About Emojis
Every glyph in the Unicode catalogue, set down with intent — what it means, where it came from, and how people actually use it.
What this is
Emojis is a reference for the modern pictograph. We catalogue every emoji in the Unicode Standard with a clean, copy-and-paste glyph, a plain-language meaning, the categories it belongs to, and — where it earns one — a short note on its history and everyday use. No clutter, no pop-ups, just the character you came for.
Where the data comes from
The structural catalogue is built from the Unicode Emoji specification and the open emojibase dataset — the same sources that power the emoji you see on your phone. Names follow the Unicode CLDR short names, and each entry is grouped by its official Unicode category and subgroup. On top of that foundation we layer our own written notes, so the meanings read like they were written by a person rather than generated by a machine.
A note on how emoji look
The same emoji is drawn differently by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and every other vendor — that is by design. Unicode defines the meaningof a character, not its artwork. Throughout the site we render emoji using your own device's font, so what you copy is exactly what your readers will see on theirs.
Who makes it
Emojis is built and operated in Australia by SoloCommerce Pty Ltd. It is a small, independent project — the kind of reference we wanted to exist and couldn't find, so we made it.
Start exploring
Browse the full set by category, read longer pieces in the journal, or get in touch if you spot something we got wrong.