What Is This Emoji? 66 Real Unicode Names

What is this emoji? Paste it into the lookup box below to see every character hiding inside it, with its official Unicode name, code point and what it does. Most “mystery emoji” are not emoji at all but letters and marks borrowed from scripts such as Javanese, Egyptian hieroglyphs or Kayah Li.

You saw a symbol, you want to use it, and you cannot search for it because you do not know what it is called. That is the actual problem — not finding symbols, but naming the one you already have. Below is every character’s real Unicode name and code point, checked against the standard rather than guessed.

Last updated: 6 October 2026 · COOLMOJI Editorial Team

Decoded: the strings people ask about most

These are real searches that brought readers to this page. Every name below comes from the Unicode 17.0 character database, the same data the lookup box uses, read on 6 October 2026. Tap a string to copy it, or paste it into the box above to see the full breakdown.

𒄆𓁹✞𒀱✞𓁹𒄆 meaning

𒄆𓁹✞𒀱✞𓁹𒄆 is a mirrored decoration with no hidden message. It is built from two Sumerian cuneiform signs (GI4 CROSSING GI4 at each end and AN PLUS NAGA SQUARED in the centre), the Egyptian hieroglyph D004, which is an eye, and the dingbat ✞ SHADOWED WHITE LATIN CROSS. People use it for a dark, mystical or gothic look in names and bios.

🐦‍🔥⃤⃟⃝🦅 meaning

🐦‍🔥 is the phoenix emoji: 🐦 BIRD and 🔥 FIRE joined by an invisible zero width joiner, added in Emoji 15.1 (2023). Phones without it show a bird and a flame side by side. The marks after it are three combining enclosures, a triangle, a diamond and a circle, drawn around the phoenix, and 🦅 is EAGLE. Together it reads as “rising from the ashes”.

⎝ 𓆩 ✧ 𓆪 ⎠ and ꧁⎝ 𓆩༺✧༻𓆪 ⎠꧂ meaning

⎝ 𓆩 ✧ 𓆪 ⎠ is a name frame, not a word. The outer pieces are the lower hooks of tall maths brackets, 𓆩 and 𓆪 are a mirrored pair of Egyptian hieroglyphs, and ✧ is a four-pointed star that people replace with their name. The longer ꧁ ꧂ version adds Javanese ornaments and Tibetan bracket marks; every piece is broken down on our divider page.

ꤪꤨꤪ meaning

ꤪꤨꤪ is three vowel signs from Kayah Li, the script of the Kayah (Karenni) language of Myanmar and Thailand: KAYAH LI VOWEL O, VOWEL U and VOWEL O again. They are combining marks, so on their own they stack into a small symmetrical shape, which is why people use them as a cute face or divider.

ɪ᪻ͥᷱ᷍ meaning

ɪ᪻ͥᷱ᷍ is one small-capital letter I wearing four combining marks. Under it sit COMBINING PARENTHESES ABOVE, COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER I, COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER W and COMBINING DOUBLE CIRCUMFLEX ABOVE. Stacked marks like these are how “glitch” or crowned letters are made; some name fields remove marks above a set limit.

ㅤ‼ ️ꭾʀɪ፝֟ɴᴄᴇsㅤᥫ᭡ meaning

ㅤ‼ ️ꭾʀɪ፝֟ɴᴄᴇsㅤᥫ᭡ spells “princes” in look-alike letters. The P is CHEROKEE SMALL LETTER HE, R, I, N, C and E are Latin small capitals, an Ethiopic mark and a Hebrew accent decorate the I, and the blank-looking gaps are HANGUL FILLER. The ending ᥫ᭡ is TAI LE LETTER E plus a Balinese musical symbol, a popular heart-like tail.

𖦹🍀୭ ˚. ᵎᵎ｡🧷𖦹°‧ meaning

𖦹🍀୭ ˚. ᵎᵎ｡🧷𖦹°‧ is an aesthetic line, read as “lucky and cute”. 𖦹 is BAMUM LETTER PHASE-E NGKAAMI from Cameroon’s Bamum script, used for its round flower shape, ୭ is the Odia digit seven, ᵎ is a small turned i, and the emoji are 🍀 FOUR LEAF CLOVER and 🧷 SAFETY PIN.

⋆𐙚 ̊⊹♡ ⋆౨ৎ ̊⟡˖ ࣪ meaning

⋆𐙚 ̊⊹♡ ⋆౨ৎ ̊⟡˖ ࣪ is a soft “coquette” sparkle line. 𐙚 is LINEAR A SIGN A306, a sign from an undeciphered Bronze Age script that happens to look like a bow, and ౨ৎ is the Telugu digit two followed by Bengali khanda ta, which together look like a ribbon. The rest are small stars, a heart and a concave diamond.

⤷ ゛ ˎˊ˗ meaning

⤷ ゛ ˎˊ˗ is a reply-style pointer used to start a line in a bio. ⤷ is ARROW POINTING DOWNWARDS THEN CURVING RIGHTWARDS, ゛ is the Japanese voiced sound mark, and ˎˊ˗ are three small accent and minus marks from the Spacing Modifier Letters block.

𓀐𓂸 📹 meaning

Some strings people look up are rude, and it helps to know before pasting them. 𓀐𓂸 is two Egyptian hieroglyphs, A014 (a human figure) and D052 (a phallus sign); with or without 📹 VIDEO CAMERA after it, it is used online as a crude sexual joke. We explain it here but do not list it for copying.

ᶠᶸᶜᵏᵧₒᵤ meaning

ᶠᶸᶜᵏᵧₒᵤ spells a swear word aimed at the reader in tiny letters: MODIFIER LETTER SMALL F, SMALL CAPITAL U, SMALL C and SMALL K, then a Greek subscript gamma and Latin subscript o and u standing in for “you”. Tiny letters like these are a trick to slip past word filters, so many platforms now catch them anyway.

