Emoji Copy and Paste
All 529 emoji you actually reach for, grouped the way you think of them. Click any one to copy it. Names are the official Unicode names, so you can also paste a name into the filter box to find an emoji you cannot describe.
Smileys and emotion 85
Hands and body 57
Animals and nature 92
Food and drink 65
Travel and transport 52
Objects and activities 90
Symbols and marks 60
Hearts and love 28
Nothing matched that filter. Try an English name, like “heart”.
Notes
The same emoji looks different on every platform — Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each draw their own. An emoji you pick on a Mac can look noticeably flatter on Windows, so check the target app before committing to one for a design.
Some emoji are actually several code points joined together, such as the technologist or couple ones that combine a person with a laptop or a heart. They display as one glyph but count as multiple characters in a length limit — relevant if you are writing a bio with a hard cap.
Older systems may show a box instead of the glyph. That means the font lacks it, not that the character is wrong; on a modern phone or browser it will render fine.
About Emoji Copy and Paste
529 emoji you actually reach for, grouped the way you think of them: smileys and emotion, hands and body, animals and nature, food and drink, travel, objects, symbols, and hearts. Click any one to copy it, then paste into chat, a document, a spreadsheet or a code comment.
Each entry carries both a Chinese name and the official Unicode English name — grinning face, face with tears of joy and so on. That is not decoration: when you cannot picture the glyph, typing the English name into the filter finds it far faster than scanning hundreds of images.
The same emoji looks different on every platform. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each draw their own set, so one you pick on a Mac can come out noticeably flatter, rounder or differently coloured on Windows. If the emoji is going into a design, a poster or a slide deck, check it on the target platform rather than trusting your own screen.
Some emoji are several code points joined together. The technologist is a person plus a laptop, the couple is two people plus a heart, held together by zero-width joiners. They render as a single glyph but count as multiple characters wherever there is a length limit — a profile bio or a form field will reject text that looks short enough.
Skin-tone variants are deliberately left out. They would multiply the list several times over and make it unusable to browse, and on older systems the modifier often renders as a second character or a box rather than a tinted face.
Frequently asked questions
It pasted as an empty box — why?
The target app or system font has no glyph for it. Pick a more common emoji, or switch to a font that includes colour emoji.
How many characters is one emoji?
Usually one. Sequences joined by zero-width joiners — the technologist, the couple — count as several code points, so a character limit will treat them as two or more.
Why does the same emoji look different on my friend's phone?
Each platform draws its own set. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung all differ; it is a design difference, not a rendering bug.
Where are the skin-tone variants?
Deliberately omitted. They would multiply the list several times over, and on older systems the modifier often shows as a base emoji plus a box.
