About Emoji Counter

Count and group emoji present in any text. Part of the DevTools Surf developer suite. Browse more tools in the Fun / Niche collection.

Use Cases

• Analyzing emoji usage patterns in customer support chat logs
• Auditing social media posts for consistent emoji branding
• Counting emoji in survey responses for sentiment analysis
• Detecting emoji spam in user-generated content moderation

Tips

• Paste any text to see a frequency breakdown of each emoji
• Use this to audit emoji usage in social media content
• Identify which emoji appear most often in user feedback

Fun Facts

• The first emoji set was created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999 for NTT DoCoMo in Japan, consisting of 176 12x12 pixel icons.
• As of Unicode 15.1, there are 3,782 emoji in the standard, including skin tone and gender variants — up from the original 176.
• The 'Face with Tears of Joy' emoji was named Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year in 2015, the first time a pictograph received the honor.

FAQ

What counts as an emoji?

Any codepoint in the Emoji Unicode ranges. Handles compound emoji (family emoji with ZWJ sequences, flag emoji from regional indicator pairs) correctly.

Does it count duplicates?

Shows both total count and unique emoji set. For social-media analytics you usually want total; for classification, unique.

Can I filter out certain emoji?

Paste a block-list and those are excluded from the count. Useful for ignoring common ones like ✅ to find unusual ones.

Is it accurate for compound emoji?

Yes — the tool uses grapheme segmentation, so '👨‍👩‍👧' counts as one emoji (not three).