<p>The letter&nbsp;<em>N</em>, which can be used as part of a regional indicator pair&nbsp;to create <a href="/flags/">emoji flags</a> for various countries.</p>

Regional Indicator Symbol Letter N

<p>The letter&nbsp;<em>L</em>, which can be used as part of a regional indicator pair&nbsp;to create <a href="/flags/">emoji flags</a> for various countries.</p>

Regional Indicator Symbol Letter L

<p>The flag for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands">Netherlands</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;<em>NL</em>&nbsp;on some platforms.</p>

<p>A pink&nbsp;tulip flower. Depicted as a single, vertical pink tulip on a green stem.</p>

<p>Commonly used for <a href="/valentines-day/">Valentine&rsquo;s Day</a>, <a href="/mothers-day/">Mother&rsquo;s Day</a>, and other special occasions. May be more generally used to express such sentiments as love, appreciation, and happiness. Also used in association with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_bulb_cultivation_in_the_Netherlands">Netherlands</a> and as a pink&nbsp;accent color.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/rose/">🌹 Rose</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p>Google&#39;s tulip was <a href="/google/android-7.0/tulip/">once</a> orange, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/tulip/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/tulip/">Samsung&#39;s</a>&nbsp;red.</p>

Tulip

<p>The flag for Aruba, which may show as the letters <em>AW</em> on some platforms.</p>

Flag: Aruba

<p>The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium">Belgium</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;<em>BE</em>&nbsp;on some platforms.</p>

Flag: Belgium

<p>The Caribbean Netherlands, a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. The design for this emoji is shown as the flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Bonaire">Bonaire</a> on most platforms.</p>

Flag: Caribbean Netherlands

<p>The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany">Germany</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;<em>DE</em>&nbsp;on some platforms</p>

Flag: Germany

<p>The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark">Denmark</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;<em>DK</em>&nbsp;on some platforms.</p>

Flag: Denmark

<p>The flag for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;<em>LU</em>&nbsp;on some platforms</p>

Flag: Luxembourg

<p>The flag for Sint Maarten, which may show as the letters&nbsp;<em>SX</em>&nbsp;on some platforms. This is the <a href="/flag-netherlands/" title="🇳🇱 Flag for Netherlands">Dutch</a> half of the of the Caribbean island of <em>Saint Martin</em>.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/flag-st-martin/" title="🇲🇫 Flag for St. Martin">St. Martin</a>, the French half of the same island.</p>

Flag: Sint Maarten

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<p>Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.</p>

Apple

<p>Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.</p>

Google Noto Color Emoji

<p>Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.</p>

Samsung

<p>Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.</p>

WhatsApp

<p>Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.</p>

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Twitter / X

<p>Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.</p>

Facebook

<p>Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.</p>

Huawei

<p>A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.</p>

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JoyPixels

<p>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.</p>

<p>Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.</p>

Telegram

<p>Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.</p>

Skype

<p>Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.</p>

Twitter Emoji Stickers

<p>Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.</p>

SerenityOS

<p>A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.</p>

Toss Face (토스페이스)

<p>Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.</p>

Sony Playstation

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

Noto Emoji Font

<p>A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.</p>

OpenMoji

<p>A licensable emoji design set.</p>

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Icons8

<p>Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.</p>

Messenger

<p>A yellow face with an open mouth wailing and streams of heavy tears flowing from closed eyes. May convey inconsolable grief&nbsp;but also other intense feelings, such as uncontrollable laughter, pride or overwhelming joy.</p>

<p>In March 2021,&nbsp;😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face became&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">the most popular emoji on Twitter</a>. It held this position until January 2022, when&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face with Tears of Joy</a> <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/tears-of-joy-just-about-returns-as-twitters-top-emoji/">returned as the top emoji on the platform</a>.</p>

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Loudly Crying Face

<p>A yellow face with a big grin and scrunched, X-shaped eyes, tilted on its side as if rolling on the floor laughing (the internet acronym <em>ROFL</em>). Sheds&nbsp;two tears and tilts right on most platforms. Often conveys hysterical laughter&nbsp;more intense than <a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face With Tears of Joy</a>.</p>

<p>Using shown tilted leftwards, though WhatsApp&#39;s design tilts to the right.</p>

<p>Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/rolling-on-the-floor-laughing/">previously featured</a> a smiley with hands and feet.</p>

