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A desktop personal computer. Generally depicted as a black or gray monitor with a dark or blue screen.

Like <a href="/laptop/">💻 Laptop Computer</a>, used for various content concerning computer technology, work, and activity. May also be used to represent <a href="/laptop/">television</a>, as it resembles a flatscreen TV.

Google and WhatsApp include <a href="/keyboard/">keyboards</a>. Apple&rsquo;s design resembles an iMac. <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/desktop-computer/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/desktop-computer/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> designs previously featured PC towers.

Desktop Computer

A smiling yellow face with glasses, often with teeth showing, originally buck teeth on most platforms.

While this emoji is often used by people calling themselves nerds in a self-deprecating way, the nerdy glasses paired with buck teeth can, and often does, evoke anti-Asian stereotypes. The fact that the default color of emoji faces is yellow further pushes this emoji into racist &quot;<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/189200/asians-meet-new-yellow-emoji-with-frowny-face/">yellowface</a>&quot;&nbsp;territory.

Some platforms have redesigned nerd face&nbsp;over time to not have buck teeth, perhaps in acknowledgement of the harm this imagery&nbsp;may cause. Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and JoyPixels <a href="/google/android-7.0/nerd-face/">originally</a> <a href="/facebook/2.0/nerd-face/">featured</a> <a href="/joypixels/4.0/nerd-face/">designs</a> with buck teeth but have since changed (or completely removed) the teeth on nerd face.

Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, Samsung, and other platforms still use designs for this emoji that include buck teeth.

Nerd Face

A friendly-looking, tentacled space creature with two eyes. Most major platforms style their design after aliens in classic arcade games like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders">Space Invaders</a>, rendering it purple and pixellated, as if in 8-bit graphics.

Samsung&rsquo;s design resembles an <a href="/octopus/">octopus</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/alien-monster/">previously featured</a> a big-brained <a href="/alien/">alien</a>, &agrave; la <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cage_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)">Star Trek</a>. Earlier designs from <a href="/google/android-7.0/alien-monster/">Google</a> and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/alien-monster/">Microsoft</a> depicted more cartoon-like alien monsters.

May be used of topics concerning extraterrestrial life,&nbsp;outer space, gaming, and computing, but also enjoys a range of idiosyncratic applications, such as&nbsp;conveying a&nbsp;sense of weirdness, wackiness, or excitement, given that the emoji looks like it is raising its arms shouting&nbsp;Yay! on many platforms.

Alien Monster

The head of a&nbsp;classic robot. Commonly depicted as a vintage, tin&nbsp;toy robot with circular eyes, a triangular nose, knobs for&nbsp;ears, a light and/or antennae atop its head, and a grill-like mouth similar to a <a href="/grimacing-face/">grimace</a>. Colors vary across platform, but its head is metallic on most platforms.&nbsp;

May be used of topics concerning robotics, electronics, computer programming, futurism, and science fiction. It also enjoys a range of idiosyncratic applications, such as conveying a sense of weirdness and fun as well as alarm, surprise, and excitement, given its wide-eyed, teeth-gritting expression.

Also often used to discuss artificial intelligence and various AI-branded products and features, though the <a href="/sparkles">✨ Sparkles</a> emoji has become the go-to symbol to represent AI within tech platforms.

Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Robot Face

A man behind a computer screen, working in the field of technology.

See also:&nbsp;<a href="/woman-technologist/" title="👩‍💻 Female Technologist">👩&zwj;💻&nbsp;Female Technologist</a>

Man Technologist

A woman behind a computer screen, working in the field of technology.

See also:&nbsp;👨&zwj;💻<a href="/man-technologist/" title="👨‍💻 Male Technologist">&nbsp;Male Technologist</a>

Woman Technologist

A stylized globe, with blue <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_(geography)">meridians</a> (longitudes) and latitude. Depicted with light-blue grid&nbsp;of lines on a white, blue, or empty circle.

May be used as a symbol of the internet or world wide web, global communications, international affairs, connectivity and networks, time zones, coordinates, or the world more generally.

May appear as an icon on Apple devices to change (language) keyboards.

