Strips of crispy, fatty, reddish-brown bacon, as fried for breakfast. Depicted as a pair on most platforms.

Bacon

An&nbsp;<a href="/egg/">egg&nbsp;</a>with yolk frying in a skillet, as prepared sunny-side up. Though associated with breakfast, the emoji represents the general action of cooking and related concepts.

An <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/cooking/">early Apple design</a> included broken eggshells and did not feature a skillet, while an <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0/cooking/">early Samsung design</a> simply displayed a fried egg.

Cooking

A wedge of yellow-orange cheese with holes, like a Swiss, but used for the food in general. May be used for various cheese-related slang expressions (e.g., &ldquo;cheesy,&rdquo; &ldquo;say cheese,&rdquo; &ldquo;big cheese&rdquo;).

Cheese Wedge

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a pig looking straight ahead. Depicted as a pink face with a neutral expression, pointed or floppy ears, and distinctive&nbsp;<a href="/pig-nose/">pig nose</a>.

Often used with a more affectionate tone than the full-bodied <a href="/pig/">🐖 Pig</a>. Available as an Apple <a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Apple&rsquo;s face bears a slight grin and <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/pig-face/">previously</a> featured floppy ears.

Pig Face

A pig, a plump animal farmed for its meat, such as <a href="/bacon/">bacon</a>. Depicted in light pink in full profile on all fours facing left, with a long snout and short, curly tail.

May be used to represent the animal, its food products, or various metaphorical senses of pig.

One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese zodiac</a>; 2019 is the Year of the Pig. See also<a href="/pig-face/"> 🐷 Pig Face</a>, <a href="/pig-nose/">🐽 Pig Nose</a>, and <a href="/boar/">🐗 Boar</a>.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s design <a href="/whatsapp/2.17/pig/">previously</a> featured a wide grin.

The snout of a pig. Depicted as a pink oval or slightly pear-shaped nose with two black nostrils.

See also <a href="/pig/">🐖 Pig</a> and <a href="/pig-nose/">🐷 Pig Face</a>.

Previously displayed as a cute&nbsp;pig character on <a href="/pig/">Google Gmail</a>.

Pig Nose

The flaky, golden-brown&nbsp;<a href="/crescent-moon/" title="🌙 Crescent Moon">crescent&nbsp;</a>of a croissant, a breakfast pastry associated with <a href="/flag-france/" title="🇫🇷 Flag For France">France&nbsp;</a>and&nbsp;<a href="/flag-austria/" title="🇦🇹 Flag For Austria">Austria</a>.

The croissant emoji <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@washingtonpost/video/7185665025246432558?lang=en">went viral on Tiktok</a> in January 2023.

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Croissant

A baby chicken (chick), hatching from an egg and seeing the world for the first time. Depicted as a yellow chick with an orange beak facing forward in the cracked, bottom half of a white egg, generally shown flapping its wings with a cute facial expression.

Often used with an affectionate tone. May be used to represent various types of baby birds. May also be used to represent&nbsp;chicken foods (e.g., <a href="/poultry-leg/">poultry</a>, <a href="/egg/">eggs</a>), <a href="/spring/">spring</a>, <a href="/easter/">Easter</a>, or slang senses of chick.

Not to be confused with <a href="/baby-chick/">🐤 Baby Chick</a> or <a href="/front-facing-baby-chick/">🐥Front-Facing Baby Chick</a>&nbsp;(out of its egg), though their applications overlap. See also <a href="/chicken/">🐔 Chicken</a> and <a href="/rooster/">🐓 Rooster</a>.

Twitter and Facebook&#39;s designs do not include wings. Google&#39;s design <a href="/google/android-7.0/hatching-chick/">previously</a> featured motion lines around the chick&#39;s wings, indicating flapping.&nbsp;Facebook&#39;s design <a href="/facebook/2.0/hatching-chick/">previously</a> showed part of the egg atop the chick&#39;s head.

Hatching Chick

An egg,&nbsp;displayed as a chicken egg with a white or light brown shell. Commonly used at&nbsp;<a href="/easter/">Easter</a>&nbsp;time. See also: <a href="/cooking/">🍳 Cooking</a>.

A stack of breakfast pancakes, topped with a pad of butter and maple syrup oozing down its golden-brown sides, onto a plate on some platforms.&nbsp;

Especially popular on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday">Pancake Tuesday</a>.

An <a href="/nsfw/">alternative use</a> for this emoji on TikTok and other platforms: to represent that someone has a flat bottom (&#39;flat as a pancake&#39;).

Pancakes

A cut of uncooked red meat, as a T-bone or rib-eye steak, with the light, white marbling of fat.

May be used for sexual slang.

