/**
 * EmojiPicker's data (gh#1164): `emojibase-data` (MIT, CLDR annotations), ONE locale's compact file,
 * loaded the first time a picker opens — never in the kit's main bundle. Each file is ~570 KB raw
 * (~100 KB gzip). Unsupported locales fall back to English. Skin-tone variants are ignored.
 */
export type EmojiEntry = {
    unicode: string;
    label: string;
    tags: readonly string[];
    group: number;
    order: number;
};
/** Emojibase groups, in display order — 2 (components: bare skin-tone swatches) is not shown. */
export declare const EMOJI_GROUPS: readonly [{
    readonly group: 0;
    readonly key: "smileys";
}, {
    readonly group: 1;
    readonly key: "people";
}, {
    readonly group: 3;
    readonly key: "animals";
}, {
    readonly group: 4;
    readonly key: "food";
}, {
    readonly group: 5;
    readonly key: "travel";
}, {
    readonly group: 6;
    readonly key: "activities";
}, {
    readonly group: 7;
    readonly key: "objects";
}, {
    readonly group: 8;
    readonly key: "symbols";
}, {
    readonly group: 9;
    readonly key: "flags";
}];
export declare function loadEmoji(locale: string): Promise<EmojiEntry[]>;
export declare function searchEmoji(entries: readonly EmojiEntry[], query: string, limit?: number): EmojiEntry[];