diff --git a/frontend_tests/node_tests/typeahead.js b/frontend_tests/node_tests/typeahead.js
index 13c66ddf69..aa2163279f 100644
--- a/frontend_tests/node_tests/typeahead.js
+++ b/frontend_tests/node_tests/typeahead.js
@@ -52,13 +52,6 @@ run_test("get_emoji_matcher", () => {
 
     assert_matches("japanese_post_", [emoji_japanese_post_office]);
     assert_matches("japanese post ", [emoji_japanese_post_office]);
-
-    assert_matches("🐼", [emoji_panda_face]);
-});
-
-run_test("parse_unicode_emoji_code", () => {
-    assert.equal(typeahead.parse_unicode_emoji_code("1f43c"), "🐼");
-    assert.equal(typeahead.parse_unicode_emoji_code("not_unicode"), undefined);
 });
 
 run_test("triage", () => {
diff --git a/static/shared/js/typeahead.js b/static/shared/js/typeahead.js
index 9d11c94ad5..361f313882 100644
--- a/static/shared/js/typeahead.js
+++ b/static/shared/js/typeahead.js
@@ -98,30 +98,13 @@ export function clean_query_lowercase(query) {
     return query;
 }
 
-export const parse_unicode_emoji_code = (code) => {
-    try {
-        return code
-            .split("-")
-            .map((hex) => String.fromCodePoint(Number.parseInt(hex, 16)))
-            .join("");
-    } catch {
-        // Code could not be parsed, but instead of throwing an exception
-        // we return undefined instead of a string.
-        return undefined;
-    }
-};
-
 export function get_emoji_matcher(query) {
     // replaces spaces with underscores for emoji matching
     query = query.replace(/ /g, "_");
     query = clean_query_lowercase(query);
 
     return function (emoji) {
-        const matches_emoji_literal =
-            emoji.emoji_code && parse_unicode_emoji_code(emoji.emoji_code) === query;
-        return (
-            matches_emoji_literal || query_matches_source_attrs(query, emoji, ["emoji_name"], "_")
-        );
+        return query_matches_source_attrs(query, emoji, ["emoji_name"], "_");
     };
 }