Rolling on the Floor Laughing

<p>A yellow face with a big&nbsp;grin, uplifted eyebrows, and smiling eyes, each shedding a tear from laughing so hard. Widely used to show something is funny or pleasing.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Named the Oxford Dictionaries 2015 <a href="https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2015/">Word of the Year</a>, and the most used emoji on all platforms <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">from 2011-2021</a>. Briefly <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">overtaken</a> as the top emoji on <a href="/twitter/">Twitter</a> in 2021 by&nbsp;<a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭 Loudly Crying Face</a>, though as of January 2022 it has <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/tears-of-joy-just-about-returns-as-twitters-top-emoji/">reclaimed its top position on the platform</a>.</p>

<p>See also:&nbsp;<a href="/rolling-on-the-floor-laughing/">🤣&nbsp;Rolling on the Floor Laughing</a>&nbsp;which expresses more intense laughter;&nbsp;or cat&nbsp;variant:&nbsp;<a href="/cat-with-tears-of-joy/">😹&nbsp;Cat Face With Tears of Joy</a>.</p>

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Face with Tears of Joy

<p>A yellow smiley face melting into a puddle.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The eyes and mouth slip down the face, yet still maintain a distorted smile. This quality lends this emoji to sarcasm.</p>

<p>Can be used literally to talk about extreme heat. Can also be used metaphorically to talk about embarrassment, shame, a slowly sinking sense of dread, or feeling overwhelmed in some way.</p>

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Melting Face

<p>A yellow face with open eyes, a thin closed-mouth smile, and a single tear falling from one of its eyes. Can be used to express a wide range of emotions and expressions&nbsp;including gratitude, tender happiness, an attempt to look happy when actually sad, or&nbsp;smiling through pain. Can also be a response to something that is bittersweet.</p>

<p>This emoji and <a href="/slightly-smiling-face/">🙂 Slightly Smiling Face</a> have a similar smile, and <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a> and <a href="/crying-cat/">😿 Crying Cat</a> have a similar lone tear. Not to be confused with&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face with Tears of Joy</a>, which has a wide toothy grin&nbsp;and tears coming from both eyes.</p>

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Smiling Face with Tear

<p>A pensive, remorseful face. Saddened by life. Quietly considering where things all went wrong.&nbsp;Depicted as a yellow face with sad, closed eyes, furrowed eyebrows, and a slight, flat mouth.</p>

<p>May convey a variety of sad emotions, including feeling disappointed, hurt, or lonely. Less intense than other sad emojis like <a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face</a> and more introspective.</p>

<p>Microsoft&#39;s design&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/pensive-face/">previously featured</a> a more neutral, bored expression. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/pensive-face/">previously looked</a> more guilty or worried.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/relieved-face/">😌&nbsp;Relieved Face</a>, which has similarly shaped eyes but in a happier expression.</p>

Pensive Face

<p>A yellow face with closed eyes, mouth slightly open, and a blue snot bubble coming from its nose. <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SnotBubble">Snot bubbles</a> indicate a character is tired or sleeping in anime or manga.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/sleeping-face/">😴 Sleeping Face</a>&nbsp;</p>

<p>While sometimes used to convey sadness, dissastification, or illness, Sleepy Face is also not to be confused with <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a>, <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥 Sad but Relieved Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets.&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/">previously featured</a> two, cartoon-styled, <a href="/zzz/">sleeping-symbol&nbsp;Zz&rsquo;s</a> overhead.</p>

<p>A <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/sleepy-face/">previous</a> Microsoft design appeared similar to <a href="/relieved-face/">😌 Relieved Face</a>.</p>

Sleepy Face

<p>A yellow face with a half-frown and white bandage wrapped around its head, often depicted partially over one eye. May represent physical injury or pain but also emotional hurting, sometimes for ironic effect.</p>

<p>Differs from other smileys conveying illness, such as <a href="/nauseated-face/">🤢 Nauseated Face</a> (appearing as if it&rsquo;s going to vomit) or <a href="/face-with-thermometer/">🤒 Face With Thermometer</a> (used especially for colds and flus).</p>

<p>Huawei&#39;s design for this emoji has a heavily bruised eye as well as a head bandage.</p>

Face with Head-Bandage

<p>A yellow face with furrowed eyebrows, a small frown, and large, &ldquo;puppy dog&rdquo; eyes, as if begging, pleading, or yearning (possibly even in a&nbsp;<a href="/nsfw">NSFW</a> manner, depending on the context). May also represent adoration or feeling touched&nbsp;by a loving gesture.</p>

