Emoji Picker

Search and copy 1,800+ emoji. Browse by category, choose skin tone, and build emoji combos. Click any emoji to copy.

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1,800+ emoji — click any emoji to copy it to your clipboard.

How to Use the Emoji Picker

  1. Search mode — type any word in the search box to instantly filter emoji by name or keyword. Try "heart", "food", "happy", or "flag".
  2. By Category — browse all emoji organized into categories: Smileys, People, Animals, Food, Travel, Objects, Symbols, and Flags.
  3. Skin tone — select a skin tone modifier to apply it to all people and hand emoji that support skin tone variants.
  4. Recent — see the last 20 emoji you copied for quick reuse.
  5. Combos — popular multi-emoji combinations for common situations.
  6. Click any emoji to copy it to your clipboard. The emoji appears in the recently copied bar at the top.

About Emoji

Emoji (from Japanese 絵文字, "picture character") are standardized pictographs defined by the Unicode Consortium as part of the Unicode standard. The current Unicode 15.1 standard includes over 3,600 emoji characters, with new emoji added each year after proposals from the public are reviewed by the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. This picker includes the most widely supported emoji — those with good cross-platform rendering on iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS.

Emoji Categories

Unicode organizes emoji into categories: Smileys and People (faces, gestures, people, body parts), Animals and Nature (animals, plants, weather), Food and Drink (fruits, vegetables, meals, beverages), Travel and Places (vehicles, buildings, maps, geography), Activities (sports, games, arts, hobbies), Objects (household items, tools, technology), Symbols (arrows, geometric shapes, flags, signs), and Flags (national and regional flags). This picker reflects the same organizational structure, with flags separated by national flags and regional subdivision flags.

Skin Tone Modifiers

Unicode defines five skin tone modifiers (U+1F3FB through U+1F3FF) based on the Fitzpatrick skin type scale used in dermatology. When a skin tone modifier follows a supported base emoji (a person or hand gesture), the two combine to form a single emoji with the selected skin tone. Not all emoji support skin tone modification — only human faces, hands, and certain people emoji have skin tone variants. Objects, animals, and symbols are not affected by skin tone selection.

ZWJ Sequences and Complex Emoji

Many modern emoji are created by combining simpler emoji using Zero-Width Joiner (ZWJ, U+200D) characters. Family emoji like 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 combine individual person emoji with ZWJ. Profession emoji combine a person with a tool: 👨‍💻 is the man emoji + ZWJ + laptop. Flag emoji use Regional Indicator Symbols (U+1F1E6–U+1F1FF), where pairs of letters spell out ISO country codes. These compound emoji are represented as sequences in Unicode, which is why they may appear as multiple separate emoji on platforms that do not support the full sequence.

Emoji in Code and APIs

When working with emoji in code, remember that most emoji are outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) and are represented as UTF-16 surrogate pairs in JavaScript. The string "🎉" has a .length of 2 in JavaScript, not 1. Use the Spread operator or Array.from() to iterate emoji correctly, or use Intl.Segmenter for grapheme-level iteration. In databases, use UTF-8mb4 in MySQL (not UTF-8, which only supports 3-byte sequences) or standard UTF-8 in PostgreSQL, which supports 4-byte sequences natively. For API text length limits (Twitter, Discord, etc.), grapheme count is what matters for display, but byte count affects storage.

Frequently Asked Questions

Click any emoji in the picker to copy it to your clipboard instantly. The emoji will flash to confirm the copy and appear in your Recent section for quick access. You can then paste it anywhere — in messages, documents, social media posts, code, or emails.
Select a skin tone from the five modifier swatches at the top of the picker. The skin tone modifier is automatically applied to people and hand emoji that support it. Not all emoji have skin tone variants — animals, objects, and symbols will remain unchanged.
Each operating system (Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft) has its own emoji font with unique visual designs. The Unicode standard defines which characters exist and their names, but not how they look. The actual character is the same across platforms, ensuring the emoji displays everywhere — just with different visual styles.
ZWJ (Zero-Width Joiner) sequences combine multiple emoji into a single compound emoji. For example, 👨‍👩‍👧 is three emoji (👨 + 👩 + 👧) joined by invisible ZWJ characters. On platforms that support the sequence, it renders as one family emoji. On others, the individual emoji show separately.
Switch to the Search tab and type any keyword — for example "happy" finds smiling faces, "food" finds all food emoji, "red" finds red-colored emoji. The search is instant and works across all 1,800+ emoji in the library including their keywords and alternative names.