Browse and copy the complete Unicode Emoji 17 set, organized into faces, people, animals, food, travel, activities, objects, symbols and flags.
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Emoji Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
A sample of 12 entries from the 3953 on this page. Read the name before the shape. Each row also carries the hexadecimal and decimal HTML reference for the exact sequence.
The most-used faces, objects and status marks, gathered in one searchable set.
Every entry comes from the official Unicode Emoji 17 test data. The groups and names follow the release taxonomy rather than a code-point shortcut or a mixed legacy symbol list. The page carries 3953 distinct entries: 1193 single characters and 2760 sequences.
Representative names include Grinning Face, Left-Facing Fist: Medium-Light Skin Tone, Person Gesturing Ok, Woman Artist: Dark Skin Tone. The commonest name families across the whole inventory are Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick (2450), Zero Width Joiner (2238), Variation Selector-16 (1226). Single-character values span U+231A to U+1FAF8.
Browse emoji symbols by type
😀😃😄😁😆
Smileys & Emotion
171 entries
👋👋🏻👋🏼👋🏽👋🏾
People & Body
2418 entries
🏻🏼🏽🏾🏿
Component
9 entries
🐵🐒🦍🦧🐶
Animals & Nature
160 entries
🍇🍈🍉🍊🍋
Food & Drink
131 entries
🌍🌎🌏🌐🗺️
Travel & Places
219 entries
🎃🎄🎆🎇🧨
Activities
85 entries
👓🕶️🥽🥼🦺
Objects
266 entries
🏧🚮🚰♿🚹
Symbols
224 entries
🏁🚩🎌🏴🏳️
Flags
270 entries
Counted from the stored set
Encoded span for emoji symbols
Single-character entries cover U+231A to U+1FAF8, breaking down by general category as symbol 1193.
How the official names cluster
Sorting every formal name puts Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick (2450), Zero Width Joiner (2238), Variation Selector-16 (1226) at the top.
How the multi-part entries are built
Of the sequences, 1614 rely on a zero-width joiner and 1180 on a variation selector; 10 code points is the longest single entry.
How to choose the right form
Watch out for Grinning Face next to Left-Facing Fist: Medium-Light Skin Tone. They are different characters: U+1F600 and U+1F91B U+1F3FC. People & Body is the safe default at 2418 entries.
Only reach for component when the narrower sense is the point. Then paste it where it will live and look at it.
Emoji may be single code points or joined sequences. Copying the complete stored value preserves modifiers, presentation selectors and family or profession combinations.
2760Emoji sequence
Built from parts that must travel together. 70% here.
1193Emoji or pictograph
Colour artwork, supplied by the platform. 30% here.
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Emoji Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
You can copy any of the 3953 emoji symbols below. Most of them, 2418 in all, are people & body. Unicode keeps most of them in a group called Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs.
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10 groups, not one list
They split into smileys & emotion, people & body and component. People & Body leads with 2418.
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Encoding, and why coverage varies
They come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (4965), General Punctuation (2240) and Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs (1423). Across U+231A to U+1FAF8, support gets patchy at the newer end.
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Two that look alike
Compare Grinning Face with Left-Facing Fist: Medium-Light Skin Tone. Same shape, different code point.
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2760 entries are sequences
2760 use more than one character. Copy the whole thing or it breaks.
Key words and ideas
The vocabulary below comes from the formal names and groupings of these emoji symbols.
Smileys & Emotion
People & Body
Component
Animals & Nature
Food & Drink
Travel & Places
Activities
Objects
Symbols
Flags
Emoji
Pictograph
A quick choice checklist
Match the meaning. Start with smileys & emotion when that group fits your message.
Read the name. Compare Grinning Face with Left-Facing Fist: Medium-Light Skin Tone before you pick by shape.
Test the result. Paste the full value into the app, document, or profile where it will appear.
What the emoji symbols inventory actually contains
Every figure below is counted from the 3953 entries stored for this page rather than estimated. The characters are drawn from Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (4965), General Punctuation (2240) and Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs (1423).
