Appearance historically differs greatly&nbsp;cross-platform. Use with caution.

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The female version of <a href="/person/">🧑 Person</a>.

Woman

Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.

View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.

Zero Width Joiner

A microphone, used&nbsp;to amplify a person&rsquo;s voice when speaking or singing.

Previously shown with <a href="/musical-notes/">music notes</a> on most platforms, implying it to be used for a singer / singing.&nbsp;Today&nbsp;only Twitter&#39;s design retains these notes.

Microphone

A woman singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

Singer

Man Singer

Woman Singer

A staff (or stave) showing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef#Treble_clef">treble clef</a> and five horizontal lines.

Musical Score

A music note emoji,&nbsp;which can denote song lyrics, or other music related topics.

Displays as two eighth-notes (quavers in British English) connected with a beam. A single eight-note (quaver) was previously used in <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/musical-note/">Microsoft</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-7.0/musical-note/">Google&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;emoji designs.

Musical Note

Three eighth notes (quavers in British English), used to represent music or singing. Sometimes inserted&nbsp;next to&nbsp;quoted&nbsp;lyrics, to make it clear that they are part of a song.

Multiple Musical Notes

A guitar, which most platforms display&nbsp;as a red&nbsp;electric guitar.

Discontinued emoji sets or such as&nbsp;LG and&nbsp;HTC displayed this as an acoustic guitar, as did <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/guitar/">previous&nbsp;version</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;Windows <a href="/twitter/twemoji-11.3/guitar/">and Twemoji</a>.

Guitar

A small section of a music keyboard, which differs from a&nbsp;<a href="/keyboard/" title="⌨️ Keyboard">computer keyboard</a>.

Showing white and black keys, this keyboard is played by a pianist to make <a href="/musical-notes/" title="🎶 Multiple Musical Notes">music</a>. Commonly used as a piano emoji.

Musical Keyboard

A man singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

A singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

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Emojipedia

GitHub

Slack

Discord

Woman Singer: Light Skin Tone

Woman Singer: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Woman Singer: Medium Skin Tone

Woman Singer: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Woman Singer: Dark Skin Tone

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

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

Released 2023-08-22, JoyPixels 8.0 was the first release from the company to support <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0">Emoji 15.0</a>.

Released on World Emoji Day,&nbsp;JoyPixels 7.0 introduces support for <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0 </a>within the&nbsp;freemium emoji set.

This update also revised a significant number of emoji designs, as has come to be expected from a JoyPixels release.

Released 2021-07-08,&nbsp;JoyPixels 6.6 updated hundreds of emoji designs, including the syringe emoji which had its contents and two blood drops removed. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-6-6-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Released 2021-01-27,&nbsp;JoyPixels 6.5&nbsp;was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-6-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Released 2020-06-23,&nbsp;JoyPixels 6.0&nbsp;was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-6-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Released 2020-01-29, JoyPixels 5.5 was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-5-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Released 2019-06-20, JoyPixels 5.0 (previously known as EmojiOne) was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>. A large number of emoji designs were also <a href="/joypixels/5.0/changed/">modified</a> in this release. More about this <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-5-0-emoji-changelog/">update</a>.

A minor update which modifyied&nbsp;a number of existing emoji designs. No new emojis were added in this release. This follows <a href="/joypixels/4.0/">EmojiOne 4.0</a> from 2018, which added <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a> support for the first time. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojione-4-5-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Released as EmojiOne 4.5 and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 4.5. The last release to use the EmojiOne branding.

Released on 2018-08-21 and the first release from EmojiOne to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>. This was the first release to be branded as JoyPixels&nbsp;for consumer goods licensing, while remaining EmojiOne for digital licenses. The majority of designs were updated with a new style in this release. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojione-4-0-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Released as EmojiOne 4.0&nbsp;and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 4.0.

EmojiOne 3.1 added support for <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>, and made tweaks and changes to a number of other emojis.

Released as EmojiOne 3.1&nbsp;and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 3.1.

Version 3.0 of EmojiOne included a complete redesign of every emoji, new licensing terms, and support for&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a>&nbsp;additions. This update was released on April 20, 2017.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-one-goes-premium/">Learn more about this release</a>.

Released as EmojiOne 3.0&nbsp;and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 3.0.

👩‍🎤 Woman Singer on undefined 3.0

👩‍🎤 Woman Singer on undefined 3.0

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