diff --git a/lib/src/event.dart b/lib/src/event.dart
index 7656e241..b6480c78 100644
--- a/lib/src/event.dart
+++ b/lib/src/event.dart
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ class Event extends MatrixEvent {
 
   // regexes to fetch the number of emotes, including emoji, and if the message consists of only those
   // to match an emoji we can use the following regex:
-  // (?:\x{00a9}|\x{00ae}|[\x{2000}-\x{3300}]|\x{d83c}[\x{d000}-\x{dfff}]|\x{d83d}[\x{d000}-\x{dfff}]|\x{d83e}[\x{d000}-\x{dfff}])[\x{fe00}-\x{fe0f}]?
+  // (?:\x{00a9}|\x{00ae}|[\x{2600}-\x{27bf}]|[\x{2b00}-\x{2bff}]|\x{d83c}[\x{d000}-\x{dfff}]|\x{d83d}[\x{d000}-\x{dfff}]|\x{d83e}[\x{d000}-\x{dfff}])[\x{fe00}-\x{fe0f}]?
   // we need to replace \x{0000} with \u0000, the comment is left in the other format to be able to paste into regex101.com
   // to see if there is a custom emote, we use the following regex: <img[^>]+data-mx-(?:emote|emoticon)(?==|>|\s)[^>]*>
   // now we combind the two to have four regexes:
@@ -695,19 +695,19 @@ class Event extends MatrixEvent {
   // 3. count number of emoji
   // 4- count number of emoji or emotes
   static final RegExp _onlyEmojiRegex = RegExp(
-      r'^((?:\u00a9|\u00ae|[\u2000-\u3300]|\ud83c[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83d[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83e[\ud000-\udfff])[\ufe00-\ufe0f]?|\s)*$',
+      r'^((?:\u00a9|\u00ae|[\u2600-\u27bf]|[\u2b00-\u2bff]|\ud83c[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83d[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83e[\ud000-\udfff])[\ufe00-\ufe0f]?|\s)*$',
       caseSensitive: false,
       multiLine: false);
   static final RegExp _onlyEmojiEmoteRegex = RegExp(
-      r'^((?:\u00a9|\u00ae|[\u2000-\u3300]|\ud83c[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83d[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83e[\ud000-\udfff])[\ufe00-\ufe0f]?|<img[^>]+data-mx-(?:emote|emoticon)(?==|>|\s)[^>]*>|\s)*$',
+      r'^((?:\u00a9|\u00ae|[\u2600-\u27bf]|[\u2b00-\u2bff]|\ud83c[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83d[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83e[\ud000-\udfff])[\ufe00-\ufe0f]?|<img[^>]+data-mx-(?:emote|emoticon)(?==|>|\s)[^>]*>|\s)*$',
       caseSensitive: false,
       multiLine: false);
   static final RegExp _countEmojiRegex = RegExp(
-      r'((?:\u00a9|\u00ae|[\u2000-\u3300]|\ud83c[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83d[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83e[\ud000-\udfff])[\ufe00-\ufe0f]?)',
+      r'((?:\u00a9|\u00ae|[\u2600-\u27bf]|[\u2b00-\u2bff]|\ud83c[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83d[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83e[\ud000-\udfff])[\ufe00-\ufe0f]?)',
       caseSensitive: false,
       multiLine: false);
   static final RegExp _countEmojiEmoteRegex = RegExp(
-      r'((?:\u00a9|\u00ae|[\u2000-\u3300]|\ud83c[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83d[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83e[\ud000-\udfff])[\ufe00-\ufe0f]?|<img[^>]+data-mx-(?:emote|emoticon)(?==|>|\s)[^>]*>)',
+      r'((?:\u00a9|\u00ae|[\u2600-\u27bf]|[\u2b00-\u2bff]|\ud83c[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83d[\ud000-\udfff]|\ud83e[\ud000-\udfff])[\ufe00-\ufe0f]?|<img[^>]+data-mx-(?:emote|emoticon)(?==|>|\s)[^>]*>)',
       caseSensitive: false,
       multiLine: false);