If you are using Plasma it has a built in emoji selector thats a bit more user friendly. Simply press:
meta key (windows key) + .
![](https://discuss.getsol.us/assets/files/2024-07-23/1721696160-752552-emoji-selector.png)
This opens the above window and you can search for emoji's and click to copy the one you want and ctrl + v to paste it elsewhere.
Note this utility can not be installed on other DE's, it is built in to Plasma.