Glyphy is a small utility package that runs in the Julia REPL.

Glyphy searches through the names of glyphs in the Unicode glyph list and returns a list of the glyph names that match the search string.

using Glyphy
julia>  glyphy("peacock")

 1f99a  🦚        peacock           
found one glyph matching "peacock"

There might be a few:

julia> glyphy("flower")

 2055   ⁕  ✓  flower punctuation mark  
 2698   ⚘  ✓  flower                   
1f33b   🌻     sunflower                
1f395   🎕     bouquet of flowers       
1f3b4   🎴     flower playing cards     
1f4ae   💮     white flower             
1f940   🥀     wilted flower            
found 7 glyphs matching "flower"

Here, the check mark indicates that the glyph is defined in the current release of the JuliaMono font (it doesn't know which font you're currently using in your terminal).

Glyphy can also look for the glyph with a specific integer code point. It's usual to type them as hexadecimal integers, so 0x2055, 0x1f99a, etc.

julia> glyphy(0x1f99a)

1f99a  🦚        peacock              
You can enter this glyph by typing \:peacock:TAB

There are over 30,000 characters to search, so searches might take a few seconds...

The current version of Unicode is 14.0, released in 2021. The glyph list used by Glyphy is here.