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Flags

A grotesque, red face with horns, wide eyes, a large nose, crooked fangs, and a fringe of shaggy hair. Depicts an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni">oni</a>, a kind of hideous ogre in Japanese folklore.

On <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&rsquo;s Eve</a> in some parts of Japan, men may wear&nbsp;oni masks and straw coats to dress up as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namahage">namahage</a>, another mythic being,&nbsp;to chide naughty children or ward off evil. May popularly denote supernatural or figurative beasts and demons.

Japanese Ogre

Ornamental Japanese Emperor and Empress dolls, as displayed in celebration of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri">Hinamatsuri</a> on March 3 in Japan (Girls&rsquo; or Dolls&rsquo; Day).

<a href="http://mandel59.hateblo.jp/entry/2016/03/04/041437">Generally depicted</a> as a Japanese Emperor (left, in blue, holding a scepter) and Empress (right, in red, holding a fan) in ceremonial court dress and seated on a tatami.

When not applied to Hinamatsuri, sometimes used to represent Japan, dolls, a pair of people (as a couple or two friends), and for various idiosyncratic purposes.

Japanese Dolls

Japanese koinobori, decorative, carp-shaped windsocks flown in celebration of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Day_(Japan)">Children&rsquo;s Day</a>&nbsp;on May 5 in Japan. Generally depicted as a blue and red stylized carp fish on a golden pole.

When not applied to Children&rsquo;s Day, used for various idiosyncratic purposes. SoftBank&rsquo;s design resembles more traditional <a href="http://www.koinobori-japan.jp/koinobori.html">koinobori</a>.

Carp Streamer

Moon Viewing Ceremonies (called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukimi">Tsukimi</a> in Japan) are held each year in <a title="🍂 Fall / Autumn" href="/fall-autumn/">autumn</a> to celebrate the <a title="🌕 Full Moon Symbol" href="/full-moon/">full moon</a> and <a title="🌒 Waxing Crescent Moon Symbol" href="/waxing-crescent-moon/">waxing moon</a> in Japan.
This symbol shows Japanese pampas grass and <a title="🍡 Dango" href="/dango/">dango</a> (sweet dessert food) which are used in the ceremony, as well as the moon in the background.

Moon Viewing Ceremony

A face, usually purple, with two devil horns, frowning mouth and eyes, and eyebrows scrunched downwards in anger. Bears the same expression as <a href="/angry-face/">😠&nbsp;Angry Face</a> and <a href="/pouting-face/">😡&nbsp;Pouting Face</a> on most platforms. Google&rsquo;s design is red and Facebook&rsquo;s has black horns, green eyes, and clenched teeth.

Its Unicode name, Imp, alludes to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imp">small demon</a> in folklore, though the smiley is commonly used to represent devils and devilish behavior, especially around <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a>. It is also used to convey various sentiments of anger or ideas of evil. More menacing than its counterpart, <a href="/smiling-face-with-horns/">😈&nbsp;Smiling Face With Horns</a>.

Samsung <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/angry-face-with-horns/">previously depicted</a> a childlike character with red hair and horns, fangs, and black wings. Earlier designs from <a href="/google/android-5.0/angry-face-with-horns/">Google featured</a> an orangish-red character with blue hair and wings.

A face, usually purple, with devil horns, a wide grin, and eyes and eyebrows scrunched downward in the same manner as <a href="/angry-face/">😠&nbsp;Angry Face</a> on most platforms. Google&rsquo;s design is red and Facebook&rsquo;s has black horns and green eyes.

Commonly used to convey mischief, naughtiness, and excitement or excellence (slang,&nbsp;bad&nbsp;or&nbsp;wicked). May also represent devils or devilish behavior, especially around <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a>. More playful and suggestive than its impish counterpart, <a href="/angry-face-with-horns/">👿&nbsp;Angry Face With Horns</a>.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/smiling-face-with-horns/">Google</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/smiling-face-with-horns/">Samsung</a> previously depicted orangish-red characters, with Google once featuring <a href="/google/android-4.4/smiling-face-with-horns/">a frown</a> and Samsung <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/smiling-face-with-horns/">a sharp snaggletooth</a>.

Smiling Face with Horns

A menacing, red mask featuring a grotesquely long nose, angry eyes, and bushy eyebrows and mustache. Depicts a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengu">tengu</a>, a proud trickster figure in Japanese folklore.

May popularly denote evil, anger, cruel or mischievous behavior, and sexual suggestion, due to the phallic appearance of its nose. May also represent supernatural or figurative trolls, goblins, and other such beings.

