A red circle with a diagonal line through the middle, from top-left to bottom right, used to&nbsp;indicate that something is not permitted

Commonly shown in conjunction with other symbols to indicate&nbsp;<a href="/no-smoking/" title="🚭 No Smoking Symbol">No Smoking</a>, <a href="/no-bicycles/" title="🚳 No Bicycles">No Bikes</a>, or similar.

No Entry Sign

A <a href="/house/" title=" 🏠 House Building">house</a> which is&nbsp;unoccupied, and has become derelict. In a state of disrepair.

Derelict House Building

A bicycle with a red stroke through it, indicating&nbsp;that bikes are prohibited from this location.

May be seen in pedestrian malls with a bicycle restriction or crossing train tracks in some countries.

No Bicycles

No Smoking Symbol

A person with arms crossed forming an &lsquo;X&rsquo; to indicate &lsquo;no&rsquo; or &lsquo;no good&rsquo;. This motion is used on the TV game show <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal_(U.S._game_show)">Deal or No Deal</a> to indicate &lsquo;No Deal&rsquo;.

Face with No Good Gesture

A speaker with a red line through it, indicating muted volume or silencing&nbsp;of audio.

Speaker with Cancellation Stroke

The number eighteen with a red stroke through it, indicating a location where a person must be aged 18 or above to enter. Often used online to indicate adult or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_safe_for_work">NSFW</a> content.

Google&#39;s design includes the text &quot;under&quot; above the&nbsp;number eighteen.

The Samsung version of this emoji <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-5.1/no-one-under-eighteen/">previously displayed&nbsp;the number 19</a>. This may have been&nbsp;due to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning">practice</a> of&nbsp;counting&nbsp;the first year of life as&nbsp;one instead of&nbsp;zero&nbsp;in parts of East Asia such&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href="/flag-south-korea/" title="🇰🇷 Flag for South Korea">South Korea</a>&nbsp;(the location of the Samsung Headquarters).

No One Under Eighteen Symbol

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Emojipedia

GitHub

Slack

Discord

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Apple

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Google Noto Color Emoji

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Samsung

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.

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Microsoft

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

WhatsApp

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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Twitter / X

Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Facebook

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Huawei

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.

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

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Skype

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Twitter Emoji Stickers

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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JoyPixels

An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

JoyPixels Animations

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

Sony Playstation

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

Noto Emoji Font

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

OpenMoji

A licensable emoji design set.

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Icons8

An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

emojidex

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Messenger

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.

SoftBank

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Docomo

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

au by KDDI

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Mozilla

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.

The female version of <a href="/person/">🧑 Person</a>.

Woman

Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.

View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.

Zero Width Joiner

The face of a girl, smiling. Most platforms feature the girl&#39;s hair in&nbsp;pigtails.

Variants include <a href="/child/">👦 Child</a> and <a href="/boy/">👦 Boy</a>.

Girl

The face of a boy, smiling.

Previously differentiated from&nbsp;<a href="/man/">👨 Man</a>&nbsp;on <a href="/google/android-5.0/boy/">Android</a>&nbsp;by wearing a cap, and on iOS by the lack of&nbsp;any facial hair.

Variants include&nbsp;<a href="/child/">👦 Child</a> and <a href="/girl/">👧 Girl</a>.

A family with two mothers, one daughter, and one son.

A family unit shown with two <a href="/person/">adults</a> and one <a href="/child/">child</a>. Previously displayed with the same design as&nbsp;<a href="/family-man-woman-boy/">👨&zwj;👩&zwj;👦 Family: Man, Woman, Boy</a> on most platforms, but now has its own gender inclusive appearance.

Family

Two&nbsp;women&nbsp;holding hands, most likely due to being in a relationship.

Two Women Holding Hands

A pregnant woman holding her round stomach. Sometimes used in jest to represent feeling too full after overeating, as in a &quot;food baby.&quot;

Variants include <a href="/pregnant-person/">🫄 Pregnant Person</a> and <a href="/pregnant-man/">🫃 Pregnant Man</a>.

Pregnant Woman

A family with a father, mother, daughter, and son.

Family: Man, Woman, Girl, Boy

A family with two mothers,&nbsp;and one daughter.

Family: Woman, Woman, Girl

The male version of <a href="/person/">🧑 Person</a>.

