diff --git a/client/src/components/preview-modal.tsx b/client/src/components/preview-modal.tsx
index 6ae0d7d..21e82ef 100644
--- a/client/src/components/preview-modal.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/preview-modal.tsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 import { Select, SelectContent, SelectItem, SelectTrigger, SelectValue } from '@/components/ui/select';
 import { ChevronLeft, ChevronRight, Send, Facebook, Instagram, Heart, MessageCircle, Share2, Bookmark } from 'lucide-react';
 import type { Media } from '@shared/schema';
+import { removeEmojis } from '@shared/emoji';
 
 interface PreviewModalProps {
   open: boolean;
@@ -222,19 +223,6 @@ export function PreviewModal({
     </div>
   );
 
-  /**
-   * Removes emojis from text since they don't display well in some contexts
-   */
-  const removeEmojis = (text: string): string => {
-    return text
-      .replace(/[\u2600-\u26FF]/g, '') // Misc symbols
-      .replace(/[\u2700-\u27BF]/g, '') // Dingbats
-      .replace(/[\uD800-\uDFFF]/g, '') // Surrogate pairs (emoji range)
-      .replace(/[\uFE00-\uFE0F]/g, '') // Variation selectors
-      .replace(/\s+/g, ' ') // Normalize whitespace
-      .trim();
-  };
-
   const wrapText = (text: string, maxWidth: number, fontSize: number): string[] => {
     const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
     const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 45fd703..1a39110 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
         "drizzle-orm": "^0.39.1",
         "drizzle-zod": "^0.7.0",
         "embla-carousel-react": "^8.6.0",
+        "emoji-regex": "^10.6.0",
         "express": "^4.21.2",
         "express-session": "^1.18.1",
         "framer-motion": "^11.13.1",
@@ -5341,9 +5342,9 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/emoji-regex": {
-      "version": "9.2.2",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/emoji-regex/-/emoji-regex-9.2.2.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-L18DaJsXSUk2+42pv8mLs5jJT2hqFkFE4j21wOmgbUqsZ2hL72NsUU785g9RXgo3s0ZNgVl42TiHp3ZtOv/Vyg==",
+      "version": "10.6.0",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/emoji-regex/-/emoji-regex-10.6.0.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-toUI84YS5YmxW219erniWD0CIVOo46xGKColeNQRgOzDorgBi1v4D71/OFzgD9GO2UGKIv1C3Sp8DAn0+j5w7A==",
       "license": "MIT"
     },
     "node_modules/encodeurl": {
@@ -8293,6 +8294,12 @@
         "node": ">=8"
       }
     },
+    "node_modules/string-width/node_modules/emoji-regex": {
+      "version": "9.2.2",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/emoji-regex/-/emoji-regex-9.2.2.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-L18DaJsXSUk2+42pv8mLs5jJT2hqFkFE4j21wOmgbUqsZ2hL72NsUU785g9RXgo3s0ZNgVl42TiHp3ZtOv/Vyg==",
+      "license": "MIT"
+    },
     "node_modules/strip-ansi": {
       "version": "7.1.0",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/strip-ansi/-/strip-ansi-7.1.0.tgz",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e688d05..c1437bd 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
     "drizzle-orm": "^0.39.1",
     "drizzle-zod": "^0.7.0",
     "embla-carousel-react": "^8.6.0",
+    "emoji-regex": "^10.6.0",
     "express": "^4.21.2",
     "express-session": "^1.18.1",
     "framer-motion": "^11.13.1",
diff --git a/server/services/imageProcessor.ts b/server/services/imageProcessor.ts
index 3e547ed..e63bcba 100644
--- a/server/services/imageProcessor.ts
+++ b/server/services/imageProcessor.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { randomUUID } from "crypto";
 import path from "path";
 import fs from "fs/promises";
 import { createCanvas, loadImage, registerFont } from "canvas";
+import { removeEmojis } from "@shared/emoji";
 
 interface CropDimensions {
   width: number;
@@ -108,21 +109,6 @@ export class ImageProcessor {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Removes emojis from text since canvas doesn't support them natively
-   */
-  private removeEmojis(text: string): string {
-    // Remove emojis and other unicode symbols that canvas can't render
-    // Using a regex that removes emoji-like characters
-    return text
-      .replace(/[\u2600-\u26FF]/g, '') // Misc symbols
-      .replace(/[\u2700-\u27BF]/g, '') // Dingbats
-      .replace(/[\uD800-\uDFFF]/g, '') // Surrogate pairs (emoji range)
-      .replace(/[\uFE00-\uFE0F]/g, '') // Variation selectors
-      .replace(/\s+/g, ' ') // Normalize whitespace
-      .trim();
-  }
-
   async addTextToStoryImage(imageUrl: string, text: string): Promise<Buffer> {
     const STORY_WIDTH = 1080;
     const STORY_HEIGHT = 1920;
@@ -133,7 +119,7 @@ export class ImageProcessor {
     const LINE_HEIGHT_MULTIPLIER = 1.3;
     
     // Remove emojis from text as canvas doesn't support them
-    const cleanText = this.removeEmojis(text);
+    const cleanText = removeEmojis(text);
 
     const canvas = createCanvas(STORY_WIDTH, STORY_HEIGHT);
     const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
diff --git a/shared/emoji.ts b/shared/emoji.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..41e6231
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shared/emoji.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import emojiRegex from 'emoji-regex';
+
+// Cached regex instance for performance
+const emojiPattern = emojiRegex();
+
+/**
+ * Removes emojis from text while preserving other Unicode characters
+ * Uses the emoji-regex package which correctly identifies emojis without
+ * removing legitimate astral-plane characters (CJK Extension B, etc.)
+ */
+export function removeEmojis(text: string): string {
+  return text
+    .replace(emojiPattern, '')
+    .replace(/\s+/g, ' ') // Normalize whitespace
+    .trim();
+}