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This is a popular idea, but Emojis and hieroglyphs work ENTIRELY differently. Hieroglyphs are mostly phonetic, not ideographic like Emojis. Also, "Khemet" is not a name for Egypt. The native name for ancient Egypt was spelled kmt in Hieroglyphs, and since Hieroglyphs don't include vowels, Egyptologist tend to fill in the vowel "E" by default to make tings easier to pronounce out-loud, hence, "Kemet." However, it's unlikely that the word was ever pronounced like this; based on linguistic analysis of the descendants and relatives of the Ancient Egyptian language, it was probably "Kumat" in Old Egyptian, "Kuma" in Middle Egyptian, and "Keme" in Late Egyptian. T's started being dropped off the ends of words in Middle Egyptian but stuck around in spelling, kinda like in French. And while in modern phonetic spellings of the Coptic name for Egypt a small "h" is sometimes included after the K to represent breathiness, the spelling "Kh" is used to represent a throaty sound in Egyptian, and this was never the first sound in the word kmt, so while "Kemet" would be a valid spelling for the Egyptological pronunciation of kmt, "Khemet" would not.
