# Emoji Counter

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## How to use our Emoji Counter

To get started, paste some text into the text-box above or simply just start typing.

A count of the emojis contained in your text will appear above the text-box and will update automatically as you type.

Below the text-box is a green "Copy Text" that will conveniently copy all the text in the text-box.

Underneath that, a word count and letter count will be displayed.

## What are emojis?

In the digital age emojis have almost become their own language. In fact in 2015 Oxford dictionary named the 😂 also known as the "Face with tears of joy" emoji as the word of the year.

An emoji is a type of pictogram, most frequently used in text messages and social media apps. It was added to the Unicode Standard under symbols to make it more compatible across different devices.

Emojis add a fun flair to writing. After all, it’s easier to convey all kinds of emotion with emojis as opposed to a plain block of naked text.

## What are the Top 10 most commonly used emojis?

The top 10 most used emojis are displayed below. We included a copy button next to each emoji to make it easy to incorporate into your writing. Which emoji do you use the most?

- 😊
  Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes
- ✨
  Sparkles
- 🥰
  Smiling Face with Hearts
- 😍
  Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes
- 🙏
  Folded Hands
- 🔥
  Fire
- ❤️
  Red Heart
- 🤣
  Rolling on the Floor Laughing
- 😭
  Loudly Crying Face
- 😂
  Face with Tears of Joy

## How many emojis are there?

There are currently 3,782 according to Unicode.org.

The different categories of emojis include Smileys and Emotion, People and Body, Animals and Nature, Food and Drink, Travel and Places, Activities, Objects, Symbols and Flags.

## Why use an Emoji Counter?

It's important to recognize that certain types of writing call for different levels of emoji use. Generally speaking, emojis are only used for casual writing. For example, a text message to a friend might contain lots of emojis whereas an academic research paper should not contain any.

As emojis can be fun to incorporate into your writing it can be easy to get carried away and use too many. Especially when most smartphones automatically suggest emojis to you based on your text. Our emoji counter is useful to keep track of them and prevent overuse.

## Emojis count as multiple characters

Keep in mind that emojis do not count as only one character. This is due to the fact that they are encoded differently in the Unicode system.

Some emojis contain Zero-Width Joiners which have invisible characters that help combine multiple emojis into one. For example, the "flexed biceps medium-light skin tone" emoji 💪🏼 combines both a bicep emoji and a skin color emoji into one emoji. A character counter will still count it as multiple characters.

## Thanks for using our emoji counter tool!

We hope our emoji counter has been useful for you.

If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact us here.

Happy emoji counting! 😃