Emoji Picker

Features

• Search by name and keyword
• Eight categories
• Recently used emoji remembered on your device
• Shift-click to collect several at once
• One-click copy

How to use it

1. Type a word to search, or pick a category.
2. Click an emoji to copy it.
3. Shift-click to collect several, then copy them together.
4. Recents build up as you use it.

How emoji actually work

Emoji are Unicode characters, not images, which is why they can be typed, searched and copied like any other text. Each has a code point, the grinning face is U+1F600, and it is the font on your device that decides what it looks like. That is why the same emoji appears different on iOS, Android and Windows, and why an emoji occasionally shows as a hollow box: your system has the character but no glyph for it.

Many emoji are not single characters at all. Skin-tone variants combine a base emoji with a modifier; the family emoji are sequences of person emoji joined by zero-width joiners; flags are pairs of regional indicator letters. This is why deleting one emoji sometimes takes several backspaces, and why naive string handling can tear a family emoji into its component people.

Support depends on the Unicode version your device has. New emoji are approved annually and take months to reach devices, so a recently added one may render on your phone but not on a colleague's older laptop. The set here sticks to widely supported emoji from established Unicode versions for that reason. If something shows as a box, it is your font, not the page.