A white flag, most often shown waving on a post. Traditionally used as a sign of surrender, the meaning of this flag as an emoji is less defined.

Waving White Flag

A red, triangular&nbsp;flag shown sitting&nbsp;in the <a href="/hole/" title="🕳 Hole">hole</a> of a golf course green. Some versions of this emoji also include golf balls, with an <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/flag-in-hole/">early iOS design</a> simply depicting a single golf ball.

Android <a href="/google/android-4.4/flag-in-hole/" title="⛳ Flag in Hole on Google Android 4.4">previously displayed this emoji</a> as the head of a&nbsp;putter (golf club) hitting a golf ball, while <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/triangular-flag/">Microsoft</a> used to show a single <a href="/triangular-flag/">triangular flag</a>.

Not to be confused with the&nbsp;<a href="/triangular-flag/" title="🚩 Triangular Flag on Post">Triangular Flag on Post emoji</a>.

Flag in Hole

A triangular red flag on a post.&nbsp;Most commonly associated with <a href="/person-golfing/" title="🏌 Golfer">golf</a>, as shown&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href="/flag-in-hole/" title="⛳ Flag In Hole">flag in hole emoji</a>. Can also be used to represent the term red flag, signaling&nbsp;a problem or issue.

Triangular Flag on Post

Two <a href="/flag-japan/" title="🇯🇵 Flag for Japan">Japanese Flags</a>, crossed at the base. Except on some older Samsung devices, which have <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-6.0/crossed-flags/">previously displayed</a>&nbsp;two <a href="/flag-south-korea/" title="🇰🇷 Flag for South Korea">South Korean flags</a>, and on recent&nbsp;Huawei devices, where both flags are <a href="/white-flag">plain white</a>.

Crossed Flags

A curbside mailbox (letterbox, <a href="/postbox/">postbox</a>) with its door latched shut and signal flag raised. Generally depicted in blue or gray with a red flag.&nbsp;Used for various content concerning postal deliveries and <a href="/e-mail/">email</a>.

Indicates in the United States that incoming mail (post) has been delivered. May also indicate that there is outgoing mail for pickup.

An early Apple design showed <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/closed-mailbox-with-raised-flag/">an open&nbsp;mailbox</a> with an envelope, similar to its <a href="/open-mailbox-with-raised-flag/">📬 Open Mailbox With Raised Flag</a> design.

Compare&nbsp;<a href="/closed-mailbox-with-lowered-flag/">📪&nbsp;Closed Mailbox With Lowered Flag</a>, <a href="/open-mailbox-with-lowered-flag/">📭 Open Mailbox With Lowered&nbsp;Flag</a>, and <a href="/open-mailbox-with-raised-flag/">📬 Open Mailbox With Raised Flag</a>.

Closed Mailbox with Raised Flag

An open, curbside mailbox (letterbox, <a href="/postbox/">postbox</a>) with its signal flag raised and a letter in its open slot. Generally depicted in blue or gray with a red flag and <a href="/envelope/">white envelope</a>, though Google&#39;s envelope was <a href="/google/android-8.0/open-mailbox-with-raised-flag/">previously</a> yellow. Used for various content concerning postal deliveries and <a href="/e-mail/">email</a>.

Indicates in the <a href="/flag-united-states/">United States</a> that there is outgoing mail (post) for pickup. May also indicate that incoming mail has been delivered.

Compare <a href="/closed-mailbox-with-raised-flag/">📫 Closed Mailbox With Raised Flag</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/closed-mailbox-with-lowered-flag/">📪&nbsp;Closed Mailbox With Lowered Flag</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/open-mailbox-with-lowered-flag/">📭 Open Mailbox With Lowered&nbsp;Flag</a>.

Open Mailbox with Raised Flag

A flag with black and white squares shown in a checkerboard pattern.&nbsp;Used to signal the start or end of a motor car race, though most often used to indicate&nbsp;that the first vehicle within a race has crossed the finish line.

Chequered Flag

A black-colored flag, shown waving on a post.

Waving Black Flag

A flag with six colors of the rainbow, generally including red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Commonly used by the LGBT movement as a gay pride flag, or simply&nbsp;pride flag and seen at <a href="/pride/">Pride events</a>.

In February 2019 misinformation was spread about a <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90309797/no-theres-not-a-new-anti-lgbt-emoji">so-called</a> &quot;anti-lgbt emoji&quot; which can be created using a combining character to show a black and white glyph like&nbsp;🚫 <a href="https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1097962057071095809">on top of the rainbow flag</a>. This is <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/fun-emoji-hacks/">possible with any emoji</a> on supported platforms, in the same way keycaps are combining characters.

Rainbow Flag

A <a href="/skull-and-crossbones/" title="☠ Skull and Crossbones">skull and crossbones</a>&nbsp;displayed on a black flag, used on pirate ships, also known as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_Roger">Jolly Roger</a>.

Pirate Flag

A flag with horizontal&nbsp;pale&nbsp;blue and pale&nbsp;pink stripes with a single white stripe in the middle, used as a Transgender or Transgender Pride flag and commonly seen at <a href="/pride/">Pride events</a>.

