Lady Beetle</a>, <a href="/cockroach/">🪳 Cockroach</a>, <a href="/bug/">🐛 Bug</a>, <a href="/ant/">🐜 Ant</a> or other emoji representations of insects.

Beetle

A brown cockroach shown with antennae, six legs, and two sensory pads at its rear called cerci.

Can be used to talk about cockroaches or insects in general. May also be used metaphorically as an insult to call a person a pest, an annoyance, or to suggest they are subhuman. &nbsp;&nbsp;

Cockroach

A fly with a dark or iridescent green body, six legs, and two translucent wings. On most platforms, its eyes are red.

Can be used to talk about the insect or flight in general. May also be used metaphorically as an adjective meaning &quot;cool.&quot;

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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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An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

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.

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