Emoji symbols meanings: Types of emojis and what do they mean?

Emojis, also known as emoji symbols, represent a wide range of human emotions, living beings, objects, and symbols. You can find an extensive emoji symbols list that includes a plethora of options to choose from. These symbols emoji serve as a universal language across the internet, seamlessly integrated into text messaging, social media platforms, and various informal modes of communication. Emojis provide a unique way to vividly convey your feelings and emotions, transcending the limitations of simple letters and texts. Exploring the emoji symbols meaning adds depth to your online interactions, allowing you to communicate nuances that might otherwise be challenging to express.

Emoji Meanings: A Comprehensive Guide

In modern communication, the ways we discuss food and beverages have evolved. This evolution has led to the introduction of food and drink emoji symbols – charming depictions encompassing a diverse range of items, from fruits and vegetables to beverages, meals, and even utensils. This curated emoji symbols list serves as a gateway to a visual feast of gastronomic expression, allowing you to infuse your messages with flavour. With symbols emoji portraying a wide array of delectable items, you can enrich your discussions about dining experiences using text emoji symbols. Immerse yourself in the emoji symbols meaning behind these delectable icons, and embark on a journey of innovative communication that transcends mere words.

Exploring Different Emoji Categories

Emojis come in a multitude of types, each categorized for easy reference. These categories help users swiftly locate the perfect emoji. The following categories are included:

• Smileys and People: Depicting everyday expressions and emotions, commonly used in text messaging.
• Animals and Nature: Featuring creatures and elements from the natural world.
• Food and Drinks: Showcasing a variety of culinary items and beverages.
• Travel and Places: Highlighting modes of travel and different locations.
• Activities: Illustrating various activities and pastimes.
• Objects: Encompassing an array of objects and things.

Emoji Meanings

In digital communication, even our conversations about food and drink have evolved. Enter the list of food and drink emoji symbols – a delightful way to depict fruits, vegetables, beverages, meals, and even utensils. This emoji symbols list provides a gateway to a visual feast of culinary expression, enabling you to add a touch of flavour to your messages. With symbols emoji representing various delectable items, you can elevate your conversations about dining experiences using text emoji symbols. Explore the emoji symbols meaning behind these mouthwatering icons and embark on a creative communication journey beyond words.

Stars Symbols

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Copyright, Trademark, Office & Law Symbols

© ® ™ ℠ ℡ ℗ ‱ № ℀ ℁ ℅ ℆ ⅍ ☊ ☎ ☏ ⌨ ✁ ✂ ✃ ✄ ✆ ✇ ✈ ✉ ✎ ✏ ✐ ✑ ✒ ‰ § ¶ ✌️ ☝️ ☞ ☛ ☟ ☜ ☚ ✍️

Currency Symbols – Cent, Dollar, Euro… Symbols

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Bracket Symbols

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Chess & Card Symbols

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Musical Notes & Music Symbols

