What is a random emoji?

Emojis are the small pictures that Unicode defines so that every phone, browser, and app can show the same set of symbols. There are more than 1,900 of them, from smiley faces and animals to food, vehicles, symbols, and country flags. Each emoji has an official name, such as "rocket" or "face with tears of joy", and belongs to one of nine groups.

Tool description

This tool picks random emojis from the full Unicode emoji set. Choose how many you want, from 1 to 100, narrow the pool down to a single category if you like, and press Generate. The result is shown large on the page and as text that you can copy in one click. A single emoji is shown with its name and category, and hovering over any emoji in a longer list shows its name. Everything runs in your browser, so nothing is sent anywhere.

Examples

  • One emoji, all categories: 🦩 Flamingo · Animals & nature
  • Five emojis with no repeats: 🍉 🚲 🎷 🔔 🧊
  • A random food order from the Food & drink category: 🥑 🍜 🧁
  • A row of people with random skin tones: 🧑🏽 👩🏿 👨🏻 🧓🏼

Features

  • Pick 1 to 100 emojis at a time
  • Nine categories: smileys & emotion, people & body, animals & nature, food & drink, travel & places, activities, objects, symbols, and flags
  • Optional "no repeats" mode, so each emoji appears at most once
  • Skin tone for the emojis that support it: keep the default yellow, choose one of the five tones, or get a random tone for each emoji
  • Separator between the emojis: space, nothing, new line, or comma
  • One-click copy of the result

Tips

  • Turn on "no repeats" for things like raffles or icebreakers, where each emoji should be different. Turn it off when you want independent draws, like rolling dice
  • With "no repeats" on, the count can not be higher than the number of emojis in the category. Flags has 270, for example, while Activities has 85
  • Skin tones only change emojis that support them, mostly hands and people. Food, animals, and flags stay the same
  • Use the New line separator to get a list you can paste into a spreadsheet or chat, with one emoji per row
  • How an emoji looks depends on the device. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung each draw their own version, and a very new emoji may show up as an empty box on an older system