Japanese Goblin

Shows a map of the country of Japan, which is the only country to have its own emoji map. Other countries can be found on the <a href="/globe-showing-americas/" title="🌎 Earth Globe Americas">various globe emojis</a>, or the <a href="/world-map/" title="🗺 World Map">world map emoji</a>.

Silhouette of Japan

A classic alien face. The oval, bare head of a gray or green alien with large black eyes and a slight, friendly smile.&nbsp;Samsung depicts nostrils, Facebook a nose.

May represent extraterrestrial life or topics concerning outer space, but commonly conveys a playful sense of weirdness&nbsp;or strangeness, as if someone or something is&nbsp;out&nbsp;there or&nbsp;from another planet.

Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Apple previously displayed&nbsp;a similar looking&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.getemoji.com/post/116839074745/what-does-the-alien-emoji-mean-on-ios-its-an">alien head in a box</a> as a placeholder for an unknown emoji, but now shows a boxed question mark.

Extraterrestrial Alien

A friendly-looking, tentacled space creature with two eyes. Most major platforms style their design after aliens in classic arcade games like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders">Space Invaders</a>, rendering it purple and pixellated, as if in 8-bit graphics.

Samsung&rsquo;s design resembles an <a href="/octopus/">octopus</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/alien-monster/">previously featured</a> a big-brained <a href="/alien/">alien</a>, &agrave; la <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cage_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)">Star Trek</a>. Earlier designs from <a href="/google/android-7.0/alien-monster/">Google</a> and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/alien-monster/">Microsoft</a> depicted more cartoon-like alien monsters.

May be used of topics concerning extraterrestrial life,&nbsp;outer space, gaming, and computing, but also enjoys a range of idiosyncratic applications, such as&nbsp;conveying a&nbsp;sense of weirdness, wackiness, or excitement, given that the emoji looks like it is raising its arms shouting&nbsp;Yay! on many platforms.

Alien Monster

The face of a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon">dragon</a>, a mythical creature resembling a giant reptile found in the folklore of many cultures. Depicted as a green, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon">Chinese-styled dragon</a> looking straight ahead or facing left. Often shown with huge nostrils, baring large teeth and a red tongue, with antler-like structures on its head, whisker-like tendrils by its nostrils, and a green or yellow mane.

See also <a href="/dragon/">🐉&nbsp;Dragon</a>. One of the 12 animals of the&nbsp;Chinese zodiac. Commonly used on&nbsp;<a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese New Year</a>&nbsp;and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George%27s_Day">St. George&#39;s Day</a>. Also used for various medieval&nbsp;and fantasy content.

Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Microsoft&#39;s dragon face was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/dragon-face/">previously</a> red and looking straight ahead. <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/dragon-face/">Samsung&#39;s</a> dragon face previously resembled a red, friendly, cartoon-styled <a href="/angry-face-with-horns/">imp</a> with horns.

Dragon Face

Boo! A white, cartoon ghost making a silly face. Its tongue is stuck out and arms are outstretched, as if trying to scare someone in a friendly way. Several platforms feature one larger, bulging eye, while others show the ghost winking.

Resembles a classic ghost costume for <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a>. May also be used to convey something or someone is fun or goofy. Thanks to its raised arms, some use this&nbsp;emoji as a way of expressing an excited&nbsp;Yay!

May also be used to refer to the slang term &quot;ghosting&quot;, where a&nbsp;personal relationship is ended&nbsp;suddenly without explanation by one person withdrawing from all communication with another.

Samsung&#39;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/ghost/">previously depicted</a> this as a smiley in a ghost costume.

Ghost

A cartoon human <a href="/skull/">skull</a> atop an X-shaped pair of <a href="/bone/">bones</a>, as on a <a href="/pirate-flag/">pirate flag</a> or poison symbol. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/skull-and-crossbones/">previously displayed</a>&nbsp;a skull and crossbones on a yellow triangle, indicating a hazardous material.

May represent various ideas of death or danger, e.g., dying from laughter or killing it with great skill. May also represent various pirate characters or mascots.

Popular around <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/skull/">💀&nbsp;Skull</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Skull and Crossbones

A red face with an angry expression: frowning mouth with eyes and eyebrows scrunched downward. Bears the same expression as <a href="/angry-face/">😠&nbsp;Angry Face</a> on most platforms and may convey more intense degrees of anger, e.g., hate or rage.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/pouting-face/">previously featured</a> a yellow face with the <a href="/anger-symbol/">💢 Anger Symbol</a> on its forehead. Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/pouting-face/">previously featured</a> a&nbsp;yellow face with a more hurt expression.

