diff --git a/app/javascript/mastodon/emoji.js b/app/javascript/mastodon/emoji.js
index 1de41f57225..9b58cacf59b 100644
--- a/app/javascript/mastodon/emoji.js
+++ b/app/javascript/mastodon/emoji.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-import { unicodeToFilename } from './emojione_light';
+import { unicodeMapping } from './emojione_light';
 import Trie from 'substring-trie';
 
-const trie = new Trie(Object.keys(unicodeToFilename));
+const trie = new Trie(Object.keys(unicodeMapping));
 
 function emojify(str) {
   // This walks through the string from start to end, ignoring any tags (<p>, <br>, etc.)
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ function emojify(str) {
       insideTag = true;
     } else if (!insideTag && (match = trie.search(str.substring(i)))) {
       const unicodeStr = match;
-      if (unicodeStr in unicodeToFilename) {
-        const filename = unicodeToFilename[unicodeStr];
+      if (unicodeStr in unicodeMapping) {
+        const [filename, shortCode] = unicodeMapping[unicodeStr];
         const alt      = unicodeStr;
-        const replacement =  `<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="${alt}" src="/emoji/${filename}.svg" />`;
+        const replacement =  `<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="${alt}" title=":${shortCode}:" src="/emoji/${filename}.svg" />`;
         str = str.substring(0, i) + replacement + str.substring(i + unicodeStr.length);
         i += (replacement.length - unicodeStr.length); // jump ahead the length we've added to the string
       }
diff --git a/app/javascript/mastodon/emojione_light.js b/app/javascript/mastodon/emojione_light.js
index c75e10a98bf..985e9dbcb3d 100644
--- a/app/javascript/mastodon/emojione_light.js
+++ b/app/javascript/mastodon/emojione_light.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ const emojione = require('emojione');
 
 const mappedUnicode = emojione.mapUnicodeToShort();
 
-module.exports.unicodeToFilename = Object.keys(emojione.jsEscapeMap)
+module.exports.unicodeMapping = Object.keys(emojione.jsEscapeMap)
   .map(unicodeStr => [unicodeStr, mappedUnicode[emojione.jsEscapeMap[unicodeStr]]])
-  .map(([unicodeStr, shortCode]) => ({ [unicodeStr]: emojione.emojioneList[shortCode].fname }))
+  .map(([unicodeStr, shortCode]) => ({ [unicodeStr]: [emojione.emojioneList[shortCode].fname, shortCode.slice(1, shortCode.length - 1)] }))
   .reduce((x, y) => Object.assign(x, y), { });
diff --git a/spec/javascript/components/emojify.test.js b/spec/javascript/components/emojify.test.js
index 2874bb56d30..e165b4519fc 100644
--- a/spec/javascript/components/emojify.test.js
+++ b/spec/javascript/components/emojify.test.js
@@ -22,23 +22,23 @@ describe('emojify', () => {
 
   it('does unicode', () => {
     expect(emojify('\uD83D\uDC69\u200D\uD83D\uDC69\u200D\uD83D\uDC66\u200D\uD83D\uDC66')).to.equal(
-      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="👩‍👩‍👦‍👦" src="/emoji/1f469-1f469-1f466-1f466.svg" />');
+      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="👩‍👩‍👦‍👦" title=":family_wwbb:" src="/emoji/1f469-1f469-1f466-1f466.svg" />');
     expect(emojify('\uD83D\uDC68\uD83D\uDC69\uD83D\uDC67\uD83D\uDC67')).to.equal(
-      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="👨👩👧👧" src="/emoji/1f468-1f469-1f467-1f467.svg" />');
-    expect(emojify('\uD83D\uDC69\uD83D\uDC69\uD83D\uDC66')).to.equal('<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="👩👩👦" src="/emoji/1f469-1f469-1f466.svg" />');
+      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="👨👩👧👧" title=":family_mwgg:" src="/emoji/1f468-1f469-1f467-1f467.svg" />');
+    expect(emojify('\uD83D\uDC69\uD83D\uDC69\uD83D\uDC66')).to.equal('<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="👩👩👦" title=":family_wwb:" src="/emoji/1f469-1f469-1f466.svg" />');
     expect(emojify('\u2757')).to.equal(
-      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" src="/emoji/2757.svg" />');
+      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" title=":exclamation:" src="/emoji/2757.svg" />');
   });
 
   it('does multiple unicode', () => {
     expect(emojify('\u2757 #\uFE0F\u20E3')).to.equal(
-      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" src="/emoji/2757.svg" /> <img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="#️⃣" src="/emoji/0023-20e3.svg" />');
+      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" title=":exclamation:" src="/emoji/2757.svg" /> <img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="#️⃣" title=":hash:" src="/emoji/0023-20e3.svg" />');
     expect(emojify('\u2757#\uFE0F\u20E3')).to.equal(
-      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" src="/emoji/2757.svg" /><img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="#️⃣" src="/emoji/0023-20e3.svg" />');
+      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" title=":exclamation:" src="/emoji/2757.svg" /><img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="#️⃣" title=":hash:" src="/emoji/0023-20e3.svg" />');
     expect(emojify('\u2757 #\uFE0F\u20E3 \u2757')).to.equal(
-      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" src="/emoji/2757.svg" /> <img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="#️⃣" src="/emoji/0023-20e3.svg" /> <img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" src="/emoji/2757.svg" />');
+      '<img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" title=":exclamation:" src="/emoji/2757.svg" /> <img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="#️⃣" title=":hash:" src="/emoji/0023-20e3.svg" /> <img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" title=":exclamation:" src="/emoji/2757.svg" />');
     expect(emojify('foo \u2757 #\uFE0F\u20E3 bar')).to.equal(
-      'foo <img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" src="/emoji/2757.svg" /> <img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="#️⃣" src="/emoji/0023-20e3.svg" /> bar');
+      'foo <img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="❗" title=":exclamation:" src="/emoji/2757.svg" /> <img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="#️⃣" title=":hash:" src="/emoji/0023-20e3.svg" /> bar');
   });
 
   it('ignores unicode inside of tags', () => {