<p>Huawei&#39;s design for this emoji includes a pair of&nbsp;<a href="/folded-hands">🙏 Folded Hands</a>.</p>

<p>At its peak the Pleading Face was&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/a-new-king-pleading-face/">the&nbsp;third most popular emoji used on Twitter</a>, and was the most commonly found emoji <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">in tweets that include hearts</a>. Used in sequence with pointing hands to indicate a bashful or shy pose (🥺👉👈)&nbsp;<a href="/tiktok/">particularly on TikTok</a>.</p>

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Face with Pleading Eyes

<p>A yellow face with tears welling up at the bottom of its two large eyes.</p>

<p>May be used to express a range of emotions including sadness, anger, embarrassment, admiration, and gratitude.&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="/smiling-face-with-tear/">🥲 Smiling Face with Tear</a> and <a href="/pleading-face/">🥺 Pleading Face</a> can be used in some similar&nbsp;contexts.</p>

<div id="professor_prebid-root">Unlike other vendors, Huawei&#39;s design shows this emoji holding its hands expectantly against its cheeks.&nbsp;</div>

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Face Holding Back Tears

<p>A face with open eyes and a small, open frown. Its eyebrows are furrowed, with a single bead of cold sweat dripping down, and its forehead is pale blue, as if experiencing a <a href="/cold-face/">cold</a> flash. Samsung&#39;s design shows upper teeth and tongue.</p>

<p>Meaning widely varies, but commonly conveys such feelings as sadness, disappointment, fear, and anxiety. Similar to <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad but Relieved Face</a>, but with a blue head and larger frown.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/crying-face/">😢&nbsp;Crying Face</a>, <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪&nbsp;Sleepy Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets. <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/anxious-face-with-sweat/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/anxious-face-with-sweat/">Samsung</a> previously featured smileys that appeared more excited in expression.</p>

Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat

<p>A yellow face with raised eyebrows and a slight frown, shedding a single, blue tear from one eye down its cheek. May convey a moderate degree of sadness or pain, usually less intensely than <a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face</a>.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad but Relieved Face</a>, <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪&nbsp;Sleepy Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/crying-face/">previously featured</a> tears welling up in both eyes.</p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/crying-cat/">😿&nbsp;Crying Face</a>.</p>

Crying Face

<p>A yellow face with closed eyes, frown, and a bead of sweat dripping from its forehead. Usually depicted with a single sweat bead on its right side, though Facebook and WhatsApp include the sweat bead on its left side.</p>

<p>Meaning widely varies, but commonly conveys a moderate degree of sadness, pain, frustration, or disappointment, similar to <a href="/crying-face/">😢&nbsp;Crying Face</a> and <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad But Relieved Face</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/grinning-face-with-sweat/">😅&nbsp;Grinning Face With Sweat</a> or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets.</p>

<p>Google&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-8.0/downcast-face-with-sweat/">previously featured</a> a blue face. Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/downcast-face-with-sweat/">previously depicted</a> multiple beads of sweat from around the smiley&rsquo;s forehead. Earlier designs <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/downcast-face-with-sweat/">from Samsung</a> had more <a href="/pleading-face/">pleading</a> eyes.</p>

Face with Cold Sweat

<p>A yellow face with closed eyes, furrowed brows, and a broad, open frown, as if distraught to the point of giving up. Usually shown with upper teeth and sometimes tongue.</p>

<p>May convey various feelings&nbsp;of frustration, lust, sadness, amusement, and affection.&nbsp;Often playful in tone.</p>

<p>Similar in appearance and meaning to <a href="/tired-face/">😫&nbsp;Tired Face</a>, but with crescent-shaped eyes. Huawei&#39;s design has its <a href="/tongue">tongue</a> hanging out of its mouth. Samsung&rsquo;s design previously featured large eyes half-closed in tiredness.</p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/weary-cat/">🙀&nbsp;Weary Cat Face</a>, though it more closely resembles <a href="/face-screaming-in-fear/">😱&nbsp;Face Screaming in Fear</a>.</p>

Weary Face

<p>A yellow face with scrunched, X-shaped eyes, furrowed eyebrows, and a broad, open frown, as if yawning in exhaustion or groaning in exasperation. Usually shown with upper teeth and sometimes tongue.</p>

