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Emoji & Faces

Emoji & Faces is a practical collection of 117 Unicode records. Unicode face characters and expressive emoji, including classic monochrome symbols and modern pictographs.

Curated emoji & faces

Classic faces

Positive

Expressive

Full emoji & faces site index

Every entry selected for this site's collection is present in the page source, and each result opens a record you can examine.

How to choose emoji & faces

A face can change the perceived tone of a sentence. Check context and audience; similar expressions do not carry identical meanings.

An emoji entry might consist of one scalar value or an ordered run of several. Its final artwork comes from the receiving platform rather than this website.

A four-part check
  1. Identify the assigned Unicode label and U+ value.
  2. Select every component of the sequence.
  3. Try the result inside its intended application.
  4. State important information with words as well.

Rendering and compatibility

Each major operating system and application vendor draws modern emoji in its own visual language. Preserve every component when copying.

Unicode defines character identity, while fonts and platforms draw the result. A different shape does not automatically mean a different character; an empty box usually means missing font coverage.

Learn why symbols become boxes →

Read the connected concepts

This collection is the practical index. These two field-guide chapters explain the choices most likely to affect how its characters are interpreted or delivered.

Understand the boundary between symbols and emojiText and pictorial presentation →Keep emoji presentation selectors intactVS15, VS16, and sequence fallback →

Sources and review boundary

Formal character names and core properties are derived from Python's Unicode database for this build, then presented against the Unicode Character Database model. Curated group labels and usage notes are editorial organization, not normative Unicode classifications.

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