How it works
Friendship symbols copy and paste starts with ๐ซ, People hugging, the only emoji that Unicode's search-word list files under friendship. Unicode has no best friend character, so the other 79 tiles are what people reach for instead.
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Emoji that mean friends
Friends emoji copy and paste is the first group, 13 tiles. CLDR, the search-word list, files five emoji under friends: the four holding hands and ๐ฅ. It files eight under bff, which adds the three with bunny ears. Handshakes, fist bumps and hands holds nine more.
Signs for two names
Text signs and small emoji answers friends symbols copy and paste with 22 tiles, โ and & in front. The first thirteen are plain characters, so they take the color of your text. Two names on one line holds ten frames: paste one, then type over each word name.
- For forever, copy โ for plain text or โพ๏ธ for the emoji. Text style, under More options, turns the emoji back into a plain mark.
- The ten friend words are letters from Unicode's mathematical and fullwidth alphabets, so they paste as text.
Questions and answers
Is there a friendship emoji?
Not by name: no emoji name contains the word friend. CLDR files one emoji under friendship, ๐ซ people hugging, which arrived in Emoji 13.0, and five under friends.
Is there a best friend or BFF symbol?
No. Unicode has no such character. CLDR files bff under eight emoji, among them ๐ฏ and ๐ญ. For plain text, copy โ, a name pair such as name โก name, or bff in one of four fonts.
How do I change the skin tone of the handshake?
Open More options under the tiles and pick a tone: all 16 tiles that take one change with it, both hands together. ๐ค is from Emoji 3.0 and took skin tones in Emoji 14.0.
What is the โ symbol?
The infinity sign of mathematics, U+221E in the Mathematical Operators block. Between two names it reads as forever. The emoji โพ๏ธ is a different character, which Unicode names permanent paper sign.