Objects
Objects is the category of things — 268 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.
About this category
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 268 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.
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Clothing
47 Emoji
Tools
28 Emoji
Household
25 Emoji
Office
23 Emoji
Books & paper
17 Emoji
Light & video
16 Emoji
Computers
14 Emoji
Musical instruments
13 Emoji
13 Emoji
Money
11 Emoji
Sound
9 Emoji
Music
9 Emoji
Other objects
9 Emoji
Writing
8 Emoji
Science
7 Emoji
Medical
7 Emoji
Phones
6 Emoji
Locks
6 Emoji
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.
Highlights
Clothing and fashion: 👗👔🧢 carry style talk, with 👟 and 👜 among the most-copied.
Money and finance: 💰💸💳 form a complete shorthand for earning, spending and paying.
Tools and tech: 🔧🔑📱 serve literal logistics and the metaphor of fixing things.
Sound and music: 🎧🎵🎤 describe listening and performing, with 🎶 as the universal marker of a good mood and 🎙️ for anyone recording a voice note or a show.
How people use them
Talking work: "Back-to-back meetings all day 💼."
Splitting the bill: "I'll pay — 💳."
Packing for a trip: 👕🧴🔋 as a checklist.
Studying: 📚 with a ☕ and a 🕰️.