In today’s digital age, emojis have become an integral part of our online communication. These tiny, expressive icons convey a wide range of emotions, ideas, and messages, enhancing the way we interact with one another in the virtual world. But have you ever wondered about the meanings behind these colorful symbols? In this article, we will delve into the fascinating world of emojis, exploring the various types and uncovering the hidden meanings behind some of the most commonly used ones.
1. Introduction to Emojis
Emojis are small pictorial icons that originated in Japan but have since taken over the world of digital communication. They provide a way for individuals to express emotions, reactions, and ideas in a fun and visually appealing manner.
2. The Origin of Emojis
Emojis trace their roots back to Japan in the late 1990s. The word “emoji” itself is a combination of two Japanese words: “e” (meaning picture) and “moji” (meaning character). These early emojis were simple and pixelated, but they paved the way for the expressive emojis we use today.
3. Common Emoji Categories
Emojis can be categorized into seven main groups, each with its own set of symbols. Let’s explore some of the most common emojis and their meanings within these categories:
- Smileys and People
| EMOJI | EMOJI NAME | MEANING | OTHER NAMES |
| 😀 | Grinning | It conveys cheerfulness and joy towards something positive | Grinning face |
| 😃 | Smiley | Smiley emoji denotes happiness and positive feelings | Grinning face with big eyes |
| 😄 | Smile | The smile emoji depicts a person’s happiness when sending a greeting text or simply used to compliment something or the other | Grinning face with smiling eyes, happy face, smiley face |
| 😁 | Grin | The grin emoji represents mischievousness but can be used to give away excitement and enjoyment | Beaming face with smiley eyes, cheesy face |
| 😆 | Laughing | The emoji depicts laughter often used to react towards something hilarious | Grinning squinting face emoji |
| 😅 | Sweat smile | Used to depict a close call but is also often used in awkward situations during a chat | Phew emoji, grinning face with sweat, relief emoji |
| 🤣 | Rolling on the floor laughing | Used when someone cracks a hilarious joke | Titled laughter |
| 😂 | Joy | Shedding tears because of laughing so hard | Face with tears of joy, haha emoji |
| 🙂 | Slightly smiling face | An emoji which can have two or more meanings to it such as being positive, happy or patronizing and being ironic | Ironic smile, pain behind the smile |
| 🙃 | Upside down face | The emoji depicts being silly and sarcastic | Sarcasm, silly |
| 😉 | Wink | This emoji signals a joke or a hidden meaning which when used won’t be understood by many | Winky face |
| 😊 | Blush | This emoji expresses extreme happiness and positive feelings | Happy, blush face |
| 😇 | Innocent | This emoji means being as innocent and pure as an angel | Angel |
| 😍 | Heart eyes | Taken straight from cartoons, the hearted eyes emoji is used to convey feeling of love and attraction | Heart face |
| 😘 | Kissing heart | The emoji is used to convey a goodbye to a very close one | Blowing kiss |
| 😚 | Kissing closed eyes | The pink cheeks and puckered lips on this emoji convey sentiments of love and affection | Kissy, kiss |
| 😙 | Kissing smiling eyes | This emoji is also used to convey sentiments of love and affection but in a lighter way | Kissy |
| 😋 | Yum | Used when one is about to have a delicious meal, or already had one | Tasty, deliciuos |
| 😛 | Stuck out tongue | This conveys a sense of excitement, fun and cuteness | Tounge out |
| 😜 | Stuck out tongue winking eye | Used when just casually kidding around with jokes and funny conversations | Crazy |
| 😐️ | Neutral face | When the other person doesn’t get the joke but can also be used in context to concern for someone | Straight face emoji |
| 😑 | Expressionless | The flat eyes and mouth convey a sense of frustration or disappointment | Straight mouth |
| 🤔 | Thinking face | Depicts going into a deep state of thinking | Thinker |
| 🤫 | Shushing face | When the chat has gone with loads of messages and you want to make everyone quiet | Shh, quiet emoji, hush |
| 🤗 | Hugging face | This emoji depicts a sense of affection for someone | Hugging, Aww come here! |
| 🤐 | Zipper mouth face | Used when secrets and promises are to be kept among only certain number of people | Lips sealed, zit it |
| 🤑 | Money mouth face | This emoji conveys the feeling of getting a good sum of money | Dollar sign eyes, money face |
| 😶 | No mouth | This conveys the situations when one has no words to speak due to being disappointment in a positive or negative way | Blank face, mouthless, silence |
| 😏 | Smirk | The emoji to use when you’ve achieved something great and can’t wait to boast around it | Flirting face, smug face, suggestive face |
