191 Emotion Symbols to Copy & Paste

Copy emotion symbols

191 characters and sequences. One tap copies the real code points.

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Emotion Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes

12 of the 191 entries, shown with their full detail. Where two entries look the same, the name settles it. The HTML references beside each name reproduce the code-point sequence character for character.

White Heart SuitU+2661♡

Symbol · decimal ♡

Smiling Face With Smiling EyesU+1F60A😊

Emoji or pictograph · decimal 😊

Loudly Crying FaceU+1F62D😭

Emoji or pictograph · decimal 😭

Smiling Face With SunglassesU+1F60E😎

Emoji or pictograph · decimal 😎

Smirking FaceU+1F60F😏

Emoji or pictograph · decimal 😏

Drooling FaceU+1F924🤤

Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🤤

Heart With ArrowU+1F498💘

Emoji or pictograph · decimal 💘

SkullU+1F480💀

Emoji or pictograph · decimal 💀

Face With Uneven Eyes And Wavy Mouth + Variation Selector-16U+1F974 U+FE0F🥴 ️

Emoji sequence · decimal 🥴 ️

Cold FaceU+1F976🥶

Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🥶

Light Blue HeartU+1FA75🩵

Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🩵

ZzzU+1F4A4💤

Emoji or pictograph · decimal 💤

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Emotion Symbols: types, meanings and practical differences

Emotion symbols and kaomoji add tone where plain words might feel ambiguous or flat.

Use these for tone. They suit chat, captions and playful text art. The page carries 191 distinct entries: 161 single characters and 30 sequences.

Representative names include White Heart Suit, Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes, Loudly Crying Face, Smiling Face With Sunglasses. The commonest name families across the whole inventory are Variation Selector-16 (23), Smiling Face With (13), Zero Width Joiner (8). Single-character values span U+1D55 to U+1FAEF.

Browse emotion symbols by type

♡☻

Symbol

2 entries

☺☹😂😄😃

Emoji or pictograph

157 entries

ツᵕ

Letter

2 entries

(˶ᵔᵔ˶)(╥﹏╥)(¬_¬)(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

Text sequence

7 entries

☺️☹️❤️️❣️🥺️

Emoji sequence

23 entries

What this inventory contains

Encoded span for emotion symbols

The span runs U+1D55 to U+1FAEF. By Unicode general category that is symbol 159, letter 2.

Name patterns that repeat

Sorting every formal name puts Variation Selector-16 (23), Smiling Face With (13), Zero Width Joiner (8) at the top.

Joiners, selectors and length

30 entries span more than one code point: 8 with a zero-width joiner, 21 with a variation selector, the longest running to 10 code points.

Which one should you use

Two look almost the same: Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes and Smiling Face With Sunglasses. They are different characters: U+1F60A and U+1F60E. Start with emoji or pictograph.

It is the biggest group, with 157. Leave symbol unless nothing else fits. Colour or no colour is the first choice: 180 emoji, 11 plain.

Then paste it where it will live and look at it.

These are grouped by what people use them for. Unicode's own categories may split them differently.

157Emoji or pictograph

Colour artwork, supplied by the platform. 82% here.

23Emoji sequence

Built from parts that must travel together. 12% here.

7Text sequence

Multiple characters that read as one unit. 4% here.

2Symbol

Standalone marks that follow your font. 1% here.

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Emotion Symbols explained in plain English

Short summary

You can copy any of the 191 emotion symbols below. The largest set is emoji or pictograph, with 157. Unicode keeps most of them in a group called Emoticons. Watch the 180 emoji. Unlike the 11 plain ones, you cannot change how they look.

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5 groups, not one list

Emoji or pictograph is the biggest at 157. The rest split between emoji or pictograph, letter and text sequence.

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Which blocks they come from

They come from Emoticons (77), Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs (43) and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (42). They span U+1D55 to U+1FAEF, so no one font covers them all.

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Easy to confuse

Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes and Smiling Face With Sunglasses look alike. They are not the same character.

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30 entries are sequences

30 use more than one character. Copy the whole thing or it breaks.

Vocabulary for this topic

Useful terms when searching or describing emotion symbols.

Symbol
Emoji or pictograph
Letter
Text sequence
Emoji sequence
Emotion
Happy
Sad
Love
Reaction
Kaomoji
Heart

A quick choice checklist

Match the meaning. Start with symbol when that group fits your message.
Read the name. Compare White Heart Suit with Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes before you pick by shape.
Test the result. Paste the full value into the app, document, or profile where it will appear.

Emotion compositions add tone through eyes, mouths and gestures

This set combines hearts, text faces and kaomoji. Longer compositions can express nuance, but they also create more characters for search, wrapping and assistive speech.

