alt Hacker NewsIt may not be in the Emoji character block formally, but casually speaking it’s not wrong to call it an emoji, since emoji is basically just a picture character, and this is no less a picture character than what’s formally codified as ‘Emoji’ in the Unicode standard.
In addition to this, what I meant to convey is that it does show exactly like the iOS/iPadOS emojis, in color, with details, etc. Not the non-emoji font unicode character