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Emoji Components

Emoji Components are special Unicode characters designed to combine with other emoji for skin tones, hair styles, flags, and more, rather than for standalone display.

Technical role and specification

In the Unicode Emoji standard, components are divided into the following main categories:

  • Fitzpatrick Skin Tone Modifiers: U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF (five levels) modify the skin tone of hand and person emoji.
  • Hair Components: U+1F9B0, U+1F9B1, U+1F9B2, and U+1F9B3 join person emoji through ZWJ (U+200D).
  • Regional Indicator Symbols: U+1F1E6–U+1F1FF combine in pairs to form ISO flag emoji.
  • Keycap Components: U+20E3 (Combining Enclosing Keycap).

Included components

Included emoji components
DisplayName (English / Japanese)Code pointsSequence KeyCategoryAction