Emojis Explained

Emoji is a fun way to express yourself and your feelings. You can get creative with the emojis you use, and learn how to write jokes in a variety of different languages.

There are thousands of different emojis available for you to use on your phone. They are often used in text messages, but some of them are also used on social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram.

Emojis come in all different shapes, sizes, colors and styles. You can even find them as stickers on your computer or phone! Emojis can be used in a variety of ways: to express yourself when you're feeling upset or angry; when you want to make a joke; when you want to express gratitude; or just because it makes you smile!

If you’ve seen these colorful emojis on your phone but wondered how to use them in the most appropriate manner, here are 100 of the most popular emojis and their meanings.

Emoji	Name	Meaning
:joy:	Laughing face with tears of joy	This emoji is used to express happiness or to laugh
??	Red heart	This emoji is used to express love or passion
?	Sideways laughing with tears	This is an intense laughing emoji which represents the ROFL acronym well.
?	Thumbs up	This emoji often represents luck, or a positive approval, or an okay
?	Crying emoji	This emoji represents sadness, crying or being unhappy
?	Joining hands	This emoji can represent praying, folding hands, saying thank you or giving someone a high-five
?	Kiss with heart	This emoji represents a kiss of love
?	Hearts around smiley face	This emoji represents a happy or loved conversation
?	Smiley face heart eyes	This emoji represents being happy or excited about seeing something
?	Smiley face with closed eyes	A sweet smile as approval or agreement
?	Party popper	This emoji is used as celebration or congratulations
?	Smiley face with closed eyes and teeth showing	This emoji is a grin or extreme happiness
?	Two hearted emoji	This emoji represents love or a couple
?	The pleading face	This emoji is often used when requesting something
?	Closed eye sweat smile	This emoji often represents stress, relief or satisfaction
?	Fire	The emoji represents something hot, Lit, or on fire
??	Smiley face outline	The emoji represents a smile or happiness
?	Facepalm	The emoji represents being upset or frustrated
??	Black heart suit	The emoji represents love
?	Shrug	The emoji represents not having a clue or the lack of knowledge about something
?	Rolling eyes	The emoji represents being bored or being sarcastic
?	Smiley with closed eyes and open mouth	The emoji represents slight laughter, excitement or happiness
?	Hugging face	The emoji represents a hug, love or close friendship
?	The winking smile	The emoji represents being naughty or cheeky
?	Cake	The emoji represents celebration
?	Thoughtful face	The emoji represents lost in thought or pondering
?	Clapping hands	It represents celebration, clapping or applauding
?	Smiley face	The most commonly used smiley face emoji to represent content, happiness or approval
?	Shocked face	The emoji represents shock, disbelief or embarrassment
?	Party face	The face represents celebration or party
?	Sunglass smiley face	The emoji is often used to represent something cool or confident.
?	OK sign	This emoji is used to okay something or give a go-ahead. It’s also used to appreciate something
?	Purple heart	An expression of friendship and love
?	Pensive or sad face	This emoji is often used to represent a sad or remorseful emotion
?	Flexed arm	The emoji means being strong or fit
?	Sparkles	This emoji is often added as a celebration or to let people know they have a sparkle
?	Sparkling heart	This emoji expresses the sparkle someone adds love in your life.
?	Two eyes	The emoji is often used to express interest, flirt or just be naughty
?	Tongue out closed eyes	This emoji is used to express naughtiness or a likeness towards a dish
?	Smirk face	The emoji expresses an attitude, annoyed or smug
?	Crying face	Being sad or in pain
?	Right pointy finger	It can be used to point right or even to prove a point
?	Growing heart	The emoji expresses a beating heart and love
?	Weary or upset face	It expresses sadness, being upset or very tired
?	Hundred points	This emoji is used to give an 100% approval
?	Rose	A flower to express love or romance
?	Revolving hearts	An expression of romance
?	Balloon	A cute emoji to celebrate little children's milestones
?	Blue heart	Another expression of love. Can also be used to tell someone they’re cold hearted
?	Open mouth smiley face	Used to express happiness, delight and joy
?	Red angry face	This emoji is used to express anger or being annoyed
?	Bouquet of flowers	Can be used as a celebration, expression of joy or happiness and love
?	Winkey eye tongue out	The emoji is used to tease someone or get cheeky.
?	See no evil monkey	It represents something cringeworthy, bad or not worth talking about
?	Crossed fingers	It’s used to anticipate something good, hope or luck
?	Closed eye open mouth smiley	It’s used to express great joy
?	Drooly face	Used to appreciate yum food
?	Raised hands clapping	Used to celebrate with someone
?	Goofy face	The emoji is used to express being goofy or funny
??	Heart with exclamation	The emoji is used to emphasize love
?	Gpen mouth open eye smile	The emoji is used to express extreme happiness
?	Kiss lips	The emoji is used to express a romantic kiss
?	Skull	The emoji is used to show danger, sadness or something bad
?	Finger pointing down	Used to point down or elaborate on the text below
?	Broken heart	Used to express pain, grief or a broken heart
?	Closed eye smiley	The emoji is used to express calmness or relief or content.
?	Beating heart	It’s an expression of love
?	Star eye smiley	This emoji is used to express excitement and happiness toward something seen
?	Upside down face	It’s another cute expression of smiling
?	Grinning face	This emoji is used to express joy, be naughty or funny
?	Shocked face	The emoji is used to express shock or fear
?	Sleepy face	The emoji is used to express being tired or sleepy
?	Giggle emoji	It expresses giggling or being naughty and funny
?	Straight face	It expresses a blank look, unexpressive or no emotion
?	Sunface smile	It represents a sunny bright day with happiness or a radiant person
?	Unamused face	It represents being uninterested, annoyed or unhappy about something
?	Smiley with halo	It represents being innocent or angelic
?	Cherry blossom flower	A cute expression of love or friendship
?	Smiley with devil horns	A naughty or mischievous or devilish smile
?	Music notes	It represents a tune, a song or a melody
??	Peace sign	Used to express peace or victory or even the number 2
?	Confetti	Another form of celebration for an anniversary or wedding
?	Hot face	Express something spicy, hot weather or flirting with someone
?	Disappointed face	An expression of not being happy or being disappointed
?	Green heart	Love or friendship
??	Sun	Often used to represent hot weather or a sunny day
?	Black heart	Used to express love, grief or sorrow
?	Money bag	Used to indicate money, spending or having to pay for something
?	Blowing a kiss smiley	This is a friendly kiss
?	Crown	It expresses royalty, importance or power
?	Gift	Use to indicate celebration
?	Explosion	This indicates fireworks, celebration or an explosion
?	Happy Person Raising One Hand	Asking a question or waving
??	Frown	This depicts sadness or concern
?	Straight Face	This indicates boredom indifference, or a pause
?	Woozy Face	This symbolizes someone being drunk, confused, or dazed
?	Pointing Left	This is just something indicating left
?	Poo Pile	This symbolizes poo, something bad, or silly
?	Check Button	This is a sign of approval

Now that you have a clear understanding of what each of these emojis represent, it’s easy for you to start your own conversation using these cute stickers each time you chat with your friends and family.

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