A classic camera, shown with its flash going off, as to illuminate a darker scene. Vendors implement the same design as <a href="/camera/">📷 Camera</a> with a burst of light, often&nbsp;resembling <a href="/collision/">💥 Collision</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning photography as well as an icon for a picture, as before an upload, link, or credit.

Camera with Flash

A yellow face with smiling eyes and full-toothed grin, as if saying Cheese!&nbsp;for the camera.&nbsp;Teeth may be smoothed-over or crosshatched. Often expresses a radiant, gratified happiness. Tone varies, including warm, silly, amused, or proud.

<a href="/apple/ios-6.0/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">Prior to 2017</a>, Apple&#39;s design resembled its&nbsp;<a href="/grimacing-face/">😬 Grimacing Face</a>.

Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes

A cartoon-styled representation of a collision. Depicted as a star-like, orange-and-yellow fiery burst, generally with one point extending to the bottom right, as if from the source of the collision.

May be used to represent various types of bangs, explosions, or crashes. Like <a href="/fire/">🔥 Fire</a> and <a href="/hundred-points/">💯 Hundred Points</a>, commonly used to represent something is excellent or exciting in some way.

Apple implements a version of 💥 Collision in its <a href="/firecracker/">🧨 Firecracker</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/camera-with-flash/">📸 Camera With Flash</a>.

Collision Symbol

A&nbsp;<a href="/mobile-phone/" title="📱 Mobile Phone">mobile&nbsp;phone</a> held up to take a selfie (photo of the person holding the phone or camera). Generally represented as a disembodied arm holding a mobile phone.

Selfie

A wedge of yellow-orange cheese with holes, like a Swiss, but used for the food in general. May be used for various cheese-related slang expressions (e.g., &ldquo;cheesy,&rdquo; &ldquo;say cheese,&rdquo; &ldquo;big cheese&rdquo;).

Cheese Wedge

A framed picture of a painting or photograph, as displayed in a gallery or on a household wall. Vendors feature various scenes, though generally a lush, sunny landscape of hills and <a href="/mountain/">mountains</a>, in a gold frame.

Commonly used for various content concerning&nbsp;art, museums, and interior design and decor. May also be used as an icon for a picture, as before an upload, link, or credit.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-11/framed-picture/">previously</a> showed <a href="/ninja-cat/">Ninja Cat</a>.&nbsp;An&nbsp;earlier Microsoft&nbsp;design&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/framed-picture/">featured</a>&nbsp;the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa">Mona Lisa</a>, as did a previous&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/framed-picture/">Samsung</a>&nbsp;design. Google&#39;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/framed-picture/">previously</a> displayed&nbsp;the scene depicted in its&nbsp;<a href="/national-park/">🏞️ National Park</a>&nbsp;emoji.

Frame with Picture

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager">pager</a>, as worn on the waist to alert a person to a phone call&nbsp;or short text message. Popular in the 1980&ndash;90s before <a href="/mobile-phone/">mobile phones</a>, though still used by some medical and emergency personnel. Very occasionally used to represent alerts, digital communication, or nostalgia for old technology.

Depicted as a black device with operating buttons and a green screen displaying various&nbsp;numbers across platforms, including:

<ul>
	<li>Apple: 555-3215 (555 is commonly used for fake numbers in the US)</li>
	<li>Google: 1998 (the year Google was founded; <a href="/google/android-8.0/pager/">previously</a>&nbsp;showed 8888, the&nbsp;<a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns">Google DNS</a> IP address)</li>
	<li>Microsoft: [indecipherable]</li>
	<li>Samsung: 954-5684 (unknown origin;&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/pager/">previously</a>&nbsp;showed SUNMOON)</li>
	<li>WhatsApp: 867-5309 (an allusion to the 1980s hit song&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny">&quot;867-5309/Jenny&quot;</a>)</li>
	<li>Twitter: 40404 (Twitter&#39;s discontinued <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2010/introducing-fast-follow-and-other-sms-tips.html">SMS number</a>)</li>
	<li>Facebook: 543-4800 (Facebook Inc&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitepages.com/phone/1-650-543-4800">phone number</a>;&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/2.0/pager/">previously</a>&nbsp;showed 02 04 20 04, referring to the company&#39;s launch date)</li>
</ul>

Pager

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax">fax</a> machine, as scans and transmits documents over a telephone line. Common in the 1980&ndash;90s before the internet. Depicted as a white or black machine with a <a href="/telephone-receiver/">telephone handset</a>, keypad, display screen, and paper in its tray.

Sometimes used in emoji&nbsp;form as&nbsp;an alternative to the words&nbsp;facts, due to the similarity of pronounciation. In a sentence:&nbsp;&quot;all 📠 no 🖨&quot;

Fax Machine

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc">minidisc</a>, depicted as a small, silver or gold <a href="/optical-disk/">optical disc</a> housed in a square cartridge, its shutter positioned to the right.

