Click an emoji and it is on your clipboard. A tile your device can't draw yet carries the note āYour device may not show this one yetā, so you know before you paste it that the reader may see an empty box. The search uses each emoji's official Unicode name and its keywords: āfireā finds š„, the firefighters and the fire engine š.
With a keyboard, Tab moves between emojis, Enter copies one, and Shift+F10 opens its menu. The eye button at the top shows each emoji's name, code point (U+1F602 for š) and JavaScript escape, and Size makes the tiles bigger or smaller.
Right-click an emoji, or press and hold it on a phone, and choose Add to favorites. Favorites sit above the groups here, behind the heart at the top, and on Favorite Emojis. They are stored in this browser only, so a phone and a laptop each keep their own.
The list runs up to Emoji 17.0, so the 2025 set, from the distorted face to the orca and the trombone, is in it. A phone shows a new emoji only after its system update, which is when that note on the tile comes in. The article on new emojis shows the newest set and the ones coming next, and when your phone gets them.
For what an emoji means and how each platform draws it, Letsemoji covers meanings, usage examples and platform variations. TikTok also has small emojis of its own that are not in this list, because they only work in TikTok captions and comments: you type a code in square brackets, like [smile], and TikTok shows its icon. Intercool Studio keeps a list of these TikTok hidden emoji codes.
Find an emoji by name and paste it anywhere.
Type what the emoji shows or means. The search reads each emoji's official Unicode name and a list of everyday keywords, so "fire" finds š„ and the fire engine, and "happy" finds š as well as the smiling faces. Short, plain words work best; if nothing comes up, try the thing rather than the feeling.
Unicode only describes each emoji in words, and Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft each draw their own. You send the same code point; the other phone draws its own picture. That's how a grinning face can look friendly on one phone and nervous on another. When an emoji carries the joke in a meme or a brand post, keep the caption readable without it; this guide to meme localization and accessibility covers that check for other languages and screen readers.
An emoticon is built from keyboard characters, like :-) or ;P, and looks the same everywhere because it is ordinary text. An emoji is a single character with its own code in Unicode, drawn as a picture by your phone or computer. Emoticons came first, in 1982; the first popular emoji set came from Japan in 1999.
Emoji 17.0, released by the Unicode Consortium on September 9, 2025, counts 3,953, every skin tone and gender variant and every flag included. It added 163: 8 new emojis (distorted face, fight cloud, hairy creature, ballet dancer, orca, landslide, trombone and treasure chest) and 155 skin tone variants. This page lists 1,914, each emoji once in its default tone.
A modifier is a character of its own, one of five tones based on the Fitzpatrick scale, added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. Put it right after an emoji of a person or a hand and the two are drawn as one, š and š½ becoming šš½. This page lists the default yellow only; your phone's emoji keyboard offers the tones when you press and hold.
Kaomoji are Japanese-style faces made of text characters, read upright: ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ for a shrug, (āÆĀ°ā”Ā°)āÆļøµ ā»āā» for flipping a table. Because they are plain text, they look the same on every device, which no emoji does. People use them for moods emoji don't cover.
