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Generate random emojis from all 1,923 emojis in Unicode Emoji 18.0, from ๐ to ๐ฟ๐ผ, each with its official name and code points. Filter by category or name, pick a skin tone, and copy in one click. Or deal an emoji story, or test yourself with Guess the Emoji.
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Last updated: October 2, 2026 ยท Published: 2026-03-29 ยท Updated: 2026-10-02
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Pick a category or leave it on All, then click Generate. Every emoji comes with its official name and Unicode code points.
A random emoji generator picks emojis for you at random, so you can discover emojis you'd never scroll to, spark a story or game, or get test data with real Unicode characters.
Muxgen's generator includes every one of the 1,923 emojis in Unicode Emoji 18.0, sorted into Unicode's 9 categories and 98 subgroups. Each result shows the emoji's official name, the version it was added in, and its code points.
Emoji story mode deals five emojis for a character, setting, object, twist, and ending. Guess the Emoji is a 10-question game where you name each emoji. Everything runs in your browser, with no sign-up.
Three steps to a fresh set of emojis.
Random emojis gives you any number of emojis. Emoji story deals five for a story prompt. Guess the emoji is a 10-question naming game.
Choose a category and subgroup, search names like heart or cat, pick a skin tone, and decide whether repeats are allowed.
Each emoji shows its official name and code points. Click one to copy it, or copy the whole set with or without names.
Three ways to play: random picks, a five-emoji story prompt, or a naming quiz.
1 to 100 per batch. Without repeats, the limit is the number of emojis that match your filters.
All, or one of Unicode's 9 emoji groups: Smileys & Emotion, People & Body, Animals & Nature, Food & Drink, Travel & Places, Activities, Objects, Symbols, and Flags.
Narrow a category to one of 98 subgroups, like Hearts, Mammals, Fruit, Sports, or Country flags.
Search official emoji names by whole word: cat finds cat face and black cat, but not application.
Default yellow or one of five tones, applied to the 325 emojis that support them. Changes apply instantly.
Off by default, so each emoji appears once. Turn it on to allow repeats in batches up to 100.
Adds the 17 emojis from Emoji 17.0 and 18.0, which many devices can't display yet.
Unicode Emoji 18.0 lists 3,963 emojis when you count every skin-tone variant, and 1,923 without them. Here's how they break down.
Unicode sorts every emoji into 9 groups and 98 subgroups. People & Body is the largest, mostly because of jobs, sports, and family emojis.
| Category | Emojis | What's inside | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smileys & Emotion | 17216 subgroups | Faces, cat and monkey faces, hearts, and emotion symbols like ๐ฏ and ๐ฅ. | ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฅถ ๐ฅน ๐ ๐ ๐ค |
| People & Body | 39016 subgroups | Hand gestures, body parts, people, jobs, fantasy characters, sports, and families. | ๐ ๐ฆถ ๐ โโ๏ธ ๐ฉโ๐ผ ๐คฐ ๐ถโโก๏ธ ๐คบ ๐ญ |
| Animals & Nature | 1618 subgroups | Mammals, birds, reptiles, sea creatures, bugs, flowers, and plants. | ๐ต ๐ซ ๐ ๐ฆ ๐ชฝ ๐ฆ ๐ธ๏ธ ๐ณ |
| Food & Drink | 1327 subgroups | Fruit, vegetables, prepared food, Asian dishes, sweets, drinks, and dishware. | ๐ ๐ ๐ซ ๐ฅฉ ๐ฅฃ ๐ฅ ๐ญ ๐ซ |
| Travel & Places | 22111 subgroups | Maps, landscapes, buildings, vehicles, clocks, the moon, sky, and weather. | ๐ ๐ข ๐ ๐ ๐จ ๐๏ธ ๐ค โ๏ธ |
| Activities | 855 subgroups | Holidays and events, medals, sports, games, and arts and crafts. | ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ ๐ช ๐งธ ๐ด |
| Objects | 26818 subgroups | Clothing, music, phones, computers, books, money, tools, science, and household items. | ๐ ๐ข ๐ช ๐บ ๐ถ ๐๏ธ ๐ช ๐๏ธ |
| Symbols | 22414 subgroups | Signs, arrows, religious and zodiac symbols, math, punctuation, keycaps, and shapes. | ๐ง โก๏ธ โฎ๏ธ โซ โ 0๏ธโฃ ๐ ๐ค |
| Flags | 2703 subgroups | Country and regional flags, plus the chequered, pirate, rainbow, and transgender flags. | ๐ ๐ง๐ฑ ๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ท ๐ฐ๐ท ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐ท๐ธ ๐น๐ณ |
Emoji 18.0 (2026) adds 9 new emojis and Emoji 17.0 (2025) added 8, not counting skin-tone variants. If you see boxes below, your device doesn't support them yet.