<p>While intended to represent tiredness, it commonly conveys various degrees and tones of frustration and sadness as well excitement and affection, as if it just can&rsquo;t handle how great someone or something is.</p>

<p>Similar in appearance and meaning to <a href="/weary-face/">😩 Weary Face</a>, but with scrunched eyes. Not to be confused with <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪 Sleepy Face</a> or <a href="/sleeping-face/">😴 Sleeping Face</a>, which often convey actually being asleep.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/tired-face/">previously featured</a> three, vertical, blue lines over its forehead, which can indicate fatigue in manga and anime. A <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/tired-face/">previous</a> Microsoft design was <a href="/yawning-face/">yawning</a>.</p>

Tired Face

<p>A whitish-gray, cartoon-styled human skull with large, black eye sockets. Commonly expresses figurative death, e.g., <i>dying</i> from extreme laughter, frustration, or affection.</p>

<p>Popular around <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/skull-and-crossbones/">☠️&nbsp;Skull and Crossbones</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p>Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.</p>

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Skull

<p>A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face With Tears of Joy</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.</p>

Cat Face with Tears of Joy

<p>A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.</p>

Crying Cat Face

<p>A love&nbsp;heart, broken in two. This emoji represents the aching one feels when they are missing the&nbsp;person they love.</p>

Broken Heart

<p>A heart shown with a bandage across one side; the opposite of a <a href="/broken-heart/">broken heart</a>. May be used to indicate&nbsp;the process of healing,&nbsp;recovery, or to express sympathy for someone going through a difficult time.</p>

Mending Heart

<p>Three, light blue droplets, as sweat beads, splashing down to the right. Resembles&nbsp;<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexicon_of_Comicana">plewds</a></em>, stylized sweat droplets used in comics and animation to show characters working hard or feeling stressed.</p>

<p>May be used to represent various types of liquids, including sexual fluids. May also be used to represent various liquid-based slang expressions (e.g., <i>drip</i>, &ldquo;exceptional style, swagger&quot;).</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/droplet/">💧 Droplet</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p><a href="/google/android-7.0/sweat-droplets/">Google</a>, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/sweat-droplets/">Microsoft</a>, and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/sweat-droplets/">Samsung&#39;s</a> design previously featured two, upwardly directed droplets.</p>

Splashing Sweat Symbol

<p>A small rowboat suitable for&nbsp;a small number of people.&nbsp;<a href="/couple-with-heart/" title="💑 Couple With Heart">Couples</a>&nbsp;or <a href="/family/" title="👪 Family">families</a> sometimes hire these as an activity on calm waters.</p>

Rowboat

<p>The male version of the <a href="/person-rowing-boat/">🚣&nbsp;Rowboat</a> emoji.</p>

Man Rowing Boat

<p>The female version of the <a href="/person-rowing-boat/">🚣&nbsp;Rowboat</a> emoji.</p>

Woman Rowing Boat

<p>A person swimming in a pool, the <a href="/water-wave/" title="🌊 Water Wave">ocean</a>, or another body of water.&nbsp;Lacked goggles&nbsp;on prior versions of iOS.</p>

<p>Swims facing to the left of screen on all major platforms.</p>

Swimmer

<p>The male version of the <a href="/person-swimming/">🏊&nbsp;Swimmer</a> emoji.</p>

Man Swimming

<p>The female version of the <a href="/person-swimming/">🏊&nbsp;Swimmer</a> emoji.</p>

Woman Swimming

<p>Blue raindrops falling from a white cloud with a lightning bolt flashing.</p>

<p>May be used as a weather icon to represent thundershowers.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/cloud-with-lightning/">🌩️ Cloud With Lightning</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

Thunder Cloud and Rain

<p>A rain cloud. (Keep dry with <a href="/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">☔ Umbrella With Rain Drops</a>.) Depicted as blue raindrops falling from a white cloud. Most platforms depict the raindrops falling to the left.</p>

<p>May be used as a weather icon to represent rain showers or a rainy day.</p>

<p>Samsung&rsquo;s cloud was <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/cloud-with-rain/">previously</a> bluish.</p>

Cloud with Rain

<p>An umbrella that is closed, likely as a result of <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Collapse-an-Umbrella">collapsing</a> it prior to going indoors.</p>

