Emoji picker
Search 1,500 emoji and symbols by their official names, then copy.
- Runs in your browser — your text is never sent anywhere
- No sign-up, no quotas, free to use as often as you like
How it works
Every operating system has an emoji picker, and every one of them is a different keyboard shortcut you have forgotten. This one works the same way in any browser, on any machine, including ones where you cannot install anything.
Searching by the official name
Names come from the Unicode standard itself, not from a curated keyword list. That makes search precise and occasionally literal: a smiling face is grinning face, not happy, and a red heart is heavy black heart for historical reasons. Plain nouns work best — face, hand, arrow, cat, star.
Code points
Switch the display and each result shows its Unicode code point, which is what you need when writing an escape in source code, a CSS content value or a database entry rather than pasting the character itself.
Symbols as well as emoji
The symbols group includes arrows, stars, ticks, crosses, mathematical and technical marks. These are often more useful than emoji for documents and interfaces, and considerably harder to find in a system picker.
What is deliberately missing
Skin-tone variants, family groupings and country flags. All of those are built by joining several code points together with invisible joiners rather than being single characters, and a picker that lists them would be listing sequences rather than characters. They are also where support differs most between platforms.
How they will look elsewhere
An emoji is a character, not a picture, so it is drawn by the recipient's own font. The same code point looks meaningfully different on an iPhone, on Android and on Windows, and a few render as a plain box on older systems.
Emoji picker — questions
Why can I not find a word I expect?
Search uses official Unicode names, which are literal — try grinning rather than happy, or a plain noun like face or arrow.
Are skin tones and flags included?
No. Both are sequences of several code points joined together rather than single characters.
Will emoji look the same everywhere?
No. Each platform draws them with its own font, so the same character looks different on iPhone, Android and Windows.
Can I get the Unicode code point?
Yes, switch the display setting to show it alongside each emoji.
Does it work offline?
The emoji list is fetched once and then cached, so it works offline afterwards.