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A mouse, as used to control a cursor on a <a href="/desktop-computer/">computer</a>. Generally depicted as a white or gray, cordless device with a scroll wheel between left- and right-click buttons.

Used for various content concerning computers, including gaming and various senses of click (e.g., clickbait).

Apple&rsquo;s design resembles the company&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Mouse">Magic Mouse</a>, with a single button. Google&rsquo;s mouse <a href="/computer-mouse/">previously</a> had&nbsp;a cord.

Not to be confused with <a href="/mouse/">🐁 Mouse</a>.

Three Button Mouse

Generic profile of two people. Often used in interface design to represent users.

Busts in Silhouette

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joystick">joystick</a>, as used in playing classic arcade, computer, or video games. Generally depicted with a black base, red-knobbed control stick, and one or more red buttons.

Commonly used for content concerning various types of gaming; occasionaly applied to aviation and aircraft.

Google&#39;s base was <a href="/google/android-8.0/joystick/">previously</a>&nbsp;blue, and&nbsp;Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/joystick/">previously featured</a> a more modern design.

Joystick

Four control knobs, as adjust audio levels on a mixing console. Generally depicted as a silver square with black knobs, turned to various levels as indicated by white pointers and scale markings.

Commonly used for various content concerning audio recording and production as well as music more generally.

Control Knobs

A laptop personal computer. Depicted as a black or gray device, opened to show a dark or blue screen, keyboard, and touchpad.

Commonly used for various content concerning computer technology, work, and activity.

Previous designs resembled a <a href="/desktop-computer/">desktop computer</a>&nbsp;(e.g., <a href="/apple/ios-9.0/laptop/">iMac</a>) on many platforms, hence its Unicode name of&nbsp;Personal Computer. Apple&rsquo;s design now resembles a MacBook.

Personal Computer

A desktop personal computer. Generally depicted as a black or gray monitor with a dark or blue screen.

Like <a href="/laptop/">💻 Laptop Computer</a>, used for various content concerning computer technology, work, and activity. May also be used to represent <a href="/laptop/">television</a>, as it resembles a flatscreen TV.

Google and WhatsApp include <a href="/keyboard/">keyboards</a>. Apple&rsquo;s design resembles an iMac. <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/desktop-computer/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/desktop-computer/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> designs previously featured PC towers.

Desktop Computer

A keyboard, as used to type on a <a href="/desktop-computer/">computer</a>. Generally depicted as a gray device with white or black keys. Used for various content concerning computers, typing, and writing.

Apple&rsquo;s design resembles the company&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Keyboard">Magic Keyboard</a>. Microsoft&#39;s design was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/keyboard/">previously</a>&nbsp;blue.

Not to be confused with <a href="/musical-keyboard/">🎹 Musical Keyboard</a>.

Keyboard

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 <a href="/desktop-computer/">computer</a> printer, as at a home office. Generally depicted as a grayish device with a power button and paper loaded in its tray, sometimes printing out a document. May be used for various content concerning printing, including as a Print icon,&nbsp;as well as for office work and technology more generally.

Not to be confused with <a href="/fax-machine/">📠 Fax Machine</a>.

Printer

A trackball, as rotated to control a cursor on a computer. An alternative or supplement to a <a href="/computer-mouse/">computer mouse</a> or touchpad. Generally depicted as a cordless device with a blue or red ball in a cylindrical, black or gray socket.

Occasionally used for various content concerning <a href="/video-game/">gaming</a>. Facebook&rsquo;s design featurs a rectangular base, while Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-11.0/trackball/">previously</a> featured&nbsp;a cord.

Trackball

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

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

Woman Technologist

Headphones, used to listen to music or other forms audio, such as podcasts.&nbsp;Most platforms display this emoji with large over-ear headphones in shades of black, blue, and gray.

Apple previously displayed&nbsp;this emoji as <a href="/apple/ios-10.0/headphone/" title="🎧 Headphone on Apple iOS 10.0">iconic iPod white earbuds</a>, followed by black&nbsp;<a href="/apple/ios-10.2/headphone/">Beats headphones in 2016</a>, and in 2021 switched <a href="/apple/ios-14.5/headphone/">to display white AirPods Max</a>.

Headphone

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

A rat, a large rodent with a long tail, known to frequent big cities. Depicted in gray in full profile on all fours facing left, with pink ears, feet, and tail.

May be use for various metaphorical senses of rat. Not to be confused with <a href="/mouse/">🐁 Mouse</a>, which has white hair.

One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese zodiac</a>.

Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/rat/">was previously</a>&nbsp;standing on its hind legs and facing forward with a buck&nbsp;tooth.

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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.

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.

The Unicode Consortium approved the following characters as part of <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/">Unicode 7.0</a>, released on June 16, 2014.&nbsp;Support for these emoji characters rely on updates from platform vendors such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Initially, 250&nbsp;new characters in Unicode 7.0 were approved for emoji presentation, however this was later reduced to 103 Standard Additions which are listed below. The other characters remain part of Unicode, but are not recommended&nbsp;to be included as emojis.

The exception to this was the <a href="/left-speech-bubble/" title="🗨 Left Speech Bubble">Left Speech Bubble</a>, and as such wasn&#39;t initially specified on other platforms as an emoji. A later-accepted&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-spy-proposal/">proposal</a>&nbsp;updated this.

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

Released early September&nbsp;2020, this update&nbsp;included 138&nbsp;new emojis. While all of these new emojis were from&nbsp;<a href="/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="/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="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>. Included 230 <a href="/whatsapp/2.19.352/new/">new</a> emojis, plus some very minor tweaks to <a href="/whatsapp/2.19.352/changed/">three existing designs</a>.

🖱️ Computer Mouse on WhatsApp 2.18.379

🖱️ Computer Mouse on WhatsApp 2.18.379

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