Types and Meaning of Emoji

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

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-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