<p>Shows as purple on Apple and Samsung devices, as well as on Twitter. It is&nbsp;blue&nbsp;on Google devices and Facebook, and green on WhatsApp.</p>

Closed Umbrella

<p>An opened, dry umbrella. Generally depicted with purple fabric and a hooked handle.</p>

<p>Commonly used for various content concerning rainy weather. Occasionally used as a purple accent color.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">☔ Umbrella With Rain Drops</a> or <a href="/closed-umbrella/">🌂 Closed Umbrella</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p>WhatsApp&rsquo;s umbrella is green. Google&rsquo;s umbrella was <a href="/google/android-7.0/umbrella/">previously</a> blue, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/umbrella/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/umbrella/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;once red.</p>

Umbrella

<p>An umbrella, opened to provide cover from rain. Generally depicted with purple fabric and a hooked handle with several rain <a href="/droplet/">droplets</a> falling on its top.</p>

<p>Commonly used for various content concerning rainy weather.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/umbrella/">☂️ Umbrella</a> or <a href="/closed-umbrella/">🌂 Closed Umbrella</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p>WhatsApp&rsquo;s umbrella is green. Google&rsquo;s umbrella was <a href="/google/android-7.0/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">previously</a> blue, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> red, and <a href="/facebook/1.0/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> once pink.</p>

<p>In 2016, a Durex <a href="http://thenextweb.com/lifestyle/2016/11/30/durex-condom-emoji/">poll</a>&nbsp;voted this emoji to (unofficially)&nbsp;represent&nbsp;condoms and safe sex for World AIDS Day.</p>

Umbrella with Rain Drops

<p>A single, light blue droplet, as of water, sweat, or tears.</p>

<p>May be used for various types of liquid. May also be used to expression sadness, as in <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a>,&nbsp;or for various liquid-based slang expressions (e.g., <i>drip</i>, &ldquo;exceptional style, swagger&quot;).</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/sweat-droplets/">💦 Sweat Droplets</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

Droplet

<p>A wave of water, as breaks at the beach. Depicted as a blue wave with a foamy, white crest, curling to the right.</p>

<p>May be used to represent water in general, various bodies of water like oceans, and water activities, such as&nbsp;<a href="/person-swimming/">swimming</a>, <a href="/person-surfing/">surfing</a>, and <a href="/sailboat/">sailing</a>. May also&nbsp;be used to represent metaphorical waves.</p>

<p>Apple&rsquo;s design resembles the iconic wave in&nbsp;Japanese artist Hokusai&rsquo;s famous woodblock print, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa">The Great Wave off Kanagawa</a>&nbsp;</i>(ca. 1830).</p>

Water Wave

Laughing

<p>A yellow face with a frown and closed, downcast eyes, as if aching with sorrow or pain. May convey a variety of unhappy emotions, including disappointment, grief, stress, regret, and remorse.</p>

<p>Similar to <a href="/pensive-face/">😔&nbsp;Pensive Face</a>, but with a sadder, more hurt expression. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/disappointed-face/">previously featured</a> an expression closer to <a href="/confused-face/">😕&nbsp;Confused Face</a>.</p>

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<p>Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.</p>

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

<p>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.</p>

Microsoft 3D Fluent

<p>3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.</p>

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

<p>Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.</p>

Microsoft

<p>An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.</p>

JoyPixels Animations

<p>An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.</p>

emojidex

<p>Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

<p>Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

SoftBank

<p>Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

Docomo

<p>Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

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<p>Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.</p>

Mozilla

<p>Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>A classic red love heart emoji.</p>

<p>The red heart ideograph&nbsp;is traditionally used for expressions of love and romance across many cultures, with this being amongst the most frequence use cases for this emoji.</p>

<p>However, the Red Heart emoji is also often used to express non-romantic positive sentiments, in part thanks to its use as one of the default reaction emoji options across many social messaging platforms (e.g. <a href="/instagram">Instagram</a>, <a href="/slack">Slack</a>, <a href="/whatsapp">WhatsApp</a>).</p>

<p>This is historically&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">the most popular heart emoji</a>&nbsp;by a considerable distance and is amongst the most popular emojis of all time.&nbsp;</p>

<p>A similar&nbsp;emoji exists&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<a href="/heart-suit/" title="♥️️ Heart Suit">heart suit</a> in a deck of playing cards.</p>

<p>On <a href="/snapchat/" title="👻 Snapchat Emoji Meanings">Snapchat</a>, this emoji displays next to a friend&nbsp;when you have been #1 BFs with each other for two consecutive weeks.</p>

