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A threaded silver needle. Color of thread varies from platform to platform.

Can be used to talk about crafts including embroidery, quilting, or sewing in general. Can also be used in medical contexts to talk about stitches.

Used metaphorically at the beginning of&nbsp;a thread, or series of connected posts by one person, on social media.

Sewing Needle

13.0

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

Brightly colored rope forming a knot. Knot type varies across platform, with most designs showing a square knot, a figure eight knot, or a carrick bend. Samsung&#39;s design appears to be a carrick bend, but upon closer inspection, it is not correctly tied and would fall apart with a gentle tug.&nbsp;

Used to talk about rope or knots in general. Sometimes used in the context of marriage alongside the idiom tying the knot.&nbsp;Also used in the kink community to talk about bondage. May be used as a stand-in for the word &#39;not&#39;&nbsp;in emoji rebus puzzles.

Knot

A plain t-shirt, that can be worn by men or women. Displayed as a blue polo shirt on iOS, a&nbsp;light blue ringer t-shirt on Android, Samsung and Windows, or a standard green tee on other platforms.

The Facebook version of this emoji <a href="/facebook/1.0/t-shirt/">previously</a>&nbsp;had&nbsp;a capital H on the front.

T-Shirt

A knitted wool scarf, generally worn for warmth. Colored red across most emoji design vendors.

<div id="professor_prebid-root">In November 2021 this emoji experienced a significant increase in use following the release of Taylor Swift&#39;s re-release of her album &quot;Red&quot;. The &quot;Taylor&#39;s Version&quot; of the album features a ten-minute rendition of her song &quot;All Too Well&quot;, which references a scarf early in its lyrics.</div>

Scarf

A winter jacket, shown in a variety of colors and styles.

Coat

A pair of socks, generally used to keep one&#39;s feet warm and protected.

Generally depicted as two matching socks with a block color and one or more lines around where the socks would cover the wearer&#39;s ankles.

JoyPixel&#39;s design <a href="/joypixels/6.0/socks">previously</a> featured a&nbsp;<a href="/pile-of-poo">💩 Pile of Poo</a> emoji pattern.

Socks

A pretty dress, suitable for a ball, party or other similar occasion.

Dress

A traditional Japanese robe that can be worn by women or men.

Kimono

A brightly colored sari draped in different ways across platforms. Sometimes used to mean a dress&nbsp;in general.

This emoji is sometimes used playfully in English&nbsp;to stand in for the word &#39;sorry.&#39;

Sari

A blouse worn by women in a neat-casual setting.

Shown in pink on Apple and Samsung devices, and purple on Google, Twitter, and WhatsApp.

Google&#39;s design was previously shown in <a href="/google/android-11.0/womans-clothes/">blue</a> with buttons down the front, and before that, <a href="/google/android-7.0/womans-clothes/">yellow</a>&nbsp;with similar front-facing buttons.

Womans Clothes

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

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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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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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Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

Unicode 13.0 is the version of the <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a>&nbsp;released on&nbsp;March 10, 2020. 55 new emoji&nbsp;code points were added in this release,&nbsp;with all 117 new emojis for 2020 (including sequences for gender and skin tone)&nbsp;listed under <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>.

Unicode 13.0 introduced a total of 5,930&nbsp;new characters, including the 55 new emoji code points listed below. This brought the total number of characters encoded within Unicode to&nbsp;143,859.

More about <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-13-0/">what&#39;s new in Unicode 13.0</a>.

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/">🔣 Unicode 13.0.0 Specification</a></li>
</ul>

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