An individual cupcake in a liner topped with a swirl of frosting and sprinkles. The style of cupcake widely varies across platforms. The cake may be sponge or chocolate, the frosting pink or white, and the sprinkles rainbow or red.

Cupcake

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The round, golden-brown pastry of a <a href="/flag-china/">Chinese</a> mooncake, a traditional delicacy and lunar symbol of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival">Mid-Autumn Festival</a>. Many platforms feature a design or character imprinted on the crust, and depict a slice cut out to show a brown paste with a duck egg yolk inside. Twitter displays the Chinese character for <a href="/fall-autumn/">&ldquo;fall/autumn&rdquo;</a> or &ldquo;harvest&rdquo; (秋) on top.

Moon Cake

A slice of strawberry shortcake, layered with whipped cream and topped with a whole&nbsp;<a href="/strawberry/">strawberry</a>. Like the&nbsp;<a href="/birthday-cake/">Birthday Cake</a>, may be used to represent birthday celebrations or cake in general.

Shortcake

A stack of breakfast pancakes, topped with a pad of butter and maple syrup oozing down its golden-brown sides, onto a plate on some platforms.&nbsp;

Especially popular on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday">Pancake Tuesday</a>.

An <a href="/nsfw/">alternative use</a> for this emoji on TikTok and other platforms: to represent that someone has a flat bottom (&#39;flat as a pancake&#39;).

Pancakes

A yellow face with a party hat blowing a party horn as confetti floats around its head. Used for celebrating joyous occasions (such as <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&#39;s Eve</a> or <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a>) and enjoying good times more generally.

Apple&rsquo;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚&nbsp;Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a>.

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Face with Party Horn and Party Hat

A slice of Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narutomaki">narutomaki</a>, a ridged fishcake of processed whitefish with an iconic pink&nbsp;<a href="/cyclone/">swirl</a>, often served in <a href="/steaming-bowl/">ramen</a> or <a href="/oden/">oden</a>. Thanks to its distinct swirl, may be used for flair.

Fish Cake with Swirl Design

A cup of green tea, as the minty-colored Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matcha">matcha</a>, usually shown on a wooden mat. Matcha is traditionally served in a small bowl that resembles a cup without a handle. Often taken as a bowl of soup, such as a split pea.

Teacup Without Handle

A party popper, as explodes&nbsp;in a shower of confetti and streamers at a celebration. Generally depicted as a gold party hat, striped on some platforms, at a 45&deg; angle, with multicolored confetti and streamers coming from its opening at the upper right. Twitter&rsquo;s cone is red.

Like <a href="/confetti-ball/">🎊 Confetti Ball</a>, commonly used to convey congratulations and celebration, as on <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&rsquo;s Eve</a>, <a href="/birthday/">birthdays</a>, <a href="/wedding-marriage/">wedding days</a>, <a href="/graduation/">graduations</a>, and other special occasions or good times more generally.

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Party Popper

A frosted cake with lit candles, as presented for a birthday celebration. The style of cake widely varies across platforms. With white frosting and&nbsp;<a href="/strawberry/">strawberries</a>, Apple and Google&rsquo;s designs suggest&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-japanese-eat-cake-christmas-180961556/">Japanese Christmas cake</a>. Other vendors depict a chocolate, pink, and/or sponge cake.

Birthday Cake

A Japanese sweet&nbsp;<a href="/dumpling/">dumpling</a>&nbsp;made from rice flour and served on a skewer. Depicted as a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dango">botchan dango</a>, comprising a pink, white or light yellow, and green ball, as colored by red beans,&nbsp;<a href="/egg/">egg</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/teacup-without-handle/">green tea</a>. Resembles the&nbsp;<a href="/oden/">Oden</a>&nbsp;and featured in the&nbsp;<a href="/moon-viewing-ceremony/">Moon Viewing Ceremony</a>, used in the Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukimi">festival</a>&nbsp;to celebrate the&nbsp;<a href="/full-moon/">full moon</a>.&nbsp;

Dango

A swirl of soft-serve ice cream&nbsp;atop a wafer-style cone, white or cream-colored, as vanilla, on most platforms. Facebook&rsquo;s design suggests&nbsp;<a href="/strawberry/">strawberry</a>. May be used more generally for&nbsp;<a href="/ice-cream/">ice cream</a>, frozen yogurt, and frozen treats.

