This section on the linked Wikipedia article(1) is quite amazing on how the family emoji is rendered using a zero-width joiner (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

This section on the linked Wikipedia article(1) is quite amazing on how the family emoji is rendered using a zero-width joiner (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Joining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Joining edit: forgot HN doesn't render emojis. Better read it directly on Wikipedia i guess.