This update to Google&#39;s Noto Color Emoji set introduced support for 2023&#39;s <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a> recommendations.

Additionally, the family emojis have been changed to have a silhouette icon design, matching the new non-gender-specifying family emojis from&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a>.

First made available via Github on 2023-11-17, this update is expected to be&nbsp;released progressively across different Google platforms such as Chrome OS, Gmail, YouTube, and various Android devices.

15.1

First released as a&nbsp;color vector&nbsp;font file on 2022-09-14, this update to Google&#39;s Noto Color Emoji set introduced support for <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a> emoji such as <a href="https://emojipedia.org/shaking-face/">Shaking Face</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/pink-heart/">Pink Heart</a>.

This update also included minor revisions to select emoji designs,&nbsp;including all of the hand gestures.

The update was released progressively across different Google platforms such as Chrome OS, Gmail, and YouTube between September 2022 and their release within&nbsp;Android 13 in March 2023.&nbsp;

15.0

First made available via as a&nbsp;Developer Preview on&nbsp;2021-10-27, Android 12L was&nbsp;the first vendor update to&nbsp;include support for 2021&rsquo;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> recommendations. Devices running Android 12&nbsp;also began to receive this emoji update via subsequent security updates.&nbsp;

A total of 107 new emojis were introduced in this update, including <a href="/melting-face/">Melting Face</a>, <a href="/heart-hands/">Heart Hands</a>, and mixed skin tone support for <a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-emoji-14-0-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Android 12L

Released to eligible Pixel devices on&nbsp;2021-10-04, Android 12.0 updated the designs of almost one thousand previously available emojis.&nbsp;

The emoji design revised included in this update rolled out across a variety of Google platforms such as Gmail, Chrome OS, and YouTube Live Chat from July 2021. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/android-emoji-changelog-july-2021/">Read more about this update.</a>

Android 12.0

A&nbsp;feature drop&nbsp;exclusive to Google Pixel devices which added support for&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. Not available as part of a regular Android release, these updates began rolling out to Pixel users on 2020-12-09. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-emoji-13-1-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Android 11.0 December 2020 Feature Drop

Android 11.0&nbsp;was released on 2020-09-08.&nbsp;Updates in this release include full support for <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>&nbsp;as well as a significant number of design changes across the entire emoji set. These additions are included in <a href="https://itsfoss.com/fedora-33/">Fedora 33</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/android-11-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Android 11.0

A&nbsp;feature drop&nbsp;exclusive to Google Pixel devices which added support for&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>. Not available as part of a regular Android release, these updates began rolling out to Pixel users on 2020-03-02. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-march-2020-pixel-feature-drop-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Android 10.0 March 2020 Feature Drop

Android 10.0&nbsp;was released on 2018-09-03. Updates in this release include full support for <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>&nbsp;and a number of design changes, including gender-neutral versions of many emojis. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/android-10-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Android 10.0

Android 9.0 &ldquo;Pie&rdquo; was released on 2018-08-06 and was the first Android release to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>.

Design changes include&nbsp;the <a href="/pistol/">pistol emoji</a>&nbsp;switching&nbsp;from&nbsp;a weapon to an orange water pistol / squirt gun, gender-inclusive designs being used for the <a href="/family/">family emoji</a> where no gender is specified, and the removal of egg from the <a href="/green-salad/">green salad</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/android-9-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Android 9.0

Google Android 8.1 was released on December 5, 2017 without a gradual rollout to supported devices. This release <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-fixes-burger-emoji/">fixes the burger emoji issue</a> from&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-8.0/">Android 8.0</a>, as well as the emojis for <a href="/cheese-wedge/">cheese</a>, <a href="/beer-mug/">beer</a>, and <a href="/clinking-beer-mugs/">beers</a>.

Android 8.1

Android 8.0 &quot;Oreo&quot; was released on August 21, 2017. This update included a complete redesign of every emoji, including a transformation of all &quot;blob&quot;&nbsp;smileys into a more common circle shape.

This release also added support for <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a> including all new code points and&nbsp;subdivision flags for <a href="/flag-england/">England</a>, <a href="/flag-scotland/">Scotland</a>, and <a href="/flag-wales/">Wales</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/android-8-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Android 8.0

Released on October 20, 2016, Android 7.1 was the first Android release to include emoji professions, gendered emojis, single parent families, and the <a href="/rainbow-flag/" title="🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Flag">rainbow flag</a>. View <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/android-7-1-emoji-changelog/">all changes</a>.

Android 7.1

Android 7.0 Nougat&nbsp;is the first release of Android to support <a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">modifiers</a> for skin tone. Design changes from <a href="/google/android-6.0.1/">Android 6.0.1</a>&nbsp;include front-facing smileys, and a replacement of gender-neutral &quot;blob&quot; characters with male/female versions.

These emoji images are from the final version of Android 7.0 Nougat which was released on August 22, 2016.&nbsp;More <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/android-7-0-emoji-changelog/">about this update</a>.

