How it works
This text to emoji generator swaps a word for an emoji wherever the word is that emoji's own name: dog, pizza, rainbow, thumbs up. The table holds 554 emoji, each a single character, so the line you copy pastes whole.
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Names in, emoji out
Type or paste a line over the sample. Whole words change as you type and the rest stays put, punctuation included. Plurals count, so dogs gives 🐕 too. The longest name wins: hot dog gives 🌭 and never a warm 🐕. Capitals make no difference.
Why some words stay words
An emoji is written only by its official short name. Love, happy and cool name no emoji, so they stay. A few names are left out on purpose because sentences need them for other jobs: man, watch, ring, train and fly would turn half a paragraph into pictures.
- Colors go in front: blue heart, green apple, yellow heart. A bare heart stays a word.
- A hyphen protects a word: sun-kissed and star-shaped stay as typed.
- Animals come two ways. Dog gives the whole 🐕 and dog face gives 🐶.
Questions and answers
How do I turn text into emoji?
Type the emoji's name: rocket, taco, ghost, soccer ball, birthday cake. The line changes as you type and Copy takes all of it. The list under the tool gives every name the table knows.
Why is there no red heart or plain sun?
Both need an invisible selector character after them to show in color, and this table holds only emoji that are one character. Type blue heart, sparkling heart or crescent moon, which are single characters.
Can it turn emoji back into text?
Not with Swap: the tool reads words, and an emoji is not one. To find what an emoji is called, look it up in the list under the tool, which pairs each one with its name.
Where do the emoji names come from?
From Unicode's own emoji list, version 18.0, which gives every emoji a short name such as hatching chick or party popper. Nothing here is a nickname, so a word works only if that list uses it.