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A friendly, cartoon-styled faced of a fox, the cunning canine, looking straight ahead. Depicted as an orange fox&nbsp; face with a black nose, pointed ears, and shaggy, white cheeks.

Often used with an affectionate or playful tone (e.g., slang,&nbsp;foxy). Does not have a full-bodied fox emoji counterpart.

Available as an Apple <a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Fox Face

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a tiger looking straight ahead. Generally depicted in yellowish-orange with black stripes on its forehead and cheeks, a white muzzle, and neutral expression.

Often used with a more affectionate tone than the full-bodied <a href="/tiger/">🐅 Tiger</a>.

Available as an Apple <a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Tiger Face

The face of a wolf, a howling canine that hunts in packs. Generally depicted as a cartoon-styled face of a gray wolf with pointed ears,&nbsp;white cheeks and&nbsp;muzzle, and black nose.

Its expression is variously neutral, friendly, or slightly menacing, as in Google and Samsung&rsquo;s designs. Apple&rsquo;s design features the head of gray wolf, facing left.

Occasionally used to represent metaphorical senses of wolf, e.g., lone wolf, wolf pack.

<a href="/apple/ios-8.3/wolf/">Apple</a> and <a href="/softbank/2006/wolf/">SoftBank&rsquo;s</a> designs previously resembled a reddish-brown canine, resembling a <a href="/dog/">dog</a> or <a href="/fox/">fox</a>.

Wolf Face

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a rabbit, looking straight ahead. Generally depicted as a gray and/or white rabbit face with upright ears and pink ears and nose, often with whiskers and a buck tooth.

Often used with a more affectionate tone than the full-bodied <a href="/rabbit/">🐇 rabbit</a>. Also often used to represent the <a href="/easter/">Easter Bunny</a>.

Available as an Apple <a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s rabbit face was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/rabbit-face/">previously</a> pink-colored&nbsp;with one ear flopping down. Facebook&rsquo;s rabbit face was <a href="/facebook/1.0/rabbit-face/">previously</a> gray-colored&nbsp;with both ears flopping down.

Rabbit Face

Meow! A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a cat, looking straight ahead. Generally depicted as a yellowish-orange cat face with pointed ears and whiskers.

May be used with a more affectionate tone than the full-bodied <a href="/cat/">🐈 Cat</a>, though their applications generally overlap.

Available as an Apple <a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Vendors implement the same or similar cat in their <a href="/cat/">🐈 Cat</a> as well as in their cat-faced variants of smileys:

<ul>
	<li><a href="/cat-with-wry-smile/">😼 Cat Face With Wry Smile</a></li>
	<li><a href="/cat-with-tears-of-joy/">😹 Cat Face With Tears of Joy</a></li>
	<li><a href="/weary-cat/">🙀 Weary Cat Face</a></li>
	<li><a href="/pouting-cat/">😾 Pouting Cat Face</a></li>
	<li><a href="/crying-cat/">😿 Crying Cat Face</a></li>
	<li><a href="/smiling-cat-with-heart-eyes/">😻 Smiling Cat Face With Heart-Eyes</a></li>
	<li><a href="/grinning-cat/">😺 Grinning Cat Face</a></li>
	<li><a href="/grinning-cat-with-smiling-eyes/">😸 Grinning Cat Face With Smiling Eyes</a></li>
	<li><a href="/kissing-cat/">😽 Kissing Cat Face</a></li>
</ul>

Google&rsquo;s cat face was <a href="/google/android-7.0/cat-face/">previously</a> orange, <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/cat-face/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> gray, and <a href="/facebook/2.0/cat-face/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> once gray and white. Included in the earliest Japanese emoji sets from <a href="/cat-face/">Softbank</a>, <a href="/docomo/1999/cat-face/">Docomo</a>, and <a href="/au-kddi/type-c-2/cat-face/">au by KDDI</a>.

