Emoji Meanings

A classic spider web (cobweb), as spun by a 🕷️ Spider to catch prey. Depicted as a white, symmetrical, wheel-shaped web, as an orb web, with …

A spider, an eight-legged arachnid that spins a web. Depicted as a common black spider, as a house spider or funnel-web spider, often shown from above with …

A motorized speedboat used for recreation on lakes, or other bodies of water. Speedboat was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to …

A cartoon-style balloon used to represent spoken word in comics. Sometimes  used in communication apps to indicate that another person is typing a message.Speech Balloon was …

The silhouette of a person speaking. Faces left-to-right, with lines demonstrating speech being expelled. Sometimes used in the context of shouting or mansplaining.Speaking Head was approved as …

A speaker cone displayed with one sound wave, generally used as an icon to indicate the decreasing of volume on a phone or computer. Previously displayed with two …

A speaker cone displayed without any sound waves.Speaker Low Volume was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Speaker” and added to …

A speaker cone displayed with three sound waves, generally used as an icon to indicate the increasing of volume on a phone or computer.Speaker High …

The speak no evil monkey, called Iwazaru (Japanese for “say not”), one of the Three Wise Monkeys. Depicted as the brown 🐵 Monkey Face with …

The glittering flashes of sparkles. Generally depicted as a cluster of three, yellow four-point stars, with one large sparkle and two small ones to its left …

A  sparkler: a form of hand-held firework often used at parties and celebrations. The sparkler is lit at one end, and held at the other.  Most …

Used a decorative bullet-point, the sparkle has both a ❇︎ text and ❇️ emoji presentation available on most platforms. Sparkle was approved as part of Unicode …

A plate of Italian spaghetti with tomato sauce, as a bolognese, with a fork twirling its long, thin noodles. Garnished with a green herb, as parsley, on some …

A spade symbol emoji, which is used in card games for the spades suit. Apple’s design previously displayed the black spade symbol on a white playing card. …

SOS is the description for the distress signal in Morse Code. This emoji means SOS or “emergency”. SOS Button was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in …

The word “soon” with an arrow above it, pointing to the right. Soon Arrow was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the …

A softball, which is differentiated from a baseball by size (it is larger, though hard to tell in emoji form) and color (yellow, not white).Softball …

A swirl of soft-serve ice cream atop a wafer-style cone, white or cream-colored, as vanilla, on most platforms. Facebook’s design suggests strawberry. May be used more generally …

Socks was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017. What does Socks Emoji mean? The Socks Emoji, …

A round, black and white ball used in the game of soccer, which is known as football in much of the world. See also: emojis …

A bar of soap, as used in the shower, bath or for hand washing. Generally shown with lathered bubbles. Depicted in various colors, often pink, and at different …