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A graph showing the value of the Japanese <a href="/yen-banknote/">Yen</a> rising.

Chart with Upwards Trend and Yen Sign

A rocket being propelled into <a href="/milky-way/" title="🌌 Milky Way">space</a>. Sometimes used to indicate a fast increase, for instance when referring to stocks going&nbsp;to the moon&nbsp;🚀 (rising quickly in price).

Rocket

A banded stack of yen banknotes, the paper currency of <a href="/flag-japan/" title="🇯🇵 Flag For Japan">Japan</a>. Color and detail vary across platforms, but usually shown in green, yellow, or pink with the yen symbol, &yen;. Commonly used for various content concerning money and wealth, not restricted to Japan.

Apple and WhatsApp&rsquo;s designs depict the &yen;1,000 banknote, Facebook&rsquo;s features a Japanese character for yen (円) and a <a href="/cherry-blossom/">cherry blossom</a>.

Banknote with Yen Sign

Cash money! A banded stack of U.S. dollar banknotes, the paper currency of the <a href="/flag-united-states/">United States of America</a>. Green hue and detail vary across platforms, but shown with the <a href="/heavy-dollar-sign/">dollar sign</a>, $. Commonly used for various content concerning wealth and money, not restricted to the U.S.

Apple&rsquo;s design depicts $1 bills with Cupertino and <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a> in the treasury signature sections. WhatsApp&rsquo;s design depicts $10 bills, Facebook&rsquo;s displays a <a href="/statue-of-liberty/">Statue of Liberty</a> torch.

Banknote with Dollar Sign

A banded stack of euro banknotes, the paper currency of the <a href="/flag-european-union/">European Union</a> (EU). Color and detail vary across platforms, but shown with the euro sign, &euro;. Commonly used for various content concerning wealth and money, not restricted to the EU.

Some vendors, including Apple and Samsung, depict green &euro;100 bills; others, including Google, WhatsApp, and Facebook, depict blue &euro;20 bills. Facebook additionally features the <a href="/flag-european-union/">EU flag</a>.

Banknote with Euro Sign

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

A graph showing a red (or sometimes green) trend line increasing over time, as stock prices or revenues. Commonly used to represent various types of increase, from numerical data to being metaphorically on the rise. May also represent trending content as well as facts, figures, and charts more generally.

Note: red is used to <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-does-the-chart-increasing-emoji-show-in-red/">represent increases in stock prices in Japan</a>, where this emoji originates.

Chart with Upwards Trend

A graph showing a colored trend line, often blue, decreasing over time, as stock prices or revenues. Commonly used to represent various types of decrease, from numeral data to being metaphorically down. May also represent facts, figures, and charts more generally.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s line is red, while&nbsp;Facebook&rsquo;s orange. Google&rsquo;s line was <a href="/google/android-12.0/chart-decreasing/">previously</a> green.

While many western countries use red to indicate a negative result, Japan and other south east Asian countries <a href="/chart-increasing/">use red in a positive context</a>.

Chart with Downwards Trend

A bar graph generally showing three different-colored, vertical rectangles at various heights, as compares values across a category. Commonly used to represent various types of data, information, facts, figures, and charts more generally.

Several platforms, including Apple, depict&nbsp;(left to right) a green, red (lowest), and blue bar (highest). Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/bar-chart/">previously</a> included&nbsp;four bars, with yellow being the highest.

Bar Chart

A symbol for exchanging of two currencies. Most commonly displayed as a <a href="/heavy-dollar-sign/" title="💲Heavy Dollar Sign">dollar symbol</a>, with arrows to and from a <a href="/yen-banknote/" title="💴 Banknote With Yen Sign">yen symbol</a>.

<a href="/google/android-4.4/currency-exchange/">Google</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/currency-exchange/">Samsung&#39;s</a> designs previously showed banknotes and coins&nbsp;in <a href="/yen-banknote/" title="💴 Banknote With Yen Sign">yen</a>, <a href="/dollar-banknote/" title="💵 Banknote With Dollar Sign">dollars</a>, <a href="/euro-banknote/" title="💶 Banknote With Euro Sign">euros</a> and <a href="/pound-banknote/" title="💷 Banknote With Pound Sign">pounds</a>.

Currency Exchange

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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.

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

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, Roblox, 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.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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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 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.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

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 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 <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a> 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 emoji set known to be featured on an early mobile phone.

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.

Early emoji designs from Japanese phone carrier Softbank (previously known as J-Phone)

📲 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.

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.

2006

An increased resolution and a number of design changes. This was the first release to switch the <a href="/person-tipping-hand/">💁&nbsp;Person Tipping Hand</a> (nee Information Desk Person) from a <a href="/softbank/2001/person-tipping-hand/">Man</a> to a <a href="/softbank/2004/person-tipping-hand/">Woman</a>, and many emojis were redesigned with additional detail.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

2004

Changes in this release include an increased pixel count for each emoji, resulting in more detail and smoother curves and gradients.

This set was commonly in use on SoftBank devices during 2001 and 2002, and records show it first existing as early as July 2000.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

2001

Builds on the <a href="/softbank/1999/">original SoftBank emoji set</a>, with additional characters and&nbsp;design changes including many&nbsp;smileys switching from circular red faces to yellow faces which fill the entire square.

This release was first available in&nbsp;1999, but in comon&nbsp;use from&nbsp;early 2000.

Note: Each&nbsp;emoji has been mapped to its modern Unicode codepoint, despite this set existing prior to Unicode emoji standardization.

💹 Chart Increasing with Yen on SoftBank 2006

💹 Chart Increasing with Yen on SoftBank 2006

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