Browse emojis by category, search by name, and copy to your clipboard with one click. Hover any emoji to see its official Unicode name.
Emojis are Unicode characters — every one has a unique code point defined by the Unicode Consortium, and any application that accepts text will accept emojis. This picker includes 200+ commonly used emojis across eight categories: Smileys, People, Animals, Food, Travel, Activities, Objects, and Symbols. Search by name, browse by category, click to copy, then paste into Slack, Discord, Gmail, GitHub, VS Code, or anywhere else text flows.
Smileys — Grinning faces, wink, heart eyes, and more. People — Hand gestures, hearts, and expressions. Animals — Dogs, cats, birds, and marine life. Food — Fruits, vegetables, meals, and drinks. Travel — Transport, destinations, and luggage. Activities — Sports, music, and celebrations. Objects — Tech, office, and everyday items. Symbols — Check marks, circles, and signs.
A web emoji picker is convenient, but the wrong tool in several scenarios:
:rocket: auto-replaces with 🚀. That is a shortcode feature of the app, not a Unicode feature. Use Slack, Discord, GitHub, or an emoji-shortcode plugin for your editor.Emojis are standardized Unicode code points (e.g., U+1F600 = grinning face), but each vendor — Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Twitter, Facebook — ships its own font and artwork. The meaning is consistent across platforms, but the visual style is not. If you need identical rendering everywhere, use a web font like Twemoji or Noto Emoji.
Yes. Emojis are regular Unicode characters, so paste them directly into HTML/CSS/JS, or use the numeric entity (e.g., 🚀 for the rocket). For CSS ::before/::after content, wrap in quotes and include `font-variant-emoji: emoji` for consistent rendering. For JavaScript strings, remember that most emojis are surrogate pairs — `"🚀".length === 2` — use `Array.from()` or `String.prototype.codePointAt()` for correct counting.
Negligibly. Emojis are text — no HTTP requests, bytes measured in single digits per character. Google indexes emojis in body content, but mixed signals on title tags: a single emoji can increase CTR by 5-10% in some SERPs, while keyword-stuffed emoji titles can be filtered as spam. Use one emoji max per title tag, avoid them in canonical URLs entirely.
The target application or font does not support that code point. Common causes: (1) the OS is older than the emoji — skin-tone and profession variants require macOS 10.12+/iOS 10+/Android 8+, (2) the app uses a monospace font missing emoji glyphs (common in terminals and code editors), (3) the emoji is from Unicode 15+ and the system has not updated. Fall back to a text-based alternative or install a complete emoji font.
Different use cases. The native picker is faster for occasional use inside a typing context; this web picker is better when: (1) you need to browse a complete set without OS-version gaps, (2) you are on a platform with no native picker (many Linux distros, old Windows), (3) you want a searchable grid with hover names, (4) you are writing in an app that does not accept the native shortcut (some Electron apps, web editors in sandboxed iframes).
Unicode code points are not copyrightable — the character "🚀" itself is free to use. What IS copyrighted is the specific artwork (Apple, Google, Samsung designs). When you copy-paste from this tool, the receiving app renders the emoji using its own font, so you are not distributing vendor artwork. For commercial use where you need to ship images (e.g., a print design), use openly-licensed sets like Twemoji (CC BY 4.0) or Noto Emoji (Apache 2.0).
Modern emojis use ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner, U+200D) sequences to combine base emojis into compound ones. A family with skin tones can be 5+ code points joined by ZWJs. Older systems that do not recognize the joiner render each component separately — so you see a man, woman, boy instead of "family". This is a rendering-fallback issue, not a bug in the source text.