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Microsoft 3D Fluent

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Diwali

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Easter

Emoji Movie

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Families

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Festivus

Four Twenty / 420

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Handshakes

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Happy

Hearts

Holi

Independence Day

International Women's Day

Jobs & Roles

Juneteenth

Kisses

Laughing

LGBT Pride

Love

Mardi Gras

MLB World Series

Mother’s Day

Music

New Year’s Eve

NSFW

Olympics

People Holding Hands

Pets

Purim

Queen’s Birthday

Ramadan

Spring

St Patrick’s Day

Summer

Super Bowl

Thanksgiving

Valentine’s Day

Veterans Day

Wedding / Marriage

Winter

Winter Olympics

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World Emoji Day

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Flags

<p class="boxout">Appearance historically differs greatly&nbsp;cross-platform. Use with caution.</p>

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<p>An adult&nbsp;with no gender specified.&nbsp;This emoji may be used to talk about adults in a gender-inclusive way.</p>

<p>Variants include <a href="/woman/">👩 Woman</a> and <a href="/man/">👨 Man</a>.</p>

Person

<p>A cream white&nbsp;skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.</p>

<p>Type 3 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as: <em>Cream white; fair with any hair or eye color; quite common</em></p>

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-3

<p>Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.</p>

<p>Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.</p>

<p>View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.</p>

Zero Width Joiner

<p>A microphone, used&nbsp;to amplify a person&rsquo;s voice when speaking or singing.</p>

<p>Previously shown with <a href="/musical-notes/">music notes</a> on most platforms, implying it to be used for a singer / singing.&nbsp;Today&nbsp;only Twitter&#39;s design retains these notes.</p>

Microphone

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Man Singer: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Woman Singer: Medium-Light Skin Tone

<p>A yellow face with an open smile, sometimes showing teeth, and red, cartoon-styled hearts for eyes. Often conveys enthusiastic feelings of love, infatuation, and adoration, e.g., <i>I love/am in love with this person or thing.</i></p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/smiling-cat-with-heart-eyes/">😻 Smiling Cat Face With Heart-Eyes</a>.</p>

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Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes

<p>A yellow face with a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth on most platforms, with stars for eyes, as if seeing a beloved celebrity. Color of stars widely varies by platform, though commonly gold or red. May express that someone or something is amazing, fascinating, impressive, or exciting.</p>

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Grinning Face with Star Eyes

<p>A purple heart emoji, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">often used alongside other colored hearts</a>. Frequently used on Twitter&nbsp;in reference to Korean boy band&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTS"><em>Bangtan Sonyeondan</em></a>, more commonly known as BTS.</p>

<p>Previously shown <a href="/google/android-4.4/purple-heart/">as&nbsp;a pink heart in Android 4.4</a>.</p>

Purple Heart

<p>A hand with the index finger and thumb crossed and the rest of the fingers making a fist. Can be used in various contexts&nbsp;to&nbsp;represent the fingers snapping, love, or money.</p>

<p>In this emoji, the index finger and the thumb form a small heart shape. This gesture, used to express love or affection,&nbsp;is known as a <em>finger heart</em>&nbsp;and was popularized in the 2010s by South Korean celebrities, including actors, K-pop stars, and comedians.</p>

<p>The same gesture may be used in the context of money to indicate a luxury or an expensive item, a lack of money, or a request to be paid.</p>

Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed

<p>Two hands forming a heart shape. Used to express love and support.</p>

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Heart Hands

<p>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.</p>

<p>Also used between words to show that a lesson is being learned and to indicate someone is taking notes. For example, <em>✍️look✍️both✍️ways✍️before✍️you✍️cross✍️the✍️street</em>. 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.</p>

Writing Hand

<p>A person dancing, most&nbsp;commonly displayed as&nbsp;woman with one arm raised&nbsp;wearing a red dress,&nbsp;while dancing the salsa or flamenco. Often used to represent a sense of fun or as a positive affirmation, e.g. &quot;great! 💃&quot;</p>

<p>This emoji did not originally specify a gender, but was canonically deemed&nbsp;a woman&nbsp;when the&nbsp;<a href="/man-dancing/">🕺 Man Dancing</a>&nbsp;emoji was <a href="/emoji-3.0/">approved</a>. Google previously displayed this emoji <a href="/google/android-4.4/woman-dancing/">as a man</a>, then <a href="/google/android-5.0/woman-dancing/">a gender-neutral blob</a>&nbsp;character (in keeping with guidelines at the time).</p>

<p>Microsoft previously displayed this emoji&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/woman-dancing/">stick figure</a>, and Samsung has displayed this over various releases as a&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0/woman-dancing/">white boy</a>, <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-5.1/woman-dancing/">black boy</a>, and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/woman-dancing/">white girl</a>.</p>

Dancer

<p>A man dancing, added as a gender pair for the <a href="/woman-dancing/">💃 Woman Dancing</a>. Shown on most platforms in a 70s-era suit, and one hand in the air in a disco-dancing style.</p>

Man Dancing

<p>The silhouette of a person speaking. Faces left-to-right, with lines demonstrating speech being expelled. Sometimes used in the context of shouting&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining">mansplaining</a>.</p>

Speaking Head in Silhouette

<p>A large capacity stadium, featuring a large amount of seating for&nbsp;sporting fans, or people attending other shows hosted by the stadium.</p>

