Apple

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Bluesky

Clubhouse

Discord

Docomo

Dropbox

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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

Panasonic

Roblox

Samsung

SerenityOS

Sharp

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

WhatsApp (Animated)

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

Fantasy & Magic

Father’s Day

Festivus

Four Twenty / 420

Gestures

Graduation

Guy Fawkes

Halloween

Handshakes

Hanukkah

Happy

Hearts

Holi

Independence Day

International Women's Day

Japanese Culture

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

Zodiac & Star Signs

Smileys

People

Animals & Nature

Food & Drink

Activity

Travel & Places

Objects

Symbols

Flags

A couch (sofa) with a floor lamp on the right, as in the&nbsp;living room of a <a href="/house/">house</a>. Color and style of the couch and lamp vary widely by platform.&nbsp;Used for various content concerning furniture and housing as well as resting and lounging.

Couch and Lamp

A yellow face with eyes closed and mouth letting out three, cartoon-styled&nbsp;<a href="/zzz/">Zzz</a>&rsquo;s overhead to indicate it&#39;s sound asleep. The Zzz&rsquo;s appear&nbsp;blue or purple across most platforms. May also represent boredom (slang, snooze).

Generally used instead of <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪 Sleepy Face</a> to convey sleep&nbsp;or sleepiness.

Sleeping Face

A supernatural being, which is generally&nbsp;shown to be&nbsp;imprisoned within a bottle or lamp. May be&nbsp;capable of granting wishes when summoned. Variations exist for a <a href="/woman-genie/">female genie</a> or <a href="/man-genie/">male genie</a>.

Several vendors&#39; design for this emoji is highly reminiscent of The Genie character from Disney&#39;s Aladdin&nbsp;films.

Genie

A bed with a gender-unspecified person sleeping in it, as at a <a href="/house/">house</a>, <a href="/hotel/">hotel</a>,&nbsp;hostel, or other sleeping accommodation. Used especially for various content concerning <a href="/sleeping-face/">sleeping</a> as well as beds, furniture, housing, relaxing, and other bedroom activities.

Shown with a headboard at the left&nbsp;and footboard with a person under the covers, head on the pillow. Most platforms suggest a wooden frame and feature blue or red sheets.

The appearance of the person varies. Apple and Facebook&#39;s designs show only the hair of the sleeper, Apple&#39;s black and Facebook&#39;s brown and tousled. Other major vendors show the head of the sleeper in default yellow with short, brown or blonde&nbsp;hair. Skin tone support is not recommended for this emoji, though it is supported&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://emojipedia.org/sleeping-accommodation-type-4/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1550338562835000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHzfwaURXq7FmOe4Z-btvsniTcb0Q" href="/person-in-bed-medium-skin-tone/" target="_blank">on some platforms</a>.

Vendors implement the same style&nbsp;of bed as for&nbsp;their <a href="/bed/">🛏️&nbsp;Bed</a>, but with a sleeper in it.

Sleeping Accommodation

A whole potato&mdash;such as a russet, used for baking, mashing, or frying&mdash;shown with a few eyes on its golden-brown skin. Not to be confused with the&nbsp;<a href="/roasted-sweet-potato/" title="🍠 Roasted Sweet Potato">roasted sweet potato</a>.

Potato

The pod of the peanut, shown in its rounded, grooved, light-brown shell. Apple depicts a pair.

Can also be used to reference the use of &quot;peanut&quot; as a term of affection&nbsp;for young children, or to describe an insignificant sum of money (&quot;it cost peanuts&quot;).

May also be used for peanut butter as well&nbsp;as other edible nuts (e.g., almonds)&nbsp;or metaphorical ones, including slang for &ldquo;crazy&rdquo;, &ldquo;testicle&rdquo;, or <a href="/nsfw/">to nut</a>&nbsp;(ejaculate).

Peanuts

A beer, as a golden-colored&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lager">lager</a>, in a frosty mug. Depicted with a frothy head spilling over the brim.&nbsp;<a href="/clinking-beer-mugs/">🍻 Clinking Beer Mugs</a>&nbsp;is a variation&nbsp;that displays two such beer mugs.

Beer Mug

Two frosty mugs of&nbsp;<a href="/beer-mug/">beer&nbsp;</a>with frothy heads being clinked together, as done at a celebratory or convivial&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_(honor)">toast</a>&nbsp;(&ldquo;Cheers!&rdquo;). Several platforms include stylized lines to mark the clinking. See also&nbsp;<a href="/clinking-glasses/">🥂 Clinking Glasses</a>.

