People & Body
2418 characters make up People & Body inside People & Body; ๐ waving hand, ๐๐ป waving hand: light skin tone, ๐๐ผ waving hand: medium-light skin tone give an idea of the range. Nine times out of ten the pick here is ๐ thumbs up. A skin tone can be set on 2030 of these symbols. Nothing needs installing: these smileys are plain Unicode characters that travel with the message.
Subcategories
- ๐ Open Hands 66
- ๐ Partially Open Hands 54
- ๐ Single Finger Gestures 42
- โ Closed Hands 36
- ๐ Two-Hand Gestures 62
- ๐ Hands with Props 18
- ๐ Body Parts 48
- ๐ง People 168
- ๐ People Gestures 180
- ๐ฎ Professions & Roles 492
- ๐ง Fantasy Characters 158
- ๐ถ People Doing Activities 408
- ๐ People Doing Sports 308
- ๐ง Resting People 30
- ๐ช Family 337
- ๐ฃ๏ธ People Symbols 11
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How to copy emoji from the People & Body section
Tap any smiley in the list and the symbol goes to your clipboard, ready to paste into a chat, a group name or a post caption. It is a plain Unicode character, not an image: it works the same in Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord and Instagram, weighs nothing and survives forwarding. The Compose button in the header collects several emoji into one line โ handy when you need a combination rather than a single symbol.
Questions about People & Body emoji
- How many emoji are in the People & Body section?
- Currently 2418. The list follows the Unicode standard and is updated with it, so it holds both long-standing smileys and symbols from the newest releases.
- Why do some smileys look different on my device?
- The drawing comes from your device font, not from this site: Apple, Google and Samsung each draw emoji their own way. Every symbol page shows how it looks across platforms.
- What if I see an empty box instead of a smiley?
- The symbol is newer than your system and the font does not know it yet. You can still copy and send it: on a more recent device the emoji will show correctly.