Expression	Construction	Use with care
Warmth	♡ plus a short face	A heart can mean affection, support or a favorite depending on context.
Happiness	Raised mouth or curved eyes	An upbeat face can soften a message but should not obscure the words.
Sadness	Tear-like marks and lowered features	Do not assume a decorative face communicates the sender's real condition.
Comfort or hug	Arms surrounding a face	Long kaomoji may wrap or be announced character by character.

Practical note: Write the main feeling or response in plain language when misunderstanding matters. Use the composition as tone, not as a diagnosis or complete conversation.

Read further

Compare these choices with smiley symbols and heart symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Cool Symbols for Bios, Usernames and Captions. If one question is enough, read can i use cool symbols on social media?.

Tip: A symbol should decorate a label, not replace it — plain words keep the meaning available to search and to assistive technology.

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How to use emotion 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

White Heart Suit is the safe pick here. Let the words beside it carry the meaning.

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Bios, captions and display names

Emoji or pictograph suits bios, captions and display names. Pick one whose stroke weight matches the text around it.

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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 emotion symbols examples for chat reactions and friendly replies

Chat reactions and friendly replies♡ Emotion reference

Bios, captions and display names♡ ☺ ☻

Text art that remains selectable☻ emotion ♡

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Keyboard entry for emotion symbols

If you would rather type than paste, the codes below are what you need — the decimal value for Windows, the hexadecimal for Word and macOS.

Character	Name	Windows	Hex	HTML
♡	White Heart Suit	`Alt 9825`	`2661`	`♡`
😊	Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes	Not available	`1F60A`	`😊`
😭	Loudly Crying Face	Not available	`1F62D`	`😭`
😎	Smiling Face With Sunglasses	Not available	`1F60E`	`😎`
😏	Smirking Face	Not available	`1F60F`	`😏`
🤤	Drooling Face	Not available	`1F924`	`🤤`

The alt-code route requires a real keypad and cannot address anything above U+FFFF. 155 entries here sit above that ceiling. A further 30 are sequences, which no shortcut reproduces — copy those instead. Full per-platform instructions live in the keyboard guide.

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How emotion symbols render across fonts, apps and devices

About 48% come from Emoticons. The rest come from Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. You get two behaviours here.

11 are plain text. 180 are emoji and arrive in colour you cannot change. Unicode files the emoji ones under Smileys & Emotion.

30 entries are made of several parts. 8 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.

161Single characters

30Sequences

180Emoji properties

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Common mistakes with emotion symbols

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Treating White Heart Suit and Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes as the same character.
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Treating the whole set as if it renders identically.
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Copying only part of one of the 30 multi-code-point sequences instead of the whole value.
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Reaching for one of the 180 emoji entries where a text mark was needed, so the colour artwork clashes with the surrounding type.

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Emotion Symbols questions and answers

What is the difference between Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes and Smiling Face With Sunglasses?+

They are two distinct Unicode characters: Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes is U+1F60A (HTML 😊) and Smiling Face With Sunglasses is U+1F60E (HTML 😎). A font may draw them almost identically, but they sort and search as separate values.

What is the HTML code for white heart suit?+

Either reference works: ♡ or ♡. Both resolve to ♡. Pasting the raw character is fine too once the document is UTF-8.

Which emotion symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+

Look for the 11 non-emoji entries. Those behave like letters — style them, colour them, put them in a heading. The 180 emoji entries are drawn by the operating system instead.

Why does one of these emotion symbols split apart when I paste it?+

30 entries here are sequences of more than one code point, and 8 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 emotion symbols in?+

The answer is Emoticons, covering 77 of them; the rest come from Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. Coverage tends to follow the block: long-established ones render nearly everywhere, recent additions do not.

Will these emotion 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.

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Learn more about emotion symbols

Complete guide

Cool Symbols for Bios, Usernames and Captions

The best profile decoration helps people recognize you. It should not make your name harder to search, pronounce or remember.

Read the guide →

Answers people look for

♡Can I use cool symbols on social media?→@Can I put symbols in a username or display name?→AaWhy does a symbol look different after I paste it?→

Two tools worth knowing about

Expressive characters are normally going into a caption or a display name, where a styled word alongside them does more work than another pictograph.

Upside-Down Text ConverterReverse and substitute letters to make playful upside-down text, then test the result in its final app.Open the text converter →Bubble Text ConverterTurn ordinary letters and numbers into enclosed Unicode characters for short labels and profile text.Open the text converter →

Pair a emotion symbol with styled letters in the Symbol Maker. The Unicode tools hub compares all seven and says when each is the right choice.

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Where this data comes from

These 191 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.

Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
The Unicode Standard, current version
How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data

Emotion Symbols Copy & Paste