Android 7.0

Android 6.0.1 was the first emoji release from Google to support <a href="/unicode-7.0/">Unicode 7.0</a>, <a href="/unicode-8.0/">Unicode 8.0</a>, and <a href="/zero-width-joiner/">ZWJ Sequences</a> for families and couples.

This update was&nbsp;released on&nbsp;December 7, 2015. Find out more about this update in the <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/android-6-0-1-emoji-changelog/">Android 6.0.1 Emoji Changelog</a>.

Android 6.0.1

Google <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081229232412/http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-is-worth-thousand-words.html">released</a>&nbsp;an original&nbsp;set of 79&nbsp;animated emoji characters for Gmail on 2008-10-23. <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/3037803/the-oral-history-of-the-poop-emoji-or-how-google-brought-poop-to-america">Designed</a> by Ryan Germick and Susie Sahim, this set was known internally at Google as&nbsp;goomoji. These unique designs&nbsp;were implemented following Gmail&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="http://japan.googleblog.com/2008/02/gmail.html">initial emoji support</a> in&nbsp;Japan, which used images from <a href="/au-kddi/">au by KDDI</a>.

66 of the 79 emojis in this set <a href="https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/skia/+/donut-release2/emoji/gmojiraw.txt">map&nbsp;directly</a> to the first emoji code points added to&nbsp;<a href="/unicode-6.0/">Unicode 6.0</a>.&nbsp;The remaining 13 emojis were added to Unicode in subsequent years.

Implemented using Private Use Area code points, these have been mapped to their modern Unicode code points for display here.

Gmail

Apple

au by KDDI

Clubhouse

Discord

Docomo

Dropbox

emojidex

Emojipedia Sample Images

Facebook

GitHub

Google Noto Color Emoji

Huawei

Icons8

Instagram

JoyPixels

JoyPixels Animations

LinkedIn

Mastodon

Messenger

Microsoft

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Mozilla

MSN Messenger

Nintendo

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

Noto Emoji Font

OpenMoji

Roblox

Samsung

SerenityOS

Signal

Sina Weibo

Skype

Slack

Snapchat

SoftBank

Sony Playstation

Telegram

TikTok

Tinder

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Twitch

Twitter Emoji Stickers

Twitter / X

Viber

VinSmart

WeChat

WhatsApp

Yahoo! Messenger

Yo Status

YouTube

Zoom

Australia Day

Bastille Day

Birthday

Black Friday

Black Lives Matter

Canada Day

Carnaval

Chinese New Year

Christmas

Cinco de Mayo

Coronavirus

Couples With Hearts

Diwali

Dragon Boat Festival

Earth Day

Easter

Emoji Movie

Fall / Autumn

Families

Father’s Day

Festivus

Four Twenty / 420

Gestures

Graduation

Guy Fawkes

Halloween

Handshakes

Hanukkah

Happy

Hearts

Holi

Independence Day

International Women's Day

Jobs & Roles

Juneteenth

Kisses

Laughing

LGBT Pride

Love

Mardi Gras

MLB World Series

Mother’s Day

Music

New Year’s Eve

NSFW

Olympics

People Holding Hands

Pets

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

World Book Day

World Cup

World Emoji Day

Smileys

People

Animals & Nature

Food & Drink

Activity

Travel & Places

Objects

Symbols

Flags

The letter&nbsp;U, which can be used as part of a regional indicator pair&nbsp;to create <a href="/flags/">emoji flags</a> for various countries.

Previously this emoji incorrectly <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-u/" title="🇺 Regional Indicator Symbol Let­ter U on Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (revised)">depicted&nbsp;the letter V</a>&nbsp;when displayed in isolation on Samsung devices. This was corrected in <a href="/samsung/one-ui-2.0/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-v/">January 2020</a>.

Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U

The letter&nbsp;S, which can be used as part of a regional indicator pair&nbsp;to create <a href="/flags/">emoji flags</a> for various countries.

Regional Indicator Symbol Letter S

The flag for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a>&nbsp;of America (USA), which may show as the letters&nbsp;US&nbsp;on some platforms.

The flag for U.S. Outlying Islands, which may show as the letters&nbsp;UM&nbsp;on some platforms.&nbsp;This is the same flag as the&nbsp;<a href="/flag-united-states/" title="🇺🇸 Flag for United States">United States</a>.

Flag: U.S. Outlying Islands

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

Cash money! A banded stack of U.S. dollar banknotes, the paper currency of the <a href="/flag-united-states/">United States of America</a>. Green hue and detail vary across platforms, but shown with the <a href="/heavy-dollar-sign/">dollar sign</a>, $. Commonly used for various content concerning wealth and money, not restricted to the U.S.

Apple&rsquo;s design depicts $1 bills with Cupertino and <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a> in the treasury signature sections. WhatsApp&rsquo;s design depicts $10 bills, Facebook&rsquo;s displays a <a href="/statue-of-liberty/">Statue of Liberty</a> torch.