| 😒 | Unamused face | Generally related to negative emotions. This emoji conveys grumpiness or irritation towards someone or something | Dissatisfied, Meh, Unimpressed |
| 🙄 | Face with rolling eyes | Used when the other person says something obvious or too dumb | Eye roll |
| 😬 | Grimacing face | The wide-open mouth and clenched teeth depict awkwardness or nervousness | Awkward, eek, nervous |
| 🤥 | Lying face | taken straight from the fictional character Pinocchio, this emoji depicts lying | Liar, long nose, Pinocchio |
| 😌 | Relieved face | This emoji depicts a sense of calmness, peace or satisfaction | Content, pleased |
| 😔 | Pensive face | An emoji used to describe a state of pain and sorrow | Sad, sad face, sorrowful |
| 😴 | Sleeping face | One can use this emoji to convey “good night” to a chat | Sleepy, Zzz face |
| 😪 | Sleepy face | The emoji depicts the feeling of exhaustion after a long tiring day | Side-tear, snot bubble |
| 🤤 | Drooling face | This emoji denotes the irresistibility over a yummy food | Drool, water-dropping |
| 😷 | Face with medical mask | This describes the wearing of a mask to protect from viruses and airborne diseases | Coronavirus, COVID-19, face mask |
| 🤒 | Face with thermometer | This emoji depicts a sick person | Sick, ill |
| 🤕 | Face with head bandage | The emoji denotes a bad head injury | Clumsy, bandaged head, injured |
| 🤢 | Nauseated Face | The face depicting ‘about to throw up’ | Disgusting, vomit face, yuck! |
| 🤮 | Face vomiting | This represents disgust or an actual food illness | Spew, throwing up, vomit |
| 🤧 | Sneezing face | The emoji to use when someone has fallen sick and caught cold | Gesundheit, sneeze |
| 🥵 | Hot face | When the temperature is rising | Overheated face, so damn hot! |
| 🥶 | Cold face | When temperature touches rock bottom. Extremely cold | Freezing face, Coldness, do damn cold! |
| 🥴 | Woozy face | When you had too much booze | Drunk face |
| 😵 | Face with crossed-out eyes | This emoji denotes disbelief or in some cases even death | Dizzy face |
| 🤯 | Exploding head | Read, heard or saw something extremely shocking and amusing | Mind blow, what the… |
| 🤠 | Cowboy hat face | A simple smiley emoji with a cowboy hat | Cowboy, brown hat face |
| 🥳 | Partying face | Party time! | Let’s party! |
| 🥸 | Disguised face | Sneaking into solving a particular case or matter | Detective |
| 😎 | Smiling face with sunglasses | Feeling overachieved and cool | Sunglasses, cool, Oh yeah! |
| 🤓 | Nerd face | Depicting a mind loaded with theoretical knowledge | Class topper, Nerdy |
| 🧐 | Face with Monocle | This emoji depicts taking a closer into something | Detective mode ON, something fishy |
| 😕 | Confused face | An emoji giving a look of uncertainty | Puzzled, nonplussed |
| ☹️ | Frowning face | This emoji denotes a deeply saddened state | Megafrown, disappointment |
| 😮 | Face with Open mouth | A round mouth emoji describing a shock which makes one go ‘wow!’ | Open mouth, surprised |
| 😯 | Hushed face | The emoji depicts mild amusement or surprise | Surprised face, surprise |
| 😲 | Astonished face | Used when one comes across something amusing or shocking in both positive or negative way | Drunk face, gasping face |
| 😳 | Flushed face | A surprised emoji with eyes wide opened | Embarrassed, blushing face, shame |
| 🥺 | Pleading face | Depicts wanting of something so bad that eyes become full of tears | Begging, glossy eyes, simp |
| 😧 | Anguished face | Depicting sadness and disappointment at the same time | Pained face |
| 😨 | Fearful face | This emoji intends to depict fear from someone or something | Scared, surprised |
| 😥 | Sad but relieved face | Sad and relieved at the same time as things could’ve gone much worst | Eyebrow sweat |
| 😭 | Loudly crying face | This emoji conveys inconsolable grief but is also used in fun ways such as laughter or over the top joy | Sobbing, sad tears, crying out loud |
| 😱 | Face screaming in fear | This emoji depicts a high degree of shock which can be both positive and negative | Home alone, scream, shocked |
| 😖 | Confounded face | The zig-zag mouth with crossed eyes on this emoji convey irritation, sadness and rather all kinds of negative feelings | Quivering face, scrunched face |
| 😞 | Disappointed face | This emoji conveys an unhappy and sad face due to some recent events | Sad, sad face |
| 😓 | Downcast face with sweat | This emoji conveys a certain degree of sadness, pain or disappointment | Hard work, dejected |
| 😫 | Tired face | When you’ve had a rough and tiring day at work | Exhausted, fed up |
| 🥱 | Yawning face | Used when someone’s feeling sleepy | Feeling sleepy |
| 😤 | Face with steam from nose | Taken inspiration from manga or anime, this emoji depicts angriness and frustration | Triumph, steaming, frustrated |
