A kite. Usually diamond-shaped with a tail, this emoji appears in various colors across platforms. Unlike other vendors, Huawei's design is shaped like a bird of prey.

This emoji typically sees a notable uptick in usage around the International Kite Festival (Uttarayan), celebrated from January 14 to January 15 mainly in the Indian state of Gujarat.

This emoji may be considered antisemitic in certain contexts, particularly when used to disparage, insult, or abuse individuals while attempting to circumvent content moderation on platforms such as TikTok or Twitter/X. Such usage is based on a perceived phonetic similarity with a historic antisemitic slur.

Kite was approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.0 in 2019.