Find an emoji and copy it in one click
Emoji Search is a compact emoji picker for the times your keyboard's built-in picker is slow, missing or hard to search: writing a social post on a desktop computer, adding an icon to a slide or spreadsheet heading, labelling a to-do list, or looking up which symbol people mean by "the skull". The page lists roughly 490 commonly used emojis, each with a short English name, grouped into nine categories. Clicking an emoji copies the character itself, so it pastes as normal text into almost any app, website or document.
How to use it
- Type a word into the search box, for example heart, fire, cat or flag japan. The grid narrows as you type and the counter on the right shows how many matches are left.
- Optionally pick a category tab โ Smileys, People, Animals, Food, Travel, Activities, Objects, Symbols or Flags โ to limit the results. The search and the tab work together; choose All to search everything.
- Hover over an emoji to see its name, then click it. A small "Copied!" message confirms that it is on your clipboard.
- Paste it wherever you need it with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac, or long-press and Paste on a phone).
- Emojis you copy appear in the Recently Copied row above the grid for quick reuse. Clear empties that row.
How the search works
The emoji list is a fixed dataset bundled with this page; nothing is looked up online. Each entry has the emoji character, an English name, a Chinese name and a category. Your query is lower-cased and matched as a substring of the English name, so smil finds every "smiling" face, and it is also matched against the Chinese name, so Chinese keywords work too. Pasting an emoji into the box finds that exact emoji. Names are short descriptions chosen for this list, sometimes with an extra keyword (the US flag also answers to usa), rather than the full official Unicode names, so if one word finds nothing, try a simpler synonym such as happy, sad or car.
Copying uses the browser's Clipboard API, which needs a secure (HTTPS) page and may ask for permission in some browsers. If the Clipboard API is unavailable, the page falls back to the older copy command; if both are blocked, the "Copied!" message does not appear, and you can allow clipboard access for the site or use your system's emoji panel instead.
Why emojis look different on different devices
An emoji is a Unicode character, not an image. The page shows it with your own device's emoji font, and whoever receives your message sees it in theirs, so the same heart or face can look different on Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung systems. Very new emojis may show as an empty box on older phones and computers that lack a font for them. Country flags are a special case: each flag is a pair of regional indicator letters, and Windows does not draw country flag emojis in most apps, so there they often appear as two letters such as "JP" even though the pasted text is correct.
Frequently asked questions
Does this page include every emoji?
No. It is a curated list of about 490 popular emojis, not the complete Unicode set of several thousand characters. Skin-tone variants, most country flags and many recent additions are not included.
Where is my Recently Copied list stored?
In your browser's localStorage under the key recentEmojis, holding up to 30 emojis. It stays on this device and browser only and is never uploaded. Press Clear, or clear the site data in your browser, to remove it.
Is anything I search for sent to a server?
No. Filtering happens in JavaScript on the list already loaded in the page, and the search box is not saved or transmitted.
Can I use these emojis in documents, file names or emails?
Yes, they are ordinary text characters. Most modern apps accept them, though some older programs, databases or file systems may not handle them well. In formal emails, keep them sparing, since the recipient's device may render them differently.