<p><em>Note: the Unicode Character Database (UCD)&nbsp;name &ldquo;Heavy Black Heart&rdquo;&nbsp;pre-dates color emoji, when the term referred to a solid, black ❤︎ heart character. See the glossary for information on the term&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#black" title="📖 Glossary">black</a> in historic Unicode character names.</em></p>

Heavy Black Heart

<p>A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, closed smile turning up to rosy cheeks. Often expresses genuine happiness and warm, positive feelings.</p>

<p>An emoji form of the ^^ emoticon.</p>

<p>On&nbsp;<a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a>, this emoji next to a contact denotes that you message that&nbsp;person often but they aren&#39;t your&nbsp;<em>#1 Best Friend</em>.</p>

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes

<p>A yellow face with smiling eyes, a closed smile, rosy cheeks, and several <a href="/red-heart/">hearts</a> floating around its head. Expresses a range of happy, affectionate feelings, especially being in love. The placement of the hearts varies slightly by platform.</p>

<p>Apple&#39;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/smiling-face/">☺️ Smiling Face</a>&nbsp;emoji design.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Three Hearts

<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 winking with puckered lips blowing a kiss, depicted&nbsp;as a small, <a href="/red-heart/">red heart</a>. May represent&nbsp;a kiss goodbye or good night and convey feelings of love and affection more generally.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Many platforms feature the same eyes as on their <a href="/winking-face/">😉&nbsp;Winking Face</a>.</p>

<p>Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/face-blowing-a-kiss/">previously featured</a> a feminine smiley with long eyelashes and red <a href="/lipstick/">lipstick</a>, which could leave a <a href="/kiss-mark/">kiss mark</a>.</p>

Face Throwing a Kiss

<p>A yellow face with smiling eyes, rosy cheeks, and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of romantic love and affection. Several platforms, including Apple, feature the same eyes and cheeks as their <a href="/smiling-face/">☺️&nbsp;Smiling Face</a>.</p>

<p>With its closed eyes, features an expression more intimate than <a href="/kissing-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😙&nbsp;Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes</a>&rsquo;s and <a href="/kissing-face/">😗&nbsp;Kissing Face</a>&rsquo;s.</p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/kissing-cat/">😽&nbsp;Kissing Cat Face</a>.</p>

Kissing Face with Closed Eyes

<p>A yellow face smiling with <a href="/open-hands/">open hands</a>, as if giving a hug.&nbsp;May be used to offer thanks and support, show love and care, or express warm, positive feelings more generally.</p>

<p>Due to its hand gesture, often used to represent jazz hands, indicating such feelings as excitement, enthusiasm, or a sense of flourish or accomplishment.</p>

<p>Joins <a href="/thinking-face/">🤔&nbsp;Thinking Face</a>, <a href="/shushing-face/">🤫&nbsp;Shushing Face</a>, and <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face With Hand Over Mouth</a> as one of the few smileys featuring hands. For a more obvious hug, see&nbsp;<a href="/people-hugging/">🫂 People Hugging</a>&nbsp;(new in 2020).</p>

Hugging Face

<p>A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/smiling-face-with-heart-eyes/">😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.</p>

Smiling Cat Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes

<p>A heart emoji with an arrow through the center, like the arrow that cupid shoots for love.</p>

<p>This emoji tends to spike in popularity on <a href="/valentines-day">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>.</p>

Heart with Arrow

<p>A heart-shaped box, tied with a <a href="/ribbon/" title="🎀 Ribbon">ribbon</a>. May be a gift box, box of chocolates, or a jewellery box.</p>

Heart with Ribbon

<p>A pink love heart with stars around it, making it look like it is sparkling or shimmering.</p>

<p>This emoji tends to spike in popularity on <a href="/valentines-day">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>.</p>

Sparkling Heart

<p>A pink heart, inside a slightly larger pink heart, inside a larger-again pink heart. Intended to give the impression of a heart increasing in size.</p>

<p>This emoji tends to spike in popularity on <a href="/valentines-day">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>.</p>

<p>An <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/growing-heart/">early Apple design</a> displayed as a plain <a href="/pink-heart/">Pink Heart</a>.</p>

Growing Heart

<p>A heart with vibration/movement lines above it or around it, indicating it is beating. Displayed in pink or red on most platforms.</p>

