diff --git a/app/ui/build.gradle.kts b/app/ui/build.gradle.kts
index 37e80d0d..1e3a12ae 100644
--- a/app/ui/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/app/ui/build.gradle.kts
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ dependencies {
     implementation(libs.coil.core)
     implementation(libs.coil.compose)
 
+    implementation(libs.emoji4j)
+
     implementation(project(":libs:material-color-utilities"))
 
     implementation(project(":core:base"))
diff --git a/core/base/src/main/java/de/mm20/launcher2/licenses/OpenSourceLicenses.kt b/core/base/src/main/java/de/mm20/launcher2/licenses/OpenSourceLicenses.kt
index 293d79b1..da332cbd 100644
--- a/core/base/src/main/java/de/mm20/launcher2/licenses/OpenSourceLicenses.kt
+++ b/core/base/src/main/java/de/mm20/launcher2/licenses/OpenSourceLicenses.kt
@@ -205,4 +205,11 @@ val OpenSourceLicenses = arrayOf(
         licenseText = R.raw.license_apache_2,
         url = "https://bigbadaboom.github.io/androidsvg/"
     ),
+    OpenSourceLibrary(
+        name = "emoji4j",
+        description = "Emoji4j is a high-performance, standards-compliant emoji processor supporting Unicode 15 for Java 8 or later.",
+        licenseName = R.string.apache_license_name,
+        licenseText = R.raw.license_apache_2,
+        url = "https://github.com/sigpwned/emoji4j"
+    ),
 )
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diff --git a/settings.gradle.kts b/settings.gradle.kts
index 338f778c..ff92bab2 100644
--- a/settings.gradle.kts
+++ b/settings.gradle.kts
@@ -232,6 +232,9 @@ dependencyResolutionManagement {
             library("tinypinyin", "com.github.promeg", "tinypinyin")
                 .version("2.0.2")
 
+            library("emoji4j", "com.sigpwned", "emoji4j-core")
+                .version("15.0.1")
+
             version("junit", "4.13")
             library("junit", "junit", "junit").versionRef("junit")
             bundle("tests", listOf("junit"))