diff --git a/src/gui/text/unix/qfontconfigdatabase.cpp b/src/gui/text/unix/qfontconfigdatabase.cpp
index 474644b8..f61e6e83 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/unix/qfontconfigdatabase.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/unix/qfontconfigdatabase.cpp
@@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ void QFontconfigDatabase::populateFontDatabase()
         ++f;
     }
 
+    cacheEmojiFontFamily();
     //QPA has very lazy population of the font db. We want it to be initialized when
     //QApplication is constructed, so that the population procedure can do something like this to
     //set the default font
@@ -735,6 +736,9 @@ QStringList QFontconfigDatabase::fallbacksForFamily(const QString &family, QFont
     if (!pattern)
         return fallbackFamilies;
 
+    if (!m_cacheEmojiFontFamily.isEmpty())
+        fallbackFamilies << m_cacheEmojiFontFamily;
+
     FcValue value;
     value.type = FcTypeString;
     const QByteArray cs = family.toUtf8();
@@ -1016,4 +1020,47 @@ void QFontconfigDatabase::setupFontEngine(QFontEngineFT *engine, const QFontDef
     engine->glyphFormat = format;
 }
 
+void QFontconfigDatabase::cacheEmojiFontFamily()
+{
+    FcPattern *pattern;
+    pattern = FcPatternCreate();
+
+    FcValue value;
+    value.type = FcTypeString;
+    value.u.s = (const FcChar8 *)"emoji";
+    FcPatternAdd(pattern,FC_FAMILY,value,true);
+
+    FcLangSet *ls = FcLangSetCreate();
+    FcLangSetAdd(ls, (const FcChar8*)"und-zsye");
+    FcPatternAddLangSet(pattern, FC_LANG, ls);
+
+    FcConfigSubstitute(nullptr, pattern, FcMatchPattern);
+    FcDefaultSubstitute(pattern);
+
+    FcResult result = FcResultMatch;
+    FcFontSet *fontSet = FcFontSort(nullptr,pattern,FcTrue,nullptr,&result);
+    FcPatternDestroy(pattern);
+
+    if (fontSet) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < fontSet->nfont; i++) {
+            FcChar8 *value = nullptr;
+            if (FcPatternGetString(fontSet->fonts[i], FC_FAMILY, 0, &value) != FcResultMatch)
+                continue;
+
+            FcLangSet *rls = nullptr;
+            if (FcPatternGetLangSet(fontSet->fonts[i], FC_LANG, 0, &rls) != FcResultMatch)
+                continue;
+
+            if (!FcLangSetContains(rls, ls))
+                continue;
+
+            m_cacheEmojiFontFamily = QString::fromUtf8((const char *)value);
+            break;
+        }
+        FcFontSetDestroy(fontSet);
+    }
+
+    FcLangSetDestroy(ls);
+}
+
 QT_END_NAMESPACE
diff --git a/src/gui/text/unix/qfontconfigdatabase_p.h b/src/gui/text/unix/qfontconfigdatabase_p.h
index cf15306e..90b94087 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/unix/qfontconfigdatabase_p.h
+++ b/src/gui/text/unix/qfontconfigdatabase_p.h
@@ -37,7 +37,10 @@ public:
     QFont defaultFont() const override;
 
 private:
+    void cacheEmojiFontFamily();
     void setupFontEngine(QFontEngineFT *engine, const QFontDef &fontDef) const;
+
+    QString m_cacheEmojiFontFamily;
 };
 
 QT_END_NAMESPACE