It can sometimes be difficult to determine the meaning of an emoji. While it might seem simple on the surface, emojis can have different meanings depending on context. To help you out, we’ve collected together the 100 most popular emojis and explained their purpose and intent.

This list was first established by the Unicode Consortium. It’s a group that maintains Unicode, an encoding standard for text data across modern technology, and part of its remit is emojis. To help determine which emojis should become standard, it monitors emoji popularity.

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Turn Yourself Into an Emoji

Now you know what lots of the standard emojis mean, why not go a step further and turn yourself into an emoji—also known as a Memoji? It’s fun and easy to do. You can use the native iOS Memoji feature, or download Android apps that replicate the feature.