| 🫡 | Saluting face | The emoji is used as a sign of respect | Salute |
| 😮💨 | Sigh emoji | Used when expressing exhaustion, worry, or disappointment | Sigh |
| 🫠 | Melting face | Represents extreme heat or embarrassment | Melt |
| 🫥 | Dotted line face | Used to express depression, disappear, or non-interest towards something | Dotted face |
| 😶🌫️ | Face in clouds | Used to depict confusion, foggy thoughts | Foggy |
| 🫣 | Face with peeking eye | Represents peep stare or when someone is frightened | Peeking eye |
| 🫤 | Face with diagonal mouth | Used to express doubtfulness | Meh |
| 🤬 | Face with symbols on the mouth | This emoji depicts vulgar behaviour due to being too much furious at someone or something | Cursing, swearing |
| 👿 | Angry face with horns | When the sender of this emoji becomes so angry that they turn into devils with horns | Devil, devil horns, ultra angry |
| 😈 | Smiling face with horns | When the sender of this emoji is onto something mischievous or wicked | Happy devil |
| 💀 | Skull | This emoji represents death from extreme laughter or frustration | Death, death skull |
| 💩 | Pile of poo | One of the most popular emojis. a poo emoji can be used to describe something as silly or funny but in a disgusting way | Smiling poop, dog dirt |
| 🤡 | Clown face | A circus clown can be used to describe something as creepy or haunted | Joker, what a joke! |
| 👹 | Japanese ogre | A kind of hideous ogre in Japanese folklore | Mask face, Oni, red monster |
| 👺 | Goblin | The goblin emoji denotes evil, anger, cruel behaviour | Long face mask, red mask, grumpy monster |
| 👻 | Ghost | The ghost emoji can be used to convey someone or something as goofy and strange | Halloween, disappear, Snapchat |
| 👽 | Alien | A spooky face of an alien from outer space | Outer space creature |
| 👾 | Alien monster | An alien monster from a video game of some sort | Space invader, video game monster |
| 🤖 | Robot face | The head of a classic vintage robot | Droid, robot |
| 🐱 | Cat face | A yellow cat face emoji | Smiley cat, kitty, smiling cat |
| 🙈 | See no evil monkey | A monkey covering its eyes | Monkey covering eyes |
| 🙉 | Hear no evil monkey | A monkey covering its ears | Monkey covering eyes |
| 🙊 | Speak no evil monkey | A monkey covering its mouth | Monkey covering mouth |
| 👦 | Boy face | A simple emoji portraying a boy’s face | Boy, child boy |
| 👧 | Girl face | A simple emoji portraying a girl’s face | Girl, child girl |
| 👀 | Eyes | Huge eyes emoji with the pupil pointing to the left | Eyeballs, wide-open eyes, what happened!? |
| ✍️ | Writing hands | An emoji depicting the action of writing with a pen or pencil | Writing, write |
| 👋 | Waving hand | Used either at the start or at the end of the conversation | Goodbye, hello, hand wave |
| 🦾 | Mechanical arm | A robotic artificial arm | Robotic arm, metal arm, artificial arm |
| 🤳 | Selfie | A human arm depicting the action of taking a selfie from a mobile phone | Selfie hand, hand cam |
- Animal
| EMOJI | EMOJI NAME | MEANING | OTHER NAMES |
| 🐵 | Monkeyface | A monkeyface emoji with wide-open eyes | Monkey head |
| 🐒 | Monkey | A small primate with long limbs | Cheeky monkey |
| 🦍 | Gorilla | An emoji of a grey haired gorilla | – |
| 🦧 | Orangutan | The orange-haired ape emoji with long arms | – |
| 🐶 | Dogface | An emoji portraying the face of a dog | Puppy, doggy |
| 🐕 | Dog | A dog emoji generally known as ‘human’s best friend’ | Doggo |
| 🐺 | Wolf | An emoji portraying the face of a wolf | Wolf face |
| 🦊 | Fox | An emoji portraying the face of a fox | Fox face |
| 🦝 | Raccoon | A gray raccoon emoji | – |
| 🐈 | Cat | A cat emoji which is generally kept as a pet | Feline, house cat |
| 🦁 | Lion face | A simple emoji with a face of a lion | Lion |
| 🐅 | Tiger | A large orange cat with black stripes across its body | Bengal tiger |
| 🐆 | Leopard | A large yellow cat with black yellow spots | Jaguar |
| 🐎 | Horse | A horse emoji depicted as galloping towards the left | Racehorse, galloping horse |
| 🦄 | Unicorn | A mythical and fantasy animal | – |
| 🦓 | Zebra | An emoji of the popular black striped animal called zebra | – |
| 🦬 | Bison | A brown bison shown in full profile with horns, a beard, and woolly mane | Buffalo |
| 🐄 | Cow | A dairy cow emoji with black spots on its body | Dairy cow |
| 🐂 | Ox | An emoji depicting a brown ox | Oxen, bull |
| 🐪 | Camel | An emoji portrayal of a desert animal | Desert camel, Arabian camel |
| 🦙 | Llama | A rare camel like animal found in South America | Alpaca |
| 🦒 | Giraffe | A face emoji of the tallest animals around called giraffe | – |
| 🐘 | Elephant | An emoji of the largest animal on the planet known as elephant | – |
| 🦏 | Rhino | A large mammal with massive horns | Rhinoceros |
| 🦣 | Mammoth | A wooly extinct creature with long curvy tasks | – |
| 🦛 | Hippo | An emoji of a huge water mammal with big jaws | Hippopotamus |
