Emoji meanings: Types of emojis and what do they mean

Emojis are being used more than ever among people of all generations. These make you express your feelings and emotions vividly and at the same time enhance the chatting experience without typing. With more than thousands of emojis, it’s not humanly possible to remember all of them and their exact use cases but what’s possible is getting to know the major and popular ones. That said, if you’ve ever come across an emoji and wondered the meaning behind it, this comprehensive emoji article might help you. Below is a list of various types of emojis along with their meaning. So without any further ado, let’s begin. 

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What are emojis?

In simple terms, emojis are depictions of human emotions, living beings, objects and even certain symbols. These can be used across the internet such as in text messaging, social media platforms and pretty much on any informal modes of communication. Emojis can easily be found in various chat-based apps by tapping on an icon denoted by a ‘smiley’ face. These are also present on keyboards of major operating systems. 

Types of Emojis

There are tons of emojis, which are divided into categories. This is done to make it easy for the users to find the right emoji quickly. These categories are as follows

• Smileys and people
• Animals and nature
• Food and drinks
• Travel and Places
• Activities

What do emojis mean?

Smileys and people

These are the emojis depicting common day to day expressions and feelings, generally used in text messaging.

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
🤬	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 and nature

Earth is home to tons of animals and plants. There are several emoji depictions of the same as well. Following is the list of animal and nature related emojis.

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 and Drink

Food and drink emojis include all the emojis related to fruits, vegetables, beverages, meals and even utensils. Here are the emojis.

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 & Places

These emojis include various locations, structures, buildings and modes of tranport. The emojis are as follows.

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
🔥	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

Activities

Activity emojis are the ones that depict certain day to day activities such as sports, arts, music, hobbies among others. The emojis are as follows.

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
🎖️	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
🎱	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

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