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Flags

A crayon, as children use to color. Depicted as red on most platforms with two black stripes on its label, resembling a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayola#Crayons">Crayola crayon</a>. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, its tip at the lower left. Commonly used for various content concerning drawing, colors, arts and crafts, and schooling.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s crayon is green while Facebook&rsquo;s is orange.

Lower Left Crayon

A hand holding a <a href="/pen/" title="🖊 Lower Left Ballpoint Pen">pen</a> or <a href="/pencil/" title="✏️ Pencil">pencil</a> and writing. Most often shown as holding either a blue or black pen, though Microsoft&#39;s design has a red pen. LG&#39;s design displays a left hand, while all other platforms show&nbsp;a right hand. Used broadly to represent writing.

Also used between words to show that a lesson is being learned and to indicate someone is taking notes. For example, ✍️look✍️both✍️ways✍️before✍️you✍️cross✍️the✍️street. This use&nbsp;was popularized in <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-happens-in-the-tiktok-comments/">TikTok comments</a>. It uses the established practice of placing emojis between words for emphasis. Possibly influenced by the emphatic use of <a href="/clapping-hands/">👏 Clapping Hands</a>, which reflects speech-gesture pairings in Black English in the United States.

Writing Hand

A man standing in front of a chalkboard (aka blackboard) with the intention of teaching a class.&nbsp;Often shown holding a&nbsp;<a href="/closed-book/">📕 Closed Book</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(rod)">pointer</a>.

Man Teacher

A woman standing in front of a chalkboard (aka blackboard) with the intention of teaching a class.&nbsp;Often shown holding a&nbsp;<a href="/closed-book/">📕 Closed Book</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(rod)">pointer</a>.

Woman Teacher

A man engaged in the visual art of painting, shown holding a <a href="/artist-palette">palette</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/paintbrush">paintbrush</a>.

Man Artist

A woman engaged in the visual art of painting, shown holding a <a href="/artist-palette">palette</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/paintbrush">paintbrush</a>.

Woman Artist

A classic red apple, shown with a stem and single, green leaf on major platforms. Commonly associated with&nbsp;<a href="/woman-health-worker/">doctors</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/man-teacher/">teachers</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/statue-of-liberty/">New York</a>.

Red Apple

A school building with multiple storeys, and a clock on the front. A place that children or teenagers attend for their education.

This emoji tends to spike in use in September when many Northern Hemisphere countries&#39; schools reopen after their&nbsp;<a href="/summer">summer</a> holidays.

Previously displayed&nbsp;on <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/school/">Windows </a>as&nbsp;a collection of school-related items: an <a href="/red-apple/" title="🍎 Red Apple">apple</a>, <a href="/straight-ruler/" title="📏 Straight Ruler">ruler</a>, and <a href="/pencil/" title="✏ Pencil">pencil</a>.

School

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/Palette_(painting)">palette</a> used by an artist when painting, to store and mix paint colors.

Artist Palette

A spool of thread, as used for sewing. Thread color varies across platforms, though often depicted in red or blue and on a wooden spool. Sometimes shown with an end unraveling.

Commonly used for various content concerning sewing, knitting, arts and crafts, clothing and fashion, and metaphorical threads (e.g., a discussion thread online).

WhatsApp&nbsp;and Microsoft&#39;s&nbsp;designs includes a needle.

Spool of Thread

A ball of yarn, as used to knit a <a href="/scarf/">scarf</a>. Color varies across platforms, but often depicted in green, blue, or magenta and shown with an end unraveling. Sometimes depicted with a pair of knitting needles stuck in the ball.

Commonly used for various content concerning knitting and needlework (e.g., <a href="/thread/">sewing</a>,&nbsp;crocheting), clothing and fashion, arts and crafts, cold weather, and cats.

Ball of Yarn

A school bag Emoji (also called a satchel) used by children attending school to carry books, lunch, and other personal belongings.

School Satchel

A classic yellow pencil. Depicted as a graphite pencil, like a U.S. #2 or European HB, with a sharpened tip and pink eraser. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, with its tip at the lower left or right. Commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, and schooling.

Samsung&rsquo;s pencil was <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/pencil/">previously red</a>, Google&rsquo;s <a href="/google/android-7.0/pencil/">green</a>.

Pencil

The silver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nib_(pen)">nib</a> of a fountain pen, which distributes ink onto a writing surface. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, with its tip at the lower left or right. Like&nbsp;<a href="/fountain-pen/">🖋️&nbsp;Fountain Pen</a>, commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, and signing (e.g., laws, deals, in sports).

Several platforms, including Google, Microsoft, and Samsung, depict only a nib, sometimes ringed with gold. Other platforms, including Apple and Twitter, feature the same designs as their <a href="/fountain-pen/">🖋️&nbsp;Fountain Pen</a>, but with their tips angled to the lower right.

Black Nib

A black fountain pen with a silver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nib_(pen)">nib</a>, as used for signing important documents. Often depicted with gold hardware. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle with its tip at the lower left. Like <a href="/black-nib/">✒️&nbsp;Black Nib</a>, commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, and signing (e.g., laws, deals, in sports).

Apple and Twitter&nbsp;feature the same designs as their <a href="/black-nib/">✒️&nbsp;Black Nib</a>, but with their tips angled to the lower left.

Lower Left Fountain Pen

A blue or black ballpoint pen, as used for everyday writing. Depicted with its cap removed onto its end or as retractable pen. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, its tip at the lower left. Commonly used for various content concerning writing (e.g., creative, professional) as well as signing (deals, laws, in sports).

Google&#39;s design <a href="/google/android-7.0/pen/">previously featured</a> a brown-colored pen. Not to be confused with <a href="/black-nib/">✒️&nbsp;Black Nib</a> or <a href="/fountain-pen/">🖋️&nbsp;Fountain Pen</a>, though their applications often overlap.

Lower Left Ballpoint Pen

A thin, artist&#39;s paintbrush, as used to paint a <a href="/framed-picture/">picture</a>. Often depicted with reddish paint on its pointed bristles. Positioned at a 45&deg; angle, its tip at the lower left.

Commonly used for various content concerning the art of painting or fine art more generally. Often paired with <a href="/artist-palette/">🎨&nbsp;Artist Palette</a>.

Lower Left Paintbrush

A ruler, as used to draw straight lines and measure distances. Variously depicted as a metal, wood, or plastic straightedge with length markings at a 45&deg; angle.

Commonly used for content concerning schooling,&nbsp;building, and&nbsp;measurement&nbsp;in various disciplines. May also represent various concepts of straightness and size.

Straight Ruler

A pair of scissors, as used to cut paper or <a href="/person-getting-haircut/">hair</a>. Generally shown open, blades down, with red handles. Commonly used for content concerning haircuts, fashion design, arts and crafts, and various senses of cutting.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s design features green handles with blades pointed up.

See the glossary for the term <a href="/glossary/#black" title="📖 Glossary">black</a> in Unicode character names.

Black Scissors

A circle shown in the color of red.

As with other color-based shape emojis (most notably the <a href="/hearts">hearts</a>), this emoji may be used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color.

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Large Red Circle

A square shown in the color red. May be used to represent anything red, including a&nbsp;red penalty card&nbsp;in football (soccer).

Large Red Square

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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.

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