All Emojis: The Complete List

Where the 100,000 emoji claims come from

Search for a list of every emoji and you will find pages promising 100,000 or more. No honest count gets close. The official list is 3,963. Add the 1,029 older spellings that leave out an invisible style character, plus the 243 bare versions, and you reach 5,235, still nowhere near six figures. The big numbers come from counting other things as emoji: Emoji Kitchen stickers (Google's mashups run past 147,000 pairings), kaomoji like (◕‿◕), text symbols, and animated stickers. Those are all worth having, and this site has sections for each of them, but you cannot type any of them from an emoji keyboard.

What counts as one emoji

Unicode counts what it calls fully-qualified sequences, and some of them are made of several characters. 👨‍👩‍👧 is five code points glued together with invisible joiners, yet it is one emoji, drawn as one picture. 👍 and 👍🏽 are two separate entries, because the second carries a skin tone modifier. ❤️ and a bare ❤ without its style selector are the same emoji written two ways, and only the first is counted. The 9 building blocks, such as the five skin tone swatches and the four hair styles, are not counted at all, since you rarely send them on their own.

The releases that added the most, and the least

The oldest layer is still the biggest. 719 of the 1,923 distinct emoji date from 2010, when Unicode 6.0 absorbed the sets Japanese phone carriers had been using since the late 1990s. That is roughly 37% of the list. The busiest single release was Emoji 4.0 in 2016, which added 598 entries, yet only 113 of them were new designs: the rest were gender and skin tone versions of jobs and sports. Recent releases have been small. Emoji 16.0 added 8 new designs, and Emoji 17.0 added 8, with another 155 skin tone versions, most of them for the three wrestling emoji and the three pairs in bunny ears. Emoji 18.0, approved in September 2026, brings 9, including a pickle, a lighthouse and a meteor.

Why a few of these show up as boxes

This page sends every emoji as plain text, so your own device draws them. If your phone or computer is older than an emoji, you will see an empty box or a question mark instead. Nothing on this page is broken when that happens; your font simply has no picture for that code yet. The newest 9 from Emoji 18.0 will look like boxes almost everywhere until phone makers ship them, which for iPhone usually means the spring update after approval. Our emoji support checker tests which versions your current device can draw.

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