title: plot emoji as pictures in matplotlib
body: <p>I have the following dictionary:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{'❤': 10, '‍‍‍': 23, '': 13, '': 10, '': 13}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to plot the emojis as a bar, and draw them on the bar. At first I did like <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/43419590/7252805">here</a> (with <code>annotate</code>), but it looks bad, and it doesn't support some emojis.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  ax = plt.subplot(111)
  ax.bar(range(1,6), a.values())
  for label, x, y in zip(a.keys(), range(1,6), a.values()):
      plt.annotate(
          label, 
          xy=(x, y), xytext=(10,10),
          textcoords='offset points', ha='right', va='bottom',
          bbox=dict(boxstyle='round,pad=0.5', alpha=0),
          fontname='Segoe UI Emoji',
          fontsize=20)
  
  ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
  ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
  ax.set_xticks([])
  plt.show()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As I said, looks bad:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xi0TL.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xi0TL.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I tried to ask <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/47102873/7252805">how to plot high quality emojis</a>, but didn't get an answer.
  How can I plot the emojis such that they will look good? I don't want to start web scraping the images and labeling them (because I'm pretty sure someone already did it). I'm using python 3.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>