Emoji Dictionary, Meanings and Search

Trending Emoji

Most viewed emoji.

• 🦵️

  Leg

• 🤼‍♂️

  Men wrestling

• 🫷️

  Leftwards pushing hand

• 🚴️

  Person biking

• 🫵️

  Index pointing at the viewer

Top Emoji

Top rated emoji.

• 😊️

  Smiling face with smiling eyes

• ❤️

  Red heart

• 👍️

  Thumbs up

• 🕚️

  Eleven o’clock

• ⚡️

  High voltage

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.

• New iOS 26.4 Emoji: Full List for iPhone, iPad and Mac

  Apple iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS 26.4 add Emoji 17.0 to iPhone, iPad, and Mac, including distorted face, orca, trombone, and treasure chest.

• 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.

• 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 Meanings by Context

  Emoji meanings change based on tone, platform, culture, surrounding text and the relationship between sender and reader.

• Emoji vs Emoticons

  Emoji are picture characters, while emoticons are faces or expressions made from typed punctuation and letters.

• What Are Unicode Emoji?

  Unicode emoji are emoji characters and sequences standardized so they can work across phones, computers, apps and websites.

• What Are Skin Tone Emoji?

  Skin tone emoji are modifier sequences that combine a human emoji with a skin tone modifier.

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.