regex for emoji

match emojis

(\u00a9|\u00ae|[\u2000-\u3300]|\ud83c[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83d[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83e[\ud000-\udfff])
Emojis are amazing 😍 ⁣☀ ☁ ☁ 🐬 🌊🌊⛵🌊🌊🌊🌊⁣🌊 | | 🐠 | 🐟 🐳 | ⚓

Emojis or emoticons are symbols used to denote various emotions in electronic messages.

Unicode standards published a list of all emoji data

In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the Face with Tears of Joy emoji (😂) the Word of the Year


Cheatsheet

expr usage
/[a-z]/ matches all lowercase letters (a to z)
/^/ matches beginning of a line
/$/ matches end of a line
iHateRegex
by geon