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An empty bird&#39;s nest.

May be used to talk about actual nests or birds. May also be used to talk about home in general or to represent phrases like nest egg or empty nest.

<a href="/nest-with-eggs/">🪺 Nest with Eggs</a> was approved at the same time and may be used along with Empty&nbsp;Nest.

Empty Nest

14.0

A bird&#39;s nest with eggs inside.

May be used to talk about actual nests or birds. May also be used to talk about home in general or to represent phrases like nest egg or empty nest.

<a href="/empty-nest/">🪹 Empty Nest</a> was approved at the same time as&nbsp;Nest with Eggs.

Nest with Eggs

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

Quack! A duck, a waterbird with webbed feet. Depicted as a male (drake) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard">mallard</a> in full profile facing left, standing on its legs with gray and brown feathers, a yellow bill, and its distinctive green head.

May be consumed in the form of a <a href="/poultry-leg/">🍗 Poultry Leg</a>. Occasionally used as a substitute for the F-word, due to rhyming and Apple&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ducking">iPhone autocorrect</a>.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/duck/">previously</a> featured a yellow rubber ducky.

Duck

A house, otherwise known as a home when someone is living in it. Suitable for a couple or larger family, other perhaps housemates.

Distinct from an apartment building due to its detached form, this house is likely in the suburbs of a city or a&nbsp;rural area.

House Building

A suburban-looking house, with&nbsp;a tree, flower, or shrubs around it in the garden.

House with Garden

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

A generic bird. Variously depicted as a blue or red bird, as a bluebird or cardinal, shown standing in full profile, or as a bird head.&nbsp;Both designs&nbsp;show the bird facing left.

May be used for a variety of wild and pet birds as well as for metaphorical senses of bird (e.g., <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par_(score)#Birdie">birdie</a> in <a href="/flag-in-hole/">golf</a>).

Apple and WhatsApp&rsquo;s designs feature a grayish bird head. Google, Samsung, and Facebook&rsquo;s designs suggest a bluebird, Microsoft and Twitter&rsquo;s a cardinal. Google&rsquo;s bird <a href="/google/android-4.4/bird/">previously</a> resembled a canary, <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/bird/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> was previously green, and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/bird/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/twitter/twemoji-2.0/bird/">Twitter&rsquo;s</a> birds were once blue.

Bird

A single feather slanted to one side. On most platforms it&#39;s light brown with a dark brown barred or striped pattern. Can be used to talk about feathers or birds, or to represent something that is lightweight, fluffy, or soft.

Feather

Two people holding hands, most likely due to being in a relationship.

No gender is specified for these two people, meaning they are likely to be shown with a gender inclusive design.

A family unit shown with two <a href="/person/">adults</a> and one <a href="/child/">child</a>. Previously displayed with the same design as&nbsp;<a href="/family-man-woman-boy/">👨&zwj;👩&zwj;👦 Family: Man, Woman, Boy</a> on most platforms, but now has its own gender inclusive appearance.

Family

A woman and man&nbsp;holding hands, most likely due to being in a relationship.

Man and Woman Holding Hands

Two men&nbsp;holding hands, most likely due to being in a relationship.

Two Men Holding Hands

Two&nbsp;women&nbsp;holding hands, most likely due to being in a relationship.

Two Women Holding Hands

A parrot, a brightly colored bird known for its ability to mimic speech. Depicted in full profile facing left. Resembles&nbsp;a green <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebird">lovebird</a> with red&nbsp;and yellow&nbsp;wings on some platforms&nbsp;and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_macaw">scarlet macaw</a> with blue&nbsp;and yellow&nbsp;wings on others.

Can be used to represent various parrots or&nbsp;birds in general. May also be used to talk about mimicking.

Facebook&rsquo;s parrot is orange with blue-tipped wings. Google&#39;s&nbsp;parrot&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-9.0/parrot/">was previously</a>&nbsp;a scarlet macaw perched on a branch.

Parrot

A phoenix, a mythical immortal&nbsp;bird with flame-like feathers found in the folklore of many global cultures. Often used to symbolize renewal or rebirth.

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Phoenix

A family unit shown with one&nbsp;<a href="/person/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">adult</a>&nbsp;and one&nbsp;<a href="/child/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">child</a>.&nbsp;

Usually depicted as a collection of silhouettes on a block color background, as per <a href="https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetMatchingDocs.pl?L2%2F22-276" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">Unicode&#39;s recommendations</a>.

Family: Adult, Child

A family unit shown with two&nbsp;<a href="/person/">adults</a>&nbsp;and one&nbsp;<a href="/child/">child</a>.&nbsp;

Usually depicted as a collection of silhouettes on a block color background, as per Unicode&#39;s recommendations.

Family: Adult, Adult, Child

A family unit shown with one&nbsp;<a href="/person/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">adult</a>&nbsp;and two&nbsp;<a href="/child/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">children</a>.&nbsp;

Usually depicted as a collection of silhouettes on a block color background, as per <a href="https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetMatchingDocs.pl?L2%2F22-276" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">Unicode&#39;s recommendations</a>.

Family: Adult, Child, Child

A family unit shown with two&nbsp;<a href="/person/">adults</a>&nbsp;and two&nbsp;<a href="/child/">children</a>.&nbsp;

Usually depicted as a collection of silhouettes on a block color background, as per <a href="https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetMatchingDocs.pl?L2%2F22-276">Unicode&#39;s recommendations</a>.

Family: Adult, Adult, Child, Child

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>.

L2/20-217

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.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

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 14.0 is the version of the Unicode Standard&nbsp;released on&nbsp;September 14, 2021.&nbsp;37 new emoji&nbsp;code points were added in this release,&nbsp;with all 112 new emojis (including sequences for skin tones)&nbsp;listed under <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>.

New emojis&nbsp;added in this release are update expected to come to major platforms in either late 2021 or early&nbsp;2022.

This release of this Unicode Standard was&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.unicode.org/2020/04/unicode-140-delayed-for-6-months.html">delayed from March 2021</a> due to COVID-19.&nbsp;

<ul>
	<li>📝&nbsp;<a href="https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode14.0.0/">Unicode 14.0 details on Unicode.org</a></li>
</ul>

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

The first update from WhatsApp to include new <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a> support. These changes <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whatsapp-windows-test-new-emoji-support/">first entered beta</a> in November 2018, and made the final release of WhatsApp 2.18.379 on December 16, 2018.

🪹 Empty Nest on WhatsApp 2.18.379

🪹 Empty Nest on WhatsApp 2.18.379

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