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A fly with a dark or iridescent green body, six legs, and two translucent wings. On most platforms, its eyes are red.

Can be used to talk about the insect or flight in general. May also be used metaphorically as an adjective meaning &quot;cool.&quot;

13.0

A green or brown beetle shown with antennae and six legs. Can be used to talk about beetles, bugs, or insects in general.

Not to be confused with <a href="/lady-beetle/">🐞 Lady Beetle</a>, <a href="/cockroach/">🪳 Cockroach</a>, <a href="/bug/">🐛 Bug</a>, <a href="/ant/">🐜 Ant</a> or other emoji representations of insects.

Beetle

A bug, or insect, generally depicted as a caterpillar, which becomes a <a href="/butterfly/">🦋 Butterfly</a>. Shown in full profile facing left, inching&nbsp;up on the back&nbsp;of its green, segmented, and&nbsp;textured body. Often featuring&nbsp;black stripes or yellow dots and tentacles on its head.

May be used to represent various insects, worms, and related animals. May also be used for&nbsp;metaphorical senses of bug.

Twitter&rsquo;s bug is purple. Apple&rsquo;s bug is hairy with a red head and legs and black stripes on its body. Facebook&rsquo;s&nbsp;bug also has a yellowish-orange head. <a href="/google/android-7.0/bug/">Google</a> and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/bug/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> bugs previously resembled an orange centipede or millipede, and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/bug/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> had a cartoon-styled face with a purple nose.

An ant, a small, industrious insect that lives in a colony. Depicted as a black or red ant in full profile on its six legs facing left, with a prominent abdomen and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_(biology)">antennae</a>.

May be used to represent various insects or other <a href="/bug/">bugs</a>.

Facebook&rsquo;s ant&nbsp;is&nbsp;red, as was a previous <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/ant/">Microsoft</a> design. <a href="/google/android-7.0/ant/">Google&rsquo;s</a> ant was previously blue,&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/2.0/ant/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> black.

A honey bee, a busy, flying insect that lives in a hive and makes <a href="/honey-pot/">honey</a>. Depicted as a black-and-yellow bee with clear or white wings and a stinger.&nbsp;Variously facing left in full profile or shown from above.

May be used to represent various types of bees (e.g., bumblebee) and wasps (e.g., hornets, yellow jackets). May also be used to accent black-and-yellow colors or patterns. Popularly used in connection with singer and superstar <a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/04/beyonce-lemonade-lemon-emoji/">Beyonc&eacute;</a> (nicknamed Queen Bey) or for metaphorical queen bees.

Honeybee

A ladybug (ladybird, lady beetle), a <a href="/beetle/">beetle</a> with a round, red shell with black spots. Generally depicted as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinella_septempunctata">seven-</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinella_novemnotata">nine-spotted</a> ladybug shown from above on its six legs, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna">antennae</a> and its&nbsp;distinctively red-and-black, halved shell.

May be used a symbol of good luck.

Facebook&rsquo;s ladybug is shown on its legs facing forward.

Lady Beetle

A mosquito, a type of bloodsucking fly. Depicted as a brown or black mosquito on its six, long legs, with wings, long abdomen, and needle-like mouth. Variously shown from above or facing left.

May be used to represent various insects, other <a href="/bug/">bugs</a> and bug bites, and insect-borne diseases (e.g., <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/malaria/index.html">malaria</a>). May also be used for metaphorical pests.

Facebook&rsquo;s mosquito&nbsp;has a red abdomen, as if filled with <a href="/drop-of-blood/">blood</a>.

Mosquito

A cricket, a hopping insect that makes a chirping sound. Depicted as a brown or green cricket in full profile on its six legs facing left, with long <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_(biology)">antennae</a> and large, bent back legs.

May resemble or be used to represent a grasshopper&nbsp;(including locusts)&nbsp;and other <a href="/bug/">bugs</a>. May also be used to represent metaphorical <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-watching-crickets-silence">crickets</a>, or &quot;silence,&quot; as of a disapproving or uninterested audience.

Not to be confused with <a href="/cricket-game/">🏏&nbsp;Cricket Game</a>, the sport.

Google&#39;s cricket was <a href="/google/android-8.0/cricket/">previously</a> green.

Cricket

A butterfly, a beautiful winged insect whose larva is a <a href="/bug/">caterpillar</a>. Depicted with its wings outspread, as a blue-and-black <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpho">morpho butterfly</a> or orange-and-black <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly">monarch butterfly</a>.

May be used to represent a moth and ideas of beauty and happiness.

Samsung&rsquo;s butterfly <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/butterfly/">previously</a> resembled a monarch.

Butterfly

A pink or brown worm. Most platforms have more realistic designs, though Google and Samsung feature cartoony worms who are smiling sweetly.

Can be used to talk about worms or disease spread by worms. Can also be used to refer to a deceitful person. May be used to in reference to the dance move &#39;the worm.&#39;

Worm

A brown cockroach shown with antennae, six legs, and two sensory pads at its rear called cerci.

Can be used to talk about cockroaches or insects in general. May also be used metaphorically as an insult to call a person a pest, an annoyance, or to suggest they are subhuman. &nbsp;&nbsp;

Cockroach

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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.

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

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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Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

Unicode 13.0 is the version of the Unicode Standard&nbsp;released on&nbsp;March 10, 2020. 55 new emoji&nbsp;code points were added in this release,&nbsp;with all 117 new emojis for 2020 (including sequences for gender and skin tone)&nbsp;listed under <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>.

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/">🔣 Unicode 13.0.0 Specification</a></li>
</ul>

More about <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-13-0/">what&#39;s new in Unicode 13.0</a>.

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>

2.21.11.17

Released early December 2020, this update included 115&nbsp;new emojis from <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>.

2.20.206.24

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="/apple/">Apple emojis</a> on all platforms.

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🪰 Fly on WhatsApp 2.17

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