| 🐁 | Mouse | A bright mouse emoji with a long pink tail | Rodent, mice |
| 🐀 | Rat | A rat emoji with a long pink tail | Rodent |
| 🐹 | Hamster | A small cute rodent often kept as a pet | Hamster face |
| 🐇 | Rabbit | A mammal that loves to eat and has long eats | Bunny |
| 🐿️ | Squirrel | A rodent with big and puffy cheeks | Chipmunk |
| 🦔 | Hedgehog | An emoji of a small spiny mammal called hedgehog | Spike |
| 🦇 | Bat | A bat emoji that can also be used to describe the superhero Batman | Batman |
| 🐻 | Bear | An emoji portrayal of a panda | Teddy bear |
| 🐻❄️ | Polar bear | An emoji of an animal found in arctic places | Bear face |
| 🐼 | Panda | An emoji depicting a panda | Panda face |
| 🦘 | Kangaroo | An emoji of a kangaroo | Roo |
| 🕊️ | Dove | A bird associated with the symbol of peace | Dove of peace |
| 🦅 | Eagle | An emoji portrayal of the majestic bird eagle | Bald eagle |
| 🦉 | Owl | An emoji of a large-eyed bird owl | – |
| 🌲 | Evergreen tree | An evergreen tree is the one that keeps its leaves all year long | Fir tree, Pine tree |
| 🌵 | Cactus | A cactus plant emoji | Desert |
| 🌴 | Palm tree | A tree on which coconuts grow | Coconut tree |
| 🌿 | Herb | A green herb emoji | Crop |
| 🍁 | Maple leaf | An orange maple leaf also associated with the country Canada | Canada |
| 🌹 | Rose | A vibrant red rose emoji with stem. Often used as a symbol of love | Red rose, red flower |
- Food & Drink
| EMOJI | EMOJI NAME | MEANING | OTHER NAMES |
| 🍇 | Grapes | A grape bunch emoji | Grape |
| 🍈 | Melon | A light green melon emoji | Cantaloupe, Honeydew |
| 🍉 | Watermelon | A slice of watermelon showing the juicy red part with black seeds | – |
| 🍊 | Orange | An emoji portraying the pulpy fruit known as orange | Tangerine, Mandarin |
| 🍋 | Lemon | The yellow and sour citrus fruit called lemon | Lemonade |
| 🍌 | Banana | A peeled banana emoji | Monkey snack |
| 🍍 | Pineapple | The tropical fruit pineapple with a shoot of leaves at the top | – |
| 🥭 | Mango | An emoji of a tropical mango | Mangifera |
| 🍎 | Apple | A vibrant red apple emoji | Red apple |
| 🍏 | Green apple | An emoji portraying a green apple | Granny apple |
| 🍐 | Pear | An emoji portraying a green pear | – |
| 🍑 | Peach | An emoji portraying a peach | Bottom |
| 🍓 | Strawberry | A red fruit called strawberry topped with green leaves | – |
| 🍒 | Cherries | Two cherries with a leaf | Cherry |
| 🥝 | Kiwi | A kiwi fruit sliced open to show the actual fruit along with black seeds | Chinese gooseberry |
| 🍅 | Tomato | A full red tomato with green stem | Tomato plant |
| 🥥 | Coconut | A half-cut coconut emoji showing its white meat | – |
| 🥑 | Avocado | A half-cut avocado emoji exposing the brown pit in the middle | – |
| 🍆 | Eggplant | An eggplant emoji with green stem | Brinjal |
| 🥔 | Potato | A potato emoji | Baked potato |
| 🥕 | Carrot | A long bright orange carrot emoji with green leaves on the top | – |
| 🌽 | Corn | An ear of golden corn partially husked | Ear of corn, maize |
| 🌶️ | Hot pepper | A bright red chili | Chilli, spicy |
| 🥦 | Broccoli | An emoji depicting broccoli | Green veggie |
| 🍞 | Bread | A loaf of bread | Loaf of bread |
| 🥓 | Bacon | An emoji depicting bacon | Bashers |
| 🍔 | Burger | A burger emoji with patty and vegetables | Hamburger, cheeseburger |
| 🍟 | Fries | Brown french fries in red carton | French fries, chips |
| 🍕 | Pizza | A slice of pepperoni pizza | Slice of pizza, cheese pizza |
| 🌭 | Hotdog | A popular western food featuring a sausage inside a bun | Sausage |
| 🌯 | Burrito | A wrapped dish filled with rice, beans, beef and cheese | Wrap, roll |
| 🧆 | Falafel | A popular dish in the Middle East and North Africa | Flatbread, pita |
| 🥘 | Shallow pan of food | An emoji denoting a dish that contains rice, vegetables and curry | Mix veg, pan |
| 🍜 | Steaming bowl | A steaming bowl of rice or noodles | Ramen, noodles |
| 🍛 | Curry and rice | Curry with rice | Curry, Indian food |
| 🍗 | Poultry leg | This brown colored emoji depicts a crispy chicken leg | Chicken, chicken leg piece, drumstick |
| 🍙 | Rice ball | The emoji indicates a rice ball wrapped in seaweed | Onigiri, seaweed |
| 🍥 | Fish cake | A Japanese delicacy of processed whitefish served with ramen | Fish cake with swirl, pink swirl |
| 🥮 | Mooncake | A traditional sweet Chinese delicacy | Chinese mooncake |
| 🍡 | Dango | A Japanese sweet dumpling made from rice flour and served on a skewer | Dessert stick |
| 🥟 | Dumpling | A popular Asian food filled with veg and non-veg items | Momos, Empanada |
| 🍧 | Shaved ice | A shaved ice cone with cherry/strawberry syrup | Snowcone, ice-cream |
| 🍩 | Doughnut | A chocolate doughnut emoji | Donut |
| 🍰 | Cake | A piece of cake or more specifically an emoji of a pastry | Pastry, shortcake, strawberry cake |
