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Emoji Picker

Search 1,914 emoji by name or keyword, choose one of five skin tones for the 330 that have them, and click an emoji to copy it to the clipboard. How it works

Use the Emoji Picker

Skin tone

The tone applies to the 330 emoji that have skin-tone variants. Newer emoji may show as an empty box, or a tone as a separate colour patch, on devices whose emoji font is older.

Smileys & Emotion (171)

People & Body (388)

Animals & Nature (160)

Food & Drink (131)

Travel & Places (219)

Activities (85)

Objects (266)

Symbols (224)

Flags (270)

About the Emoji Picker

The emoji picker holds 1,914 emoji in 9 groups, from Unicode emoji data up to Emoji 17.0. Click an emoji to copy it. For the 330 emoji with skin-tone variants, all in People & Body, choose one of five tones first and the modifier character (U+1F3FB to U+1F3FF) is added after each person.

Emoji per group

GroupEmojiWith skin tones
Smileys & Emotion1710
People & Body388330
Animals & Nature1600
Food & Drink1310
Travel & Places2190
Activities850
Objects2660
Symbols2240
Flags2700

Total 1,914. A group shows its first 100 emoji with a button to show the rest.

Skin-tone modifiers

ToneModifierThumbs upCode points
Default (yellow)(none)👍U+1F44D
Light skin toneU+1F3FB👍🏻U+1F44D U+1F3FB
Medium-light skin toneU+1F3FC👍🏼U+1F44D U+1F3FC
Medium skin toneU+1F3FD👍🏽U+1F44D U+1F3FD
Medium-dark skin toneU+1F3FE👍🏾U+1F44D U+1F3FE
Dark skin toneU+1F3FF👍🏿U+1F44D U+1F3FF

In an emoji with two people, each person gets the modifier: people holding hands with the medium tone is U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD.

Frequently asked questions

How do I copy and paste an emoji?
Click it. The emoji is copied to the clipboard and also appears in the Last picked box, so you can select it there if the browser blocks copying. Paste it with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V. The last 10 you copied are kept under Recently Used in this browser.
How do I change an emoji's skin tone?
Pick one of the six buttons next to Skin tone (default yellow and five tones) before you click the emoji. The tone applies to the 330 emoji that have tone variants; the 30 family emoji and every emoji outside People & Body stay as they are.
How does the emoji search work?
Each word you type must appear somewhere in the emoji's name, its group or one of its keywords, in any order, and part of a longer word counts. So cat finds 88 emoji: the cat faces, but also woozy face, whose keyword intoxicated contains "cat". Add a second word to narrow it: cat face finds 12, and heart red finds 3 (heart exclamation, heart on fire, red heart). Up to 300 results are shown.
Why does an emoji show as an empty box?
The device's emoji font is older than that emoji, so it has no picture for it. A toned emoji the font cannot combine may show as the emoji followed by a separate colour patch, as Unicode Technical Standard #51 describes for that fallback.
Why do flag emoji show as two letters on Windows?
Windows draws emoji with its Segoe UI Emoji font, which has no national flags, so a flag such as the Japanese one appears as the letters JP. The emoji itself is correct: copy it from the Flags group (270 emoji) and it shows as a flag on a phone or a Mac that receives it.

Finding and copying an emoji

On a laptop without an emoji keyboard, the quickest route is a search: type thumbs and the two thumbs emoji come up, then click one. Words are matched as parts of longer words, so two words find the emoji faster than one. For a hand or a person in another skin tone, pick the tone before you click; it changes the 330 emoji that have tone variants and leaves the rest alone.

If the browser blocks the clipboard, the emoji still lands in the Last picked box, where you can select and copy it yourself. Emoji you copy are kept under Recently Used in this browser until you press Clear Saved Values.

The emoji list, search and skin tones

The picker lists the 1,914 emoji of the unicode-emoji-json data, up to Emoji 17.0, in 9 groups; skin-tone variants are not counted separately. Search keywords come from emojilib. A search finds the emoji whose name, group or keywords contain every word you type, in any order and as part of a longer word: heart alone finds 46, heart red finds 3.

A skin tone is a modifier character written right after each person in the emoji, from U+1F3FB (light) to U+1F3FF (dark). Example: thumbs up 👍 is U+1F44D; with the medium tone it is U+1F44D U+1F3FD, 👍🏽. The tone applies to the 330 emoji that the data marks as having tone variants, all in People & Body; the 30 family emoji keep their default colour.

Fun Fact: Unicode's five skin-tone modifiers are based on the Fitzpatrick scale, a classification of skin types used in dermatology (Unicode Technical Standard #51).

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