😊 Emoji List Copy & Paste

01. Copy any of 1,900+ emoji with a single click

Press the one you want and it's on your clipboard. No hunting through character codes or input candidates.

02. Nine categories make the one you want easy to find

Smileys, people, animals, food, travel, activities, objects, symbols and flags — browse rather than search.

03. Six skin tones, applied across the whole grid at once

Set the tone for people emoji and the choice carries through the entire list, rather than needing to be picked one by one.

04. A copy history brings your regulars back within reach

Recently used emoji collect at the top, so the ones you reach for repeatedly stop being a hunt.

05. Your tone choice and history are saved in the browser

Reopen the page and everything is as you left it. No account, no login.

01. Basic Usage

1. Click any emoji to copy it to your clipboard
2. Paste copied emojis into social media, emails, documents, and more
3. Emojis are split across nine categories such as 'Smileys & Emotion' and 'Animals & Nature'

02. Skin Tone and History

1. Use the skin tone selector at the top to change the skin colour of people emojis across the whole list
2. Once you copy something, a history section appears at the top so you can reuse recently copied emojis

Q. Where are copied emojis saved?

A. They're copied to your OS clipboard. Paste with Ctrl+V (Mac: Cmd+V).

Q. Is copy history saved?

A. Yes, in your browser's local storage. History persists on return visits in the same browser.

Q. Can I change the skin tone?

A. Yes. The skin tone selector at the top offers six options: default, light, medium-light, medium, medium-dark, and dark. Your choice applies to every people emoji in the list.

Q. Is my skin tone choice remembered?

A. Yes. It is stored in your browser's local storage, so opening the page in the same browser restores your last selection.

Q. How many items does the copy history hold?

A. Up to 50. The newest copy goes to the front, and copying the same emoji again moves it to the front instead of duplicating it. Beyond 50, the oldest entries drop off.

Q. How are the categories organised?

A. Into nine groups: smileys and emotion, people and body, animals and nature, food and drink, travel and places, activities, objects, symbols, and flags. This follows the grouping defined by Unicode.

Q. Can I find text emoticons like (^_^)?

A. This tool covers Unicode emojis only. Text-based emoticons built from punctuation are not included.

Q. Why don't some emojis change skin tone?

A. Unicode defines skin tone modifiers only for emojis depicting people and body parts. Animals, food, and symbols are outside that scope, so they stay the same.

Q. Can I use these emojis everywhere?

A. Yes, they're Unicode emojis that work in most apps and web services. However, the appearance may vary slightly depending on OS and app.

Q. Why do emojis look different on different devices?

A. Emojis are Unicode character codes—each OS and app renders them with their own design.

01. Emoji Were Born in Japan

Emojis originated in 1999 for Japanese mobile phones and became universal when adopted by Unicode in 2010. 'Emoji' comes directly from the Japanese word 絵文字 (picture character). By coincidence the word begins like the English emotion and emoticon, which leads people to assume it derives from feeling. In fact it simply joins the words for 'picture' and 'character.'

02. Unicode Keeps the Register

The current Unicode standard contains over 3,000 emojis. New emojis are added annually, managed by the Unicode Consortium. Anyone may submit a proposal, which is judged on projected usage frequency and overlap with existing emoji, among other criteria. Approved emoji, by contrast, are never removed — doing so would make older documents unreadable.

03. How Emoji Are Counted

Emojis are counted as 1 or 2 characters in text length calculations. They register as two because most emoji live outside Unicode's basic range and occupy two units internally. Family and profession emoji go further still, being assembled from several emoji joined together, so they can count as seven or eight characters.

04. What This Tool Lists

This tool lays out more than 1,900 emoji across nine categories, drawing its data from a library called emojibase. The largest category is people and body, followed by flags. Flags run high because the set covers regional flags in addition to national ones.

05. Emoji That Take Skin Tones

Six skin tones are available, and choosing one applies it across the entire grid at once. The scale is based on the Fitzpatrick scale from dermatology. Originally it sorted skin into six types by response to ultraviolet light; emoji adopt five of them. The default yellow remains as a neutral option pointing to no particular skin tone.

06. Skin Tones Are Separate Characters

Emoji with skin tones are not distinct characters of their own. They are formed by appending a skin tone modifier directly after the base emoji. On systems that lack support, you may therefore see the emoji followed by a stray square. Only emoji depicting people or body parts can take a tone; animals and objects cannot.

07. Appearance Varies by Platform

Unicode specifies only which emoji is meant, leaving the artwork to each vendor. The same emoji therefore looks different on iPhone, Android, and Windows. Divergent facial expressions once drew attention for shifting a message's meaning between sender and recipient. Vendors have since converged on more consistent designs.

08. History Is Kept Automatically

Copied emoji are saved automatically as history, up to 50 entries. Copying the same emoji again moves it to the front rather than duplicating it. History lives in this browser on this device and does not transfer elsewhere. To clear it, delete your browser's stored site data.

09. How Copying Works

Pressing an emoji copies it to your clipboard and briefly shows a check mark. The standard clipboard interface handles this normally, with an automatic fallback to an older method where that interface is unavailable — a safeguard for corporate networks and certain browsers.

10. Browsing Instead of Searching

Rather than searching emoji by name, this tool lays every one out by category. Searching is quicker when you already know the name, but names rarely come to mind when you are casting about for something suitable. The layout favours choosing by eye.