| 🧁 | Cupcake | A cupcake emoji with pink cream topping | Muffin, fairy cake |
| ☕ | Hot beverage | This emoji can be related to coffee, tea and other hot beverages | Tea, Espresso, hot chocolate |
| 🍫 | Chocolate | A bar of chocolate in a red wrapper | Chocolate bar, candy bar |
| 🍵 | Teacup without handle | A beverage cup without a handle and generally associated with green tea | Green tea, Matcha |
| 🥃 | Tumbler glass | A short and wide glass used for liquors such as whiskey | Liquor, rum, whiskey |
| 🧊 | Ice | An ice cube which is used to make drinks cooler | Ice cube |
| 🥄 | Spoon | A simple silver spoon emoji | Teaspoon |
| 🍽️ | Fork & knife with plate | A cutlery emoji which can be associated with having a meal | Dinner, cutlery |
| 🍺 | Beer | A mug filled with beer with frothy heads | Beer mug, beer stein |
| 🍻 | Beers | The clinking of two beers mugs for the gesture of ‘Cheers!’ | Clinking beer mugs |
- Travel & Place
| EMOJI | EMOJI NAME | MEANING | OTHER NAMES |
| 🌍 | Earth Africa | A globe of Earth showing the continent of Africa | Globe showing Africa |
| 🌎 | Earth Americas | A globe of Earth showing the continent of North and South America | Globe showing Americas |
| 🌏 | Earth Asia | A globe of Earth showing the continent of Asia | Globe showing Asia |
| 🌐 | Globe with meridians | This emoji is generally associated with the internet | WWW, Internet |
| 🗺️ | World map | A map showing the Earth’s different continents | Map, Earth |
| 🗾 | Japan | An emoji depicting the geographical map of Japan | Island |
| 🧭 | Compass | An instrument that shows the direction of the north | Direction |
| ⛰️ | Mountain | This emoji depicts a mountain with sharp peaks at the top | Hill |
| 🏔️ | Snow-capped mountain | This emoji depicts a mountain with sharp snowy peaks at the top | Snow mountains |
| 🏕️ | Camping | A tent placed within the forest for accommodation | Campsite |
| 🌋 | Volcano | This emoji indicates the eruption of a volcano with lava and smoke | Eruption |
| 🗻 | Mount Fuji | Mount Fuji is the largest mountain in Japan | Fuji-san |
| 🏝️ | Desert island | A desert but on an island | Island |
| 🏖️ | Beach with umbrella | A beach emoji showing water, sand and umbrella for protection against the sun rays | Umbrella |
| 🏜️ | Desert | A land filled with sands, cacti and a scorching sun overhead | Sand |
| 🏟️ | Stadium | A place where mega sports events take place such as football and cricket matches | Grandstand, Sports stadium |
| 🏞️ | National park | A park that comprises river streams, mountains and greenery | Park |
| 🏛️ | Classical building | A classical building is the one that is associated with a town hall or a stock exchange | Building |
| 🧱 | Bricks | An emoji of bricks that are used in building homes, schools and tons of other structures for an individual or the public | Red stone |
| 🏗️ | Building construction | A construction site generally depicted as a tower crane shown lifting steel or other building materials | Crane |
| 🏠 | House building | A simple house emoji with a red door | House |
| 🏚️ | Derelict house | An emoji which indicates unused house generally associated with haunted house | Abandoned house, broken house, haunted house |
| 🏡 | House with tree | A simple house emoji with a big tree behind it | House with garden |
| 🏢 | Office | A place to work during business hours | Office building |
| 🏤 | Post office | Indicating a post building that involves sending and receiving parcels and packages from someone | Parcel office |
| 🏥 | Hospital | A place where people come to get medical care | Medical, Red cross |
| 🏦 | Bank | A bank emoji indicates all the tasks related to money such as withdrawals, deposits, opening an account among others | Money |
| 🏨 | Hotel | An accommodation place to stay when you’re on a trip to another city or country | Motel, rent home |
| 🏩 | Love hotel | An accommodation place for couples | Couple hotel |
| 🏬 | Departmental store | An emoji indicating departmental store which caters to shopping for all kinds of different stuff | Shopping center, mall |
| 🏫 | School | An emoji depicting a school building where children go to get their education | High school, clock tower |
| 🏭 | Factory | An industrial factory which can also be associated with air pollution | Industry, pollution |
| 🏯 | Japanese castle | This emoji means a traditional Japanese castle made from stone and wood | Fortress |
| 🗼 | Tower | A red tower generally associated with Tokyo tower and sometimes Eiffel tower | Eiffel tower, red tower |
| 🗽 | Statue of Liberty | This emoji is often used to depict New York City | New York |
| ⛪ | Church | A church building where people come to pray and at times to attend weddings and funerals | Cross |
| ⛲ | Fountain | Used for decorative purposes, a fountain is found in parks and gardens | Park |
| ⛺ | Tent | A temporary shelter made out of cloth and related materials | Camping |
