Emoji and Special Character Picker

Find and copy any emoji or symbol

Sometimes you need a tick, a degree sign, an arrow or the right emoji, and your keyboard does not have it. This picker puts around two thousand emoji and several hundred common symbols in one searchable page.

How to use it

1. Type a word such as smile, cat, arrow, euro or a hex code into the search box.
2. Narrow the grid with the Category menu: smileys, people, animals, food, travel, activities, objects, symbols, flags, and special sets such as arrows, math, currency, punctuation, shapes and box drawing.
3. Choose what a click copies: the character itself, an HTML entity, or a Unicode code.
4. Click a glyph. It is copied immediately and added to your recent list.

The Selected panel shows a large preview, its name and its code in several forms, with separate copy buttons for the character, the HTML entity, the U+ notation and a JavaScript escape.

When to use each format

• Character for documents, social posts and chat.
• HTML entity for web pages, email templates and CMS fields where you want the source to be plain ASCII.
• Unicode code for documentation, bug reports and design specs.
• JavaScript escape for strings in code.

Good to know

1. Emoji appearance varies by platform, and very new emoji can show as an empty box on older devices.
2. Many flags are built from two regional indicator letters, and some emoji are sequences joined together; they still copy as one unit.
3. Emoji in file names, passwords and database keys can cause trouble in older systems.
4. Screen readers read emoji by name, so avoid long runs of them in important text.

Privacy

The data is bundled with the page. Searches, clicks and your recent list stay in your browser.