Emoji Dictionary, Meanings and Search

Trending Emoji

Most viewed emoji.

• 🤟️

  Love-you gesture

• 🏇️

  Horse racing

• 👌️

  OK hand

• 🦻️

  Ear with hearing aid

• 👴️

  Old man

Top Emoji

Top rated emoji.

• 😊️

  Smiling face with smiling eyes

• ❤️

  Red heart

• 👍️

  Thumbs up

• ⚡️

  High voltage

• 🔥️

  Fire

New Emoji

Latest emoji designs from Emoji 17.0.

• 🫪️

  Distorted face

• 🫯️

  Fight cloud

• 🫈️

  Hairy creature

• 🧑‍🩰

  Ballet dancer

• 🫍️

  Orca

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Emoji News

Emoji news and updates.

• Emoji 18.0 Candidates Preview 2026

  Unicode has early Emoji 18.0 candidates under review for the next emoji release cycle.

• Bigfoot Gets an Emoji

  The new hairy creature emoji gives Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, and other cryptids an official emoji-style symbol.

• New Emoji 17.0 Characters Are Arriving

  Unicode Emoji 17.0 adds new faces, creatures, objects, and activity sequences for 2026.

About Emoji

Emoji guides and explanations.

• What are emoji components?

  Emoji components are the building blocks used inside emoji sequences, including skin tones, hair pieces, keycap parts and flag helpers.

• Emoji in Social Media

  Emoji in social media help posts, captions, bios, comments and reactions feel more expressive and easier to scan.

• How to get the latest emoji

  New emoji may not display until your phone, tablet or computer has a software update that includes them.

• Emoji for Beginners

  Emoji are picture characters that help beginners add emotion, tone and meaning to digital messages.

• Emoji in Text Messages

  Emoji in text messages add tone, emotion and clarity to short written replies.

Emoji Calendar

Upcoming emoji events.

Emoji Versions

Unicode emoji release history.

• Emoji 17.0 15 Aug 2025

  Emoji 17.0 added new emoji including distorted face, fight cloud, hairy creature, ballet dancer, orca, landslide, trombone and treasure chest, plus expanded skin tone variants.

• Emoji 16.0 25 Aug 2024

  Emoji 16.0 added a small set of new emoji, including face with bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, splatter and the Sark flag.

• Emoji 15.1 28 Aug 2023

  Emoji 15.1 was a sequence-focused update, adding direction-facing people, gender-neutral family sequences, phoenix, lime, brown mushroom, broken chain and head shaking emoji.

• Emoji 15.0 16 Aug 2022

  Emoji 15.0 added new emoji including hearts, animals, plants, objects, food, music symbols, shaking face, pushing hands and black bird.

• Emoji 14.0 26 Aug 2021

  Emoji 14.0 added new emoji, including new faces, hand gestures, objects, symbols and mixed skin tone handshake variants.