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Icons8

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Microsoft 3D Fluent

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Mozilla

MSN Messenger

Nintendo

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

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OpenMoji

Panasonic

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Samsung

SerenityOS

Sharp

Signal

Sina Weibo

Skype

Slack

Snapchat

SoftBank

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Telegram

TikTok

Tinder

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Twitch

Twitter Emoji Stickers

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WhatsApp (Animated)

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Yo Status

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Australia Day

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Emoji Movie

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Families

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Hearts

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Summer

Super Bowl

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Winter Olympics

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World Book Day

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World Emoji Day

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Smileys

People

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Objects

Symbols

Flags

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

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

School Satchel

A closed, hardcover notebook, as used for journaling or sketching. Appearance varies across platforms, with most designs featuring relatively plain covers. Commonly used for content concerning writing and schooling.

Apple&#39;s cover is tan and labelled Notes.&nbsp;Facebook&rsquo;s design is most decorative, pink with a flower pattern.

Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/notebook-with-decorative-cover/">was previously</a>&nbsp;gray and features different-colored <a href="/card-index-dividers/">tabs</a>, while Samsung&#39;s <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/notebook-with-decorative-cover/">previously displayed</a> the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsungs-biggest-ever-emoji-update/">easter&nbsp;egg</a> initials SJST.

Notebook with Decorative Cover

A loose stack of three of more different-colored, hardcover books. Commonly used for various content concerning reading and schooling. Color and orientation vary across platforms, but often shown with red, green, and blue covers.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/books/">previously</a>&nbsp;featured&nbsp;the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsungs-biggest-ever-emoji-update/">easter egg</a> initials MJ printed on the pages of its bottom book.

Books

A dark-colored, hardcover&nbsp;notebook, as used to write or take notes in school. Commonly used for various content concerning writing and schooling.

Several platforms, including Apple, feature a cover with black-and-white marbling, evoking a classic <a href="https://www.format.com/magazine/features/design/who-designed-composition-notebook-history">composition book</a> used in the U.S. Apple&#39;s design displays Notes on its cover. <a href="/google/android-7.0/notebook/">Google</a>, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/notebook/">Microsoft</a>, and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/notebook/">Samsung&rsquo;s covers</a> were previously yellow or brown.

Notebook

A spiral-bound, yellow, hardcover notebook. Intended to depict a financial ledger, as used in accounting.

Commonly used for various content concerning writing, drawing, reading, and schooling. May also be used as a yellow accent color.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/ledger/">Google</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/ledger/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> designs were previously blue.

Ledger

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 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 white piece of paper with text written on it by a yellow <a href="/pencil/">pencil</a>, positioned over the sheet, tip down, at a 45&deg; angle. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing, including signing (in sports).

WhatsApp and Facebook&rsquo;s designs depict an old-fashioned office <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum">memorandum</a> on pink paper. Apple&rsquo;s suggests an informal note with the easter egg of handwritten text from its 1997&ndash;2002 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different">Crazy Ones/Think Different</a> ad campaign: Here&rsquo;s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes&hellip;

Not to be confused with <a href="/page-facing-up/">📄 Page Facing Up</a> or other emojis featuring sheets of paper.

Memo

A single date on a calendar. Generally depicted as a page torn off from a daily desk calendar, displaying month&nbsp;and day on a white, square page.

Like <a href="/tear-off-calendar/">📆 Tear-Off Calendar</a> and <a href="/spiral-calendar/">🗓️ Spiral Calendar</a>, commonly used as an icon for specific upcoming events or memorial dates. Also used for various content concerning time, date, schedules, planning, and observances and&nbsp;occasions more generally.

The date shown is July 17. This date was first used by Apple as a reference to <a href="https://gizmodo.com/fun-fact-time-icals-birthday-is-today-279393">when iCal for Mac premiered at MacWorld Expo in 2002</a>. Since 2014 Emojipedia has celebrated&nbsp;<a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a>&nbsp;on July 17, because of this emoji.

Major platforms previously used a variety of dates on this calendar, but have changed in recent years to also show July 17, to avoid confusion on World Emoji Day.&nbsp;Some vendors still feature easter egg dates marking company&nbsp;founding&nbsp;or other milestones:

<ul>
	<li>📅 Apple: July 17 (Mac iCal announcement in 2002, later World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Google: July 17 (World Emoji Day; previously a generic monthly calendar)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Microsoft: a generic month</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Samsung: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/calendar/">previously</a> a monthly calendar turned to May)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;WhatsApp: Feb 24 (incorporation of WhatsApp in 2009)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Twitter/X: Jul 17&nbsp; (changed from&nbsp;March 21 which was&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/20">founding date</a>&nbsp;of Twitter in 2006; <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/calendar/">previously</a> July 15, the date Twitter launched)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Facebook: May 14 (birthday of founder Mark Zuckerberg; <a href="/facebook/2.0/calendar/">previously</a> a generic 3rd)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Huawei: September 15</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;JoyPixels: July 17&nbsp;(World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅 SerenityOS: 10</li>
</ul>

Discontinued:

<ul>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Messenger: August (first release&nbsp;of Messenger apps in 2011)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;LG: Mar 27 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;HTC: generic</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Mozilla: July 17 (World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;emojidex: Tuesday, Jan 12 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Softbank: generic</li>
	<li>📅 Docomo: 12 (suggesting the number of months in a year)&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
	<li>📅 au by KDDI: 12</li>
</ul>

Calendar

A single date on a calendar. Generally depicted as a page on a two-ringed, daily desk calendar, as flipped or torn off to change the date. Displays&nbsp;month and day on a white, square page, curled up at the bottom right.

