It kinda is emoji… https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Emoji_Characters https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Emoji_Characters says emoji character is "a character t

It kinda is emoji… https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Emoji_Characters https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Emoji_Characters says emoji character is "a character that has the Emoji property". Let's check: $ perl -MUnicode::UCD=charprop -E "say charprop(0x2665, 'emoji')" Yes But then, even some ASCII characters have this property, so maybe it's not a very reasonable definition.