Soft Ice Cream

A mound of shaved ice (snow cone) served in a dessert bowl with a short spoon, flavored with a&nbsp;<a href="/cherries/">cherry-red&nbsp;</a>syrup on many platforms. Associated with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_ice">Hawaiian shave ice</a>&nbsp;or Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakigōri">kakigori</a>.

Shaved Ice

One or more scoops of ice cream in a dessert bowl, variously topped with sprinkles, wafer rolls, or&nbsp;<a href="/cherries/">cherry&nbsp;</a>and syrup. Flavors vary from <a href="/soft-ice-cream/">vanilla</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/chocolate-bar/">chocolate</a>, and/or&nbsp;<a href="/strawberry/">strawberry&nbsp;</a>across platforms.

Ice Cream

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 golden-brown chocolate chip cookie&nbsp;or biscuit.&nbsp;Used to represent cookies or biscuits in general.

Samsung&#39;s original design featured a pair of pale&nbsp;square biscuits that also look like <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0/cookie/">saltine crackers</a>. Since then they have changed their design to be a single chocolate chip cookie.

Cookie

A baked dish with a pastry crust, filled with sweet or savory ingredients. Appearance widely varies by platform.

Apple depicts a whole pie in a tin, its crimped crust scored to let out steam. WhatsApp and Twitter&#39;s designs depict a slice of&nbsp;<a href="/cherries/">cherry</a>&nbsp;pie.&nbsp;

Google&#39;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/pie/">previously</a>&nbsp;showed&nbsp;a slice of&nbsp;<a href="/jack-o-lantern/">pumpkin&nbsp;</a>pie, as served at&nbsp;<a href="/thanksgiving/">Thanksgiving</a>.

A block of dark chocolate, usually shown in&nbsp;a&nbsp;red foil wrapper peeled back to show squares of the candy. WhatsApp displays the wrapper in purple, a color commonly associated with&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536592192943000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGlQIX6a9i-4pQfISaRDhOF02JTFA" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury" target="_blank">Cadbury</a>&nbsp;chocolate.

Chocolate Bar

A small piece of candy wrapped in plastic or wax paper with twists on its ends. Shape and color&nbsp;vary&nbsp;widely by platform. Facebook&rsquo;s design used to resemble&nbsp;a classic&nbsp;unwrapped red-and-white peppermint. May also be called sweets or lollies.

Candy

A colorful lollipop made of swirled hard candy attached to a stick. Colors vary by platform, though most designs show rainbow colors or pinks and reds.

<a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/lollipop/">Samsung</a>, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/lollipop/">Microsoft</a>, and <a href="/facebook/2.0/lollipop/">Facebook</a> all used to have pink and red designs, but have since opted for rainbow colors.&nbsp;

Lollipop

A golden-yellow custard dessert, as a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crème_caramel">cr&egrave;me caramel or flan</a>, topped with a layer of caramel. Shown on a plate, molded in a ramekin-shape and often in a pool of caramel sauce.

Custard

A golden-yellow pot&nbsp;of honey, as made by&nbsp;<a href="/honeybee/">bees&nbsp;</a>and desired by&nbsp;<a href="/bear/">bears</a>. Shown with the sweet substance oozing down its sides, often with a honey dipper inside the small vessel.&nbsp;

May be used figuratively, as the term of endearment &ldquo;honey.&rdquo;

Honey Pot

A cup of a steaming-hot beverage, usually taken as coffee or&nbsp;<a href="/teacup-without-handle/">tea</a>. Sometimes shown on a saucer.

