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Click any glyph in the grid to view its Unicode sequence, HTML entities, and cross-platform simulation.

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About

In professional interface design, emojis are not merely decorative graphics; they are complex character sequences subject to rigid Unicode standards. A single visual icon like the "Woman Pilot" is technically a ligature combining the "Woman" code point, a Zero Width Joiner, and the "Plane" code point. Failure to understand this structure leads to database corruption, broken rendering in legacy browsers, and accessibility failures.

This application functions as the definitive technical reference for the entire Unicode Emoji set (v15.1). Unlike casual dictionaries, it exposes the raw architecture of every glyph. It provides developers with the precise UTF-16 surrogates, CSS content strings, and HTML decimal entities needed for hard-coded implementation. It resolves ambiguity by simulating cross-platform rendering, ensuring your UI conveys the exact emotional tone intended, regardless of whether the user is on iOS, Android, or Windows.

Formulas

To parse a surrogate pair from a high code point (SMP), we utilize the bitwise shift method. This is essential when building custom emoji pickers in languages like C++ or Java.

{

High = Math.floor(Code − 0x100000x400) + 0xD800Low = ((Code − 0x10000) % 0x400) + 0xDC00

For sequences involving the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ), the total byte size is the sum of all constituent characters plus the separators (3 bytes in UTF-8 per joiner).

Frequently Asked Questions

This indicates a failure in "Grapheme Cluster" rendering. The emoji is likely a ZWJ Sequence (e.g., Eye + Speech Bubble = Eye in Speech Bubble). If the OS font doesn't have a dedicated glyph for the combined sequence, it falls back to displaying the individual components side-by-side.

Windows browsers sometimes default to the monochromatic "Segoe UI Symbol" font. To force color, explicitly set your font-family stack to include "Segoe UI Emoji" before other fallbacks, or use the CSS property `font-variant-emoji: emoji;`.

The Fitzpatrick Scale determines the 5 skin tone modifiers (🏻 🏼 🏽 🏾 🏿). In our tool, selecting a skin tone dynamically injects the modifier code point (U+1F3FB through U+1F3FF) into the base emoji sequence, updating all copy-paste codes instantly.

Using entities (e.g., 😂) protects your code from encoding errors. If a file is saved in ANSI or ASCII format by mistake, raw emoji characters will turn into garbage text (mojibake). Entities are ASCII-safe and survive aggressive database sanitation.