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Similar to a <a href="/train/" title="🚆 Train">train</a>, but running on a single track.&nbsp;Monorails are often found at <a href="/ferris-wheel/" title="🎡 Ferris Wheel">theme parks</a>, or other tourist destinations.

According to the <a href="https://www.threads.net/@parakeet/post/DDFEMb2vhFW?hl=en">designers</a>, Facebook&#39;s design for this emoji drew inspiration from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Monorail">Disneyland monorail</a>.

Monorail

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a mouse, looking straight ahead. Generally depicted as a gray or white mouse face with large, round ears, a pink, pointed nose, and whiskers.

Often used with a more affectionate tone than the full-bodied <a href="/mouse/">🐁 Mouse</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/hamster/">🐹 Hamster Face</a>.

Google&nbsp;and&nbsp;Facebook&rsquo;s designs feature a mouse with buck teeth. Microsoft&rsquo;s design was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/mouse-face/">previously</a> brown.

Mouse Face

A building shown with columns in a classical style, sometimes used to represent a courthouse, town hall, post office or stock exchange.

Classical Building

A circular &lsquo;big top&rsquo; circus tent, with a <a href="/triangular-flag/" title="🚩 Triangular Flag On Post">triangle flag</a> on top.

Circus Tent

A high speed train, designed to cover long distances at high speed.

High-Speed Train

A high speed train, designed to cover long distances at high speed. Also features a streamlined bullet nose, often used in reference to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen">Shinkansen</a> in Japan.

High-Speed Train with Bullet Nose

A train, of no specified type. Due to the presence of a <a title="🚂 Steam Locomotive" href="/locomotive/">steam train</a> and <a title="🚄 High-Speed Train" href="/high-speed-train/">fast train</a> emoji, this is likely to be a regular electrified or diesel passenger train.

Train

A metro: frequent underground train found in built-up areas with high populations.

This emoji is generally displayed as a forward-facing train, with some platforms also displaying a tunnel as a circle surrounding the train. Apple&#39;s artwork shows the characters&nbsp;IL2&nbsp;which may be a reference to one of the more <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/apple-infinite-loop-oral-history/">locked-down buildings&nbsp;at Apple&#39;s Infinite Loop</a> Headquarters during iPhone development&nbsp;(IL2 = Infinite Loop 2).

Metro

A train and railway in the&nbsp;<a href="/mountain/" title="⛰ Mountain">mountains</a>.

Previously displayed as&nbsp;a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicular">funicular</a> in <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/mountain-railway/">Microsoft&rsquo;s </a>artwork. Android also <a href="/google/android-7.0/mountain-railway/">previously</a> displayed&nbsp;this train as front-facing and&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-6.0.1/mountain-railway/" title="🚞 Mountain Railway on Google Android 6.0.1">leaving a tunnel</a>, which appeared&nbsp;similarly to the <a href="/metro/" title="🚇 Metro">metro emoji</a> at small sizes.

Mountain Railway

Used&nbsp;either as a literal airplane, to represent an overseas vacation, or sometimes as a proxy for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_mode">airplane mode</a> on a <a href="/mobile-phone/" title="📱 Mobile Phone">phone</a> or tablet.

Use of this emoji <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-use-in-the-new-normal/">declined in April 2020</a>, potentially as a result of global air travel limitations.

Airplane

A light aircraft which is shown with propellers on some platforms.

Small Airplane

A plane taking off from a runway. Generally displayed left-right, with the front of the plane elevated.

Airplane Departure

A plane approaching a&nbsp;runway for landing. Generally displayed left-right, with the front of the plane facing toward the ground in a position that may result in a crash if attempted in the real world.

Airplane Arriving

A suitcase or bag, as used for traveling. Most platforms depict gray or blue rolling luggage with an extended handle. Commonly used for various content concerning traveling or taking trips, whether for business or leisure.

Apple&rsquo;s design features an old-fashioned, leather, trunk-styled case with graphic <a href="https://www.citylab.com/design/2013/05/lost-art-luggage-labels/5652/">luggage labels</a>/stickers, not to be confused with <a href="/briefcase/">💼&nbsp;Briefcase</a> or <a href="/handbag/">👜&nbsp;Handbag</a>. Google and Facebook also include such stickers.

May be stored in a <a href="/left-luggage/">🛅 Coin Locker</a> or inspected at <a href="/customs/">🛃&nbsp;Customs</a>.

Luggage

Firework emoji, showing a explosion of colored light in the night sky, used for any number of celebrations such as <a href="/new-years-eve/" title="🎊 New Year’s Eve Emoji List">New Year&#39;s Eve</a>.

Colors vary by platform, and may include pink, purple, yellow, blue, and green.

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Fireworks

A sparkler: a form of hand-held firework often used at parties and celebrations. The sparkler is lit at one end, and&nbsp;held at the other.&nbsp;

Most platforms display this with the lit end held down, as is the style for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senko_hanabi">senko hanabi</a>&nbsp;(&quot;incense-stick fireworks&quot;) which is&nbsp;a traditional&nbsp;sparkler from&nbsp;from Japan.

Firework Sparkler

The glittering flashes of sparkles. One of the world&#39;s most popular emojis, it is generally depicted as a cluster of three, yellow&nbsp;four-point stars, with one large sparkle and two small ones to its left or right.

Commonly used to indicate various positive sentiments, including love, happiness, beauty, gratitude, and excitement, as well as&nbsp;newness or cleanliness.

May also be used as <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/its-not-just-you-the-sparkles-emoji-is-everywhere/">a form of ✨emphasis✨ or to convey sarcastic or mocking tones</a>.

As of late 2023, an icon similar to the sparkles emoji is also often used within tech platforms to represent a feature that utilizes&nbsp;artificial intelligence.

Both <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/sparkles/">Microsoft</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/sparkles/">Twitter&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;sparkles were&nbsp;previously&nbsp;multicolored, while&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s sparkles were previously depicted on a night sky, suggesting <a href="/sparkler/">firework sparklers</a>.&nbsp;

<a href="http://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1075074100412985345">Twitter&#39;s mobile app uses</a> ✨ Sparkles as a button users can tap to toggle between latest and top tweets on their timeline.

Similar emojis&nbsp;with less implied meaning include&nbsp;<a href="/star/">⭐ Star</a>, <a href="/glowing-star/">🌟 Glowing Star</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/dizzy/">💫 Dizzy</a>.

<div id="professor_prebid-root">This emoji predates emojis inclusion within <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode</a>. The earliest incarnation of this emoji could be found in Japanese emoji keyboards in <a href="/docomo/1999/sparkles">1999</a>, specifically within the <a href="/docomo">Docomo</a> emoji set designed by&nbsp;Shigetaka Kurita.</div>

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Sparkles

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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.

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.

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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