Like <a href="/calendar/">📅 Calendar</a> and <a href="/spiral-calendar/">🗓️ Spiral Calendar</a>, commonly used as an icon for specific upcoming events or memorial dates. Also used for various content concerning time, date, schedules, planning, and observances and&nbsp;occasions more generally.

The date shown is July 17. This date was first used by Apple as a reference to <a href="https://gizmodo.com/fun-fact-time-icals-birthday-is-today-279393">when iCal for Mac premiered at MacWorld Expo in 2002</a>. Since 2014 Emojipedia has celebrated&nbsp;<a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a>&nbsp;on July 17, because of this emoji.

Major platforms previously used a variety of dates on this calendar, but have changed in recent years to also show July 17, to avoid confusion on World Emoji Day.&nbsp;Some vendors still feature easter egg dates marking company&nbsp;founding&nbsp;or other milestones:

<ul>
	<li>📅 Apple: July 17 (Mac iCal announcement in 2002, later World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Google: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/google/android-7.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 12, as months in the year)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Microsoft: a generic month</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Samsung: July 17 (World Emoji Day; <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 31)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;WhatsApp: Feb 24 (incorporation of WhatsApp in 2009)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Twitter: Jul 17&nbsp; (changed from&nbsp;March 21 which was&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/20">founding date</a>&nbsp;of Twitter in 2006; <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/calendar/">previously</a> July 15, the date Twitter launched)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Facebook: February 4 (date of founding in 2004; <a href="/facebook/2.0/tear-off-calendar/">previously</a> a generic 31)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Huawei: September 15</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;JoyPixels: July 17&nbsp;(World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅 SerenityOS: 10</li>
</ul>

Discontinued:

<ul>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Messenger: August 9 (first release&nbsp;of Messenger apps in 2011)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;LG: March 27 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;HTC: generic 3</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Mozilla: July 17 (World Emoji Day)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;emojidex: December 12 (unknown)</li>
	<li>📅&nbsp;Softbank: 12&nbsp;(suggesting the number of months in a year)&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
	<li>📅 Docomo: 12</li>
	<li>📅 au by KDDI: 12</li>
</ul>

Tear-Off Calendar

A spiral-bound, flip-style notepad or notebook of lined paper, as used for everyday note-taking. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing.

Most platforms depict a notepad opened to an empty, white page, sometimes shown curled at the bottom. Microsoft&rsquo;s design is shown closed, with a yellow cover.

Spiral Note Pad

A spiral-bound calendar. Generally depicted as a monthly calendar, with a red or blue header. Apple and Samsung&rsquo;s pages are curled up at the bottom right, as to flip for a new&nbsp;month.

Like <a href="/calendar/">📅 Calendar</a> and <a href="/tear-off-calendar/">📆 Tear-Off Calendar</a>, commonly used as an icon for specific upcoming events or memorial dates. Also used for various content concerning time, date, schedules, planning, and observances and&nbsp;occasions more generally.

Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook&rsquo;s design feature a generic month. WhatsApp&#39;s design shows in a green header February, when it was incorporated in 2009. Apple, Samsung, and JoyPixels&rsquo;s designs show the month of July, when <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a> falls on the 17th, a date Google&#39;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/spiral-calendar/">used to</a> specifically display.

Spiral Calendar Pad

A white piece of paper secured by a silver clip on a brown clipboard, as used as a writing surface when standing. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing, especially in sports.

Many platforms indicate text with dark lines. WhatsApp&rsquo;s design shows lined paper. Facebook&rsquo;s features the easter egg of a table with first names and numbers, perhaps as birthdates:

Matt 3/28 
Louie 4/30 
Alexa 6/17 
Brian 8/06

Apple&rsquo;s design also features an easter egg, addressed Dear Katie and signed Take care from <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a> with the text of its 1997&ndash;2002 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different">Crazy Ones/Think Different</a> ad campaign:

Here&rsquo;s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They&rsquo;re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can&rsquo;t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Clipboard

A silver paper clip, as used to hold together sheets of paper&mdash;or remove a SIM card from a <a href="/mobile-phone/">mobile phone</a>. Shown positioned at various angles.

Occasionally used to represent school/office supplies. Also sometimes used as an icon before a <a href="/link/">hyperlink</a>. Displays as Microsoft mascot&nbsp;<a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/clippy">Clippy</a>&nbsp;on Windows 11.

Not to be confused with <a href="/link/">🔗 Link</a>, <a href="/linked-paperclips/">🖇️ Linked Paperclips</a>, <a href="/chains/">⛓️ Chains</a>, or&nbsp;<a href="/safety-pin/">🧷 Safety Pin</a>.

Paperclip

Two or more silver <a href="/paperclip/">paper clips</a> linked together, generally forming an inverted V.&nbsp;Microsoft&rsquo;s design displays three paper clips.

Occasionally used to represent school/office supplies or metaphorical connections. Also sometimes used as an icon before a <a href="/link/">hyperlink</a>.

Not to be confused with <a href="/link/">🔗 Link</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="/chains/">⛓️ Chains</a>.

Linked Paperclips

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 triangle or set square, as used by engineers or architects to draw <a href="/straight-ruler/">straight lines</a> at angles. Variously depicted as a metal, wood, or plastic right triangle with length markings, its hypotenuse to the right.

Commonly applied to a range of disciplines, including art, design, building, architecture, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). May also represent various concepts of angles and measurement.

Triangular Ruler

A red box for holding and transporting tools, such as a <a href="/hammer/">hammer</a> and <a href="/wrench/">wrench</a>. Generally depicted as latched shut with silver hardware and a black handle.

Commonly used for literal or metaphorical tools, toolkits, and building.

WhatsApp&#39;s design includes a hammer in front. Google&rsquo;s design was <a href="/google/android-9.0/toolbox/">previously shown</a> as open with two wrenches and a pair of pliers.

Toolbox

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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.

&nbsp;

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.

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