Adopt A Character

Congratulations on your upcoming adoption! A character adoption is the perfect gift for that special someone, including you! Each adoption comes with a digital badge and certificate that you can proudly display. To finalize the adoption, we need some information.

Step 1 of 2 — Your Character and Sponsor Profile

Adoption Level and Character

Some ideas:

  • Chinese New Year: 春 福 🧨 🧧 🎇 🎆 🐉 🐲 🀄
  • Valentine’s Day: 🥰 😍 😘 🥹 💌 🌹 🔥 🎁 🧸 💍 💋 愛 爱 戀 恋 💖 💓 💟 ❤️‍🩹 💚 💙
  • Animals — 🐏🦙🐂🐍🐿️🐅🐎🐉🐶🐒🐇🐖🐹🐈🐨🐦🦜🐠🐢🐰🐱🐁
  • Astronomy — 🔭☀️🌑📡👽👩🏽‍🔬🪐🌠👨🏽‍🚀🌍⭐🌌
  • Cards and Games — ♦️♠️♣️♥️🎲🀄🧩🃏🕹️🎮🪀
  • Music — 🎶🎹🎼🥁🎻🎸🎺🎷🎙️📻🎧
  • Magic — 🎩🧙🏽🔮🐇💐♠️ ⏳
  • Food & Beverages — 🍞🍓🧀🥓🍕🥗🍝🍣 🍤🍦🍪🍯🍵🍻🍷
  • Find more…

Tips:

  • You can find an emoji on Emojipedia and copy from there.
  • Also, all Unicode characters can be found in our code charts. You can specify a character with the number (known as “code point”) beneath it in the table, such as “03C0” for “π” in the Greek code chart.
  • If you are adopting multiple characters, please submit a separate adoption form for each character.
  • For assistance with your adoption, please email us.

Choose your adoption level:

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Sponsor Information

Are you adopting this character on behalf of an individual or organization?

Acknowledgment

Unicode Consortium announces adoptions on our website. You can choose to use your name.

Or, if you are giving the adopted character as a gift to that special someone else, you can customize the acknowledgment with Happy Birthday to…, Congratulations, In honor of…, Happy Anniversary, or some other special event!

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Display message:

We all are better when there is more kindness in the world. The Unicode Consortium reserves the right to accept, decline, and/or remove any adoption that it deems, in its sole discretion, is unkind or inappropriate. Accordingly, please use good judgment in drafting the acknowledgement for your adoption.

In the event that an adoption is declined or removed, Unicode will reach out to the adopter to change the acknowledgement language or find a replacement adoption. All adoption donations are final and no monies will be refunded, so please be kind!

Step 2 of 2 — Payment