See also <a href="/globe-showing-americas/">🌎 Globe Showing Americas</a>, <a href="/globe-showing-europe-africa/">🌍 Globe Showing Europe-Africa</a>, and <a href="/globe-showing-asia-australia/">🌏 Globe Showing Asia-Australia</a>.

Globe with Meridians

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joystick">joystick</a>, as used in playing classic arcade, computer, or video games. Generally depicted with a black base, red-knobbed control stick, and one or more red buttons.

Commonly used for content concerning various types of gaming; occasionaly applied to aviation and aircraft.

Google&#39;s base was <a href="/google/android-8.0/joystick/">previously</a>&nbsp;blue, and&nbsp;Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/joystick/">previously featured</a> a more modern design.

Joystick

An electric plug, as inserted into socket to power a device. Depicted as a black, two-pronged plug at various angles at the end of a cable. Prongs are silver or gold.

Commonly used for various literal and figurative content concerning electricity and power. May also be used for various slang senses of plug, e.g., a connection or hookup.

Apple and WhatsApp&rsquo;s designs suggest a plug used in North America and Japan while other platforms, including Google and Samsung, suggest one used in Europe and many other parts of the world.

Electric Plug

A laptop personal computer. Depicted as a black or gray device, opened to show a dark or blue screen, keyboard, and touchpad.

Commonly used for various content concerning computer technology, work, and activity.

Previous designs resembled a <a href="/desktop-computer/">desktop computer</a>&nbsp;(e.g., <a href="/apple/ios-9.0/laptop/">iMac</a>) on many platforms, hence its Unicode name of&nbsp;Personal Computer. Apple&rsquo;s design now resembles a MacBook.

Personal Computer

A <a href="/desktop-computer/">computer</a> printer, as at a home office. Generally depicted as a grayish device with a power button and paper loaded in its tray, sometimes printing out a document. May be used for various content concerning printing, including as a Print icon,&nbsp;as well as for office work and technology more generally.

Not to be confused with <a href="/fax-machine/">📠 Fax Machine</a>.

Printer

A keyboard, as used to type on a <a href="/desktop-computer/">computer</a>. Generally depicted as a gray device with white or black keys. Used for various content concerning computers, typing, and writing.

Apple&rsquo;s design resembles the company&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Keyboard">Magic Keyboard</a>. Microsoft&#39;s design was <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/keyboard/">previously</a>&nbsp;blue.

Not to be confused with <a href="/musical-keyboard/">🎹 Musical Keyboard</a>.

Keyboard

A mouse, as used to control a cursor on a <a href="/desktop-computer/">computer</a>. Generally depicted as a white or gray, cordless device with a scroll wheel between left- and right-click buttons.

Used for various content concerning computers, including gaming and various senses of click (e.g., clickbait).

Apple&rsquo;s design resembles the company&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Mouse">Magic Mouse</a>, with a single button. Google&rsquo;s mouse <a href="/computer-mouse/">previously</a> had&nbsp;a cord.

Not to be confused with <a href="/mouse/">🐁 Mouse</a>.

Three Button Mouse

A trackball, as rotated to control a cursor on a computer. An alternative or supplement to a <a href="/computer-mouse/">computer mouse</a> or touchpad. Generally depicted as a cordless device with a blue or red ball in a cylindrical, black or gray socket.

Occasionally used for various content concerning <a href="/video-game/">gaming</a>. Facebook&rsquo;s design featurs a rectangular base, while Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-11.0/trackball/">previously</a> featured&nbsp;a cord.

Trackball

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc">minidisc</a>, depicted as a small, silver or gold <a href="/optical-disk/">optical disc</a> housed in a square cartridge, its shutter positioned to the right.

<a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/sony-announces-the-end-of-the-minidisc/">Discontinued</a> as an audio and data storage format in 2013 due to the success of CD and MP3 technology, though the emoji is commonly used to represent CDs, DVDs, and related film and music content, especially albums.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/computer-disk/">previously featured</a> a silver disc labeled MD, for minidisc. <a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/computer-disk/">Early designs</a> from au by KDDI showed an angled <a href="/floppy-disk/">💾 Floppy Disk</a>, perhaps as being inserted or ejected into a computer drive.

