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A friendly, cartoon-styled face of bear, looking straight ahead. Depicted as a brown bear with round ears and a tan muzzle.&nbsp;Resembles a <a href="/teddy-bear/">teddy bear</a>.

Often used with an affectionate tone. Does not have a full-bodied bear emoji counterpart.

May be used to refer to certain members of the <a href="/pride">LGBTQ</a> community, a la the slang term &quot;bear&quot;.

Available as an Apple <a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Samsung&rsquo;s bear was <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/bear/">previously</a> golden brown.

Bear Face

Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.

View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.

Zero Width Joiner

The unique, feathery ice crystal of a snowflake. Depicted as a bluish-white snowflake with six&nbsp;intricate&nbsp;symmetrical branches.

Like <a href="/cloud-with-snow/">🌨️ Cloud With Snow</a>, may be used as a weather icon to represent a snowstorm or a cold, snowy day. May also be used for various content concerning wintertime, <a href="/snow-capped-mountain/">cold climates</a>, and winter activity, such as <a href="/skis/">skiing</a>.

Sometimes used as an insult to call a person&nbsp;weak and&nbsp;oversensitive.

Snowflake

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of polar bear, looking straight ahead. Depicted as the&nbsp;face of a&nbsp;white bear with round ears.

WhatsApp <a href="/whatsapp/2.20.206.24/polar-bear/">previously</a> showed&nbsp;the full body of the bear.

13.0

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a panda&mdash;a bear-like mammal known for eating bamboo&mdash;looking straight ahead. Depicted as a white panda face with black ears and black circles around its eyes.

Often used with an affectionate tone and in association with <a href="/flag-china/">China</a>, where the animal is found. Sometimes&nbsp;used to represent a red panda. Does not have a full-bodied panda emoji counterpart.

Available as an Apple <a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Google and Facebook&rsquo;s pandas are shown smiling with an open mouth and tongue.

Panda Face

A pair of paw prints, as left by a pet <a href="/cat/">🐈 cat</a> or <a href="/dog/">🐕 dog</a>. Generally depicted as two, staggered, dark-colored paw prints, each showing four toes and a pad.

Commonly used for various content concerning pet cats and dogs. Occasionally applied to other quadruped mammals. See also <a href="/footprints/">👣 Footprints</a>.

<a href="/apple/ios-6.0/paw-prints/">Apple</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-8.0/paw-prints/">Google</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/2.0/paw-prints/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> prints were previously red, while <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/paw-prints/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> were orange. Facebook&#39;s earliest design&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/1.0/paw-prints/">originally</a> displayed human footprints.

Paw Prints

A gray seal with dark eyes and a dark nose. Most platforms feature a design with whiskers.

Can be used to talk about seals, marine life, or cute animals in general. May also be used in phrases with &#39;sealed&#39; as in sealed with a kiss, my lips are sealed, or&nbsp;signed, sealed, and delivered.

Seal

A blue cube of ice. Can be used to talk about ice or cold temperatures in general. This emoji can also be used metaphorically to talk about something that is cool or chill.

Ice Cube

A mountain with snow resting at higher altitudes. Similar in appearance to the <a href="/mount-fuji/" title="🗻 Mount Fuji">Mount Fuji</a> emoji.

Snow Capped Mountain

A snow cloud. Depicted as blue <a href="/snowflake/">snowflakes</a> falling from a white cloud.

May be used as a weather icon to represent snow showers or a snowy day.

Not to be confused with <a href="/cloud-with-rain/">🌧️ Cloud With Rain</a>.

Cloud with Snow

A classic teddy bear, as snuggled by a <a href="/child/">child</a>&nbsp;when going to sleep.

Depicted as a brown, stuffed toy bear, shown seated with its arms to the sides, hind paw pads facing forward, and a friendly smile on its face. Google, WhatsApp, and Twitter&#39;s&nbsp;designs include a <a href="/ribbon/">ribbon</a> around the&nbsp;neck, while Facebook&#39;s is wearing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_tie">bow tie</a>.

Commonly used to convey something or someone is cute or cuddly (e.g., teddy bear as a term of endearment) as well as other warm, loving sentiments (e.g., get well soon). May also be used for various content concerning toys and children more generally.

Not to be confused with <a href="/bear/">🐻 Bear Face</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Teddy Bear

The flag for Greenland, which may show as the letters&nbsp;GL&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Greenland

The flag for Svalbard &amp; Jan Mayen, which may show as the letters&nbsp;SJ&nbsp;on some platforms.&nbsp;This is the same flag as&nbsp;<a href="/flag-norway/" title="🇳🇴 Flag for Norway">Norway</a>.

Flag: Svalbard & Jan Mayen

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Polar Bear

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.

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

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, Roblox, 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.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

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

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

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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Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

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)

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>.

🐻‍❄️ Polar Bear on WhatsApp 2.23.2.72

🐻‍❄️ Polar Bear on WhatsApp 2.23.2.72

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