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A <a href="/check-mark/" title="✔️ Heavy Check Mark">check mark</a> that displays a white outlined appearance. Shows&nbsp;on most platforms with a bright green rounded rectangle or circle surrounding it.

Android <a href="/google/android-4.4/check-mark-button/" title="✅ White Heavy Check Mark on Google Android 4.4">previously</a> displayed this as an outlined blue check mark / blue tick.

This emoji is not supported in Twitter / X names, possibly in an attempt to minimize confusion with a verified checkmark.

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White Heavy Check Mark

A yellow face with simple, open eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general pleasure and good cheer or humor.

Not to be confused with <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>&nbsp;or <a href="/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes</a>, which have the same smiles but more expressive eye shapes.&nbsp;

This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/grinning-cat/">😺 Grinning Cat Face</a>.

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Grinning Face

A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general happiness and good-natured amusement.

Similar to <a href="/grinning-face/">😀 Grinning Face</a>&nbsp;but&nbsp;with taller, more excited eyes.&nbsp;

Smiling Face with Open Mouth

A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Often conveys general happiness and good-natured amusement.

Similar to&nbsp;<a href="/grinning-face/">😀 Grinning Face</a> and <a href="/grinning-face-with-big-eyes/">😃&nbsp;Grinning Face With Big Eyes</a>, but with warmer, less excited eyes.

This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/grinning-cat-with-smiling-eyes/">😸&nbsp;Grinning Cat Face With Smiling Eyes</a>.

Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes

A yellow face with smiling eyes and full-toothed grin, as if saying Cheese!&nbsp;for the camera.&nbsp;Teeth may be smoothed-over or crosshatched. Often expresses a radiant, gratified happiness. Tone varies, including warm, silly, amused, or proud.

<a href="/apple/ios-6.0/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">Prior to 2017</a>, Apple&#39;s design resembled its&nbsp;<a href="/grimacing-face/">😬 Grimacing Face</a>.

Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes

A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, closed smile turning up to rosy cheeks. Often expresses genuine happiness and warm, positive feelings.

An emoji form of the ^^ emoticon.

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;#1 Best Friend.

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes

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.

Apple&#39;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/smiling-face/">☺️ Smiling Face</a>&nbsp;emoji design.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Three Hearts

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.

Due to its hand gesture, often used to represent jazz hands, indicating such feelings as excitement, enthusiasm, or a sense of flourish or accomplishment.

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).

Hugging Face

A yellow face with its right hand saluting. Used as a sign of respect.

The expression of the face of this emoji can vary across platforms, with some designs featuring a <a href="/neutral-face">neutral</a> face while others are shown smiling to various degrees.&nbsp;

Apple and Huewai&#39;s designs notably only display half a face, likely to make the saluting hand more prominent when this emoji is viewed in smaller sizes.

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Saluting Face

A face showing a visible breath of air being dispelled. Used to represent relief, exhaustion, or as a sigh of&nbsp;disappointment or displeasure.

May also be used to indicate the <a href="/cigarette/">exhaling</a> of <a href="/420/">smoke</a>.

Face Exhaling

A yellow face with a party hat blowing a party horn as confetti floats around its head. Used for celebrating joyous occasions (such as <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&#39;s Eve</a> or <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a>) and enjoying good times more generally.

Apple&rsquo;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚&nbsp;Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a>.

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Face with Party Horn and Party Hat

100 emoji: the number one-hundred, written in red, underlined twice for emphasis.

Originating from the number 100&nbsp;written on a school exam or paper&nbsp;to indicate a perfect score&nbsp;of 100 out of 100.&nbsp; Teachers in Japan may&nbsp;also&nbsp;use a <a href="/white-flower/" title="💮 White Flower">stamp</a>&nbsp;in addition to the 100 mark, to indicate&nbsp;that a student has performed very well.

This 100&nbsp;emoji&nbsp;is commonly used as a shorthand for 100%, with the usage meaning &ldquo;keep it real&rdquo; or a similar sentiment. A 100 emoji can be used to express pride or general acceptance of an idea.

In <a href="/snapchat/" title="👻 Snapchat Emoji Meanings">Snapchat</a>, the 100 emoji appearing next to a <a href="/fire/" title="🔥 Fire">fire emoji</a> indicates a 100 day Snapstreak.

Hundred Points Symbol

A gesture showing the index finger and&nbsp;thumb touching&nbsp;to make an open circle. Represents &ldquo;I&rsquo;m okay&rdquo; or &ldquo;yes, that&rsquo;s correct / good&rdquo;.