See also <a href="/optical-disk/">💿 Optical Disc</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/dvd/">📀 DVD</a>.

Minidisc

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5_floppy">3.5-inch floppy disk</a>, a data storage format popular in the 1980&ndash;90s but largely preserved as a Save icon in computer programs. Shown with its silver shutter positioned up and in a black housing with&nbsp;a white label, accented with blue or red.

Occasionally used for various content concerning computers, including nostalgia for old technology, as well as to represent electronic saving.

Floppy Disk

A silver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc">optical disc</a>, as a CD or <a href="/dvd/">DVD</a>, used to play music or movies before the rise of streaming technology. Commonly used to represent CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and related film and music content, especially albums.

See also <a href="/computer-disk/">💽 Computer Disk</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/dvd/">📀 DVD</a>.

Optical Disc

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD">digital versatile disc</a> (DVD), a type of <a href="/optical-disk/">optical disc</a> used to play movies before the rise of streaming technology. Generally depicted in gold, though Facebook&rsquo;s is bluish gray, as a Blu-ray.

Commonly used to represent CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and related film and music content, especially albums.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/dvd/">Google</a>, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/dvd/">Microsoft</a>, <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/dvd/">Samsung</a>, and <a href="/softbank/2014/dvd/">Softbank&rsquo;s</a> designs were once labelled DVD, as to&nbsp;distinguish&nbsp;it from <a href="/optical-disk/">💿 Optical Disk</a>.

See also&nbsp;<a href="/optical-disk/">💿 Optical Disc</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/computer-disk/">💽 Computer Disk</a>.

A classic television set, as people watched before streaming on flatscreens.&nbsp;Depicted in various colors and styles with a screen, knobs, and, on many platforms, rabbit-ear antennae.

Commonly used for television broadcasting as well as various content involving screens, from watching <a href="/movie-camera/">movies</a> to playing <a href="/video-game/">video games</a>.

Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/television/">previously</a> featured&nbsp;a more modern-looking orange TV.&nbsp;Apple&rsquo;s <a href="/apple/iphone-os-2.2/television/">first design</a> was yellow, while&nbsp;Microsoft&rsquo;s <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/television/">previous design</a> was a flatscreen.

Television

A classic magnifying glass, as used to view small objects, with its lens pointed left.&nbsp;Generally depicted at a 45&deg; angle with a black handle and a clear or blue, silver-framed lens titled to the upper left.

Associated with <a href="/detective/">detectives</a> and search or zoom icons on computers.&nbsp;Like <a href="/magnifying-glass-tilted-right/">🔎 Magnifying Glass Titled Right</a>, commonly used for various senses of searching, looking, inspecting, etc.

Left-Pointing Magnifying Glass

A white piece of paper, curled up at the bottom to the left or right, with text printed on it, as a business letter. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing.

Most platforms indicate text with dark lines. Apple&rsquo;s design features an easter egg, addressed Dear Katie with 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. The ones who see things differently. They&#39;re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can&#39;t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward&hellip;

Samsung&rsquo;s design is addressed Dear Samsung. <a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/page-with-curl/">Early designs</a> from au by KDDI resemble <a href="/page-facing-up/">📄 Page Facing Up</a>, suggesting this emoji may have been originally intended to represent documents on a computer.

Not to be confused with <a href="/page-facing-up/">📄 Page Facing Up</a> or other emojis featuring sheets of paper.

Page with Curl

A white piece of paper, its top right corner curled or dog-eared, with text printed on it, as a business letter or icon for a document on a computer. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing.

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/</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different">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-a-2/page-facing-up/">Early designs</a> from au by KDDI show a slanted document, suggesting this emoji may have been originally intended to represent a&nbsp;digital document being sent electronically.

Not to be confused with <a href="/page-with-curl/">📃 Page With Curl</a> or other emojis featuring sheets of paper.

