# How to add emojis in jupyter notebook as done here?

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**Created:** [December 8, 2021, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-add-emojis-in-jupyter-notebook-as-done-here/72756 "2021-12-08T09:59:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-add-emojis-in-jupyter-notebook-as-done-here/72756/1 "2021-12-08T09:59:24Z")

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How to add emojis in jupyter notebook as done here?[Variables and Printing | JuliaAcademy](https://juliaacademy.com/courses/375479/lectures/5815852) at 6 :00 time stamp .  
emoji of cat is inserted but not taught how it was done.  
I am new to programming and jupyter. Can someone please explain how emojis can be typed in jupyter notebook.

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**Author:** ![Palli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/palli/32/3380_2.png) [@Palli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Palli)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 11:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-add-emojis-in-jupyter-notebook-as-done-here/72756/2 "2021-12-08T11:04:01Z")

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You can go to [https://emojipedia.org/](https://emojipedia.org/) and copy-paste any emoji (or just any text from anywhere, emjois are in a sense just text) to the notebook, or into Julia’s REPL.

I didn’t actually test the notebook, only the REPL, as I do not have it installed. I just know text handling historically didn’t have emjois (except for in text for, we used to do, `:)` and then not so much in programs, probably illegal as a variable name). But as of Unicode, emojis are supported as “text”, even in [skin] color.

If you’re new to programming, and emojis are your takeaway, then you’ve lost the main message. 🙂 As explained at that time-point, not so much used.

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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 11:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-add-emojis-in-jupyter-notebook-as-done-here/72756/3 "2021-12-08T11:16:17Z")

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Just paste the emoji you’re interested in into the REPL help mode:

```julia

help?> 🐱
"🐱" can be typed by \:cat:<tab>

```

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**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-add-emojis-in-jupyter-notebook-as-done-here/72756/4 "2021-12-08T11:17:10Z")

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I believe IJulia offers the same [tab completion as the Julia REPL](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/REPL/#Tab-completion), so you can type

```julia
\:cat:<TAB>

```

to insert a 🐈. [Here in the manual](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/unicode-input/#Unicode-Input) you have a full list of all possible tab completion sequences.

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**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-add-emojis-in-jupyter-notebook-as-done-here/72756/5 "2021-12-08T11:43:04Z")

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Who came first, egg or chicken?

 ![egg-or-chichen](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/0/e0c3c4fa522520f800c48565e7c4910ffec30ab0.png)

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-add-emojis-in-jupyter-notebook-as-done-here/72756/6 "2021-12-10T13:59:32Z")

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Thanks.

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-add-emojis-in-jupyter-notebook-as-done-here/72756/7 "2021-12-10T14:00:18Z")

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Thanks. Really appreciate you sharing the manual

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-add-emojis-in-jupyter-notebook-as-done-here/72756/8 "2021-12-10T14:09:56Z")

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Thanks

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**Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-add-emojis-in-jupyter-notebook-as-done-here/72756/9 "2021-12-30T20:25:53Z")

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When I type the emoji it displays correctly here: 😺, but when I type the same thing into a Jupyter notebook’s input cell it says this when run:

> syntax: “\” is not a unary operator

What am I missing? Specifically, does Julia (or IJulia) need its private copy of conda to fully support notebooks? I skipped that step because I’m launching the notebooks from Jupyter in the browser, not from Julia, and it seems to work except for this emoji thing.

Thanks for any advice.