Cat Face

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a lion&mdash;the large cat and king of the jungle&mdash;looking straight ahead. Depicted as a golden-yellow lion face with a light- or dark-brown mane, white muzzle, and neutral expression.

Often used with an affectionate tone. Does not have a full-bodied lion emoji counterpart. A lion is represented as <a href="/leo/">♌ Leo</a> in the Western zodiac.

Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Apple&#39;s lion <a href="/apple/ios-10.2/lion/">previously</a> featured a timid-looking expression.

Lion Face

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 dog, a faithful, beloved pet canine. Depicted as a light-brown dog, of various breeds, in full profile on all fours facing left, with a long, curled tail held upright and pointed or floppy ears.

Apple and Facebook&rsquo;s dogs resemble a reddish-brown <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiba_Inu">Shiba Inu</a>, a popular Japanese breed featured in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(meme)">Doge meme</a>. Google shows what appears to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle">Beagle</a>.

See also <a href="/poodle/">🐩 Poodle</a> and <a href="/dog-face/">🐶 Dog Face</a>, whose applications may overlap. Some vendors implement the same or a similar dog in their&nbsp;<a href="/guide-dog/">🦮 Guide Dog</a> and<a href="/service-dog/"> 🐕&zwj;🦺 Service Dog</a>.

One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/" title="🐉 Chinese New Year">Chinese zodiac</a>.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/dog/">Google</a> and <a href="/facebook/2.0/dog/">Facebook</a> previously featured puppies with collars, Apple&rsquo;s dog <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/dog/">previously</a> resembled an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akita_(dog)">Akita Inu</a>, another popular Japanese breed.

A kangaroo, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial">marsupial</a> with a large tail and legs. Depicted in yellowish-brown in full profile facing left with large, pointed ears, shown either resting on its hind legs and tail or jumping.

Commonly used in connection with <a href="/flag-australia/">Australia</a>, where the animal is found.

Kangaroo

A raccoon, a nocturnal mammal with a mask around its eyes. Generally depicted as a friendly, cartoon-styled, gray raccoon face looking straight ahead, with black-and-white markings around its eyes and&nbsp;pointed ears and cheeks.

Apple and WhatsApp&rsquo;s designs feature a raccoon in full profile on all fours facing left with a striped, bushy tail.

Raccoon

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a dog, looking straight ahead. Depicted as the face of a dog of various breeds, generally light-brown and white, with pointed or floppy ears and its tongue hanging out.

May be used with a more playful tone than the full-bodied <a href="/dog/">🐕 Dog</a>, though their applications generally overlap. See also <a href="/poodle/">🐩 Poodle</a>.

One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese zodiac</a>. Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Many vendors implement the same or similar dog as their full-bodied <a href="/dog/">🐕 Dog</a>, such as Google and Facebook. Apple&nbsp;and WhatsApp&rsquo;s dogs have a white face with brown, floppy ears and a brown patch over one eye.

Included in the earliest Japanese emoji sets from <a href="/softbank/1997/dog-face/">Softbank</a>, <a href="/docomo/1999/dog-face/">Docomo</a>, and <a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/dog-face/">au by KDDI</a>.

Dog Face

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poodle">poodle</a>, a popular dog breed with curly hair, often groomed in an ornamental pattern.

Generally depicted as a grayish-white poodle in full profile on all fours facing left, with a shaved torso, legs, and face with fuller, pom-pom-like hair on its head, ears, chest, feet, and tip of tail (as the <a href="https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/poodle-standard/">Continental Clip</a>).

Like <a href="/dog/">🐕 Dog</a>, may be used to represent a variety of dog breeds (often fluffy or long-haired). See also <a href="/dog-face/">🐶 Dog Face</a>.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/poodle/">Google</a>, <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/poodle/">Samsung</a>, and <a href="/facebook/2.0/poodle/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> designs previously featured pink poodles.