Group
Entries
Examples
Code points
Usual presentation
Smileys & Emotion
171
😀 😃 😄
U+1F600–U+1F606
Emoji presentation
People & Body
2418
👋 👋🏻 👋🏼
U+1F44B
Emoji presentation
Component
9
🏻 🏼 🏽
U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF
Emoji presentation
Animals & Nature
160
🐵 🐒 🦍
U+1F412–U+1F9A7
Emoji presentation
Food & Drink
131
🍇 🍈 🍉
U+1F347–U+1F34B
Emoji presentation
Travel & Places
219
🌍 🌎 🌏
U+1F30D–U+1F310
Emoji presentation
Practical note: Presentation is the typical default. A variation selector, a specific font stack, or an application that overrides emoji rendering can change what you see after pasting.
Tip: Keep the plain words next to the symbol. Text is what makes a design searchable and readable to someone using a screen reader.
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How to use emoji symbols
One click copies the characters themselves, not a picture of them. Use Ctrl V on Windows and Linux, ⌘ V on a Mac, or long-press and Paste on a phone.
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Chat reactions and friendly replies
Grinning Face is the safe pick here. Let the words beside it carry the meaning.
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Bios, captions and display names
When handling bios, captions and display names, the 2418 people & body entries are the obvious pool, and let visual weight settle the final choice.
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Text art that remains selectable
When creating text art that remains selectable, paste the complete entry — several of these are multi-code-point sequences that break if truncated.
Copy-ready emoji symbols examples for chat reactions and friendly replies
Chat reactions and friendly replies😀 Emoji reference
Bios, captions and display names😀 😃 😄
Text art that remains selectable😄 emoji 😀
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Keyboard entry for emoji symbols
You do not have to copy. Each code point below doubles as a keyboard code — decimal for a Windows alt code, hexadecimal for Word and macOS.
Character
Name
Windows
Hex
HTML
😀
Grinning Face
Not available
1F600
😀
🙆
Person Gesturing Ok
Not available
1F646
🙆
🥂
Clinking Glasses
Not available
1F942
🥂
🧢
Billed Cap
Not available
1F9E2
🧢
The alt-code route requires a real keypad and cannot address anything above U+FFFF. 1133 entries here sit above that ceiling. A further 2760 are sequences, which no shortcut reproduces — copy those instead. Each platform's method is spelled out in the keyboard guide.
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How emoji symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
Most of these live in one place: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs holds 58% of them. The rest come from General Punctuation and Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs. Every one of the 3953 is emoji.
Colour comes from the device. Unicode files the emoji ones under People & Body and Flags. 2760 are built from more than one character.
1614 of those are held together by a hidden joiner. Copy the whole thing, or it breaks apart. The newest here arrived in Emoji 17.0.
Older phones show a blank box instead.
The clipboard carries code points, not the drawing on this page, so weight, spacing and colour can all shift between iPhone, Android, Windows, macOS and an exported PDF.
1193Single characters
2760Sequences
3953Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with emoji symbols
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Calling every pictographic Unicode character an emoji.
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Splitting a joined or skin-tone sequence before copying.
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Expecting identical platform artwork after pasting.
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Emoji Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Grinning Face and Left-Facing Fist: Medium-Light Skin Tone?+
U+1F600 is Grinning Face; U+1F91B U+1F3FC is Left-Facing Fist: Medium-Light Skin Tone. Because the encoded identity differs, substituting one for the other can change what a reader or a piece of software understands.
What is the HTML code for grinning face?+
Either reference works: 😀 or 😀. Both resolve to 😀. Pasting the raw character is fine too once the document is UTF-8.
Why do these emoji symbols look different on iPhone and Android?+
All 3953 entries here carry emoji properties, mostly from the People & Body group. The code point is identical everywhere, but Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork for it, so the drawing changes while the meaning does not.
Why does one of these emoji symbols split apart when I paste it?+
2760 entries here are sequences of more than one code point, and 1614 of those are held together by a zero-width joiner. If the destination does not support the sequence, or if the copy was truncated, the parts render individually. Copy the entry with the button rather than by selecting the characters.
Which Unicode block are these emoji symbols in?+
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs holds most of them — 4965 characters; the rest come from General Punctuation and Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs. That matters because a font either supports a block broadly or barely at all.
Will these emoji symbols work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 17.0. Devices that have not received a font update since then will show a blank rectangle instead. Test on a real older device before using a recent character where the meaning matters.
Pair a emoji symbol with styled letters in the Symbol Maker. Seven browser-based utilities are collected in the Unicode tools hub, which explains which one fits which job.
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Where this data comes from
These 3953 entries are measured, not sampled or approximated. Formal names and categories come straight from the Unicode 17.0 database, with emoji status taken from the published emoji data rather than judged by eye.