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diff --git a/packages/frontend/src/scripts/emojilist.ts b/packages/frontend/src/scripts/emojilist.ts
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+export const unicodeEmojiCategories = ['face', 'people', 'animals_and_nature', 'food_and_drink', 'activity', 'travel_and_places', 'objects', 'symbols', 'flags'] as const;
+
+export type UnicodeEmojiDef = {
+	name: string;
+	keywords: string[];
+	char: string;
+	category: typeof unicodeEmojiCategories[number];
+}
+
+// initial converted from https://github.com/muan/emojilib/commit/242fe68be86ed6536843b83f7e32f376468b38fb
+import _emojilist from '../emojilist.json';
+
+export const emojilist = _emojilist as UnicodeEmojiDef[];
+
+export function getEmojiName(char: string): string | undefined {
+	return emojilist.find(emo => emo.char === char)?.name;
+}