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Previously displayed with&nbsp;a gendered appearance, now shown as <a href="/neutral/">gender neutral</a> on most platforms.

previously-gendered

A person with arms crossed forming an &lsquo;X&rsquo; to indicate &lsquo;no&rsquo; or &lsquo;no good&rsquo;. This motion is used on the TV game show <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal_(U.S._game_show)">Deal or No Deal</a> to indicate &lsquo;No Deal&rsquo;.

Face with No Good Gesture

Man Gesturing No

Woman Gesturing No

A person with arms above their head, making an &lsquo;OK&rsquo; sign (circle) with the whole body. No gender is specified.

Previously displayed as <a href="/google/android-4.3/person-gesturing-ok/">an alien</a> or <a href="/google/android-4.4/person-gesturing-ok/">blob</a> on Android,&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/person-gesturing-ok/">a man on Windows</a>, and <a href="/apple/ios-10.2/person-gesturing-ok/">a woman</a> on most <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/person-gesturing-ok/">other platforms</a>.

Face with OK Gesture

A red circle with a diagonal line through the middle, from top-left to bottom right, used to&nbsp;indicate that something is not permitted

Commonly shown in conjunction with other symbols to indicate&nbsp;<a href="/no-smoking/" title="🚭 No Smoking Symbol">No Smoking</a>, <a href="/no-bicycles/" title="🚳 No Bicycles">No Bikes</a>, or similar.

No Entry Sign

The number eighteen with a red stroke through it, indicating a location where a person must be aged 18 or above to enter. Often used online to indicate adult or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_safe_for_work">NSFW</a> content.

Google&#39;s design includes the text &quot;under&quot; above the&nbsp;number eighteen.

The Samsung version of this emoji <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-5.1/no-one-under-eighteen/">previously displayed&nbsp;the number 19</a>. This may have been&nbsp;due to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning">practice</a> of&nbsp;counting&nbsp;the first year of life as&nbsp;one instead of&nbsp;zero&nbsp;in parts of East Asia such&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href="/flag-south-korea/" title="🇰🇷 Flag for South Korea">South Korea</a>&nbsp;(the location of the Samsung Headquarters).

No One Under Eighteen Symbol

A&nbsp;thumbs-down gesture indicating disapproval.

Thumbs Down Sign

A large red cross mark, displayed in the shape of a letter X and similar to a <a href="/heavy-multiplication-x/" title="✖️ Heavy Multiplication X">multiplication sign</a>.

Cross Mark

A <a href="https://emojipedia.org/cross-mark/">cross mark</a> that displays with a white outlined appearance. Shows on most platforms with a bright green rounded rectangle or circle surrounding it.

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Negative Squared Cross Mark

A cartoon human <a href="/skull/">skull</a> atop an X-shaped pair of <a href="/bone/">bones</a>, as on a <a href="/pirate-flag/">pirate flag</a> or poison symbol. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/skull-and-crossbones/">previously displayed</a>&nbsp;a skull and crossbones on a yellow triangle, indicating a hazardous material.

May represent various ideas of death or danger, e.g., dying from laughter or killing it with great skill. May also represent various pirate characters or mascots.

Popular around <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/skull/">💀&nbsp;Skull</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Skull and Crossbones

The letters&nbsp;NG, shown enclosed&nbsp;in a square, which are an&nbsp;acronym for the words <a href="/person-gesturing-no/" title="🙅 Face With No Good Gesture">No Good</a>.

The origin of NG&nbsp;refers to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blooper">bloopers</a>&nbsp;shown during or after the credits of&nbsp;a live <a href="/television/" title="📺 Television">television</a> show in Japan (known as NGs), but can be used in any field as a form of shorthand for&nbsp;no good.

Squared NG

A red circle with a straight horizontal line across its center.&nbsp;Used on signs to indicate that entry into the area where the sign is displayed is forbidden.

<div id="professor_prebid-root">&nbsp;</div>

No Entry

A person shrugging their shoulders to indicate a lack of knowledge about a particular topic, or a lack of care about the result of a situation.&nbsp;&macr;\_(ツ)_/&macr;

Displays as raised shoulders, sometimes in conjunction with raised arms and flat hands. The shrug gesture in text (emoticon / kaomoji) form is known as a <a href="https://kaomojipedia.org/shruggie/">shruggie</a> and typed as: &macr;\_(ツ)_/&macr;

The Unicode character&nbsp;Shrug&nbsp;(&quot;Person Shrugging&quot;)&nbsp;does not specify a gender, though it was previously shown as a woman on most platforms. See also&nbsp;<a href="/woman-shrugging/">Woman Shrugging</a> or&nbsp;<a href="/man-shrugging/">Man Shrugging</a>.

Shrug

A woman with arms crossed forming an &lsquo;X&rsquo; to indicate &lsquo;no&rsquo; or &lsquo;no good&rsquo;. This motion is used on the TV game show <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal_(U.S._game_show)">Deal or No Deal</a> to indicate &lsquo;No Deal&rsquo;. Intended to be gender-neutral but shown as a woman on most platforms.

A woman with arms crossed&nbsp;forming an &lsquo;X&rsquo; to indicate &lsquo;no&rsquo; or &lsquo;no good&rsquo;. This motion is used on the TV game show <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_or_No_Deal_(U.S._game_show)">Deal or No Deal</a> to indicate &lsquo;No Deal&rsquo;. Intended to be gender-neutral but shown as a woman on most platforms.

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Person Gesturing No: Light Skin Tone

Person Gesturing No: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Person Gesturing No: Medium Skin Tone

Person Gesturing No: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Person Gesturing No: 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.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.

Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.

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.

🙅 Person Gesturing No on WhatsApp 2.18.379

🙅 Person Gesturing No on WhatsApp 2.18.379

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