diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 0f9a7607a..4b75840b0 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.4.1
 	github.com/jdkato/prose v1.1.1
 	github.com/kr/pretty v0.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/kyokomi/emoji v2.1.0+incompatible
+	github.com/kyokomi/emoji v2.2.1+incompatible
 	github.com/magefile/mage v1.9.0
 	github.com/markbates/inflect v1.0.0
 	github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.11
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 7311318ca..a6ffc3b37 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -215,8 +215,8 @@ github.com/kr/pretty v0.2.0/go.mod h1:ipq/a2n7PKx3OHsz4KJII5eveXtPO4qwEXGdVfWzfn
 github.com/kr/pty v1.1.1/go.mod h1:pFQYn66WHrOpPYNljwOMqo10TkYh1fy3cYio2l3bCsQ=
 github.com/kr/text v0.1.0 h1:45sCR5RtlFHMR4UwH9sdQ5TC8v0qDQCHnXt+kaKSTVE=
 github.com/kr/text v0.1.0/go.mod h1:4Jbv+DJW3UT/LiOwJeYQe1efqtUx/iVham/4vfdArNI=
-github.com/kyokomi/emoji v2.1.0+incompatible h1:+DYU2RgpI6OHG4oQkM5KlqD3Wd3UPEsX8jamTo1Mp6o=
-github.com/kyokomi/emoji v2.1.0+incompatible/go.mod h1:mZ6aGCD7yk8j6QY6KICwnZ2pxoszVseX1DNoGtU2tBA=
+github.com/kyokomi/emoji v2.2.1+incompatible h1:uP/6J5y5U0XxPh6fv8YximpVD1uMrshXG78I1+uF5SA=
+github.com/kyokomi/emoji v2.2.1+incompatible/go.mod h1:mZ6aGCD7yk8j6QY6KICwnZ2pxoszVseX1DNoGtU2tBA=
 github.com/lib/pq v1.1.0/go.mod h1:5WUZQaWbwv1U+lTReE5YruASi9Al49XbQIvNi/34Woo=
 github.com/magefile/mage v1.9.0 h1:t3AU2wNwehMCW97vuqQLtw6puppWXHO+O2MHo5a50XE=
 github.com/magefile/mage v1.9.0/go.mod h1:z5UZb/iS3GoOSn0JgWuiw7dxlurVYTu+/jHXqQg881A=
diff --git a/tpl/transform/init.go b/tpl/transform/init.go
index 2783a513f..62cb0a9c3 100644
--- a/tpl/transform/init.go
+++ b/tpl/transform/init.go
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ func init() {
 		ns.AddMethodMapping(ctx.Emojify,
 			[]string{"emojify"},
 			[][2]string{
-				{`{{ "I :heart: Hugo" | emojify }}`, `I ❤ Hugo`},
+				{`{{ "I :heart: Hugo" | emojify }}`, `I ❤️ Hugo`},
 			},
 		)
 
diff --git a/tpl/transform/transform_test.go b/tpl/transform/transform_test.go
index d10ff585c..b3f4206ff 100644
--- a/tpl/transform/transform_test.go
+++ b/tpl/transform/transform_test.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func TestEmojify(t *testing.T) {
 		expect interface{}
 	}{
 		{":notamoji:", template.HTML(":notamoji:")},
-		{"I :heart: Hugo", template.HTML("I ❤ Hugo")},
+		{"I :heart: Hugo", template.HTML("I ❤️ Hugo")},
 		// errors
 		{tstNoStringer{}, false},
 	} {