Objects
Devices, household goods and everyday things
Subgroups
All “Objects” emoji
About Objects
Objects is the large catch-all of the standard with 268 symbols: clothing, electronics, household items, money, music, office supplies, tools and more. These symbols name things, so their meaning depends far less on culture than faces do.
What you will find in this group
The group holds most of the everyday vocabulary of the set. If a message needs a physical thing — a bag, a laptop, a key, a book — it is found here.
Because the entries are literal, they are the easiest part of the standard to use precisely. There is little room for a second reading.
How these emoji are used
Object symbols appear constantly in practical messages: packing lists, shopping notes, instructions and handover notes. One symbol often replaces a short phrase.
They are also used to set a scene. A desk setup, a gift or a repair job can be described in a few symbols where a paragraph would otherwise be needed.
Money, music and tools
Money entries cover cash, cards and coins and are common in payment and price talk. Music entries cover instruments and are used for lessons, rehearsals and playlists.
Tool entries are mostly literal, though a couple have picked up figurative use online. When writing to someone you do not know well, keep to the literal reading.
Cross-platform notes
Artwork varies here more than anywhere else, because the same object can be drawn in very different styles. A symbol that looks like one model of a phone on your device may look like another elsewhere.
For instructions or inventories, write the item name next to the symbol so the meaning does not depend on the drawing.
How to copy and paste these emoji
All 268 symbols in Objects can be copied straight from the cards on this page. Emoji copy and paste here is plain text, so the character you copy is the character that lands in Slack, WhatsApp, Notion, Word or X.
Copying from a desktop browser works the same way: select the symbol, or press the copy button, then paste into whichever app has focus.
Frequently Asked Questions
- QHow many emoji are in Objects?
- There are 268 symbols on EmojiAll, covering clothing, electronics, household items, money, music, office supplies, science, tools and other everyday things.
- QAre object emoji safe to use in work messages?
- Generally yes, since their meaning is literal. Keep them as support for the sentence rather than as a replacement for it.
- QWhy does the same object look different on another phone?
- Every platform draws its own artwork for each code point. The Unicode name fixes what the symbol is; the picture is up to the font.
- QWhich subgroup is used most?
- Household and office items dominate everyday messages, because they are what people actually describe in notes, lists and instructions.