The Unicode Consortium's 2021 emoji frequency data ranked these as the 10 most used emojis worldwide. Laughter and love dominate.
An emoji's official name doesn't always match how people use it. Here's what these popular emojis usually mean in messages.
| Emoji | Official name | What it usually means |
|---|---|---|
| ๐ | Face with tears of joy | Laughing so hard you cry. Oxford Dictionaries named it the 2015 Word of the Year. |
| ๐ | Skull | Short for "I'm dead": something is so funny it killed you. Rarely about actual death. |
| ๐ญ | Loudly crying face | Real sadness, but just as often overwhelming laughter, joy, or being moved. |
| ๐ | Folded hands | Please, thank you, or prayer. Some people read it as a high five. |
| ๐ค | Face with steam from nose | Frustration to some, but its Unicode keywords include "triumph" and "won", so it can also mean pride or determination. |
| ๐ | Slightly smiling face | Friendly to some readers, but it can come across as passive-aggressive, especially to younger people. |
| ๐ | Upside-down face | Sarcasm, silliness, or ironic "everything is fine" energy. |
| ๐ซ | Melting face | Embarrassment, feeling overwhelmed, or melting in the heat. |
| ๐ฅฒ | Smiling face with tear | Happy and sad at the same time, or smiling through something hard. |
| ๐ฅน | Face holding back tears | Touched, grateful, or "aww": holding back happy tears. |
| ๐ซก | Saluting face | Respect, "yes, sir", or accepting a task. |
| ๐ | Eyes | Watching closely, curiosity about gossip, or "look at this". |
| ๐ค | Pinched fingers | An Italian hand gesture, often used to mean "what do you want?" or to praise something as perfect. |
| ๐งข | Billed cap | "Cap" is slang for a lie, so ๐งข means "that's not true" and "no cap" means "for real". |
Unicode releases new emojis once a year. Emoji 0.6 and 0.7 are the emojis from Unicode 6.0 (2010) and 7.0 (2014); 719 emojis from that first 2010 release are still the biggest batch. Counts below don't include skin-tone variants.
| Version | Year | New emojis | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emoji 0.6 | 2010 | 719 | ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ณ |
| Emoji 0.7 | 2014 | 139 | ๐ ๐ ๐ณ๏ธ ๐ฆ๏ธ ๐จ๏ธ ๐ ๏ธ |
| Emoji 1.0 | 2015 | 170 | ๐ ๐ค ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ |
| Emoji 2.0 | 2015 | 271 | ๐๏ธโ๐จ๏ธ ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ช๐ท ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ณ๐ซ ๐ธ๐ป |
| Emoji 3.0 | 2016 | 72 | ๐คฃ ๐ค ๐คผ ๐ฆ ๐ฅ ๐ต |
| Emoji 4.0 | 2016 | 113 | ๐ฑโโ๏ธ ๐คทโโ๏ธ ๐จโ๐ฌ ๐โโ๏ธ ๐ฃโโ๏ธ ๐คพโโ๏ธ |
| Emoji 5.0 | 2017 | 79 | ๐คฉ ๐ง ๐ง ๐งโโ๏ธ ๐ฅฆ ๐ฅ |
| Emoji 11.0 | 2018 | 77 | ๐ฅฐ ๐จโ๐ฆฒ ๐ฆ ๐ฅฎ โ๏ธ ๐งฌ |
| Emoji 12.0 | 2019 | 75 | ๐ฅฑ ๐ง ๐ฆฅ ๐ ๐ฉณ ๐ข |
| Emoji 12.1 | 2019 | 23 | ๐งโ๐ฆฐ ๐งโโ๏ธ ๐งโ๐พ ๐งโ๐ผ ๐งโ๐จ ๐งโ๐ฆฏ |
| Emoji 13.0 | 2020 | 67 | ๐ฅฒ ๐งโ๐ผ ๐ชณ ๐ชจ ๐ช ๐ชค |
| Emoji 13.1 | 2020 | 7 | ๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธ ๐ตโ๐ซ โค๏ธโ๐ฉน ๐งโโ๏ธ |
| Emoji 14.0 | 2021 | 37 | ๐ซ ๐ซฑ ๐ซฆ ๐ชน ๐ ๐ชช |
| Emoji 15.0 | 2022 | 21 | ๐ซจ ๐ซท ๐ชฝ ๐ชป ๐ชฎ ๐ |
| Emoji 15.1 | 2023 | 28 | ๐โโ๏ธ ๐งโโก๏ธ ๐ฉโ๐ฆฏโโก๏ธ ๐จโ๐ฆฝโโก๏ธ ๐งโ๐งโ๐ง ๐โ๐ฉ |
| Emoji 16.0 | 2024 | 8 | ๐ซฉ ๐ชพ ๐ช ๐ซ |
| Emoji 17.0 | 2025 | 8 | ๐ซช ๐ซ ๐ซ ๐ช |
| Emoji 18.0 | 2026 | 9 | ๐ซซ ๐ซบ ๐ซ ๐ช ๐ช |
