diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 09d87b2..9ad04d9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "sacremoses>=0.1.1",
     "lingua-language-detector>=2.0.0",
     "tomli>=2.0.0;python_version<'3.11'",
+    "emoji>=2.15.0",
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/scribae/feedback.py b/src/scribae/feedback.py
index 5c3d838..d60e449 100644
--- a/src/scribae/feedback.py
+++ b/src/scribae/feedback.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Literal, cast
 
+import emoji
 import frontmatter
 import yaml
 from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, ValidationError, field_validator
@@ -26,33 +27,10 @@
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-# Pattern to match emoji characters across common Unicode ranges
-_EMOJI_PATTERN = re.compile(
-    "["
-    "\U0001f600-\U0001f64f"  # emoticons
-    "\U0001f300-\U0001f5ff"  # symbols & pictographs
-    "\U0001f680-\U0001f6ff"  # transport & map symbols
-    "\U0001f1e0-\U0001f1ff"  # flags
-    "\U00002700-\U000027bf"  # dingbats
-    "\U0001f900-\U0001f9ff"  # supplemental symbols & pictographs
-    "\U0001fa00-\U0001fa6f"  # chess symbols, extended-A
-    "\U0001fa70-\U0001faff"  # symbols & pictographs extended-A
-    "\U00002600-\U000026ff"  # misc symbols
-    "\U0001f700-\U0001f77f"  # alchemical symbols
-    "\U0001f780-\U0001f7ff"  # geometric shapes extended
-    "\U0001f800-\U0001f8ff"  # supplemental arrows-C
-    "\U0001f3fb-\U0001f3ff"  # skin tone modifiers
-    "\ufe0f"  # variation selector-16 (emoji presentation)
-    "\u200d"  # zero-width joiner (used in combined emojis)
-    "]+",
-    flags=re.UNICODE,
-)
-
 
 def strip_emojis(value: str) -> str:
     """Remove emoji characters from a string and clean up extra whitespace."""
-    result = _EMOJI_PATTERN.sub(" ", value)
-    # Collapse multiple spaces and strip
+    result = emoji.replace_emoji(value, replace=" ")
     return " ".join(result.split())
 
 
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 6d2e3b5..9bf8882 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -632,6 +632,15 @@ wheels = [
     { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/de/15/545e2b6cf2e3be84bc1ed85613edd75b8aea69807a71c26f4ca6a9258e82/email_validator-2.3.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:80f13f623413e6b197ae73bb10bf4eb0908faf509ad8362c5edeb0be7fd450b4", size = 35604, upload-time = "2025-08-26T13:09:05.858Z" },
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "emoji"
+version = "2.15.0"
+source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
+sdist = { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a2/78/0d2db9382c92a163d7095fc08efff7800880f830a152cfced40161e7638d/emoji-2.15.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:eae4ab7d86456a70a00a985125a03263a5eac54cd55e51d7e184b1ed3b6757e4", size = 615483, upload-time = "2025-09-21T12:13:02.755Z" }
+wheels = [
+    { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e1/5e/4b5aaaabddfacfe36ba7768817bd1f71a7a810a43705e531f3ae4c690767/emoji-2.15.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:205296793d66a89d88af4688fa57fd6496732eb48917a87175a023c8138995eb", size = 608433, upload-time = "2025-09-21T12:13:01.197Z" },
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "eval-type-backport"
 version = "0.3.1"
@@ -3444,6 +3453,7 @@ name = "scribae"
 version = "0.2.0"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
+    { name = "emoji" },
     { name = "lingua-language-detector" },
     { name = "pydantic" },
     { name = "pydantic-ai" },
@@ -3474,6 +3484,7 @@ dev = [
 
 [package.metadata]
 requires-dist = [
+    { name = "emoji", specifier = ">=2.15.0" },
     { name = "lingua-language-detector", specifier = ">=2.0.0" },
     { name = "pydantic", specifier = ">=2.12.4" },
     { name = "pydantic-ai", specifier = ">=1.12.0" },