Cut of Meat

An orange-colored citrus fruit with a green leaf or leaves and stem. Officially depicting a tangerine, a type of mandarin (mikan&nbsp;in Japan). Often used as a garden-variety orange. Either way, a good source of vitamin C.

Tangerine

A sandwich, as eaten at lunch, made with&nbsp;<a href="/leafy-green/">lettuce</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/tomato/">tomato</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/cheese-wedge/">cheese&nbsp;</a>on slices of white or wheat&nbsp;<a href="/bread/">bread</a>.&nbsp;Apple, Google, and WhatsApp add a deli meat that resembles ham.

Sandwich

A hunk of unspecified meat on a white bone, as associated with cartoon cavepersons&nbsp;or food in anime and manga (Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=7wnj1oyzr87929sk6yztcllt">ano&nbsp;niku</a>, &ldquo;that meat&rdquo;).

This emoji was shown&nbsp;as a&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-4.4/meat-on-bone/" title="🍖 Meat on Bone on Google Android 4.4">steak&nbsp;</a>in Android 4.4.

Meat on Bone

An undressed garden salad in a bowl with leafy-green lettuce and other ingredients such as&nbsp;<a href="/tomato/" title="🍅 Tomato">tomato</a>, red onion, and black olives. Commonly associated with healthy eating and living.

<a href="/google/android-8.0/green-salad/">Google previously displayed&nbsp;</a>a hard-boiled egg,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blog.emojipedia.org/inclusive-emojis-coming-back-to-android/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535636560598000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGyLiYlAghatUABavc9wTfkWhULEg" href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/inclusive-emojis-coming-back-to-android/" target="_blank">removed in 2018</a>&nbsp;to make the salad vegan-friendly.

Green Salad

A tall glass of white milk, as from a&nbsp;<a href="/cow/">cow</a>&nbsp;but also other mammals, nuts, or plants. Most platforms depict a glass filled near to the brim, but some show a glass half-full&mdash;or half-empty.

Glass of Milk

A whole potato&mdash;such as a russet, used for baking, mashing, or frying&mdash;shown with a few eyes on its golden-brown skin. Not to be confused with the&nbsp;<a href="/roasted-sweet-potato/" title="🍠 Roasted Sweet Potato">roasted sweet potato</a>.

Potato

A burger with a beef patty, usually depicted on a sesame bun with cheese, lettuce, and tomato&mdash;making it a cheeseburger, though officially called Hamburger by Unicode.

Platforms stack the ingredients in various orders. Google previously placed the cheese under the patty, a&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/google-io-opens-with-emoji-apology/">&quot;controversy&quot;</a>&nbsp;CEO Sundar Pichai addressed in 2018.&nbsp;

Hamburger

The cooked sausage of a hot dog in a sliced&nbsp;<a href="/bread/">bun&nbsp;</a>and drizzled with yellow mustard, as eaten at a&nbsp;<a href="/baseball/" title="⚾️ Baseball">baseball&nbsp;</a>game.&nbsp;

Hot Dog

A bowl with a silver&nbsp;<a href="/spoon/">spoon&nbsp;</a>inside, as used to eat cereal or soup. Bowl color varies across platforms, as do contents, though most are empty.

WhatsApp&#39;s bowl contains&nbsp;<a href="/tomato/">tomato</a>&nbsp;soup, while Google&#39;s <a href="/google/android-8.0/bowl-with-spoon/">previously</a> contained&nbsp;<a href="/cooking/">breakfast</a>&nbsp;cereal.

Bowl with Spoon

A chocolate-glazed donut (or doughnut) with&nbsp;<a href="/rainbow/">rainbow</a>&nbsp;sprinkles. WhatsApp features a pink glaze associated with&nbsp;The Simpsons. May resemble the&nbsp;<a href="/bagel/">Bagel</a>&nbsp;at small sizes.

Doughnut

The brown bread of a bagel, shown sliced in two halves. Some platforms depict seeds, as sesame or poppy, and a schmear of cream cheese, with the bagel assembled as a sandwich. May resemble the <a href="/doughnut/">Doughnut</a> at small sizes.

After complaints, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-fixes-bagel-emoji/">Apple updated the bagel emoji design</a> during the iOS 12.1 beta cycle.

Bagel

A round or square Belgian waffle, baked to a golden brown. Most platforms depict this emoji topped with a pad of butter, and some include gooey syrup running down the sides.

Waffle

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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

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

Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

Emojipedia Sample Images

The Unicode Consortium accepted the following emoji 72 emojis&nbsp;for Unicode 9.0. This update&nbsp;was released&nbsp;on June 21, 2016. Most vendors added support for this update within the 2016 calendar year.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-9-0-released-with-72-new-emojis/">Sample images and more about Unicode 9.0</a>.

<a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a> was published in late 2016, which added additional emoji professions.

