TikTok Emojis: The Hidden Emoji Codes, Ready to Copy

These TikTok emojis are not part of your phone's emoji keyboard. They are drawings TikTok made for its own app, and the only way to use them is to type a shortcode inside square brackets, such as [smile] or [wronged]. When the comment or caption publishes, TikTok replaces the code with its artwork.

While you are typing, you will still see the raw code. That is normal, and it is the most common reason people think the codes are broken. Post the comment, then look at it in the thread to see the emoji.

Spelling is strict, and several natural guesses are wrong. The code is [shock], not [shocked]; [nap], not [sleep]; [blink], not [wink]; and [loveface], not [love]. The brackets must be square, with no spaces inside them. Copying from this page avoids typos.

TikTok has never published an official list of these codes and has changed the set before without notice. Every list online, this one included, comes from people testing codes in the app. If a code that worked before stops working, TikTok has most likely changed it.

Regular emoji come from the Unicode standard and work in any app. TikTok emojis exist only inside TikTok, which is why copying one out of the app gives you the bracketed text rather than a picture. This page describes each face in words instead of showing TikTok's artwork, which belongs to TikTok.