Every emoji is text, not an image. Some are a single Unicode character; others are several characters that devices draw as one picture.
Most emojis are one Unicode character. Grinning face is U+1F600. 1,400 of the 1,923 emojis here are a single character, sometimes followed by a presentation selector.
Red heart is U+2764 U+FE0F. The invisible U+FE0F tells devices to draw the colorful emoji instead of a plain text symbol.
Thumbs up plus a skin tone modifier: U+1F44D U+1F3FD. The five tones are based on the Fitzpatrick scale used in dermatology.
Family: man, woman, girl joins three emojis with the invisible zero-width joiner U+200D: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F469 U+200D U+1F467. 249 emojis here are joiner sequences.
Black cat is cat + joiner + black large square: U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B. Older devices show the two parts side by side.
Country flags are pairs of regional indicator letters for the country code. Japan is J + P: U+1F1EF U+1F1F5.
Keycap 1 is the digit 1, a presentation selector, and a combining keycap: U+0031 U+FE0F U+20E3.
Scotland's flag is a black flag followed by invisible tag letters spelling "gbsct": 7 code points in all.
The same emoji can look quite different on an iPhone, a Samsung phone, and a Windows PC.
Unicode defines each emoji's code points and name. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Meta, and others each draw their own designs.
If a device's emoji font is older than the emoji, you'll see a blank box, a question mark, or separate pieces. The 17 newest emojis are off by default in the generator for this reason.
New emojis arrive through system updates for your phone or computer, usually several months after Unicode releases them.
A face that looks friendly on one platform can look smug on another. If tone matters, add a few words.
Every major system has a built-in emoji picker. Here's how to open it.
From a typed smiley to a yearly global standard.
Computer scientist Scott Fahlman proposed typing :-) to mark jokes on a Carnegie Mellon message board.
Kurita designed 176 tiny 12ร12-pixel pictures for NTT Docomo's i-mode phones in Japan. The Museum of Modern Art added them to its collection in 2016.
Unicode standardized the Japanese phone emojis, so they could be sent between any phone or computer. 719 of today's emojis date from that first release.
Apple added an emoji keyboard to iOS 5 worldwide, and Android followed. Emoji became part of everyday texting.
Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge started World Emoji Day on July 17, the date shown on Apple's calendar emoji ๐ .
Five skin tone modifiers arrived, and Oxford Dictionaries named ๐ its Word of the Year.
The newest release adds 9 emojis, including ๐ซซ cracking face, ๐ซ monarch butterfly, and ๐ช meteor.
Fun ways to use random emojis with friends, family, or a class. Emoji story mode's five slots are main character, setting, important object, twist, and ending mood.
Generate one emoji per player. Act it out without words while everyone else guesses its name.
Generate 3 to 5 emojis and challenge friends to name a film, song, or book they could describe.
Use Emoji story mode. Each person adds a sentence using the next emoji until the story ends.
Generate a random emoji and draw it from memory. Others guess before time runs out.