<h2>New in Unicode 9</h2>

Rolled out on 2023-07-23, this minor update to the Twemoji emoji set revised the designs of the <a href="https://emojipedia.org/face-with-medical-mask">😷 Face with Medical Mask</a>, <a href="https://emojipedia.org/pleading-face">🥺 Pleading Face</a>, and <a href="https://emojipedia.org/face-holding-back-tears">🥹 Face Holding Back Tears</a> emojis.

These three emoji designs had previously been updated within the Twitter web application&#39;s emoji picker tool, but not within tweets themselves prior to this update.

Twemoji 15.0.1

Rolling out globally from 2023-06-13, Twemoji 15.0 introduced support for September 2022&#39;s Emoji 15.0 recommendation to Twitter&#39;s classic block color emoji set.

Prior to their official rollout, these new emoji designs were initially visible within the Twitter web app&#39;s emoji picker tool.

Twemoji 15.0

Rolling out globally from 2022-03-08, Twemoji 14.0 introduced support for 2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> recommendations. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-14-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 14.0

Twemoji 13.1.1 updated the designs of a handful of emojis, including <a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/battery/">🔋 Battery</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/rainbow-flag/">🏳️&zwj;🌈 Rainbow Flag</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-13-1-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 13.1.1

Released on 2021-05-28,&nbsp;Twemoji 13.1&nbsp;added support for 217 new emojis from&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-13-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Twemoji 13.1

Released on 2021-03-12,&nbsp;Twemoji 13.0.2&nbsp;updated the designs of 14 emojis, including the syringe emoji which had its contents and two blood drops removed.

Twemoji 13.0.2

Released on 2020-07-13, Twemoji 13.0.1 updated the designs of 28&nbsp;emojis, including changing both&nbsp;<a href="/calendar/">Calendar </a>and&nbsp;<a href="/tear-off-calendar/">Tear-Off Calendar&nbsp;</a>to display the date of <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a> and to show all <a href="/person-kneeling/">Person Kneeling</a> emojis using&nbsp;a single knee.

Twemoji 13.0.1

Twemoji 13.0&nbsp;was the first Twemoji release to provide full support for <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>.&nbsp;Released on 2020-05-11, this update added 103&nbsp;new emojis. Prior to this update Twitter did support select Emoji 13.0 designs:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="/transgender-flag/">🏳️&zwj;⚧️ Transgender Flag</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/transgender-symbol/">⚧ Transgender Symbol</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/woman-in-tuxedo/">🤵&zwj;♀️ Woman in Tuxedo</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-13-0-emoji-changelog/">More on this update.&nbsp;</a>

Twemoji 13.0

A minor update to Twemoji that began rolling out to users on&nbsp;2020-04-17. A total of 36&nbsp;emoji designs were modified.

Twemoji 12.1.6

Twemoji 12.1.5 was the first Twemoji release to provide support for <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>. Released on 2020-01-27, this update added&nbsp;178 new emojis which primarily added new gender neutral sequences.&nbsp;This update followed <a href="/twitter/twemoji-12.1.4/changed/">Twemoji 12.1.4</a> which changed existing emojis to use a gender inclusive design where no gender was specified. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-12-1-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 12.1.5

An update to Twemoji began rolling out to users on 2019-11-06 and was<a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/releases/tag/v12.1.4"> added to the open source repository</a> on 2019-11-13. This release&nbsp;gave a gender-inclusive appearance to most human emojis when a gender isn&#39;t specified.

Note: this did not add support for additional gender-neutral sequences approved in <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;- instead it changed the appearance of existing neutral emojis.

<a href="/discord/">Discord</a> updated its emoji support to Twemoji 12.1.4 in November 2019, in the first emoji update on the platform since 2016.

Twemoji 12.1.4

Twemoji 12.1.3

Released 2019-06-25, this update to Twemoji added support for the <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a> draft candidate&nbsp;<a href="/transgender-flag/">🏳️&zwj;⚧️&nbsp;Blue, Pink, and White Flag</a> (aka Transgender Flag).

Twemoji 12.1

An update to Twemoji which added support for all 230 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-12-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 12.0

A minor update to Twemoji which <a href="/twitter/twemoji-11.4/changed/">changed the appearance of three emojis only</a>.

Twemoji 11.4

A minor design up date to&nbsp;Twemoji, released January 24, 2019. Primarily focussed on people participating in&nbsp;activities&nbsp;(e.g, running, handball, dancing, etc), as well as some animals. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-11-3-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 11.3

A minor update to Twemoji which&nbsp;adjusted black shades&nbsp;for better contrast when shown on dark backgrounds such as those used in&nbsp;night mode.

Twemoji 11.2

A minor update which increased the saturation of the color&nbsp;red in a number of emojis&nbsp;and updated&nbsp;the <a href="/person-gesturing-no/">person gesturing no</a> variations&nbsp;to&nbsp;appear less like they are pushing against two walls.

