Which Google keyboard feature lets users mash up emoji into stickers?

Google’s Emoji Kitchen is the Gboard feature that lets users combine selected emoji into custom sticker-like mashups. Instead of creating a new Unicode character, it generates an image sticker based on two emoji and offers it for insertion into a message.

Google introduced Emoji Kitchen for Gboard as a playful way to remix familiar symbols. Typing or selecting an eligible emoji can reveal suggested combinations, such as an animal merged with an expression or an object given a new visual treatment. The results are designed by Google and are shared as stickers, so they do not behave exactly like ordinary Unicode emoji.

That distinction causes a common misunderstanding: an Emoji Kitchen mashup is not automatically a new emoji recognized identically by every platform. Unicode characters are standardized for text interchange, while these mashups are rendered artwork supplied through Google’s keyboard and supported messaging experiences. Availability also varies by device, app, language, and the particular pair of emoji selected; not every possible combination produces a sticker.