diff --git a/ui/app/utils/escape-task-name.js b/ui/app/utils/escape-task-name.js
index fff0e4741f8..68d0276f207 100644
--- a/ui/app/utils/escape-task-name.js
+++ b/ui/app/utils/escape-task-name.js
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
+import emojiRegex from 'emoji-regex';
+
 export default function escapeTaskName(taskName) {
+  // Store emoji character components differently to bypass escaping:
+  // "string🥳" becomes "stringUNICODE55358.UNICODE56691."
+  const taskNameWithTransformedEmoji = taskName.replace(emojiRegex(), emoji => {
+    return emoji.split('').map(char => {
+      return `UNICODE${char.charCodeAt(0)}.`;
+    }).join('');
+  });
+
   // Regular expression is taken from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20053121
-  return taskName.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9,._+@%/-]/g, '\\$&');
+  const escaped = taskNameWithTransformedEmoji.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9,._+@%/-]/g, '\\$&');
+
+  // Restore temporarily-transformed emoji
+  return escaped.replace(/UNICODE(\d+)./g, (match, digits) => {
+    return String.fromCharCode(digits);
+  });
 }
diff --git a/ui/package.json b/ui/package.json
index 6685947e618..343184574e0 100644
--- a/ui/package.json
+++ b/ui/package.json
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@
     "ember-template-lint": "^2.9.0",
     "ember-test-selectors": "^2.1.0",
     "ember-truth-helpers": "^2.0.0",
+    "emoji-regex": "^9.0.0",
     "eslint": "^5.16.0",
     "eslint-plugin-ember": "^7.7.2",
     "eslint-plugin-ember-a11y-testing": "a11y-tool-sandbox/eslint-plugin-ember-a11y-testing#ca31c9698c7cb105f1c9761d98fcaca7d6874459",
diff --git a/ui/tests/unit/utils/escape-task-name-test.js b/ui/tests/unit/utils/escape-task-name-test.js
index b34ab2430ea..0d57cfe943a 100644
--- a/ui/tests/unit/utils/escape-task-name-test.js
+++ b/ui/tests/unit/utils/escape-task-name-test.js
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ module('Unit | Utility | escape-task-name', function() {
     assert.equal(escapeTaskName('plain'), 'plain');
     assert.equal(escapeTaskName('a space'), 'a\\ space');
     assert.equal(escapeTaskName('dollar $ign'), 'dollar\\ \\$ign');
+    assert.equal(escapeTaskName('emoji🥳'), 'emoji🥳');
   });
 });
diff --git a/ui/yarn.lock b/ui/yarn.lock
index cec575beffd..70b773c81af 100644
--- a/ui/yarn.lock
+++ b/ui/yarn.lock
@@ -7733,6 +7733,11 @@ emoji-regex@^8.0.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/emoji-regex/-/emoji-regex-8.0.0.tgz#e818fd69ce5ccfcb404594f842963bf53164cc37"
   integrity sha512-MSjYzcWNOA0ewAHpz0MxpYFvwg6yjy1NG3xteoqz644VCo/RPgnr1/GGt+ic3iJTzQ8Eu3TdM14SawnVUmGE6A==
 
+emoji-regex@^9.0.0:
+  version "9.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/emoji-regex/-/emoji-regex-9.0.0.tgz#48a2309cc8a1d2e9d23bc6a67c39b63032e76ea4"
+  integrity sha512-6p1NII1Vm62wni/VR/cUMauVQoxmLVb9csqQlvLz+hO2gk8U2UYDfXHQSUYIBKmZwAKz867IDqG7B+u0mj+M6w==
+
 emojis-list@^2.0.0:
   version "2.1.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/emojis-list/-/emojis-list-2.1.0.tgz#4daa4d9db00f9819880c79fa457ae5b09a1fd389"