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Emoji Copy

Search for an emoji and click to copy it.

Smileys

168

People

385

Animals & Nature

158

Food

130

Travel

218

Activities

85

Objects

262

Symbols

223

Flags

269
Special Characters CopyTo find symbols like ★ and ♥

Emoji Copy

Emoji Copy lets you search for an emoji and copy it with one click. An emoji is a character, not an image, so you can paste it anywhere you can type.

To make sure they display on most devices, the list goes up to Emoji 15.1, and you can search by name.

How to use

  1. Type what you are looking for, or click a category to open it.
  2. Click an emoji to copy it, then paste it wherever you like.
  3. Need several? Click them one by one, then choose Copy all at the bottom.

Key terms

Emoji

A picture character that you type and send like any other text. Emoji spread on Japanese mobile phones in the 1990s, and joined Unicode in 2010, which let devices around the world share them.

Unicode number

The number given to a character. The real value of 😀 is U+1F600, and a font on your device draws the picture.

That’s why the same emoji looks different on Apple, Google, and Samsung devices: each company draws its own font. If a device has no picture for an emoji, you see an empty box (□).

Combined emoji

Many emoji are built from several characters. The invisible character that joins them is called a zero width joiner (ZWJ).

EmojiMade of
👨‍👩‍👧👨, 👩, and 👧 joined by ZWJ
👍🏽👍 followed by a skin tone character
🇰🇷Two characters that stand for K and R

Devices that don’t support a family emoji show the people separately, and some Windows setups show the letters KR instead of a flag.

Things you may not know

  • Despite the resemblance, emoji has nothing to do with the word emotion. It combines the Japanese 絵 (e, picture) and 文字 (moji, character).
  • New emoji are chosen by the Unicode Consortium. Anyone can submit a proposal, and accepted emoji gradually arrive on devices from each company.
  • A set of 176 early emoji created by NTT DOCOMO in 1999 joined the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2016.

One emoji can be bigger than it looks

👨‍👩‍👧 looks like one character but is 18 bytes in UTF-8, and sites with length limits may count it as several characters.

FAQ

Why do I see an empty box (□)?

The font on your device or app does not include that emoji. Updating your system or app usually fixes it.

Why does an emoji look different after I send it?

Emoji travel as text and are drawn by the font on the device of the person reading them.

Is every emoji here?

To make sure they display on most devices, this list goes up to Emoji 15.1. Newer emoji will be added as support grows.

Where is my recently used list stored?

Only in this browser. It is never sent to a server, and you can clear it at any time.

More tools

Emoji names and keywords: Emojibase (MIT), Unicode CLDR