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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 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 a very close one	Blowing kiss
😚	Kissing closed 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	The face depicting ‘about to throw up	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 emoji depicts the feeling of exhaustion after a long, tiring day	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	An emoji looking to uncertainty	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	A surprised emoji with eyes wide open	Class topper, Nerdy
🧐	Face with Monocle	Nerd’s face	Detective mode ON, something fishy
😕	Confused face	This emoji depicts taking a closer look at something	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	I was sad and relieved at the same time, as things could’ve gone much worse	Embarrassed, blushing face, shame
🥺	Pleading face	This emoji intends to depict fear of someone or something	Begging, glossy eyes, simp
😧	Anguished face	Depicting sadness and disappointment at the same time	Pained face
😨	Fearful face	Depicts wanting something so bad that their eyes become full of tears	Scared, surprised
😥	Sad but relieved face	Face screaming in fear.	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
😱	Home alone, screaming, shocked.	This emoji conveys inconsolable grief but is also used in fun ways, such as laughter or over-the-top joy.	The zig-zag mouth with crossed eyes on this emoji conveys irritation, sadness and all kinds of negative feelings
😖	Confounded face	When the sender of this emoji becomes so angry that they turn into devil with horns	Quivering face, scrunched face
😞	Disappointed face	Face with steam from the nose.	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
😤	Taking inspiration from manga or anime, this emoji depicts angriness and frustration.	This emoji depicts a high degree of shock, both positive and negative.	Triumph, steaming, frustrated
🫡	Saluting face	The emoji is used as a sign of respect	Salute
😮‍💨	Sigh emoji	Used when expressing exhaustion, worry, or disappointment	Sigh
🫠	Melting face	Represents extreme heat or embarrassment	Melt
🫥	Dotted line face	Used to express depression, disappear, or non-interest towards something	Dotted face
😶‍🌫️	Face in clouds	Used to depict confusion, foggy thoughts	Foggy
🫣	Face with peeking eye	Represents peep stare or when someone is frightened	Peeking eye
🫤	Face with diagonal mouth	Used to express doubtfulness	Meh
🤬	Face with symbols on the mouth	Halloween, disappear, Snapchat.	Cursing, swearing
👿	Angry face with horns	This emoji depicts vulgar behaviour due to being too furious at someone or something	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 convey someone or something as goofy and strange.	Hear no evil monkey.
👽	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
🙉	Speak no evil monkey.	A monkey covering its ears	Monkey covering eyes
🙊	Boy’s face	A monkey covering its  mouth	Monkey covering mouth
👦	Girl’s 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

The Earth is a rich tapestry of life, teeming with a diverse range of animals and plants. To capture the essence of this biodiversity, emoji symbols list, have been designed to represent these elements too. Here, we present an emoji symbols list featuring depictions of animals and various aspects of nature. These emoji symbols list allow you to convey your connection to the natural world, using text emoji symbols emoji symbols list, to share your affinity for animals and the environment. Delve into the emoji symbols meaning within this category, and embrace a new way of expressing your love for the flora and fauna surrounding us.

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, text emoji symbols list	Racehorse, galloping horse
🦄	Unicorn	A mythical and fantasy animal	–
🦓	Zebra	An emoji of the popular black striped animal called zebra, text emoji symbols list	–
🦬	Bison	A brown bison shown in full profile with horns, a beard, and woolly mane, text emoji symbols list	Buffalo
🐄	Cow	A dairy cow emoji with black spots on its body	Dairy cow
🐂	Ox	An emoji depicting a brown ox, text emoji symbols list	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
🪸	Coral	A living organism found in the ocean	Ocean

Food and Drink

Food and drink emojis encompass many expressive icons associated with fruits, vegetables, beverages, various meals, and even utensils. For those seeking to understand the symbolism behind these expressive characters, this emoji symbols list provides valuable insights into their meanings. These symbols emoji in the food and drink category hold the power to enhance your online communication, allowing you to convey your culinary experiences and preferences through text emoji symbols. So, let’s delve into the emoji symbols meaning associated with these delightful culinary expressions text emoji symbols list.