Poodle

A chicken, a bird used for its meat and <a href="/egg/">eggs</a>. Generally depicted as the white head of&nbsp;a chicken (hen or rooster) looking left, with a yellow beak, red <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_(anatomy)">comb</a> on its head, and red wattle on its neck.

May be consumed in the form of <a href="/poultry-leg/">🍗&nbsp;Poultry Leg</a>. Not to be confused with the full-bodied <a href="/rooster/">🐓 Rooster,</a> though their applications overlap. Also may be used for metaphorical senses of chicken (e.g., &ldquo;coward&rdquo;).

See also <a href="/hatching-chick/">🐣 Hatching Chick</a>, <a href="/baby-chick/">🐤 Baby Chick</a>, and <a href="/front-facing-baby-chick/">🐥 Front-Facing Baby Chick</a>.

Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Twitter&rsquo;s chicken head is looking straight ahead. Microsoft&rsquo;s chicken was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/chicken/">previously</a> yellow, while&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/chicken/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> faced&nbsp;forward;&nbsp;Facebook&rsquo;s design <a href="/facebook/2.0/chicken/">once featured</a> a full, brown bird, while&nbsp;<a href="/chicken/">Google&rsquo;s </a>design previously featured&nbsp;a full bodied chicken.

Chicken

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a mouse, looking straight ahead. Generally depicted as a gray or white mouse face with large, round ears, a pink, pointed nose, and whiskers.

Often used with a more affectionate tone than the full-bodied <a href="/mouse/">🐁 Mouse</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/hamster/">🐹 Hamster Face</a>.

Google&nbsp;and&nbsp;Facebook&rsquo;s designs feature a mouse with buck teeth. Microsoft&rsquo;s design was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/mouse-face/">previously</a> brown.

Mouse Face

Eek! A mouse, a small rodent with large ears and a long tail. Generally depicted in white in full profile on all fours facing left, with pink ears, feet, and tail, often with reddish eyes.

See also <a href="/mouse-face/">🐭 Mouse Face</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/rat/">🐀 Rat</a>&nbsp;or <a href="/computer-mouse/">🖱️ Computer Mouse</a>.

Facebook&rsquo;s mouse is sitting on its hind legs. Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/mouse/">was&nbsp;previously</a> more cartoon-styled, standing on its hind legs and facing forward with a buck tooth. Microsoft&rsquo;s mouse was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/mouse/">previously</a> brown.

Mouse

A rabbit, a hoppy mammal with long ears. Depicted as a white, gray, or brown rabbit in full profile facing left with pink ears and a short tail, sitting on its long, hind legs or on all fours.

May be used in association with <a href="/spring/">spring</a>, <a href="/easter/">Easter</a>, magic, <a href="/people-with-bunny-ears/">bunny ears</a>, or various rabbit-based characters or expressions (e.g., going down the rabbit hole).

See also <a href="/rabbit-face/">🐰 Rabbit Face</a>. One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese zodiac</a>.

Apple&rsquo;s rabbit has red eyes, WhatsApp&rsquo;s whiskers. Microsoft&rsquo;s rabbit was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/rabbit/">previously</a> brown, <a href="/facebook/2.0/rabbit/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> white.

Rabbit

A deer, a fleet-footed, hoofed mammal whose males (bucks, stags) generally have antlers. Variously depicted as a light-brown deer in full profile on all fours facing left or as a&nbsp;deer face looking straight head;&nbsp;both depictions feature large, branched antlers.

May be used to represent elk, moose, antelope, or reindeer, especially in connection with <a href="/christmas/">Christmas</a>.&nbsp;Most platforms display a deer in full profile.&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;shows a deer face.

Google&rsquo;s deer <a href="/google/android-8.0/deer/">previously</a> had a red nose, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer">Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer</a>. Apple and WhatsApp&rsquo;s deers are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer">white-tailed</a>.

Deer

A bald eagle, the majestic bird of prey with brown feathers and distinctive white head. Generally depicted facing left, with its wings outspread and talons out, as if swooping down to seize prey.

