emoji-unicode-version

Get the unicode version for a given emoji name.

Useful for testing native unicode emoji support. Test a single emoji and assume any other emoji with that same version is supported.

npm install emoji-unicode-version

Usage

const emojiNameToUnicodeVersion = require('emoji-unicode-version');
 
// 6.1
console.log(emojiNameToUnicodeVersion('grinning'));
// 9.0
console.log(emojiNameToUnicodeVersion('rofl'));

Get version from unicode

const emojiNameToUnicodeVersion = require('emoji-unicode-version');
const emojione = require('emojione');
 
function unicodeToName(emojiUnicode) {
    const emojiShortName = emojione.toShort(emojiUnicode);
    const emojiName = emojiShortName.slice(1, emojiShortName.length - 1);
    return emojiName;
}
 
// grinning, 6.1
console.log(emojiNameToUnicodeVersion(unicodeToName('😀')));
// rofl, 9.0
console.log(emojiNameToUnicodeVersion(unicodeToName('🤣')));

About

Emoji name list is pulled from EmojiOne

We grab the emoji unicode versions from Emojipedia.

ZWJ sequences use the unicode version for the highest individual emoji in the sequence.

Also See

• http://unicode.org/emoji/charts-beta/full-emoji-list.html
• http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/5.0/emoji-data.txt
• http://unicode.org/Public/emoji/5.0/emoji-zwj-sequences.txt