EMOJI	EMOJI NAME	MEANING	OTHER NAMES
🍇	Grapes	A grape bunch emoji	Grape
🍈	Melon	A light green melon emoji text emoji symbols list	Cantaloupe, Honeydew
🍉	Watermelon	A slice of watermelon showing the juicy red part with black seeds text emoji symbols list	–
🍊	Orange	An emoji portraying the pulpy fruit known as orange text emoji symbols list	Tangerine, Mandarin
🍋	Lemon	The yellow and sour citrus fruit called lemon	Lemonade
🍌	Banana	A peeled banana emoji text emoji symbols list	Monkey snack
🍍	Pineapple	The tropical fruit pineapple with a shoot of leaves at the top text emoji symbols list	–
🥭	Mango	An emoji of a tropical mango text emoji symbols list	Mangifera
🍎	Apple	A vibrant red apple emoji	Red apple
🍏	Green apple	An emoji portraying a green apple	Granny apple
🍐	Pear	An emoji portraying a green pear	–
🍑	Peach	An emoji portraying a peach	Bottom
🍓	Strawberry	A red fruit called strawberry topped with green leaves	–
🍒	Cherries	Two cherries with a leaf	Cherry
🥝	Kiwi	A kiwi fruit sliced open to show the actual fruit along with black seeds	Chinese gooseberry
🍅	Tomato	A full red tomato with green stem	Tomato plant
🥥	Coconut	A half-cut coconut emoji showing its white meat	–
🥑	Avocado	A half-cut avocado emoji exposing the brown pit in the middle	–
🍆	Eggplant	An eggplant emoji with green stem	Brinjal
🥔	Potato	A potato emoji	Baked potato
🥕	Carrot	A long bright orange carrot emoji with green leaves on the top	–
🌽	Corn	An ear of golden corn partially husked	Ear of corn, maize
🌶️	Hot pepper	A bright red chili	Chilli, spicy
🥦	Broccoli	An emoji depicting broccoli	Green veggie
🍞	Bread	A loaf of bread	Loaf of bread
🥓	Bacon	An emoji depicting bacon	Bashers
🍔	Burger	A burger emoji with patty and vegetables	Hamburger, cheeseburger
🍟	Fries	Brown french fries in red carton	French fries, chips
🍕	Pizza	A slice of pepperoni pizza	Slice of pizza, cheese pizza
🌭	Hotdog	A popular western food featuring a sausage inside a bun	Sausage
🌯	Burrito	A wrapped dish filled with rice, beans, beef and cheese	Wrap, roll
🧆	Falafel	A popular dish in the Middle East and North Africa	Flatbread, pita
🥘	Shallow pan of food	An emoji denoting a dish that contains rice, vegetables and curry	Mix veg, pan
🍜	Steaming bowl	A steaming bowl of rice or noodles	Ramen, noodles
🍛	Curry and rice	Curry with rice	Curry, Indian food
🍗	Poultry leg	This brown colored emoji depicts a crispy chicken leg	Chicken, chicken leg piece, drumstick
🍙	Rice ball	The emoji indicates a rice ball wrapped in seaweed	Onigiri, seaweed
🍥	Fish cake	A Japanese delicacy of processed whitefish served with ramen	Fish cake with swirl, pink swirl
🥮	Mooncake	A traditional sweet Chinese delicacy	Chinese mooncake
🍡	Dango	A Japanese sweet dumpling made from rice flour and served on a skewer emoji symbols meaning, emoji symbols meaning	Dessert stick
🥟	Dumpling	A popular Asian food filled with veg and non-veg items, emoji symbols meaning.	Momos, Empanada
🍧	Shaved ice	A shaved ice cone with cherry/strawberry syrup	Snowcone, ice-cream
🍩	Doughnut	A chocolate doughnut emoji	Donut
🍰	Cake	A short and wide glass used for liquors such as whiskey emoji symbols meaning.	Pastry, shortcake, strawberry cake
🧁	Cupcake	A cupcake emoji with pink cream topping emoji symbols meaning	Muffin, fairy cake
☕	Hot beverage	This emoji can be related to the meaning of coffee, tea and other hot beverages emoji symbols.	Tea, Espresso, hot chocolate
🍫	Chocolate	This emoji can be related to the meaning of coffee, tea and other hot beverages emoji symbols.	Chocolate bar, candy bar
🍵	Teacup without handle	This emoji can be related to coffee, tea and other hot beverages emoji symbols meaning.	Green tea, Matcha
🥃	Tumbler glass	An ice cube which is used to make drinks cooler, emoji symbols meaning	Liquor, rum, whiskey
🧊	Ice	A beverage cup without a handle and generally associated with green tea emoji symbols, meaning, emoji symbols meaning.	Ice cube