The distorted face emoji won for the Most Anticipated Emoji for 2025, and the melting face (🫠) emoji won the Lifetime Achievement Award. The melting face emoji is now the youngest emoji to receive ...

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We are using the term emoji quite loosely here, because you can’t actually hack into the official Unicode list.

The difference has to be stored, so the characters have to be encoded somehow. Is there a unicode compatible way to encoding those that aren't in unicode?