Page Facing Up

A tabbed folder, as used to file papers in a <a href="/file-cabinet/">cabinet</a> or as an icon for a file on a <a href="/desktop-computer/">computer</a>. Most platforms depict a yellow folder, as manila, with the tab shown at the left.

Commonly used for various content concerning filing, organization, and work, especially at an <a href="/office-building/">office</a>.

Apple&rsquo;s folder is gray, Twitter&rsquo;s is blue. Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-11.0/file-folder/">previously</a> featured multiple tabs, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/file-folder/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> a blue tab.

Nearly identical in appearance and use to <a href="/open-file-folder/">📂 Open File Folder</a>, which is slightly open.

File Folder

A slightly open tabbed folder, as used to file papers in a <a href="/file-cabinet/">cabinet</a> or as an icon for an opened folder when using&nbsp;a <a href="/desktop-computer/">computer</a>. Most platforms depict a yellow folder, as manila, with the tab shown at the left.

Commonly used for various content concerning filing, organization, and work, especially at an <a href="/office-building/">office</a>.

Apple&rsquo;s folder is gray, Twitter&rsquo;s is blue. Google&rsquo;s design features multiple tabs, Microsoft&rsquo;s a red tab.

Nearly identical in appearance and use to <a href="/file-folder/">📁 File Folder</a>, which is closed.

Open File Folder

A metal filing cabinet, as used to organize and store&nbsp;<a href="/file-folder/">file folders</a> at an <a href="/office-building/">office</a>. Depicted in black or gray with two drawers, handles, and label holders.

Commonly used for various content concerning paper or computer files; filing and organization;&nbsp;various types of data, information, and archives; and&nbsp;office work.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/file-cabinet/">Google&rsquo;s design</a> was previously blue, <a href="/facebook/2.0/file-cabinet/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> had its bottom drawer open.

File Cabinet

A hammer and wrench, as kept in a <a href="/toolbox/">toolbox</a>, crossed in an X shape. Depicted with metal tools facing up, the hammer positioned at the upper left. Most vendors implement the same design as for their <a href="/hammer/">🔨&nbsp;Hammer</a> and <a href="/wrench/">🔧&nbsp;Wrench</a>.

Commonly used for various content concerning tools, building, construction, and work, both manual and digital.

Hammer and Wrench

A round metal gear with teeth.

Used to talk about tools and engineering (both hardware and software). Also commonly used to indicate settings on user interfaces.&nbsp;May also represent hard work, e.g., grinding in sports.

Samsung&rsquo;s design originally&nbsp;featured a white gear icon on a green square.

Gear

A metal clamp or vice, as screwed to hold or compress materials like wood or metal. Depicted as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-clamp">C-clamp</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-clamp">F-clamp</a>, its screw in various positions.

Commonly used for various content concerning tools, equipment, and technology. May also represent file compression in computer science. An image of a clamp, for example,&nbsp;is featured in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinZip">WinZip</a> icon.

Twitter&rsquo;s clamp is red.&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/clamp/">previously featured</a> a clamp around a cardboard box.

Compression

A red box for holding and transporting tools, such as a <a href="/hammer/">hammer</a> and <a href="/wrench/">wrench</a>. Generally depicted as latched shut with silver hardware and a black handle.

Commonly used for literal or metaphorical tools, toolkits, and building.

WhatsApp&#39;s design includes a hammer in front. Google&rsquo;s design was <a href="/google/android-9.0/toolbox/">previously shown</a> as open with two wrenches and a pair of pliers.

Toolbox

A dish antenna, as used to send or receive information to or from a communication <a href="/satellite/">satellite</a>&mdash;or <a href="/alien/">👽 Extraterrestrial Life</a>. Generally depicted as a mounted, metal dish with its antenna positioned at 45&deg; to the upper right.

Commonly used to represent satellite <a href="/television/">television</a>, <a href="/radio/">radio</a>, and internet, as well as broadcasting, streaming, cellular, and wireless services or technologies. May also represent various concepts of signals and transmission.

Several platforms, including Microsoft and Twitter, feature curved, radiating lines, as if transmitting data.

Satellite Antenna

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Emojipedia

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.

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