| 🌁 | Foggy | This emoji depicts a foggy landscape | Foggy city, fog |
| 🌃 | Night with stars | Buildings with visible night stars in the sky | Nighttime, Night city |
| 🌄 | Sunrise over mountains | The sun rising over a mountain range in the morning | Morning, Sunrise |
| ♨️ | Hotsprings | This emoji is a sign which indicates Hotsprings | Steam |
| 🎠 | Carousel Horse | A kids horse ride found in carnivals and adventure parks | Carnival |
| 🎡 | Ferris wheel | A large rotating wheel with cabinets for people to sit and witness the cityscape from great heights | Carnival |
| 💈 | Barber | A red-white striped pole depicting a barbershop | Barbershop |
| 🎪 | Circus | A circus tent where several stunts are performed by professionals | Stunts |
| 🚃 | Railway car | A car carriage pulled along a railway line in cities | Railroad, Railroad carriage |
| 🚅 | Bullet train | A fast-paced train running on electricity generally used in rural areas or cities | Metro train |
| 🚞 | Mountain railway | A passenger transport system used in hilly areas | Train and mountain |
| 🚌 | Bus | A public transport service which allows passengers to travel to their desired destinations | School bus |
| 🏍️ | Motorcycle | A motorbike used in racing or motorsports | Bike, motorbike |
| 🚗 | Car | A red car emoji depicting an automobile | Red car |
| 🛵 | Motor scooter | A light-weighted two-wheeler vehicle | Scooty |
| 🛺 | Auto Rickshaw | A three-wheeled vehicle used in several Asian countries to transport a passenger from one place to another | Tuk Tuk |
| 🛹 | Skateboard | A classic emoji of a skateboard | Skating |
| 🛟 | Ring buoy | An equipment used while in water for safety | Lifebuoy, rescue |
| 🛞 | Wheel | Just a classic wheel from a cart | Wheels |
| 🔥 | Fire | The fire emoji depicts hot, warm, flame and also used in context to represent coolness (lit) | Hot, lit, flame |
| 💧 | Droplet | Used for various types of liquid such as water, tears, sweat and may even depict crying or sadness in some context | Water, waterdrop |
| 🕛 | Twelve O’Clock | Emoji depicting 12 o’clock either in the afternoon or midnight | 12AM, 12PM, time |
| ⏰ | Alarm | Emoji depicting an alarm clock with a time of around 10:40 | Alarm clock, time |
| 🌑 | New moon | A fully dark new moon | Dark moon, Solar Eclipse |
| 🌚 | New moon face | Throwing ironic sentiments | Creepy moon, smiling moon |
| 🌝 | Full moon face | Used in situations of sarcasm | Moonface, happy moon |
| 🪐 | Ringed planet | This emoji is made in a way to look like the Saturn planet | Saturn |
| ⭐ | Star | A simple and concise star emoji | Big star |
| 🌧️ | Cloud with rain | Can use this emoji when your plans are ruined by rain | Cloudy, rainy |
| 🌤️ | Mostly sunny | An emoji used to represent a sunny and wonderful weather | Sun behind cloud |
| 🌪️ | Tornado | An emoji that depicts a tornado | Cyclone |
| 🌫️ | Fog | An emoji depicting foggy weather | Foggy |
| ☔ | Umbrella with raindrops | An umbrella with drops of water used for rainy weather | Raining |
- Objects
| EMOJI | EMOJI NAME | MEANING | OTHER NAMES |
| 🎃 | Jack-O-Lantern | The jack-o-lantern is the classic symbol of Halloween | Halloween, pumpkin |
| 🎄 | Christmas | The Christmas tree emoji represents Christmas and/or holidays | Xmas tree |
| 🎆 | Fireworks | Fireworks emoji represents the stunning combination of lights in the nighttime when burnt crackers | Explosion |
| 🧨 | Firecracker | A firecracker is burnt on various occasions across the globe such as Diwali, New Year celebrations etc. | Crackers, dynamite, blast |
| ✨ | Sparkles | Used to represent positive sentiments like happiness, gratitude and excitement | Glitter, shiny |
| 🎈 | Balloon | The red balloon emoji represents birthday celebrations or a generic simple balloon | Party, red balloon |
| 🎉 | Party popper | The party popper emoji is used to depict celebrations or parties | Tada, celebration |
| 🎊 | Confetti | Confetti emoji is used to depict celebrations or parties | Confetti ball |
| 🎋 | Tanabata tree | A tree emoji specifically representing the Tanabata tree | Wish tree |
| 🎍 | Bamboo | A bamboo emoji representing the bamboo plant in a pot or cup | Pine decoration |
| 🎎 | Dolls | Dolls indicating toys | Japanese dolls |
| 🎐 | Windchime | Used for content concerning various senses of wind and chime due to its appearance | Jellyfish, wind bell |
| 🧧 | Red envelope | Generally used in Asian cultures | Red packet, Ang Pao |
| 🎀 | Ribbon | The emoji indicates something or someone is cute | Bow |
| 🎁 | Gift | An emoji indicating surprise, gift or presents | Gif package, Birthday present |
| 🎗️ | Reminder ribbon | An awareness ribbon emoji | ribbon |
| 🎫 | Ticket | The ticket emoji is used when going to a place that requires a paid entry such as cinema, sports etc. | Movie ticket, admission ticket |