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Family - Woman: Light Skin Tone, Woman: Light Skin Tone, Girl: Light Skin Tone, Boy: Light Skin Tone

Family - Woman: Medium-Light Skin Tone, Woman: Medium-Light Skin Tone, Girl: Medium-Light Skin Tone, Boy: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Family - Woman: Medium Skin Tone, Woman: Medium Skin Tone, Girl: Medium Skin Tone, Boy: Medium Skin Tone

Family - Woman: Medium-Dark Skin Tone, Woman: Medium-Dark Skin Tone, Girl: Medium-Dark Skin Tone, Boy: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Family - Woman: Dark Skin Tone, Woman: Dark Skin Tone, Girl: Dark Skin Tone, Boy: Dark Skin Tone

Family: Woman, Woman, Girl, Boy

Beginning rollout on 2023-01-11, WhatsApp 2.23.2.72&nbsp;debuted support for the 31 emojis recommended in September 2022&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/no/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>.&nbsp;

2.23.2.72

Released 2022-04-19, this update for WhatsApp on Android devices introduced support for <a href="/no/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> emojis such as <a href="/no/smeltende-ansikt/">🫠&nbsp;Melting Face</a>, as well as&nbsp;multiple skin tone versions of the&nbsp;<a href="/no/h%C3%A5ndhilse/">🤝 Handshake</a>&nbsp;emoji.

2.22.8.79

Released 2021-11-25, this update introduced&nbsp;additional skin tone combinations&nbsp;for the<a href="/no/personer-som-leier/">🧑&zwj;🤝&zwj;🧑 People Holding Hands</a>&nbsp;emoji from late 2019&#39;s <a href="/no/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>, as well as many different &nbsp;<a href="/no/kyss/">💏 Kiss</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/no/par-med-hjerte/">💑 Couple with Heart</a> skin tone combinations from late 2020&#39;s <a href="/no/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>.

However, this release did not update WhatsApp&#39;s native emoji keyboard to allow for access&nbsp;to these new emojis.

2.21.23.23

Released 2021-08-18,&nbsp;this update included partial support for <a href="/no/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>, with&nbsp;three&nbsp;new smiley emoji and two new heart emojis.

The update also introduced <a href="/no/kvinne-skjegg/">🧔&zwj;♀️&nbsp;Woman: Beard</a> and updated the design of&nbsp;<a href="/no/person-skjegg/">🧔 Person: Beard</a> to be more gender neutral. The update did not, however, provide support for&nbsp;<a href="/no/mann-skjegg/">🧔&zwj;♂️ Man: Beard</a>&nbsp;or the new variations of&nbsp;<a href="/no/kyss/">💏&nbsp;Kiss</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/no/par-med-hjerte/">💑&nbsp;Couple with Heart</a>&nbsp;recommended in&nbsp;<a href="/no/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>.

2.21.16.20

Released 2021-06-08, this update included a single new emoji: the <a href="/no/refugee-nation-flag/">Refugee Nation flag</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whatsapps-new-refugee-nation-flag/">More about this new flag emoji.</a>

2.21.11.17

Released early December 2020, this update included 115&nbsp;new emojis from <a href="/no/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>.

2.20.206.24

Released early September&nbsp;2020, this update&nbsp;included 138&nbsp;new emojis. While all of these new emojis were from&nbsp;<a href="/no/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>, this update&nbsp;did not include the 30&nbsp;people holding hands emoji variants also included within&nbsp;<a href="/no/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>.

2.20.198.15

WhatApp&#39;s major emoji update of 2019 which included support for <a href="/no/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>. Included 230 <a href="/no/whatsapp/2.19.352/new/">new</a> emojis, plus some very minor tweaks to <a href="/no/whatsapp/2.19.352/changed/">three existing designs</a>.

2.19.352

2.19.244

2.19.175

The first WhatsApp release to include a <a href="/no/transpersonflagg/">Transgender Flag</a>; as well as giving emoji presentation to the <a href="/no/transperson-symbol/">Transgender Sign</a> Unicode character. Also includes minor design changes to a number of emojis. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whatsapp-2-19-62-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

2.19.62

Released on January 15&nbsp;2019, this update includes a number of design changes. <a href="/no/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a> support came out <a href="/no/whatsapp/2.18.379/new/">one month prior to this release</a>, and as such no new emojis are included in this version. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whatsapp-2-19-7-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

2.19.7

The first update from WhatsApp to include new <a href="/no/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a> support. These changes <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whatsapp-windows-test-new-emoji-support/">first entered beta</a> in November 2018, and made the final release of WhatsApp 2.18.379 on December 16, 2018.

2.18.379

WhatsApp 2.17.386 was released on October 23, 2017 and was the first (non-beta) release to include the new WhatsApp emoji designs for Android users.

Previous releases of WhatsApp used <a href="/no/apple/">Apple emojis</a> on all platforms.

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