A triangle-shaped arrow, pointing left.

See the glossary for information on the term&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#black" title="📖 Glossary">black</a>&nbsp;in unicode character names.

Black Left-Pointing Triangle

A triangle or set square, as used by engineers or architects to draw <a href="/straight-ruler/">straight lines</a> at angles. Variously depicted as a metal, wood, or plastic right triangle with length markings, its hypotenuse to the right.

Commonly applied to a range of disciplines, including art, design, building, architecture, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). May also represent various concepts of angles and measurement.

Triangular Ruler

A triangle-shaped arrow, pointing right.&nbsp;Commonly used as a symbol for&nbsp;play.

See the glossary for information on the term&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#black" title="📖 Glossary">black</a>&nbsp;in unicode character names.

Black Right-Pointing Triangle

Two triangles pointing to the right. Most commonly used as a symbol for fast forwarding media such as <a title="📼 Videocassette" href="/videocassette/">video tapes</a>, <a title="💿 Optical Disc" href="/optical-disk/">CDs</a>, or digital audio and video.

Black Right-Pointing Double Triangle

A symbol used in media players to indicate skipping to the next&nbsp;track (or scene). Shown as two triangles pointing right followed by a vertical bar.

Black Right-Pointing Double Triangle with Vertical Bar

A play-pause icon, showing a right-pointing triangle (play) next to a double vertical bar (pause).

Black Right-Pointing Triangle with Double Vertical Bar

Two triangles pointing to the left. Most commonly used as a symbol for rewinding media such as <a title="📼 Videocassette" href="/videocassette/">video tapes</a>, <a title="💿 Optical Disc" href="/optical-disk/">CDs</a>, or digital audio and video.

Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle

A symbol used in media players to indicate skipping to the first or previous track (or scene). Shown as a vertical bar followed by two triangles pointing left.

Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle with Vertical Bar

A triangle-shaped arrow, pointing up. Styled similarly to the <a href="/reverse-button/" title="◀ Black Left-Pointing Triangle">left</a> and <a href="/play-button/" title="▶ Black Right-Pointing Triangle">right</a> triangles and colored as either gray or blue,&nbsp;but shown in orange on Android.

Previously displayed as red on <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/upwards-button/">Windows</a>.

Up-Pointing Small Red Triangle

Two triangles pointing up. Similar to <a href="/fast-reverse-button/" title="⏪ Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle">rewind</a> icon,&nbsp;rotated 90&deg; clockwise.

Black Up-Pointing Double Triangle

A triangle-shaped arrow, pointing down. Styled similarly to the&nbsp;<a href="/reverse-button/" title="◀ Black Left-Pointing Triangle">left</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/play-button/" title="▶ Black Right-Pointing Triangle">right</a>&nbsp;pointing triangles and colored as either gray or blue,&nbsp;but shown in orange on Android.

Previously displayed as red on <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/downwards-button/">Windows</a>.

Down-Pointing Small Red Triangle

Two triangles pointing down. Similar to <a title="⏪ Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle" href="/fast-reverse-button/">rewind</a> icon, rotated 90° counter-clockwise.

Black Down-Pointing Double Triangle

A small red equilateral triangle, pointing upwards.

Up-Pointing Red Triangle

A small red equilateral triangle, pointing downwards.

Down-Pointing Red Triangle

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Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Apple

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Google Noto Color Emoji

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Samsung

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Microsoft

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

WhatsApp

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Twitter / X

Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Facebook

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Huawei

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Skype

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Twitter Emoji Stickers

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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JoyPixels

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

SerenityOS

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

Sony Playstation

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

Noto Emoji Font

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

OpenMoji

A licensable emoji design set.

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Icons8

An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

emojidex

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Messenger

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

SoftBank

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Docomo

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

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Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Mozilla

Unicode 1.1 were pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by 17 years, and included many characters primarily sourced from the Zapf Dingbats font.

The following characters were added to Unicode in 1993 and many were given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

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