What do emojis mean?
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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 personโs 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 wonโt 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 |
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 doesnโt 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 youโve achieved something great and canโt 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 โgood nightโ 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 โabout to throw upโ | 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 theโฆ |
![]() | Cowboy hat face | A simple smiley emoji with a cowboy hat | Cowboy, brown hat face |
![]() | Partying face | Party time! | Letโs 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 โwow!โ | 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 couldโve 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 youโve had a rough and tiring day at work | Exhausted, fed up |
![]() | Yawning face | Used when someoneโs 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 boyโs face | Boy, child boy |
![]() | Girl face | A simple emoji portraying a girlโs 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-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 | โ |
![]() | Orangutan | The orange-haired ape emoji with long arms | โ |
![]() | Dogface | An emoji portraying the face of a dog | Puppy, doggy |
![]() | Dog | A dog emoji generally known as โhumanโs best friendโ | 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 | โ |
![]() | 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 | โ |
![]() | Zebra | An emoji of the popular black striped animal called zebra | โ |
![]() | 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 | โ |
![]() | Elephant | An emoji of the largest animal on the planet known as elephant | โ |
![]() | Rhino | A large mammal with massive horns | Rhinoceros |
![]() | Mammoth | A wooly extinct creature with long curvy tasks | โ |
![]() | 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 | โ |
![]() | 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 |
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