How to use macOS’s Character Viewer to type emoji and other symbols

Unicode incorporates nearly 150,000 symbols, and our keyboards let us directly enter no more than several dozen—even with Shift and Option.  Many of the remaining characters can be found in Character Viewer, a part of macOS that’s hidden by default. .

This viewer lets you find symbols, drag them or double-click them to insert symbols into text, and mark them as favorites for later access.

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