Every emoji in the grid is paired with a short hand-written keyword string; typing in the search box lowercases your query and keeps only the emoji whose keywords contain it as a substring, and clicking any emoji writes it straight to your clipboard with navigator.clipboard.writeText().
FAQ
How does the search know what an emoji means?
Each emoji is paired with a short hand-written list of keywords — 🔥 is tagged "fire hot lit", for example — and typing filters the grid to any entry whose keyword string contains your search text as a plain substring.
Why doesn't a specific word I search for turn up an emoji I know should match?
The picker only checks its curated keyword list with a simple substring match, not a full Unicode CLDR name database — if an emoji wasn't tagged with your exact word or a word containing it, it won't appear even if the emoji is conceptually related.
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