How to send emojis from bot to user in Microsoft teams

I created a bot in the MS bot framework and linked it to the Teams channel. How to send emoji from bot to users?

Teams support UTF-16, I have tried await stepContext.Context.SendActivityAsync("\U0001F600"); to send the emoji as a response from bot to the user, but it is not in the format of the emoji which is available in teams.

stepContext.Context.SendActivityAsync("\U0001F600"); it shows 😊 when I actually want is (smile) from teams which is slightly bigger and animated.

The emoji in teams are stored in the form of URL: "https://statics.teams.microsoft.com/evergreen-assets/skype/v2/smile/50.png"

Solution

All of the emojis have their textual code. For example: :) :P :D When you want to send a smiley append “:)” into the text and it will automatically render it as smiley in the chat box.

Also for every single recipient device , code could be rendered in a different manner, you can check the complete list here:

https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts-beta/full-emoji-list.html#1f642

I would suggest you to use 1f642 code for slightly smiling face.

See if it helps.