Generate 25 emojis without repeats for each card, then call random emojis until someone gets a line.
Filter to Smileys and generate 6 faces. Everyone picks the one that matches how they feel today.
All 1,923 emojis in the generator, grouped the way Unicode groups them. Open a category to see every subgroup, or copy straight from the list.
Match the batch size to what you're doing.
| Batch size | Best for |
|---|---|
| 1 emoji | An emoji of the day, a profile picture idea, or one charades round |
| 3 emojis | A team name, a mood board, or a quick caption |
| 5 emojis | A story prompt or a guess-the-movie challenge |
| 10โ25 emojis | A full game of charades, emoji bingo cards, or classroom activities |
| 50โ100 emojis | Test data, or checking which emojis your app, font, or device can display |
More than a handful of smileys.
Every fully-qualified emoji in Unicode Emoji 18.0, not a hand-picked few dozen.
Every result shows its Unicode name, subgroup, emoji version, and code points.
From smiling faces and hearts to sea animals, desserts, and country flags.
Five skin tones for the 325 emojis that support them, plus default yellow.
A five-emoji story prompt and a 10-question Guess the Emoji game with easy and hard levels.
Click any emoji to copy it, or copy the set packed together, spaced out, or with names.
Who uses a random emoji generator, and why.
Find fresh emojis beyond the same few you always use, and check what they're officially called.
Drop a random emoji into a chat and ask everyone to tell a story about it.
Writing prompts, vocabulary games, mood check-ins, and a quick quiz for early finishers.
Five random emojis make a surprisingly good story seed or drawing prompt.
Charades, Pictionary, emoji bingo, and guess-the-movie rounds.
Random emojis with code points for testing fonts, inputs, databases, and text rendering.
When to use this tool, and when something else fits better.
The keyboard is for emojis you already want. This shows you ones you'd never scroll to, with their names.
Reference sites go deep on one emoji at a time. This is for random picks, prompts, and games.
Want countries rather than flag emojis? That generator includes capitals, populations, and more.
That tool turns letters into fancy Unicode styles. This one picks emoji characters.
Where the data comes from, and what to keep in mind.
Names, groups, and versions come from Unicode's official emoji-test.txt for Emoji 18.0.
Results use Unicode's names. People often use emojis to mean something else, like ๐ for laughing.
Emojis look different on Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung devices, and very new ones may not show at all.
Picks use your browser's random number generator. They're fair for games, but don't use them for passwords. Nothing is uploaded or saved.
Terms you'll meet when reading about emojis.
A picture character from Japanese e (picture) and moji (character). It isn't related to the word emotion.
The worldwide standard that gives every letter, symbol, and emoji a number, so text works on any device.
The nonprofit that approves new emojis each year and publishes the official emoji list.
The number Unicode assigns to a character, written like U+1F600.
The official English name of an emoji, such as face with tears of joy, used by screen readers and search.
The release an emoji first appeared in, from Emoji 0.6 (2010) to Emoji 18.0 (2026).
One of five characters, based on the Fitzpatrick scale, that changes the skin color of a people or hand emoji.
An invisible character, U+200D, that glues emojis together into one, like a family or a black cat.
One of 26 letter symbols. Two of them in a row form a country flag.
The invisible U+FE0F that asks for the colorful emoji version of a character like โค or โ.
A face made from typed characters, like :-) or :D. Kaomoji are Japanese-style emoticons like (^_^).
A text code like :smile: used by apps such as Slack, Discord, and GitHub. Shortcodes vary by app and aren't part of Unicode.
Get more out of the generator, the story mode, and the quiz.
Generate from All for surprises, then pick a category or subgroup when you know what you want.
Type a word like moon, heart, or tree to get random emojis on one theme.
Unless you know your audience has the latest software, the newest emojis may show as boxes.
Screen readers read every emoji's full name aloud. Use a few, and keep the message in words too.
Guess the emoji on hard mode makes you tell look-alikes apart, like ๐, ๐, and ๐.
Copy with names gives you a ready-made list with each emoji's name and code points.
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Random countries with flags, capitals, and facts.
Random colors with HEX, RGB, and palettes.
Random English nouns for games and prompts.
Conversation starters and icebreaker questions.
Drawing prompts when you're stuck for ideas.
Turn plain text into fancy Unicode letters.