Stadium

<p>A bus used for public transport in cities and towns. Could also be used as a <a title="🏫 School" href="/school/">school</a> bus.</p>


<p>The front of a <a title="🚌 Bus" href="/bus/">bus</a>, showing the windscreen, as well as wing mirrors in some versions of this emoji.</p>


Oncoming Bus

<p>A small bus or minivan&nbsp;designed to carry fewer people than a full-sized <a href="/bus/" title="🚌 Bus">bus</a>. Displayed in white on most platforms&nbsp;(green <a href="/facebook/3.0/minibus/">on Facebook</a>).</p>

Minibus

<p>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>.</p>

<p>Colors vary by platform, and may include pink, purple, yellow, blue, and green.</p>

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Fireworks

<p>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;</p>

<p>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.</p>

Firework Sparkler

<p>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.</p>

<p>Commonly used to indicate various positive sentiments, including love, happiness, beauty, gratitude, and excitement, as well as&nbsp;newness or cleanliness.</p>

<p>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>.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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;</p>

<p><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.</p>

<p>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>.</p>

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Sparkles

<p>A ticket or tickets to an event that may say &quot;Admit One&quot; on the front. Shown in pink or yellow on most platforms.</p>

Admission Tickets

<p>A paper ticket, which may be for a theatre show, sporting event, or other ticketed performance. Shown in blue, yellow or grey on most platforms.</p>

Ticket

<p>A mirror ball, also called&nbsp;a disco ball. A hanging sphere&nbsp;made up of a bunch of tiny mirrors, which reflect spots of&nbsp;light around a room, creating a party atmosphere.</p>

Mirror Ball

<p>Two masks often used on maps to indicate a theatre, these originate in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_ancient_Greece">Greek Theatre</a> as masks of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragicomedy#mediaviewer/File:TragicComicMasksHadriansVillamosaic.jpg">tragedy and comedy</a>.</p>

<p>One mask&nbsp;frowns, the other smiles.</p>

Performing Arts

<p>A speaker cone displayed without any sound&nbsp;waves.</p>

Speaker

<p>A speaker cone displayed with one sound&nbsp;wave, generally used as an icon to indicate the decreasing&nbsp;of volume on a phone or computer.</p>

<p>Previously displayed&nbsp;with two sound waves on Android, instead of one.</p>

Speaker with One Sound Wave

<p>A speaker cone displayed with three sound waves, generally used as an icon to indicate the increasing of volume on a phone or computer.</p>

<p>Used by the Google Chrome browser to indicate which of your browser windows is playing sound.</p>

Speaker with Three Sound Waves

<p>A postal horn (post horn). Depicted as a coiled, valveless, brass horn, like a bugle or <a href="/trumpet/">trumpet</a>, with two red tassels. Sometimes used to mark announcements as well as for various content concerning brass instruments, music, or mail.</p>

<p>In the 18&ndash;19th centuries, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_horn">post horns</a> signaled the arrival of and cleared the way for mail coaches, like a modern-day&nbsp;<a href="/police-car-light/">siren</a>. Used today as a symbol on <a href="/postbox/">postboxes</a> (mailboxes) and by many European postal services, as seen featured in <a href="/post-office/">🏤 European Post Office</a>.</p>

Postal Horn

<p>A staff (or stave) showing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef#Treble_clef">treble clef</a> and five horizontal lines.</p>


Musical Score

<p>A music note emoji,&nbsp;which can denote song lyrics, or other music related topics.</p>

<p>Displays as two eighth-notes (<em>quavers</em> in British English) connected with a beam. A single eight-note (<em>quaver</em>) was previously used in <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/musical-note/">Microsoft</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-7.0/musical-note/">Google&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;emoji designs.</p>

Musical Note

<p>Three eighth notes (<em>quavers</em> in British English), used to represent music or singing. Sometimes inserted&nbsp;next to&nbsp;quoted&nbsp;lyrics, to make it clear that they are part of a song.</p>

Multiple Musical Notes

<p>A microphone, as used for <a href="/radio/">radio</a> broadcasting or studio recording. Most platforms depict a vintage, silver microphone, like the <a href="https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/75-years-shure-unidyne-55">Shure Unidyne 55</a>.</p>

<p>Commonly used for various content concerning radio, broadcasting, music, recording, and podcasts.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with the handheld <a href="/microphone/">🎤&nbsp;Microphone</a>, associated with live singing.</p>

Studio Microphone

<p>A level slider, as adjusts volume on a mixing console. Most platforms depict a silver and black channel fader with scale markings, set to various levels. Apple and Google&#39;s&nbsp;go&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven">up to eleven</a>.</p>

<p>Commonly used for various content concerning audio recording and production as well as music more generally. May also be used for figurative senses of <i>level</i>, e.g., <i>next level</i>.</p>

<p>Thanks to its appearance, some may use the emoji to represent a <a href="/latin-cross/">Christian cross</a>.</p>

Level Slider

<p>Four control knobs, as adjust audio levels on a mixing console. Generally depicted as a silver square with black knobs, turned to various levels as indicated by white pointers and scale markings.</p>

<p>Commonly used for various content concerning audio recording and production as well as music more generally.</p>

Control Knobs

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