Banknote with Dollar Sign

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty">Statue of Liberty</a>, often used as a depiction&nbsp;of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City">New York City</a>.

Statue of Liberty

A banded stack of <a href="/flag-united-states/">U.S.</a> <a href="/dollar-banknote/">dollar bills</a> with feather wings, as if flying. Its flight may represent losing, transferring, or earning money, but commonly used for wealth, money, and success more generally, often with a&nbsp;flourish or sense of flair.

Money with Wings

Heavy Dollar Sign

The flag for US Virgin Islands, which may show as the letters&nbsp;VI&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: U.S. Virgin Islands

A bag full of money. Depicted as a sack, usually tan, tied off and displaying a <a href="/heavy-dollar-sign/">dollar sign</a>. May be filled with coins, as most platforms show a rounded bag.

Commonly used for various content concerning wealth and money.&nbsp;

Money Bag

A white baseball, with regulation red stitching. Used in the game of the same name, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball">baseball</a>.

Baseball

The oval ball used in the game of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football">American football</a>, known as gridiron in some countries.

American Football

The flag for&nbsp;<a href="/flag-mexico/" title="🇲🇽 Flag For Mexico">Mexico</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;MX&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Mexico

A globe, showing the continents of North and South America in green against blue ocean.

May be used to represent various content concerning the North and South American regions as well Atlantic and Pacific regions. May also be used to represent Earth and international affairs more generally.

See also <a href="/globe-showing-europe-africa/">🌍 Globe Showing Europe-Africa</a> and <a href="/globe-showing-asia-australia/">🌏 Globe Showing Asia-Australia</a>.

Earth Globe Americas

A squirt gun (water pistol), as used to <a href="/sweat-droplets/">spray water</a> for fun.

On major platforms, depicted as a green or orange toy gun with an orange tip and barrel pointed left.&nbsp;Google&nbsp;and Facebook&rsquo;s designs include mounted reservoirs.

Originally depicted as a classic handgun, as a revolver or other pistol. In 2016, <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/">Apple switched its design</a> from weapon&nbsp;to toy; other major vendors followed suit by 2018. Deprecated emoji sets or smaller platforms still display the emoji as a handgun.

Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/pistol/">initially displayed</a> the emoji as a toy ray gun before switching to a revolver, then squirt gun. Google <a href="/google/android-4.4/pistol/">once featured</a> a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunderbuss">blunderbuss</a>.

Pistol

The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada">Canada</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;CA&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Canada

Yee-haw! A yellow smiley wearing a wide-brimmed, brown-leather cowboy hat. Its smile varies across platforms.&nbsp;May convey a sense of exuberance, whimsy, confidence, adventure, or other sentiments.

Several vendors, including Apple, feature&nbsp;the same expression as their <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>.

Face with Cowboy Hat

A chocolate-glazed donut (or doughnut) with&nbsp;<a href="/rainbow/">rainbow</a>&nbsp;sprinkles. WhatsApp features a pink glaze associated with&nbsp;The Simpsons. May resemble the&nbsp;<a href="/bagel/">Bagel</a>&nbsp;at small sizes.

Doughnut

A drinking cup with a straw. Depicted on many platforms as a disposable cup with a lid and bendy straw, as used to serve soft drinks at fast-food restaurants.&nbsp;May be used for a range of non-alcoholic beverages, including milkshakes, smoothies, juice, and to-go beverages.

Color and design vary&nbsp;by platform. Twitter&#39;s design suggests a glass of&nbsp;<a href="/potable-water/">water</a>, while Samsung&#39;s <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/cup-with-straw/">previously</a> displayed a&nbsp;<a href="/slightly-smiling-face/">Slightly Smiling Face&nbsp;</a>on a red label.

Cup with Straw

A burger with a beef patty, usually depicted on a sesame bun with cheese, lettuce, and tomato&mdash;making it a cheeseburger, though officially called Hamburger by Unicode.

Platforms stack the ingredients in various orders. Google previously placed the cheese under the patty, a&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/google-io-opens-with-emoji-apology/">&quot;controversy&quot;</a>&nbsp;CEO Sundar Pichai addressed in 2018.&nbsp;

Hamburger

The brown bread of a bagel, shown sliced in two halves. Some platforms depict seeds, as sesame or poppy, and a schmear of cream cheese, with the bagel assembled as a sandwich. May resemble the <a href="/doughnut/">Doughnut</a> at small sizes.

After complaints, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-fixes-bagel-emoji/">Apple updated the bagel emoji design</a> during the iOS 12.1 beta cycle.

Bagel

Thin-cut, golden-brown French fries, served in a red carton, as at McDonald&rsquo;s. Apple features&nbsp;<a href="/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/">Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes&nbsp;</a>on its carton.

French Fries

Flag: United States

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