| 🪪 | Identification card | Emoji that represents an ID card | ID card, I-card |
| 🎖️ | Medal | The medal emoji represents an achievement recognition | Military medal |
| 🏆 | Trophy | The trophy emoji represents an achievement recognition | Championship trophy |
| 🥇 | First place medal | A golden emoji used in chats to convey first place ranking in a sports or an event | First position, gold medal |
| ⚽ | Soccer | A soccer ball emoji depicting the football or soccer sport | Football |
| ⚾ | Baseball | A ball emoji but more specifically a baseball | Softball |
| 🏀 | Basketball | A basketball emoji showing the orange striped ball used in basketball | Orange ball |
| 🏐 | Volleyball | A volleyball emoji, showing the round ball used in the sport | Volley |
| 🏉 | Rugby football | This emoji depicts a famous western sport called rugby | Football, league |
| 🎾 | Tennis | A racket and ball emoji indicating the tennis sports | Tennis racket, lawn tennis, tennis ball |
| 🏓 | Ping Pong | A paddle and ping pong ball used in the sport of table tennis. | Table tennis |
| 🥏 | Flying disc | A disc-like emoji depicting frisbee | Frisbee |
| 🏏 | Cricket game | A bat and ball emoji depicting the game of cricket | Bat & ball |
| 🎳 | Bowling | A ball and pin emoji depicting the indoor game called bowling | Pins, bowling ball |
| 🏑 | Field hockey | A hockey stick and ball, used in the sport of field hockey | Hockey |
| 🥍 | Lacrosse | A sport in which two players have to hit the wall with a tennis ball using racquets | Squash |
| 🏸 | Badminton | A racquet and shuttlecock emoji representing badminton | Badminton racquet and shuttlecock |
| 🥊 | Boxing glove | A red boxing glove emoji depicting the boxing sport | Punch, punching |
| 🥋 | Martial Arts | A traditional martial arts uniform emoji which depicts games such as judo or karate | Martial Arts uniform |
| 🥅 | Goal net | Also known as goal pole, this emoji depicts a classic outdoor sport called soccer | Soccer |
| ⛳ | Golf | Also known as a flag in the hole, this emoji depicts a red flag in a hole representing a sport called golf | Flag in hole |
| ⛸️ | Ice skates | Ice skates are used to skate on a floor made of ice | Ice skating |
| 🎣 | Fishing | This emoji represents a fishing rod and a fish hooked on to it | Fishing pole, fishing rod |
| 🤿 | Diving mask | This emoji represents snorkels which is a crucial equipment used in diving or staying under the water for long durations | Diving, swimming |
| 🎿 | Ski | An outdoor winter sport in which a person slides down a snowy mountain or hill | Skiing, Skis |
| 🎯 | Darts | A dart emoji specifically depicting bullseye | Bullseye |
| 🪀 | Yo-Yo | This is a fun little spinning gadget used during free time | Spinning |
| 🪁 | Kite | A diamond-shaped red kite with a long tail | Red kite |
| 🛝 | Playground slide | A piece of equipment generally seen in playgrounds for kids to slide down | Slide |
| 🪩 | Mirror ball | A ball that reflects light in disco | Disco, glitter, disco ball |
| 🎱 | 8 Ball | The classic 8 ball representing games such as snooker and billiards | Snooker, 8 Ball pool, billiards |
| 🔮 | Crystal ball | Crystal ball emoji can be used in texts concerning magic and future prediction | Fortune teller, purple crystal |
| 🧿 | Nazar Amulet | This interesting looking emoji represents eyes and various senses of charm, envy & jealousy in Turkish culture | Evil Eye Talisman |
| 🕹️ | Joystick | An emoji generally used to convey playing video games but more specifically for classic or aviation genre games | Gaming |
| 🎮 | Video game | This emoji can be used to call up your friends for a video game session | Controller, gamepad, Xbox, Play Station |
| 🎰 | Slot machine | One can use this emoji on a chat to make casino or gambling plans | Casino, gambling |
| 🎲 | Dice | A six-sided die emoji that depicts dice used in board games such as ludo, monopoly etc. | Game die |
| 🧸 | Teddy bear | Teddy bear emoji can be used to convey something or someone cute | Bear, soft toy |
| ♠️ | Spades | A type of card used in playing cards | Spades suit |
| ♥️ | Hearts | A type of card shaped like heart used in playing cards | Hearts suit |
| ♦️ | Diamonds | A type of card shaped like diamond used in playing cards | Diamonds suit |
| ♣️ | Clubs | A type of card used in playing cards | Clubs suit |
| ♟️ | Chess | A chess piece called pawn | Chess pawn |
| 🃏 | Joker | A card emoji that depicts joker | Joker card |
| 🀄 | Mahjong | A red-white tile from the Japanese game called Mahjong | Mahjong Red Dragon |
| 🎭 | Performing Arts | This emoji is used to indicate theatre or drama | Drama, Theatre |
| 🧶 | Yarn | A ball of yarn through which woolen clothes are sewed | Ball of yarn |
| 🎨 | Art | The emoji depicts color palette | Artist palette, painting |
Objects
Here are the emojis that represent various common objects used by people.