Samsung&#39;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/hot-beverage/">previously featured</a>&nbsp;a foamy-white tulip latte art design.

May be paired with the&nbsp;<a href="/frog/">Frog Face&nbsp;</a>to represent the snarky&nbsp;<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/but-thats-none-of-my-business">But That&#39;s None of My Business meme</a>. Relatedly, can also be used alone to represent&nbsp;&quot;tea&quot; as per the slang phrase &quot;spill the tea&quot;,&nbsp;used to request the sharing of gossip,&nbsp;news, or personal information.

Hot Beverage

A tall glass of white milk, as from a&nbsp;<a href="/cow/">cow</a>&nbsp;but also other mammals, nuts, or plants. Most platforms depict a glass filled near to the brim, but some show a glass half-full&mdash;or half-empty.

Glass of Milk

Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sake">sake</a>, an alcoholic beverage made from rice. Shown as a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sake_set">sake set</a>&nbsp;with a carafe (tokkuri) and drinking cup (choko). Most platforms show a&nbsp;cream colored sake set&nbsp;with a blue or red stripe motif. Samsung&#39;s design used to show&nbsp;the Japanese script for &#39;sake&#39;&nbsp;in red along the side of the carafe.

Sake Bottle and Cup

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

The flaky, golden-brown&nbsp;<a href="/crescent-moon/" title="🌙 Crescent Moon">crescent&nbsp;</a>of a croissant, a breakfast pastry associated with <a href="/flag-france/" title="🇫🇷 Flag For France">France&nbsp;</a>and&nbsp;<a href="/flag-austria/" title="🇦🇹 Flag For Austria">Austria</a>.

The croissant emoji <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@washingtonpost/video/7185665025246432558?lang=en">went viral on Tiktok</a> in January 2023.

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Croissant

A classic teapot with a wide bulbous body, a spout, a handle, and a lid. Can be used to talk about tea, tea time, or warm beverages in general.

May also be used to talk about gossip as in the expression spill the tea.

Teapot

A pale yellow stick of butter. Can be used to talk about cooking or eating. Might also be used in idioms or to reference something that is smooth.

Butter

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Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

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Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Google Noto Color Emoji

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Samsung

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.

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Microsoft

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

WhatsApp

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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Twitter / X

Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Facebook

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Huawei

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.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

Telegram

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

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Skype

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Twitter Emoji Stickers

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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JoyPixels

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

Sony Playstation

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

Noto Emoji Font

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

OpenMoji

A licensable emoji design set.

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Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

Emojipedia Sample Images

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

SerenityOS

Unicode 11.0 was released on June 5,&nbsp;2018.&nbsp;Emojis that require new code points for release are listed on this page&nbsp;but for the full 2018 emoji list&nbsp;see&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>.

Emoji 11.0 includes every new emoji, including variations for skin tone, gender and new emojis that don&#39;t require additional code points, such as the <a href="/chess-pawn/">chess pawn</a> or <a href="/pirate-flag/">pirate flag</a> which are not shown on this page.

A minor emoji update that changed the <a href="/racing-car">🏎️ Racing Car</a> emoji as part of a campaign by WhatsApp and the&nbsp;Mercedes-Benz F1 team.

2.24.8.85

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>.

2.19.352

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2.19.175

The first WhatsApp release to include a <a href="/transgender-flag/">Transgender Flag</a>; as well as giving emoji presentation to the <a href="/transgender-symbol/">Transgender Sign</a> Unicode character. Also includes minor design changes to a number of emojis. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whatsapp-2-19-62-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

2.19.62

Released on January 15&nbsp;2019, this update includes a number of design changes. <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a> support came out <a href="/whatsapp/2.18.379/new/">one month prior to this release</a>, and as such no new emojis are included in this version. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whatsapp-2-19-7-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

2.19.7

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.

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