Twemoji 11.1

Twemoji 11.0 was released on June 5&nbsp;2018 for&nbsp;Twitter.com, TweetDeck, and other Twemoji platforms. This release&nbsp;added&nbsp;support for 156 of the 157 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>. Twemoj&nbsp;supported&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="/pirate-flag/">Pirate Flag emoji</a> prior to this&nbsp;release.

Twemoji 11.0 is the release that follows <a href="/twitter/twemoji-2.7/">version 2.7 of Twemoji</a>, bringing the version numbers in line with the Unicode Emoji documentation version that it supports.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-11-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 11.0

Twemoji 2.7

A minor update to Twemoji, released on April 11, 2018. The most notable change in this release is the switchover from a realistic looking <a href="/pistol/">pistol</a>&nbsp;to a colored toy design. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-6-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.6

Twemoji 2.5 was&nbsp;a minor update released in February 2018 that added no new emojis, but updated the appearance of a number of designs. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.5

Twemoji 2.4 makes a number of changes to <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>&nbsp;additions to bring these more in line with other vendors.

Twemoji 2.4

Twemoji 2.3 added support for <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a> and <a href="/twitter/twemoji-2.3/changed/">modified</a> a number of existing emojis.

Twemoji 2.3

Hand gestures in Twemoji 2.2.3 were changed to <a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/releases/tag/v2.2.3">right-handed display</a>; and&nbsp;<a href="/menorah/" title="🕎 Menorah With Nine Branches">Menorah</a> fixed to display nine candles.

Twemoji 2.2.3

Twemoji&nbsp;2.2.2&nbsp;removed skin&nbsp;tone support from the following&nbsp;multi-person emojis (and their associated gendered ZWJ sequences)&nbsp;as per <a href="http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16332-remove-multi-emb.pdf">Unicode recommendation</a>.

<ul>
	<li><a href="/family/" title="👪 Family">👪&nbsp;Family</a></li>
	<li><a href="/woman-and-man-holding-hands/" title="👫 Man And Woman Holding Hands">👫&nbsp;Man And Woman Holding Hands</a></li>
	<li><a href="/men-holding-hands/" title="👬 Two Men Holding Hands">👬&nbsp;Two Men Holding Hands</a></li>
	<li><a href="/women-holding-hands/" title="👭 Two Women Holding Hands">👭&nbsp;Two Women Holding Hands</a></li>
	<li><a href="/people-with-bunny-ears/" title="👯 Woman With Bunny Ears">👯&nbsp;Woman With Bunny Ears</a></li>
	<li><a href="/people-wrestling/" title="🤼 Wrestlers">🤼&nbsp;Wrestlers</a></li>
	<li><a href="/people-wrestling/" title="🤝 Handshake">🤝 Handshake</a></li>
</ul>

Find out <a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/releases/tag/v2.2.2">more about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.2.2

A minor update which <a href="https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/commit/04377eae67db2e38a357e5f840fd3721fe28417e">changed</a>&nbsp;the direction of&nbsp;<a href="/pouting-cat/" title="😾 Pouting Cat Face">😾 Pouting Cat Face</a> to face forward, and increased the size of the star on the&nbsp;<a href="/flag-vietnam/">🇻🇳&nbsp;Flag for Vietnam</a>&nbsp;to &quot;better match the official flag&quot;.

Twemoji 2.2.1

Twemoji 2.2 was released on September 20, 2016 and includes gendered emojis, new&nbsp;emoji professions, skin tone modifiers for multiple-person emojis, as well as design changes to more closely match <a href="/apple/ios-10.0/">Apple&#39;s iOS 10</a> update.&nbsp;This update added support for <a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a> during the draft period. More <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-2-emoji-changelog/">about this update</a>.

Twemoji 2.2

Adds support for the <a href="/rainbow-flag/" title="🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Flag">rainbow flag</a> and <a href="/pirate-flag/" title="🏴‍☠️ Pirate Flag">pirate flag</a>&nbsp;as&nbsp;well as visual updates to the <a href="/back-arrow/" title="🔙 Back With Leftwards Arrow Above">back</a>, <a href="/soon-arrow/" title="🔜 Soon With Rightwards Arrow Above">soon</a>, <a href="/top-arrow/" title="🔝 Top With Upwards Arrow Above">top</a>, <a href="/end-arrow/" title="🔚 End With Leftwards Arrow Above">end</a>, and <a href="/on-arrow/" title="🔛 On With Exclamation Mark With Left Right Arrow Above">on</a>&nbsp;emojis.

Twemoji 2.1.2

The first release of Twemoji to support emoji characters from <a href="/unicode-9.0/">Unicode 9.0</a>. Also includes minor changes to four emojis. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

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