For newer emoji, if you want to know how it was originally supposed they might be used, you can look up the proposal to the Unicode Consortium for its inclusion

For newer emoji, if you want to know how it was originally supposed they might be used, you can look up the proposal to the Unicode Consortium for its inclusion.[1] Some of them are quite fun to read. Unfortunately Unicode's page is currently loading like I'm on 28k dial-up and you have to wait for it to get down to the one you want. The old ones like "Nail Polish" were also proposed in large groups and don't have a special document just for themselves. But new ones do, for example: "Dotted-line face": https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetDocumentLink?L2/20-223 https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetDocumentLink?L2/20-223 "Head shaking horizontally": https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetDocumentLink?L2/23-034 https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetDocumentLink?L2/23-034 "Phoenix": https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetDocumentLink?L2/23-033 https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetDocumentLink?L2/23-033 [1] https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-proposals.html https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-proposals.html