Commonly associated with the <a href="/flag-united-states/">United States</a>, whose national emblem is the bald eagle. May be used for other eagles and birds of prey (e.g., hawks).

Google&rsquo;s eagle used to have its wings tucked in, as if perched on a branch. Twitter&rsquo;s design shows only the bust of an eagle. Apple&rsquo;s <a href="/newspaper/">📰 Newspaper</a> features its eagle on its masthead.

Eagle

An owl, the hooting, large-eyed bird. Depicted as a brown owl with its head&nbsp;facing forward.&nbsp;Shown with large, round, gold-rimmed eyes, talons, tucked wings, and&nbsp;horn-like tufts of feathers.

May be used to represent wisdom. Once popularly used in connection with the hip-hop artist <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2014/02/dont-challenge-drake-on-ancient-egypt.html">Drake</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s owl <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/owl/">previously</a> resembled a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_owl">barn owl</a>, Samsung&rsquo;s was <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/owl/">purple</a>.

A rooster (cock), a male <a href="/chicken/" title="🐔 Chicken">chicken</a> known for its cock-a-doodle-do. Depicted as a white or multicolored rooster standing on its legs in full profile facing left, with a red <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_(anatomy)">comb</a> on its head and red wattle on its neck.

Not to be confused with <a href="/chicken/">🐔 Chicken</a>, though their applications overlap. See also <a href="/hatching-chick/">🐣 Hatching Chick</a>, <a href="/baby-chick/">🐤 Baby Chick</a>, and <a href="/front-facing-baby-chick/">🐥 Front-Facing Baby Chick</a>. Occasionally used as&nbsp;sexual slang.

One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese zodiac</a>.

Google&rsquo;s rooster is brown with a green tail, Facebook&rsquo;s brown with a blue tail. Google&rsquo;s rooster was <a href="/google/android-7.0/rooster/">previously</a> white, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/rooster/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> yellow, <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/rooster/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> looking straight ahead.

Rooster

A night sky with stars, depicted on major platforms as a <a href="/sunset/" title="🌇 Sunset Over Buildings">cityscape</a> at night.

Night with Stars

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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.

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.

Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

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>

WhatsApp has its own emoji designs which are displayed on all WhatsApp for Android and WhatsApp Web.

One emoji supported by WhatsApp but no other platform is the&nbsp;<a href="/flag-for-texas-ustx/">Texas Flag emoji</a>. This is a valid subdivision flag supported by Unicode, but not listed within any Unicode emoji release and as of 2019 is not supported by any other major vendors.

In 2021 WhatsApp introduced a&nbsp;<a href="/refugee-nation-flag/">Refugee Nation Flag</a> as a <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ sequence</a>. Like the <a href="/flag-for-texas-ustx/">Texas Flag emoji</a>, this&nbsp;flag is&nbsp;not supported by any other major vendors.

<img alt="" src="https://em-content.zobj.net/content/2017/12/13/whatsapp-web-emojis-2017.jpg" style="width: 100%;" />

Names and meanings of all the emojis in WhatsApp for iPhone, Web, Android and Windows and new WhatsApp emojis for Android. Browse the list of WhatsApp emojis here.

💬 WhatsApp Emoji Meanings — Emojis for WhatsApp on iPhone, Android and Web (Updated: February 2024)

Beginning rollout on 2024-02-02, WhatsApp&nbsp;2.23.2.72 debut support for a subset of 2023&#39;s <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a> recommendations.

Additionally, this update introduced gender-neutral designs for a series of people emojis that previously displayed a gendered appearance on the platform.&nbsp;

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2.24.2.76

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/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>.

This update also changed the designs of the&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/nerd-face/">🤓&nbsp;Nerd Face</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/pleading-face/">🥺&nbsp;Pleading Face</a>, and the&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/face-holding-back-tears/">🥹&nbsp;Face Holding Back Tears</a>&nbsp;emojis.

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