| EMOJI | EMOJI NAME | MEANING | OTHER NAMES |
| 🎀 | Ribbon | A piece of cloth that is placed on the collar of a shirt | – |
| 👓 | Glasses | This emoji represents spectacles | Specs, spectacles |
| 🕶️ | Sunglasses | This emoji represents sunglasses | glasses, smart |
| 🥽 | Goggles | This emoji represents swimming goggles | Swimming, swimming goggles |
| 🥼 | Lab coat | A coat worn in laboratories | Lab |
| 🦺 | Safety vest | A vest worn when in a large area of water such as a swimming pool | Vest |
| 👔 | Necktie | A T-shirt attached with a tie | Tie |
| 👕 | T-Shirt | A simple emoji of a T-shirt | Shirt |
| 👖 | Jeans | A simple emoji of jeans | Jean |
| 🧣 | Scarf | A simple emoji of a scarf | – |
| 🧤 | Gloves | A simple emoji of gloves | Glove |
| 🧥 | Coat | A simple emoji of a coat | – |
| 🧦 | Socks | A simple emoji of socks | – |
| 👘 | Kimono | A traditional Japanese dress | – |
| 👗 | Dress | A simple emoji of a girl dress | – |
| 🛍️ | Shopping bags | This represents shopping bags | Shopping, mall |
| 🎒 | Backpack | A simple emoji of a backpack | Bag, school bag |
| 🩴 | Thong sandal | A pair of footwear generally worn in the bathroom | Sandals |
| 👞 | Man’s shoe | A pair of formal shoes | Leather shoes |
| 👟 | Running shoe | A pair of shoes used for running or playing sports | Shoes, sports shoes |
| 🥾 | Hiking boot | This emoji represents hiking boots | Boots, trekking |
| 🥿 | Flat Shoe | A shoe with a minimal sole | Woman’s shoe |
| 👠 | High-heeled shoe | A shoe with very high heels | High heels |
| 👡 | Woman’s sandal | Sandals worn by women | Sandal |
| 🩰 | Ballet shoes | Shoes used when performing ballet dance | Ballet |
| 👢 | Woman’s boot | Boots worn by women in winter | Boots, high boots |
| 👒 | Woman’s hat | This emoji represents a woman’s hat | Hat |
| 👑 | Crown | A crown fitted with jewels | King, Queen |
| 🎩 | Top hat | This emoji represents a long hot | Magician |
| 🎓 | Graduation cap | This emoji represents a graduation cap | Graduation |
| 🧢 | Billed cap | This emoji represents a billed cap | Cap |
| 🪖 | Military helmet | This emoji represents a military helmet | Military, army |
| ⛑️ | Rescue worker’s helmet | This emoji represents a rescue worker’s helmet | Rescue |
4. Interpreting Emoji Combinations
Understanding emoji combinations can be both fun and challenging. A simple smiley face can take on entirely different meanings when paired with other emojis, adding layers of depth to our online conversations.
5. Emojis in Popular Culture
Emojis have made their mark on popular culture, influencing art, fashion, and entertainment. Emoticons like the heart emoji ❤️ and the crying-laughing face 😂 have become iconic symbols of our time.
6. The Psychology of Emojis
Psychologists have studied the impact of emojis on human emotions and communication. They provide insights into how emojis can enhance empathy and understanding in digital conversations.
7. Emojis in Marketing and Branding
Businesses have also recognized the power of emojis in marketing and branding. Incorporating emojis into advertising and social media campaigns can make content more relatable and engaging.
8. The Future of Emojis
As technology continues to advance, so do emojis. We can expect to see even more diverse and inclusive emojis in the future, reflecting the evolving ways in which we communicate.
9. Conclusion
In conclusion, emojis have revolutionized the way we express ourselves online. These tiny symbols have transcended language barriers and have become a universal language of emotions and ideas. Embrace emojis in your digital conversations and watch as your messages come to life with color and character.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
1. What was the first emoji ever created?
The first emoji, created in Japan, was a simple smiley face.
2. Are emojis the same across all devices and platforms?
No, emojis may appear differently on various devices and platforms due to design variations.
3. Can I create my own custom emojis?
Yes, some messaging apps allow users to create custom emojis or stickers.
4. Do emojis have cultural significance?
Yes, some emojis may have cultural meanings that vary across different regions.
5. Are there official emoji standards?
Yes, the Unicode Consortium sets official emoji standards to ensure consistency across platforms.