In American Sign Language (ASL), the number nine is represented with this gesture. The same hand sign can be seen as offensive in some cultures, including in parts of Europe, the Middle East, and South America.

This can also be used as&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/no-the-ok-hand-is-not-a-symbol-of-white-power/">a&nbsp;symbol of White Supremacy</a>, depending on context.

OK Hand Sign

A hand with thumb and&nbsp;little (pinky) finger extended, making a traditional&nbsp;<a href="/telephone-receiver/" title="📞 Telephone Receiver">phone</a>-like shape.&nbsp;May be used in conjunction with a face to suggest&nbsp;&ldquo;call me&rdquo; (please).

Not to be confused with the <a href="/sign-of-the-horns/" title="🤘 Sign Of The Horns">sign of the horn</a>. Commonly used as a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign">shaka sign</a>, which is a similar gesture at a different orientation.

Call Me Hand

A&nbsp;thumbs-up gesture indicating approval.

In certain contexts, the use of the Thumbs Up emoji can be construed as being passive aggressive or sarcastic. Despite this possible use, it&nbsp;remains a popular means of quickly and earnestly expressing approval.

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Thumbs Up Sign

Two hands placed firmly together, meaning please&nbsp;or&nbsp;thank you&nbsp;in Japanese culture.&nbsp;A common alternative use&nbsp;for this emoji is for prayer, using the same gesture as&nbsp;praying hands. It can also represent&nbsp;a respectful greeting or show of adoration many in Southeast Asian religions and cultures, such as the Hindu namaste or Buddhist a&ntilde;jali mudra.

Rarely used as&nbsp;a&nbsp;high-five, despite often being suggested as one by emoji keyboard search features. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojiology-folded-hands/">More about this emoji and its possible meanings</a>.

A previous&nbsp;version of this&nbsp;emoji&nbsp;displayed a <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Apple iOS 6.0">yellow burst of light behind the two hands</a>&nbsp;on iOS. Android once&nbsp;showed a blob-character with <a href="/google/android-5.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Google Android 5.0">closed eyes and folded hands</a>.

Person with Folded Hands

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 person with arms above their head, making an &lsquo;OK&rsquo; sign (circle) with the whole body. No gender is specified.

Previously displayed as <a href="/google/android-4.3/person-gesturing-ok/">an alien</a> or <a href="/google/android-4.4/person-gesturing-ok/">blob</a> on Android,&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/person-gesturing-ok/">a man on Windows</a>, and <a href="/apple/ios-10.2/person-gesturing-ok/">a woman</a> on most <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/person-gesturing-ok/">other platforms</a>.

Face with OK Gesture

A party popper, as explodes&nbsp;in a shower of confetti and streamers at a celebration. Generally depicted as a gold party hat, striped on some platforms, at a 45&deg; angle, with multicolored confetti and streamers coming from its opening at the upper right. Twitter&rsquo;s cone is red.

Like <a href="/confetti-ball/">🎊 Confetti Ball</a>, commonly used to convey congratulations and celebration, as on <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&rsquo;s Eve</a>, <a href="/birthday/">birthdays</a>, <a href="/wedding-marriage/">wedding days</a>, <a href="/graduation/">graduations</a>, and other special occasions or good times more generally.

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Party Popper

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 closed, hardcover book depicted with a red cover on most platforms. Commonly used for various content concerning reading, writing, learning, and schooling. May also be used as a red accent color.

Apple&rsquo;s cover features the easter egg &ldquo;Vol. 1 by <a href="http://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a>.&rdquo; Apple&rsquo;s original design for this emoji said &ldquo;Vol. 3 by John Appleseed,&rdquo; however now this title appears on Apple&rsquo;s <a href="/blue-book/">📘 Blue Book</a> design.

Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/closed-book/">previously</a> featured&nbsp;a brown cover with a red bookmark. Samsung&rsquo;s artwork <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/closed-book/">once featured a blue cover printed with the initials HYDM</a>, though its latest design has a red cover.

Closed Book

A closed, green, hardcover book. Commonly used for various content concerning reading, writing, learning, and schooling. May also be used as a green accent color.

Apple&rsquo;s cover features the easter egg Vol. 2 by <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a>.&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/green-book/">previously </a>included the text&nbsp;Green Book.

Green Book

A closed, blue, hardcover book. Commonly used for various content concerning reading, writing, learning, and schooling. May also be used as a blue accent color.

