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Emojipedia Sample Images

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Microsoft 3D Fluent

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Mozilla

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Noto Color Emoji, Animated

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Flags

A star with six points, and a dot in the center. Similar to the <a href="/star-of-david/" title="✡ Star of David">Star of David emoji</a>.

Six Pointed Star with Middle Dot

A decorative&nbsp;<a href="/exclamation-mark/" title=" ❗ Heavy Exclamation Mark Symbol">exclamation mark</a>, where a heart forms the top part of the symbol, and a circle the lower part. Similar to the way to the <a href="/person-in-suit-levitating/" title=" 🕴 Man in Business Suit Levitating">man in business suit levitating</a>&nbsp;also creates a similar shape.

Heavy Heart Exclamation Mark Ornament

A cartoon-styled representation of <a href="/dizzy-face/">dizziness</a>. Generally depicted as one or more yellow stars swirling in a yellow or blue circle.

Resembles <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexicon_of_Comicana">squeans</a>, stylized stars and circles over the heads of characters in comics and animation to show they are dizzy, <a href="/woozy-face/">disoriented</a>, intoxicated, or <a href="/nauseated-face/">sick</a>.

Commonly used for emphasis and flair or to indicate various positive sentiments. Like <a href="/shooting-star/">🌠 Shooting Star</a>, sometimes used as a visual reference to NBC&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_More_You_Know">More You Know</a> public service announcement, popular in the 1990s and featuring a&nbsp;shooting star logo.

Not to be confused with <a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>, <a href="/glowing-star/">🌟 Glowing Star</a>, and <a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Facebook&rsquo;s design features two stars spinning along two intersecting purple circles, though it <a href="/facebook/2.0/dizzy/">previously</a> only featured one&nbsp;yellow ring. <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/dizzy/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> design previously displayed several yellow circles and stars.

Dizzy Symbol

A synague; a place of worship for followers of Judaism. Displayed with a <a href="/dotted-six-pointed-star/" title="🔯 Six Pointed Star With Middle Dot">Star of David</a> on the front.

Synagogue

A night sky with stars, depicted on major platforms as a <a href="/sunset/" title="🌇 Sunset Over Buildings">cityscape</a> at night.

Night with Stars

A classic, five-point gold star.

Commonly used for various metaphorical senses of star (e.g., for fame, success, excellence, reviews). Also used for emphasis or flair. Occasionally used for astronomical stars.

Not to be confused with <a href="/dizzy/">💫 Dizzy</a>, <a href="/glowing-star/">🌟 Glowing Star</a>, <a href="/shooting-star/">🌠 Shooting Star</a>, or <a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a>, though their applications may overlap.

<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/star/">Samsung</a> and <a href="/facebook/1.0/star/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> stars were once silver.

See the glossary for the term <a href="/glossary/#white">white</a> in Unicode character names.

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White Medium Star

A glowing, five-point gold star. Depicted as <a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a> with stylized bursts in between its points, representing glowing or twinkling.

Commonly used to represent various senses of glowing as well for as for a sense of flourish. Not to be confused with <a href="/dizzy/">💫 Dizzy</a>, <a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>, <a href="/shooting-star/">🌠 Shooting Star</a>, or <a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a>, though their applications may overlap.

On <a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a>, this emoji displays next to a&nbsp;contact who has had their&nbsp;snaps replayed&nbsp;in the past 24 hours.

Microsoft&rsquo;s bursts were <a href="/glowing-star/">previously</a>&nbsp;blue lines,&nbsp;Apple&rsquo;s star <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/glowing-star/">previously</a> resembled its <a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>&nbsp;emoji, and&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s star <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/glowing-star/">previously</a> displayed a burst radiating out from its center.

Glowing Star

A stylized representation of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_Star">shooting star</a>, a small, fast meteor that burns up in the atmosphere. Generally depicted as a gold, five-point star trailing&nbsp;yellow motion lines against a night sky, as if moving down to the left.

May be used for astronomical stars and other content concerning space. Also may be used for flair or flourish. Sometimes used as a visual reference to NBC&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_More_You_Know">More You Know</a> public service announcement, popular in the 1990s and featuring a&nbsp;shooting star logo.

Not to be confused with <a href="/dizzy/">💫 Dizzy</a>, <a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>, <a href="/glowing-star/">🌟&nbsp;Glowing&nbsp;Star</a>, or <a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Google&rsquo;s star was <a href="/google/android-8.0/shooting-star/">previously</a> trailed, without backdrop, by yellow lines, though these lines&nbsp;were blue in an even <a href="/google/android-7.0/shooting-star/">earlier</a> design. Microsoft&rsquo;s star was also previously&nbsp;trailed, without backdrop, by blue lines, though they were <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/shooting-star/">yellow before</a> that.

Shooting Star

A symbol often used in relation to the religion&nbsp;of&nbsp;Judaism. Not to be confused with the&nbsp;<a href="/dotted-six-pointed-star/" title="🔯 Six Pointed Star With Middle Dot">Six Pointed Star With Middle Dot emoji</a>.

Star of David

A star with eight points, that is commonly shown in orange, and for some reason, with only four points.

See the glossary for information on the term&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#black" title="📖 Glossary">black</a> in unicode character names.

Eight Pointed Black Star

A glyph that is used for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii">kawaii</a> in Japan, resembling&nbsp;the shape of a&nbsp;flower.

Google&#39;s design previously resembled a <a href="/google/android-4.4/diamond-with-a-dot/">flower</a>, while Samsung&#39;s <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/diamond-with-a-dot/">previously displayed</a> a white symbol on a blue square.

Note: this emoji is not supported in Twitter / X names,&nbsp;to minimize confusion with a verified checkmark. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-you-cant-use-these-emojis-in-your-twitter-name/">Learn more here</a>.

Diamond Shape with a Dot Inside

Die Face-6

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Emojipedia

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.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a> to support emoji.

Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.

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