Not to be confused with <a href="/person-pouting/">🙎 Person With Pouting Face</a>. This emoji also has a cat variant, <a href="/pouting-cat/">😾&nbsp;Pouting Cat Face</a>.

Pouting Face

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

Flag: Japan

A whitish-gray, cartoon-styled human skull with large, black eye sockets. Commonly expresses figurative death, e.g., dying from extreme laughter, frustration, or affection.

Popular around <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/skull-and-crossbones/">☠️&nbsp;Skull and Crossbones</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

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Skull

A villain&nbsp;which may be displayed as a man,woman or gender-neutral / gender-inclusive&nbsp;depending on the platform. This base emoji does not specify a gender, but is used to create the emojis for <a href="/man-supervillain/">Man Supervillain</a> and <a href="/woman-supervillain/">Woman Supervillain</a>.

The <a href="/superhero/">Superhero</a>&nbsp;is the nemesis of this emoji.

Supervillain

A red paper lantern, as hangs outside an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izakaya">izakaya</a>, a Japanese bar that serves drinks and casual food. Generally depicted as cylindrical with a black top and base and soft, orange glow.

May be used to represent various lights and lanterns as well as for its red color.

Izakaya Lantern

A Tanabata tree, a type of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_tree">wish tree</a> on which people hang wishes written on paper and other decorations during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata">Tanabata</a>, a Japanese festival celebrating two heavenly lovers. Depicted as one or two stalks of green bamboo, on which hangs one or more slips of paper, generally red.

Often used to represent various plants or as a green accent color.

Apple&rsquo;s design includes a yellow star decoration. Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/tanabata-tree/">previously</a> displayed a green branch with three, variously colored pieces of paper.

Tanabata Tree

A Japanese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadomatsu">kadomatsu</a>, composed of pine leaves and bamboo shoots. Traditionally placed outside homes in Japan around the New Year to welcome spirits for a plentiful, happy year ahead.

Depicted as three shoots of <a href="/tanabata-tree/">bamboo</a>, arranged vertically at different heights in a wooden container, arrayed with pine leaves.

Often used to represent various plants or as a green accent color.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s kadomatsu is adorned with red berries, as is Facebook&rsquo;s, which also includes pink <a href="/cherry-blossom/">cherry blossoms</a>.

Pine Decoration

A green troll, usually shown holding a club.

May be used to refer to the fantasy creature. May also be used to refer to an internet troll or the act of trolling.

Apple&rsquo;s troll holds a scepter instead of a club. Microsoft, Twitter, and WhatsApp&#39;s designs&nbsp;show only the bust of a troll instead of the&nbsp;full-bodied creature. 
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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.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

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 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 Unicode Standard 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.

Twitter (renamed X in July 2023) supports all standard emojis, and these can be inserted via&nbsp;emoji keyboard or picker. Emojis can also&nbsp;be copied&nbsp;and pasted by choosing from the&nbsp;emojis on this page.

Twemoji is an <a href="http://github.com/twitter/twemoji">open source emoji project</a>, created and owned by Twitter. Emojis from Twemoji are found on&nbsp;the Twitter.com website,&nbsp;TweetDeck,&nbsp;Twitter for Android,&nbsp;<a href="/discord/">Discord</a>, <a href="/roblox/">Roblox</a>, and other apps.&nbsp;The Twitter app for iOS has always used&nbsp;the native emojis provided by Apple. As of February 2023, the Twemoji set appears to have been discontinued on mobile devices, replaced by the device&#39;s native emoji designs.

Custom Twitter emojis (previously known as&nbsp;hashflags)&nbsp;are enabled for some&nbsp;events or promotions. These display on Twitter for a limited time, after specific hashtags.

While most emojis can be used in Twitter&nbsp;names, any emoji which resembles the verified checkmark is not permitted. See the list of <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-you-cant-use-these-emojis-in-your-twitter-name/">emojis not permitted in Twitter names or bios</a>.

Since 2021&nbsp;glossy Twemoji Stickers began showing in <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-glossy-twemoji-designs-appear-in-fleets/">select locations across Twitter</a>, but as of early 2022 these glossy designs have yet to be used within the Twemoji emoji set. As of October 2022, these glossy sticker designs have been available for use within the Twitter mobile image editor and are featured within the platform&#39;s Twitter Status feature.

See also: <a href="/twitter-logo/">Twitter logo</a>.

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