Objects Emoji — Clothing, Tools, Tech and Everyday Things

Objects is the category of things — 266 emoji on EmojiSelect covering clothing, sound and music, phones and computers, light and vision, books and paper, money, mail, writing, office supplies, locks, tools, science, medical equipment and household items. It is the widest category by subcategory count, and the one that maps most directly onto real-world nouns.

These emoji do the practical work of daily conversation: the 💼 for work, the 💰 for money, the 🔑 for logistics, the 📱 for tech, the 💊 for health. Where other categories color a message, Objects supplies its nouns. The technical subsection is also a quiet treasure: 🔋⚙️🧲 appear in engineering and maker communities with meanings tighter than casual chat, and our pages document both registers.

The 266 entries are arranged by subcategory — clothing, sound, music, phone, computer, light, book, money, mail, writing, office, lock, tool, science, medical and household — and every object links to its detail page with codepoints, HTML entities and related emoji for developers and everyday users alike.

Why it matters

A useful habit from this category is shorthand. Single-object emoji replace whole phrases — 💸 for spending, 📚 for studying, 🛒 for shopping — and because these conventions vary by platform community, each page spells out the common readings and the less obvious ones. Some of these marks are as old as Unicode itself: the credit card 💳 and the smartphone 📱 date back to Unicode 6.0 (2010), which makes the category a living museum of the first emoji decade.