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💡 Electric Light Bulb Emoji
A light bulb, as screwed into a lamp to light a room. Depicted as an incandescent bulb with a silver base, often shown with filament and a soft, yellow-white glow.
Commonly used to represent ideas (as over a head in a cartoon), thinking, and learning, often as paired with 🤔 Thinking Face or 💭 Thought Balloon. May also represent various senses of light and brightness.
| Emoji | 💡 |
| Unicode Name | Electric Light Bulb |
| Apple Name | Light Bulb |
| Also Known As | Light Bulb, Idea |
| Codepoints | U+1F4A1 |
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | আলর বলব |
| Danish | elpære |
| German | glühbirne |
| English | light bulb |
| Spanish | bombilla |
| French | ampoule |
| Hindi | लइट बलब वचर |
| Italian | lampadina |
| Japanese | 電球 |
| Korean | 전구 |
| Marathi | परकशच दव |
| Malay | mentol lampu |
| Dutch | gloeilamp |
| Norwegian | lyspære |
| Portuguese | lâmpada |
| Swedish | glödlampa |
| Tamil | மனவளகக |
| Telugu | బలబ |
| Chinese | 灯泡 |
Apple
Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.
iPhone OS 2.2
Nov - 2008
iOS 4.0
Jun - 2010
iOS 5.1
Mar - 2012
iOS 6.0
Sep - 2012
iOS 8.3
Apr - 2015
iOS 9.1
Oct - 2015
iOS 10.2
Dec - 2016
iOS 17.4
Mar - 2024
Google Noto Color Emoji
Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.
Gmail
Oct - 2008
Android 4.3
Jul - 2012
Android 4.4
Oct - 2013
Android 7.0
Aug - 2016
Android 7.1
Oct - 2016
Android 8.0
Aug - 2017
Android 12.0
Oct - 2021
15.1
Nov - 2023
Samsung
Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.
TouchWiz Nature UX 2
Apr - 2013
TouchWiz 7.0
Aug - 2016
TouchWiz 7.1
Sep - 2016
Experience 9.0
Feb - 2018
One UI 1.0
Feb - 2019
One UI 6.1
Mar - 2024
Microsoft 3D Fluent
Glossy, gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.
15.0
Oct - 2023
Microsoft
Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10’s final update was in May 2019.
Windows 8.0
Oct - 2012
Windows 8.1
Oct - 2013
Windows 10
Jul - 2015
Windows 10 Anniversary Update
Aug - 2016
Windows 11 November 2021 Update
Nov - 2021
Windows 11 23H2
Oct - 2023
WhatsApp
Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.
2.17
Oct - 2017
2.24.8.85
Apr - 2024
Twitter / X
Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.
Twemoji 1.0
Nov - 2014
Twemoji 15.0.1
Jul - 2023
Facebook
Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta’s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.
1.0
Feb - 2014
2.0
Feb - 2017
3.0
Dec - 2018
15.0
Feb - 2023
Huawei
Custom emoji set used on select Huawei phones and tablets.
HarmonyOS 4.0
Aug - 2023
LG
Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG’s final mobile device.
G3
Jun - 2014
Velvet
Jan - 2021
Telegram
Animated versions of Apple’s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.
Telemoji (November 2023)
Nov - 2023
Noto Color Emoji, Animated
Animated versions of Google’s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.
15.0
May - 2023
Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)
3D animated versions of Microsoft’s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.
15.0
Apr - 2023
Skype
Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.
Emoticons 1.2
Jun - 2015
Twitter Emoji Stickers
Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter’s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.
13.1
Oct - 2022
JoyPixels
A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.
1.0
Sep - 2014
2.0
Dec - 2015
2.1
Jan - 2016
2.2
May - 2016
3.0
Apr - 2017
3.1
Jun - 2017
4.0
Aug - 2018
4.5
Jan - 2019
5.0
Jun - 2019
5.5
Jan - 2020
6.0
Jun - 2020
8.0
Aug - 2023
JoyPixels Animations
An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.
2.0
May - 2019
3.5
Sep - 2020
SerenityOS
Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.
2024-01-31
Jan - 2024
Toss Face (토스페이스)
A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.
February 2022
Feb - 2022
1.6
Sep - 2023
Sony Playstation
Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device’s messaging functionality.
13.1
May - 2021
Noto Emoji Font
A minimalist, monochrome version of Google’s Noto Color Emoji designs.
15.1
Sep - 2023
OpenMoji
A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd (Design University) in Germany.
1.0
Apr - 2018
12.2
Mar - 2020
15.0
Oct - 2023
Icons8
A licensable emoji design set.
14.0
Mar - 2023
emojidex
An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.
1.0.14
May - 2016
1.0.33
Jul - 2017
1.0.34
Aug - 2017
Messenger
Previously used by Facebook’s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.
1.0
Jun - 2016
HTC
Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.
Sense 7
Mar - 2015
SoftBank
Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.
1999
Nov - 1999
2000
Jan - 2000
2001
Jan - 2001
2004
Jan - 2004
2006
Jan - 2006
2014
Jan - 2014
Docomo
Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.
1999
Jan - 1999
2000
Jan - 1999
2002
Jan - 2002
2013
Aug - 2013
au by KDDI
Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.
Type A-2
May - 1999
Type B-2
Aug - 2000
Type B-3
Jan - 2001
Type C-2
May - 2002
Type D-1
Jan - 2003
Type D-2
Jan - 2004
Type D-3
Jan - 2005
Type F
May - 2012
Mozilla
Open-source emoji set designs for 2015’s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.
Firefox OS 2.5
Jan - 2016
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