<p>An <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/beating-heart/">early version</a> of this emoji on iOS had the same design as&nbsp;<a href="/sparkling-heart/">💖 Sparkling Heart</a>.</p>

Beating Heart

<p>Hearts revolving around one or more other hearts. This emoji was originally animated on a number of Japanese devices.</p>

<p>Apple&rsquo;s artwork for this emoji shows&nbsp;two hearts switching places, with a circular line simulating&nbsp;the&nbsp;action this would make.&nbsp;Google&rsquo;s artwork previously displayed <a href="/google/android-5.0/revolving-hearts/">five hearts in a circle-like shape</a>.</p>

Revolving Hearts

<p>Two pink love hearts. One larger than the other. Can be used to display that &ldquo;love is in the air&rdquo;.</p>

<p>This emoji tends to spike in popularity on <a href="/valentines-day">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>.</p>

<p>On <a href="/snapchat/" title="👻 Snapchat Emoji Meanings">Snapchat</a>, this emoji next to a contact denotes that you have been #1 BFs with each other for two consecutive months.&nbsp;<em>A bug in October 2019 has a <a href="https://trophylist.com/2019/10/07/snapchat-bug-shows-yellow-heart-💛-instead-of-pink-hearts-💕/">yellow heart emoji showing instead of&nbsp;💕 for some Snapchat users</a>.</em></p>

Two Hearts

<p>A decorative heart that generally displays as a white heart-shaped cutout in a pink or purple roundrect.</p>

<p>Google <a href="/google/android-7.0/heart-decoration/">previously</a> displayed a pink heart with yellow dots around it, Samsung&rsquo;s was a <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/heart-decoration/">pink patterned heart</a>, and Microsoft&rsquo;s had corner&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/heart-decoration/">stitches</a>.</p>

Heart Decoration

<p>A decorative&nbsp;<a href="/exclamation-mark/" title=" ❗ Heavy Exclamation Mark Symbol">exclamation mark</a>, where a heart forms the top part of the symbol, and a circle the lower part. Similar to the way to the <a href="/person-in-suit-levitating/" title=" 🕴 Man in Business Suit Levitating">man in business suit levitating</a>&nbsp;also creates a similar shape.</p>

Heavy Heart Exclamation Mark Ornament

<p>A heart shown on fire, for extreme or passionate forms of love or lust. Most representative of&nbsp;desire or lust, this emoji&nbsp;may also indicate&nbsp;a sense of burning a past love and moving on.</p>

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Heart on Fire

<p>A plain pink heart, expected to be&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">frequently used alongside other hearts</a>. Used to represent love, friendship, and feelings of warmth, and the color pink.</p>

<p>For many years before its introduction in <a href="/emoji-15.0">2022</a>, the plain pink heart was one of the world&#39;s <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/top-emoji-requests-2016/">most frequently requested</a> emojis.</p>

<p>On several platforms, pink hearts are used in the design of other emojis. These emoji include: <a href="/sparkling-heart/">Sparkling Heart 💖</a>, <a href="/two-hearts/">Two Hearts 💕</a>, <a href="/growing-heart/">Growing Heart 💗</a>, <a href="/beating-heart/">Beating Heart 💓</a>, <a href="/revolving-hearts/">Revolving Heart 💞</a>, <a href="/heart-with-arrow/">Heart with Arrow 💘</a>, <a href="/heart-with-ribbon/">Heart with Ribbon 💝</a>, and <a href="/kiss/">Kiss 💏</a>.</p>

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Pink Heart

<p>An orange heart emoji, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">often used alongside other colored hearts</a>.</p>

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Orange Heart

<p>A yellow or gold colored heart,&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">frequently used alongside other colored hearts</a>.&nbsp;This displayed as a pink <a href="/google/android-4.4/yellow-heart/" title="💛 Yellow Heart on Google Android 4.4">hairy heart</a>&nbsp;on Android 4.4.</p>

<p>On&nbsp;<a href="/snapchat/" title="👻 Snapchat Emoji &amp; Emoticon Meanings">Snapchat</a>,&nbsp;this&nbsp;emoji next to a contact&nbsp;denotes a person that you snap the most, and who also snaps you the most (<em>#1 best friend</em>). The yellow <em>#1 BF heart</em> turns into a <a href="/red-heart/" title="❤️ Heavy Black Heart">red heart</a> after two weeks.</p>

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