Transgender Flag

A curbside mailbox (letterbox, <a href="/postbox/">postbox</a>) with its signal flag lowered and its slot empty. Generally depicted in blue or gray with a red flag.&nbsp;Used for various content concerning postal deliveries and <a href="/e-mail/">email</a>.

Indicates in the United States that outgoing mail has been picked up. May also indicate&nbsp;that no incoming mail has been delivered.

Compare <a href="/closed-mailbox-with-raised-flag/">📫 Closed Mailbox With Raised Flag</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/closed-mailbox-with-lowered-flag/">📪&nbsp;Closed Mailbox With Lowered Flag</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/open-mailbox-with-raised-flag/">📬&nbsp;Open Mailbox With Raised Flag</a>.

Open Mailbox with Lowered Flag

A curbside mailbox (letterbox, <a href="/postbox/">postbox</a>) with its door latched shut and signal flag lowered. Generally depicted in blue or gray with a red flag. Used for various content concerning postal deliveries and <a href="/e-mail/">email</a>.

Indicates in the United States that no incoming mail (post) has been delivered. May also indicate that outgoing mail has been picked up.

Compare <a href="/closed-mailbox-with-raised-flag/">📫 Closed Mailbox With Raised Flag</a>, <a href="/open-mailbox-with-lowered-flag/">📭 Open Mailbox With Lowered&nbsp;Flag</a>, and <a href="/open-mailbox-with-raised-flag/">📬 Open Mailbox With Raised Flag</a>.

Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag

The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee_Nation">Refugee Nation</a>;&nbsp;a proposal to create a new nation to resettle refugees. This flag uses a shade of&nbsp;orange commonly used for&nbsp;life vests and <a href="/ring-buoy/">life buoys</a>&nbsp;at sea. A thin, horizontal&nbsp;black stripe is shown in the lower-third.

Supported only on WhatsApp for Android and iOS as of June 2021.

Refugee Nation Flag

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

Apple

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

Google Noto Color Emoji

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Samsung

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.

Microsoft 3D Fluent

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

Microsoft

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

WhatsApp

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.

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Twitter / X

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

Facebook

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Huawei

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.

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

Telegram

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

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Skype

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

Twitter Emoji Stickers

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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JoyPixels

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

SerenityOS

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Toss Face (토스페이스)

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

Sony Playstation

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

Noto Emoji Font

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

OpenMoji

A licensable emoji design set.

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Icons8

An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

emojidex

The Unicode Consortium approved the following characters as part of <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/">Unicode 7.0</a>, released on June 16, 2014.&nbsp;Support for these emoji characters rely on updates from platform vendors such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Initially, 250&nbsp;new characters in Unicode 7.0 were approved for emoji presentation, however this was later reduced to 103 Standard Additions which are listed below. The other characters remain part of Unicode, but are not recommended&nbsp;to be included as emojis.

The exception to this was the <a href="/left-speech-bubble/" title="🗨 Left Speech Bubble">Left Speech Bubble</a>, and as such wasn&#39;t initially specified on other platforms as an emoji. A later-accepted&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-spy-proposal/">proposal</a>&nbsp;updated this.

The brown bread of a bagel, shown sliced in two halves. Some platforms depict seeds, as sesame or poppy, and a schmear of cream cheese, with the bagel assembled as a sandwich. May resemble the <a href="/doughnut/">Doughnut</a> at small sizes.

After complaints, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-fixes-bagel-emoji/">Apple updated the bagel emoji design</a> during the iOS 12.1 beta cycle.

Bagel

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The flag for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a>&nbsp;of America (USA), which may show as the letters&nbsp;US&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: United States

A sandwich, as eaten at lunch, made with&nbsp;<a href="/leafy-green/">lettuce</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/tomato/">tomato</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/cheese-wedge/">cheese&nbsp;</a>on slices of white or wheat&nbsp;<a href="/bread/">bread</a>.&nbsp;Apple, Google, and WhatsApp add a deli meat that resembles ham.

Sandwich

A chocolate-glazed donut (or doughnut) with&nbsp;<a href="/rainbow/">rainbow</a>&nbsp;sprinkles. WhatsApp features a pink glaze associated with&nbsp;The Simpsons. May resemble the&nbsp;<a href="/bagel/">Bagel</a>&nbsp;at small sizes.

Doughnut

A golden-yellow pot&nbsp;of honey, as made by&nbsp;<a href="/honeybee/">bees&nbsp;</a>and desired by&nbsp;<a href="/bear/">bears</a>. Shown with the sweet substance oozing down its sides, often with a honey dipper inside the small vessel.&nbsp;

May be used figuratively, as the term of endearment &ldquo;honey.&rdquo;

Honey Pot

A stack of breakfast pancakes, topped with a pad of butter and maple syrup oozing down its golden-brown sides, onto a plate on some platforms.&nbsp;

Especially popular on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday">Pancake Tuesday</a>.

An <a href="/nsfw/">alternative use</a> for this emoji on TikTok and other platforms: to represent that someone has a flat bottom (&#39;flat as a pancake&#39;).

