Emoji to Unicode

The Emoji to Unicode tool converts emoji characters and text to their Unicode code point representations (U+XXXX format) and vice versa. It provides a detailed analysis of each grapheme cluster, showing code points, hexadecimal values, and UTF-8 byte sizes.

Modern emoji can be surprisingly complex in Unicode. A single visible emoji may actually consist of multiple code points joined by Zero Width Joiners (ZWJ), variation selectors, or skin tone modifiers. For example, a family emoji like 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 is built from four person emoji joined by ZWJ characters. This tool helps you understand these underlying sequences.

The tool uses the Intl.Segmenter API (where available) to correctly split text into grapheme clusters — visual units that users perceive as single characters. This ensures that complex emoji sequences like flags, skin-toned emoji, and ZWJ sequences are analyzed as single entities rather than being split into individual code points.

All processing runs in your browser. No data is transmitted to any server. If you work with Unicode text, you may also find our Unicode Inspector useful for detailed character analysis, our Unicode Normalizer for normalization forms, or our Emoji Picker for quickly finding emoji.

The bidirectional conversion supports pasting emoji to get code points and pasting code points (U+XXXX or hex format) to reconstruct the original emoji. This is invaluable for debugging encoding issues, implementing emoji support in applications, or learning about Unicode.

1. Select Emoji → Unicode or Unicode → Emoji mode.
2. Paste emoji or text (or Unicode code points like U+1F600) into the input field.
3. In analyze mode, a table shows each character with its code points, hex values, and byte size.
4. In decode mode, the decoded emoji/text is displayed in a large preview.
5. Click Copy to copy the analysis or decoded text.
6. Use Swap to switch the output back into the input for round-trip conversion.
7. Click Clear to reset the tool.