Emoji Explorer

Reference

What are emojis?

Emoji (絵文字, meaning "picture character" in Japanese) are standardized pictographic characters maintained by the Unicode Consortium. Originally created by Japanese mobile carriers in the late 1990s, they were incorporated into the Unicode Standard in 2010 (Unicode 6.0) and are now supported across all modern operating systems, browsers, and messaging platforms. Each emoji has a unique Unicode code point — the visual appearance varies by platform (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung each have their own designs).

How to find and use emojis

Click any emoji to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it anywhere — chat apps, documents, social media posts, email subject lines, code comments, or git commit messages. Use the search bar to find emojis by name or keyword (e.g., "heart", "fire", "flag", "thumbs up"). Filter by category to browse a specific group. Emojis are plain text characters — they work everywhere that supports Unicode, including terminals, IDEs, databases, and URLs (when percent-encoded).

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All emoji data is bundled locally in the page. No data is sent to any server.