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Mastodon

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Microsoft

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Mozilla

MSN Messenger

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Noto Color Emoji, Animated

Noto Emoji Font

OpenMoji

Roblox

Samsung

SerenityOS

Signal

Sina Weibo

Skype

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SoftBank

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Telegram

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Toss Face (토스페이스)

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YouTube

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Australia Day

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Coronavirus

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Dragon Boat Festival

Earth Day

Easter

Emoji Movie

Fall / Autumn

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Festivus

Four Twenty / 420

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Guy Fawkes

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Laughing

LGBT Pride

Love

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New Year’s Eve

NSFW

Olympics

People Holding Hands

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Purim

Queen’s Birthday

Ramadan

Spring

St Patrick’s Day

Summer

Super Bowl

Thanksgiving

Valentine’s Day

Veterans Day

Wedding / Marriage

Winter

Winter Olympics

Working From Home

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World Emoji Day

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Symbols

Flags

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

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

A place to store notes and other office materials. Primarily used by older people.

Generally&nbsp;shown as a brown case with a handle on top, and a silver or gold colored clasp on the front. Facebook shows two leather straps on the front.

Briefcase

A man wearing business attire. This may include items such as a shirt, tie, jacket, or headset.

Office Worker

Man Office Worker

Woman Office Worker

A generic, high-rise office building. Generally found in cities, and most active during business hours.

The office building shown in Twemoji 2.0 is of <a href="https://foursquare.com/v/twitter-hq/4ee0ecde29c2c6e332924109?openPhotoId=506e210ae4b06f9dbabdd728">Twitter HQ</a> in San Fransisco.

Office Building

A necktie commonly worn&nbsp;at work or formal occasions, usually shown being worn with a shirt.

Colors and patterns for both the necktie and the shirt&nbsp;vary by platform.

Previous designs from <a href="/google/android-7.0/necktie/">Google</a>, <a href="/facebook/1.0/necktie/">Facebook</a>, and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/necktie/">Samsung</a> displayed a necktie on its own.

Necktie

A woman wearing business attire. This may include items such as a shirt, blouse, tie, jacket, or headset.

A man behind a computer screen, working in the field of technology.

See also:&nbsp;<a href="/woman-technologist/" title="👩‍💻 Female Technologist">👩&zwj;💻&nbsp;Female Technologist</a>

Man Technologist

The silver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nib_(pen)">nib</a> of a fountain pen, which distributes ink onto a writing surface. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, with its tip at the lower left or right. Like&nbsp;<a href="/fountain-pen/">🖋️&nbsp;Fountain Pen</a>, commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, and signing (e.g., laws, deals, in sports).

Several platforms, including Google, Microsoft, and Samsung, depict only a nib, sometimes ringed with gold. Other platforms, including Apple and Twitter, feature the same designs as their <a href="/fountain-pen/">🖋️&nbsp;Fountain Pen</a>, but with their tips angled to the lower right.

Black Nib

A black fountain pen with a silver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nib_(pen)">nib</a>, as used for signing important documents. Often depicted with gold hardware. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle with its tip at the lower left. Like <a href="/black-nib/">✒️&nbsp;Black Nib</a>, commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, and signing (e.g., laws, deals, in sports).

Apple and Twitter&nbsp;feature the same designs as their <a href="/black-nib/">✒️&nbsp;Black Nib</a>, but with their tips angled to the lower left.

Lower Left Fountain Pen

A wastebasket, as used to discard trash in an office. Generally depicted as a silver, wire-mesh container. Also known as a wastepaper basket, trash/garbage can, or rubbish bin.

Commonly used for various content concerning literal and figurative waste. May also be used in the context of <a href="/basketball/">basketball</a>. Sometimes paired with <a href="/fire/">🔥&nbsp;Fire</a> as a <a href="https://www.americandialect.org/dumpster-fire-is-2016-american-dialect-society-word-of-the-year">visual representation</a> of the slang expression dumpster fire (&quot;chatoic situation&quot;).

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/wastebasket/">previously depicted</a>&nbsp;a&nbsp;metal can/bin with a lid, as used for outdoor garbage&mdash;or lived in by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_the_Grouch">Oscar the Grouch</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/basket/">🧺&nbsp;Basket</a>.

Wastebasket

A metal filing cabinet, as used to organize and store&nbsp;<a href="/file-folder/">file folders</a> at an <a href="/office-building/">office</a>. Depicted in black or gray with two drawers, handles, and label holders.

Commonly used for various content concerning paper or computer files; filing and organization;&nbsp;various types of data, information, and archives; and&nbsp;office work.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/file-cabinet/">Google&rsquo;s design</a> was previously blue, <a href="/facebook/2.0/file-cabinet/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> had its bottom drawer open.

File Cabinet

A card index, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolodex">Rolodex</a>, once used to organize and access cards containing the information of personal or business contacts. Depicted as a black or gray rotating device with a contact card displayed, including a graphic and text.

Occasionally used to represent contact details/information and&nbsp;business cards. Thanks to its appearance, this emoji&nbsp;is sometimes mistaken for such things as documents or word processing.

Apple&rsquo;s design features a picture of its <a href="/woman/">👩 Woman</a>, identified as Jane Appleseed (<a href="/apple/ios-6.0/card-index/">previously</a> <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a>) with the following contact details as an easter egg:

appleseed@me.com 
125 Main St. 
City Name, CA 95014 
Work: (408) 123-4567 
Home: (400) 765-4321

95014 is the zip code (postcode) for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Park">Apple&rsquo;s corporate headquarters</a> in Cupertino, California.

JoyPixels features its <a href="/woman-health-worker/">👩&zwj;⚕️ Woman Health Care Worker</a>.&nbsp;WhatsApp&#39;s design also shows the picture of a woman.

Card Index

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 spiral-bound, yellow, hardcover notebook. Intended to depict a financial ledger, as used in accounting.

Commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, reading, and schooling. May also be used as a yellow accent color.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/ledger/">Google</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/ledger/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> designs were previously blue.

Ledger

A person wearing business attire. This may include items such as a shirt, tie, jacket, or headset.

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Man Office Worker: Dark Skin Tone

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.

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.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

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.

2.23.2.72

Released 2022-04-19, this update for WhatsApp on Android devices introduced support for <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> emojis such as <a href="/melting-face/">🫠&nbsp;Melting Face</a>, as well as&nbsp;multiple skin tone versions of the&nbsp;<a href="/handshake/">🤝 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="/people-holding-hands/">🧑&zwj;🤝&zwj;🧑 People Holding Hands</a>&nbsp;emoji from late 2019&#39;s <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>, as well as many different &nbsp;<a href="/kiss/">💏 Kiss</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/couple-with-heart/">💑 Couple with Heart</a> skin tone combinations from late 2020&#39;s <a href="/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="/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="/woman-beard/">🧔&zwj;♀️&nbsp;Woman: Beard</a> and updated the design of&nbsp;<a href="/person-beard/">🧔 Person: Beard</a> to be more gender neutral. The update did not, however, provide support for&nbsp;<a href="/man-beard/">🧔&zwj;♂️ Man: Beard</a>&nbsp;or the new variations of&nbsp;<a href="/kiss/">💏&nbsp;Kiss</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/couple-with-heart/">💑&nbsp;Couple with Heart</a>&nbsp;recommended in&nbsp;<a href="/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="/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>

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👨‍💼 Man Office Worker on WhatsApp 2.16

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