<a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/sony-announces-the-end-of-the-minidisc/">Discontinued</a> as an audio and data storage format in 2013 due to the success of CD and MP3 technology, though the emoji is commonly used to represent CDs, DVDs, and related film and music content, especially albums.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/computer-disk/">previously featured</a> a silver disc labeled MD, for minidisc. <a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/computer-disk/">Early designs</a> from au by KDDI showed an angled <a href="/floppy-disk/">💾 Floppy Disk</a>, perhaps as being inserted or ejected into a computer drive.

See also <a href="/optical-disk/">💿 Optical Disc</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/dvd/">📀 DVD</a>.

Minidisc

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5_floppy">3.5-inch floppy disk</a>, a data storage format popular in the 1980&ndash;90s but largely preserved as a Save icon in computer programs. Shown with its silver shutter positioned up and in a black housing with&nbsp;a white label, accented with blue or red.

Occasionally used for various content concerning computers, including nostalgia for old technology, as well as to represent electronic saving.

Floppy Disk

A classic movie camera. Depicted as a black camera with two mounted reels of <a href="/film-frames/">film</a>, viewfinder, and lens pointed left or right.

Commonly used for various content concerning movies, film, and video as well as an icon for a video, as before an upload, link, or credit. May also be used in relation to the 2017&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-movie/">Emoji Movie</a>.

Facebook&rsquo;s design <a href="/facebook/1.0/movie-camera/">previously resembled</a> a <a href="/video-camera/">video camera</a> mounted on a tripod.

Not to be confused with <a href="/film-projector/">📽️ Film Projector</a>.

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Movie Camera

A strip of film, as used in a&nbsp;<a href="/movie-camera/">movie camera</a> or <a href="/camera/">photography</a>. Generally depicted as several&nbsp;horizontal frames of unexposed film with black trim and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_perforations">perforations</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning movies, film, video, and photography as well as an icon for a video or picture, as before an upload, link, or credit.

Apple&rsquo;s design features an S-shaped, sepia-tinged strip.

Film Frames

A classic camera, as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-lens_reflex_camera">SLR</a>&nbsp;used to take pictures before <a href="/mobile-phone/">camera phones</a>. Generally depicted with a black and silver casing with lens and operating controls.

Commonly used for various content concerning photography as well as an icon for a picture, as before an upload, link, or credit.

See also <a href="/camera-with-flash/">📸 Camera With Flash</a>.

Camera

A video camera, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camcorder">camcorder</a> used to film home videos in the 1980&ndash;90s. Generally depicted as a gray or black video camera with viewfinder, control buttons, and lens pointed&nbsp;left.

Commonly used for various content concerning film and video as well as an icon for a video, as before an upload, link, or credit.

Samsung&rsquo;s is fitted with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>. Google&rsquo;s design was <a href="/google/android-8.0/video-camera/">once&nbsp;blue</a> and also&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-7.0/video-camera/">previously featured</a> a flip screen.

Video Camera

A light bulb, as screwed into a <a href="/couch-and-lamp/">lamp</a> to light a room. Depicted as an incandescent bulb with a silver base, often shown with filament and a soft, yellow-white glow.

Commonly used to represent ideas (as over a head in a cartoon), thinking, and learning, often as paired with <a href="/thinking-face/">🤔 Thinking Face</a> or <a href="/thought-balloon/">💭 Thought Balloon</a>. May also represent various&nbsp;senses of light and brightness.

Electric Light Bulb

An everyday flashlight (electric torch), as used when the power goes out,&nbsp;<a href="/camping/">camping</a>, or telling scary stories. Generally depicted at a 45&deg; angle as a gray and black device with a switch, shown illuminated on many platforms.

Used for various content concerning and senses of&nbsp;light and lighting (e.g., spotlight).

Google&rsquo;s flashlight was <a href="/google/android-11.0/flashlight/">previously</a>&nbsp;orange.

Electric Torch

An emoji representing the cinema: a&nbsp;large screen showing the latest movies, available to the public. Displayed by most platforms as a film projector symbol, and previously&nbsp;by <a href="/google/android-4.4/cinema/">Google</a> and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/cinema/">Microsoft</a> as a cinema screen with curtains.

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

Apple

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

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

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

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, 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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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

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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JoyPixels

An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

JoyPixels Animations

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 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

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

SerenityOS

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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Icons8

An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

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The Unicode Consortium approved the following characters as part of <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/">Unicode 7.0</a>, released on June 16, 2014.&nbsp;Support for these emoji characters rely on updates from platform vendors such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Initially, 250&nbsp;new characters in Unicode 7.0 were approved for emoji presentation, however this was later reduced to 103 Standard Additions which are listed below. The other characters remain part of Unicode, but are not recommended&nbsp;to be included as emojis.

The exception to this was the <a href="/left-speech-bubble/" title="🗨 Left Speech Bubble">Left Speech Bubble</a>, and as such wasn&#39;t initially specified on other platforms as an emoji. A later-accepted&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-spy-proposal/">proposal</a>&nbsp;updated this.

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