ᶠᶸᶜᵏme𓀐𓂸 meaning

ᶠᶸᶜᵏme𓀐𓂸 joins the same tiny swear word, the plain letters “me” and the crude hieroglyph pair above. It is explicit, and pasting it into a bio or game name can get an account reported, so we do not offer it for copying.

💀, ☠ and 🤗: the emoji people misread

What does 💀 mean?

💀 (U+1F480 SKULL) usually means “I’m dead”, as in laughing too hard, especially among Gen Z users on TikTok and Instagram. It is rarely about death or danger. Repeating it, 💀💀💀, just makes the laugh bigger.

Is it 💀 or ☠?

💀 SKULL is an emoji from Unicode 6.0; ☠ SKULL AND CROSSBONES (U+2620) is a much older symbol from Unicode 1.1 that traditionally marks poison or pirates. In chat, 💀 is the joke and ☠ is the warning. More combinations are on the skull page linked further down.

Is 🤗 flirty?

🤗 is not flirty by default. Its Unicode name is HUGGING FACE (U+1F917, Unicode 8.0), and it is used for warmth, thanks or a virtual hug. Because some phones draw it as a face with open hands, it can also read as excitement. Whether it is flirty depends on who sends it and the words around it.

Can’t find yours? Paste it into the lookup box at the top of this page. If the answer still makes no sense, email the string to support@coolmoji.com; the COOLMOJI Editorial Team adds answered strings to this page with the date they were checked.

The lookup table

Grouped by what people mistake for each other. Every name and code point below was read from the Unicode character database, not written from memory — which matters, because wrong character names are the single most-copied error in this niche. Tap the button in the last column to copy the character.

Hearts

Stars

Ticks and crosses

Dashes and dots

Look-alike maths

Flowers

Arrows

Name brackets

Moons

Music

Marks people misread

Three names that surprise everybody

The gaming “wings” are Egyptian hieroglyphs. The bracket pair 𓆩 𓆪 that wraps thousands of game names is U+131A9 and U+131AA, formally EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH L006. They were encoded so Egyptologists could typeset ancient texts. Nobody involved was thinking about clan tags.

The ornate name frame is Javanese. ꧁ and ꧂ are JAVANESE LEFT RERENGGAN and JAVANESE RIGHT RERENGGAN — decorative marks from the Javanese script used to open and close a passage of text. They arrived in Unicode to support a living writing system, then found a second life in gamer names.

The filled heart is a card suit. ♥ is BLACK HEART SUIT — it exists because playing cards needed it, alongside spades, clubs and diamonds. The hollow ♡ is WHITE HEART SUIT, its pair. Neither was designed to mean affection; that came later from the people using them.

There is a pattern here worth noticing. Almost every decorative character people use today was encoded for an entirely different, usually scholarly reason. They are borrowed, not designed for this.

Why the real name is worth knowing

Two practical reasons, beyond the pleasure of knowing.

You can search for it. Knowing that ✧ is WHITE FOUR POINTED STAR lets you find its neighbours in the same block — and the neighbours are usually what you actually wanted.

The name predicts the behaviour. This is the useful one. A character whose name says SUIT or OPERATOR is old, from a widely supported block, and will render nearly everywhere. A character whose name says EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH sits far outside the basic plane, which is exactly why it gets rejected by name fields and shows as a box on older phones. The name tells you the risk before you test it.

Our post on the skull emoji and gothic symbols works through one case of this in detail: 💀 and ☠ look related and behave completely differently, and their names say why.

84 neighbours from the same blocks

This is the payoff of knowing a character’s real name. Once you know ✓ is CHECK MARK, the useful move is to look at what sits beside it in the standard — because the neighbours are usually what you actually wanted. These are drawn from the same blocks as the characters in the table above. Tap to copy.

Tick & cross neighbours

Cross marks

Music neighbours

Dagger & marks

Corner neighbours

Quote marks

How to identify one we have not listed

1. Copy the character on its own. Just the one, with no spaces around it — a second invisible character will confuse every lookup.
2. Search the code point, not the picture. Any character inspector will give you the U+ number. That number is unique and unambiguous; a description of what it looks like is neither.
3. Check it against the standard itself. The Unicode code charts are the source; every other site is quoting them, sometimes wrongly.

That last step is our own rule too. Our editorial policy explains why we never take character names from other symbol sites: one wrong name gets copied outward and becomes very hard to dislodge, because the only way to notice is the lookup everybody skipped.

Everything on COOLMOJI is checked against the same Unicode data, so a name you find here is the one you will find in the standard.

FAQ

Why does the same character have different names on different sites?

Because most sites use a nickname rather than the formal name, and nicknames drift. There is exactly one official name per character, fixed when it was encoded and never changed.

Is the Unicode name the same as what people call it?

Often not, and both are useful. BLACK HEART SUIT is the name; “heart” is what people call it. The formal name is what you search with; the everyday name is what you communicate with.

Why do some names say “black” for a symbol that is not black?

In Unicode, black means filled and white means hollow, regardless of the colour it renders in. BLACK STAR ★ and WHITE STAR ☆ are solid and outlined versions of the same shape.

How do I find a character if I only have a picture of it?

Shape-based search tools exist for exactly this. Once you have a candidate, copy it and check the code point — a lookalike will have a different number.

Do emoji have Unicode names too?

Yes. 🌙 is CRESCENT MOON, ⭐ is WHITE MEDIUM STAR. Emoji are characters like any other; the picture is just the vendor’s interpretation of the name.