Clinking Beer Mugs

A house, otherwise known as a home when someone is living in it. Suitable for a couple or larger family, other perhaps housemates.

Distinct from an apartment building due to its detached form, this house is likely in the suburbs of a city or a&nbsp;rural area.

House Building

A hotel building,&nbsp;displayed on most platforms as a building with many windows and a letter H on the front.

Can be easily confused with the <a href="/love-hotel/" title="🏩 Love Hotel">Love Hotel</a>, or <a href="/hospital/" title="🏥 Hospital">Hospital</a> emoji.&nbsp;Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/hotel/">previously</a>&nbsp;depicted this emoji as a&nbsp;bed.

Hotel

A seat, which could refer to any form of place to&nbsp;sit, with the distinction that a seat is generally fixed,&nbsp;and is not a <a href="/chair/">chair</a> which can be moved.

This emoji is&nbsp;intended to be a seat&nbsp;on some form of mass-transit, such as on an <a href="/airplane/" title="✈ Airplane">airplane</a>, <a href="/train/" title="🚆 Train">train</a> or <a href="/bus/" title="🚌 Bus">bus</a>.&nbsp;Google previously&nbsp;displayed this as an <a href="/google/android-4.4/seat/" title="💺 Seat on Google Android 4.4">orange wooden&nbsp;chair</a>.

Seat

Ding! A call bell, as pressed at a front&nbsp;desk or reception&nbsp;to alert staff for service, such as from a <a href="/person-tipping-hand/">concierge</a> or bellhop (porter) to carry <a href="/luggage/">luggage</a> at a <a href="/hotel/">hotel</a>. Generally depicted as a golden <a href="/bell/">bell</a> on a wooden stand.

Commonly represents alerts or notifications to bring attention to important content. May also be used of various content concerning the hospitality and service industries.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/bellhop-bell/">previously</a>&nbsp;featured&nbsp;a silver bell radiating yellow rays, as if ringing.

Bellhop Bell

A burning candle, as lit when taking a <a href="/person-taking-bath/">bath</a> or the power is out. Depicted as a white, pillar-shaped candle with a <a href="/fire/">flame</a> and wax dripping down its sides.

Used for a wide array of content, such as various senses of light, <a href="/birthday/">birthdays</a>, remembrance, relaxation, and topics concerning <a href="/christmas">Christmas</a>, religion and <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a>. Notably featured in the <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/summoning-circle">Summoning Circle</a> meme on Twitter.

Apple&#39;s&nbsp;candle&nbsp;is in a silver holder. Samsung&rsquo;s candle was <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/candle/">previously pink</a>, perhaps as in a <a href="/birthday-cake/">birthday cake</a>.

Candle

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

A red paper lantern, as hangs outside an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izakaya">izakaya</a>, a Japanese bar that serves drinks and casual food. Generally depicted as cylindrical with a black top and base and soft, orange glow.

May be used to represent various lights and lanterns as well as for its red color.

Izakaya Lantern

A lamp made of brass or clay, displayed with a lit&nbsp;wick leading into oil or ghee.

Commonly used in&nbsp;Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Zoroastrian religious festivals such as <a href="/diwali/">Diwali</a>.

Diya Lamp

A bed, made up for sleeping in a <a href="/house/">house</a>, <a href="/hotel/">hotel</a>, or other <a href="/person-in-bed/">sleeping accommodation</a>. Shown with a headboard at the left, footboard, mattress, pillow, and sheet. Most platforms suggest a wooden frame and feature blue or red sheets.

Commonly used for various content concerning beds, furniture, and housing as well as <a href="/sleeping-face/">sleeping</a>, relaxing, and other bedroom activities.

Vendors implement the same style of bed for <a href="/person-in-bed/">🛌&nbsp;Person in Bed</a>, but without a sleeper under the covers.

A simple wooden chair.

Distinct from 💺&nbsp;<a href="/seat/">Seat</a>, which&nbsp;is generally depicted as a fixed plane, train, or bus seat, as opposed to a chair&nbsp;which can be moved.

May have sexual connotations (e.g.,&nbsp;sit on my face).

In 2021 this emoji was also used on&nbsp;<a href="/tiktok/">TikTok</a>&nbsp;to signify laughter or approval or to create confusion for people not in the know. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/10-years-of-viral-emoji-moments/">Learn more here.</a>

Chair

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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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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.

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

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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