Apple&rsquo;s cover features the easter egg Vol. 3 by <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/" style="font-style: italic;">John Appleseed</a>.&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s design&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/blue-book/">previously</a>&nbsp;included the text&nbsp;Blue Book.

Note that in the U.S., this emoji may be associated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_book_exam">blue book exams</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelley_Blue_Book">Kelley Blue Book</a>.

Blue Book

A closed, orange, hardcover book&mdash;similar to the Emojipedia logo&nbsp;📙😃.&nbsp;Commonly used for various content concerning reading, writing, learning, and schooling. May also be used as an orange accent color.

Apple&rsquo;s cover features the easter egg Vol. 4 by <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a>. It was <a href="/apple/ios-5.1/orange-book/">previously purple</a>&nbsp;and the third&nbsp;volume. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/orange-book/">previously</a> included the text&nbsp;Orange Book.

Orange Book

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

Sheets of white, printed paper with variously colored tabs to bookmark important sections or indicate signature lines. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing.

The number of pages and tabs vary, with Microsoft and Twitter&rsquo;s designs featuring one page with a single, purple-colored tab. Facebook&rsquo;s is printed with NDA, or nondisclosure agreement. Most platforms indicate text with dark lines. Apple&rsquo;s design 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.

<a href="/au-kddi/type-b-2/bookmark-tabs/">Early designs</a> from au by KDDI resemble <a href="/page-with-curl/">📃 Page With Curl</a>.

Not to be confused with <a href="/page-facing-up/">📄 Page Facing Up</a> or other emojis featuring sheets of paper.

Bookmark Tabs

A ballot box, as used to cast votes in an election. Depicted as a box, generally blue or gray, with a slot on top through which a paper ballot is being inserted. Many platforms display a&nbsp;<a href="/cross-mark/">cross mark</a>&nbsp;or <a href="/check-mark/">check mark</a> on the ballot to indicate a vote, though Apple and Facebook leave theirs blank.

Commonly used for various content concerning voting and elections, especially in politics and government.

Ballot Box with Ballot

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

Used as an alternative to a <a title="✔ Heavy Check Mark" href="/check-mark/">check</a> (tick) in Japan for a something that is correct. The opposite of an X (<a title="❌ Cross Mark" href="/cross-mark/">cross mark</a>) for something wrong.

Heavy Large Circle

A checkbox showing a <a href="/check-mark/" title="✔️ Heavy Check Mark">check mark</a>&nbsp;inside the box. Not to be confused with the similarly named&nbsp;<a href="/ballot-box-with-ballot/" title="🗳 Ballot Box With Ballot">Ballot Box With Ballot</a> emoji, though Samsung did originally include a ballot box as part of this emoji&#39;s design.

This emoji is not supported in Twitter names, possibly in an attempt to minimize confusion with a verified checkmark.

Ballot Box with Check

A thick&nbsp;check mark / tick&nbsp;displayed on some platforms in a handwritten style.&nbsp;Generally displayed in black. Commonly used in lists to signify completed tasks&nbsp;or verification of a statement of fact.

Previously shown in <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/check-mark/">red on&nbsp;Samsung</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-8.0/check-mark/">green on Google</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/check-mark/">Microsoft</a>.&nbsp;

Note: this emoji is not supported in Twitter / X names,&nbsp;to minimize confusion with a verified checkmark. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/why-you-cant-use-these-emojis-in-your-twitter-name/">Learn more here</a>.

See also:&nbsp;<a href="/check-mark-button/">✅&nbsp;Check Mark Button</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/check-box-with-check/">☑️&nbsp;Check Box with Check</a>.

Heavy Check Mark

A large red cross mark, displayed in the shape of a letter X and similar to a <a href="/heavy-multiplication-x/" title="✖️ Heavy Multiplication X">multiplication sign</a>.

Cross Mark

A <a href="https://emojipedia.org/cross-mark/">cross mark</a> that displays with a white outlined appearance. Shows on most platforms with a bright green rounded rectangle or circle surrounding it.

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Negative Squared Cross Mark

The letters&nbsp;OK, shown enclosed&nbsp;in a square.&nbsp;Meaning <a href="/ok-hand/" title="👌 Ok Hand Sign">Okay</a>, denoting approval. The opposite of the <a href="/ng-button/" title="🆖 Squared NG">Squared NG Emoji</a>.

Squared OK

✅ Check Mark Button on Google Noto Color Emoji 16.0

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