Approved in September 2024 as part of <a href="/emoji-16.0">Emoji 16.0</a>. Expected to arrive on platforms in late 2024 and throughout 2025.

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The palm of a hand with the fingers spread apart. Held in a manner that may indicate the number five. Similar to <a href="/waving-hand/" title="👋 Waving Hand Sign">👋 Waving Hand</a>, but without any motion.

Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed

A hand held up showing its palm. May be used to mean stop, or as a high-five.

Raised Hand

Index finger pointing upward, showing the back of the hand while doing so.

White Up Pointing Backhand Index

A single finger pointing upward,&nbsp;which could be used to represent the number one, or to&nbsp;ask a question.

White Up Pointing Index

A police officer wearing&nbsp;a blue hat&nbsp;with a gold badge or shield in the middle.

See also <a href="/woman-police-officer/">👮&zwj;♀️ Woman Police Officer</a> or&nbsp;<a href="/man-police-officer/">👮&zwj;♂️ Man Police Officer</a>

Police Officer

The male version of the <a href="/police-officer/">👮&nbsp;Police Officer</a> emoji. Currently identical in appearance to the non-gendered base emoji.

Man Police Officer

The female version of the <a href="/police-officer/">👮&nbsp;Police Officer</a> emoji.

Woman Police Officer

An undercover investigator,&nbsp;wearing a hat, and sometimes using a <a href="/magnifying-glass-tilted-right/" title=" 🔎 Right-Pointing Magnifying Glass">magnifying glass</a> to closely inspect evidence. This emoji did not originally recommend emoji modifiers, but a <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-spy-proposal/">proposal</a> was created&nbsp;to address this.

Sleuth or Spy

The male version of the <a href="/detective/">🕵&nbsp;Sleuth or Spy</a>&nbsp;emoji.&nbsp;Currently identical in appearance to the non-gendered base emoji.

Man Detective

The female version of the <a href="/detective/">🕵&nbsp;Sleuth or Spy</a> emoji.

Woman Detective

Two human footsteps, &nbsp;showing the outline of both feet, including all five toes.

Footprints

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 <a title="👮 Police Officer" href="/police-officer/">police</a> car, shown with an <a title="🚨 Police Cars Revolving Light" href="/police-car-light/">emergency light</a> on the top.
This emoji is displayed from the side, as opposed to the <a title="🚔 Oncoming Police Car" href="/oncoming-police-car/">oncoming police car</a> emoji, which is shown from the front.

Police Car

A <a title="👮 Police Officer" href="/police-officer/">police</a> car, shown with an <a title="🚨 Police Cars Revolving Light" href="/police-car-light/">emergency light</a> on the top.
This emoji is displayed from the front, as opposed to the <a title="🚓 Police Car" href="/police-car/">police car</a> emoji, which is shown from the side.

Oncoming Police Car

A revolving red light seen on top of a <a title="🚓 Police Car" href="/police-car/">police car</a>. Often used in emergency circumstances in addition to a siren making a loud <a title="📯 Postal Horn" href="/postal-horn/">warning sound</a>.

Police Cars Revolving Light

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 classic magnifying glass, as used to view small objects, with its lens pointed left.&nbsp;Generally depicted at a 45&deg; angle with a black handle and a clear or blue, silver-framed lens titled to the upper left.

Associated with <a href="/detective/">detectives</a> and search or zoom icons on computers.&nbsp;Like <a href="/magnifying-glass-tilted-right/">🔎 Magnifying Glass Titled Right</a>, commonly used for various senses of searching, looking, inspecting, etc.

Left-Pointing Magnifying Glass

A classic magnifying glass, as used to view small objects, with its lens pointed right.&nbsp;Generally depicted at a 45&deg; angle with a black handle and a clear or blue, silver-framed lens titled to the upper right.

Associated with <a href="/detective/">detectives</a> and search or zoom icons on computers.&nbsp;Like <a href="/magnifying-glass-tilted-left/">🔍 Magnifying Glass Titled Left</a>, commonly used for various senses of searching, looking, inspecting, etc.

Right-Pointing Magnifying Glass

An identification card with a portrait and words. May be used to remind people to bring or show an id. May also be used in the context of a fake id.

Identification Card

Squared ID

L2/23-258

L2/23‑258

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

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

Noto Emoji Font

Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

Emojipedia Sample Images

Unicode 16.0 is the version of the <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a> released on 10 September 2024, with the emojis added in this update expected to come to major platforms in late 2024 and throughout 2025.&nbsp;

Unicode 16.0&nbsp;introduced a total of 5,185 new characters, of which 7 were new emoji code points. This brought the total number of characters encoded within Unicode to&nbsp;154,998.

All the emojis recommended within Unicode 16.0 were also included within <a href="/emoji-16.0">Emoji 16.0</a>, which also featured one additional emoji sequence.

📝&nbsp;<a href="https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/">Unicode 16.0 details on Unicode.org</a>

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