Pancakes

An&nbsp;<a href="/egg/">egg&nbsp;</a>with yolk frying in a skillet, as prepared sunny-side up. Though associated with breakfast, the emoji represents the general action of cooking and related concepts.

An <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/cooking/">early Apple design</a> included broken eggshells and did not feature a skillet, while an <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0/cooking/">early Samsung design</a> simply displayed a fried egg.

Cooking

A flatbread, like pita, stuffed with&nbsp;<a href="/leafy-green/">lettuce</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/tomato/">tomato</a>, and/or&nbsp;<a href="/cut-of-meat/">meat</a>. Resembles a doner kebab, falafel, shawarma, or gyro sandwich, popular in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Some platforms have red onion and&nbsp;<a href="/cucumber/">cucumber</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/flatbread/">🫓 Flatbread</a> or&nbsp;<a href="/burrito/">🌯 Burrito</a>.

Stuffed Flatbread

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty">Statue of Liberty</a>, often used as a depiction&nbsp;of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City">New York City</a>.

Due to its initial inclusion in <a href="/softbank/2000">an early Japanese emoji set</a>, it is possible that this emoji was originally intended to represent the recreation of the Statue of Liberty located on the Odaiba island in Tokyo Bay.

Statue of Liberty

A cup of a steaming-hot beverage, usually taken as coffee or&nbsp;<a href="/teacup-without-handle/">tea</a>. Sometimes shown on a saucer.

Samsung&#39;s design <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/hot-beverage/">previously featured</a>&nbsp;a foamy-white tulip latte art design.

May be paired with the&nbsp;<a href="/frog/">Frog Face&nbsp;</a>to represent the snarky&nbsp;<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/but-thats-none-of-my-business">But That&#39;s None of My Business meme</a>. Relatedly, can also be used alone to represent&nbsp;&quot;tea&quot; as per the slang phrase &quot;spill the tea&quot;,&nbsp;used to request the sharing of gossip,&nbsp;news, or personal information.

Hot Beverage

The cooked sausage of a hot dog in a sliced&nbsp;<a href="/bread/">bun&nbsp;</a>and drizzled with yellow mustard, as eaten at a&nbsp;<a href="/baseball/" title="⚾️ Baseball">baseball&nbsp;</a>game.&nbsp;

Hot Dog

A&nbsp;<a href="/flag-mexico/" title="🇲🇽 Flag For Mexico">Mexican&nbsp;</a>or Tex-Mex burrito, featuring a wrapped flour tortilla filled with such ingredients as&nbsp;<a href="/cut-of-meat/">beef</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/cooked-rice/">rice</a>, beans,&nbsp;<a href="/cheese-wedge/">cheese</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/tomato/">tomato</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/leafy-green/">lettuce</a>, and sour cream. Served in foil on several major platforms,&nbsp;suggesting a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_burrito">Mission&nbsp;burrito</a>&nbsp;associated with San Francisco. Not to be confused with the&nbsp;<a href="/stuffed-flatbread/">Stuffed Flatbread</a>.

Burrito

The flaky, golden-brown&nbsp;<a href="/crescent-moon/" title="🌙 Crescent Moon">crescent&nbsp;</a>of a croissant, a breakfast pastry associated with <a href="/flag-france/" title="🇫🇷 Flag For France">France&nbsp;</a>and&nbsp;<a href="/flag-austria/" title="🇦🇹 Flag For Austria">Austria</a>.

The croissant emoji <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@washingtonpost/video/7185665025246432558?lang=en">went viral on Tiktok</a> in January 2023.

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Croissant

A bowl with a silver&nbsp;<a href="/spoon/">spoon&nbsp;</a>inside, as used to eat cereal or soup. Bowl color varies across platforms, as do contents, though most are empty.

WhatsApp&#39;s bowl contains&nbsp;<a href="/tomato/">tomato</a>&nbsp;soup, while Google&#39;s <a href="/google/android-8.0/bowl-with-spoon/">previously</a> contained&nbsp;<a href="/cooking/">breakfast</a>&nbsp;cereal.

Bowl with Spoon

Strips of crispy, fatty, reddish-brown bacon, as fried for breakfast. Depicted as a pair on most platforms.

Bacon

A tall glass of white milk, as from a&nbsp;<a href="/cow/">cow</a>&nbsp;but also other mammals, nuts, or plants. Most platforms depict a glass filled near to the brim, but some show a glass half-full&mdash;or half-empty.

Glass of Milk

A round or square Belgian waffle, baked to a golden brown. Most platforms depict this emoji topped with a pad of butter, and some include gooey syrup running down the sides.

Waffle

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Unicode 11.0 was released on June 5,&nbsp;2018.&nbsp;Emojis that require new code points for release are listed on this page&nbsp;but for the full 2018 emoji list&nbsp;see&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>.

Emoji 11.0 includes every new emoji, including variations for skin tone, gender and new emojis that don&#39;t require additional code points, such as the <a href="/chess-pawn/">chess pawn</a> or <a href="/pirate-flag/">pirate flag</a> which are not shown on this page.

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