You can represent it as a sequence of escapes. If Raku handles this the same way as Perl5, it should be: $a = "\N{FACE PALM}\N{EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK T

You can represent it as a sequence of escapes. If Raku handles this the same way as Perl5, it should be: $a = "\N{FACE PALM}\N{EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-3}\N{ZERO WIDTH JOINER}\N{MALE SIGN}\N{VARIATION SELECTOR-16}";