How it works
A button, U+1F170 U+FE0F, sits above Copy. Under it are 59 tiles: letter buttons, the regional letters A to Z, emoji filed under a letter, emoji that look like one, and words spelled out.
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Regional letters turn into flags
The 26 regional letters build flags: 🇺 then 🇸 with nothing between them is the flag of the United States. To spell a word, put a space after each letter, as the words at the end of the grid do.
Which letters have an emoji
CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files an emoji under only eleven letters: B C I M O P R T U V X. A, B, O and P have buttons of their own, and M and i have signs. For the rest, the look-alikes offer ⚡ for Z, 💲 for S and 🕒 for L, chosen by eye.
Tips
- Neither D nor N has an emoji of its own, so a letter d or letter n emoji means the regional 🇩 or 🇳.
- No emoji looks like a K. The regional 🇰 is the nearest.
- T-Rex is filed under T for its name, not its shape. ✝️ is the look-alike.
Questions and answers
Is there an emoji for every letter?
Only as regional letters: 🇦 to 🇿 cover the alphabet, 26 characters added in Unicode 6.0. Each is drawn as a letter in a box, and a pair that is a country code becomes a flag, so keep a space between them.
Why did my letters turn into a flag?
Two regional letters side by side are read as a country code: 🇬 and 🇧 together are the flag of the United Kingdom. A space, or any other character, between them keeps them letters.
Which emoji look like an E?
📧, the e-mail envelope, carries an e. Otherwise the regional 🇪 is the only E: CLDR files no emoji under the letter E.