Why emoji sequences like 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 behave strangely in Swift strings?

Hi! I'm new to Swift and trying to understand string handling with emoji. I encountered very strange behavior with the family emoji 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 (two women, a girl, and a boy). In Xcode, I wrote simple code: ```swift let family = "👩‍👩‍👧‍👦" print("Number of characters: \(family.count)") print("UTF-8 representation: \(Array(family.utf8))") print("First character: \(family.first!)") ``` And got the output: ``` Number of characters: 1 UTF-8 representation: [240, 159, 145, 169, 226, 128, 141, 240, 159, 145, 169, 226, 128, 141, 240, 159, 145, 167, 226, 128, 141, 240, 159, 145, 166] First character: 👩 ``` I expected `count` to show 4 (since the image shows four people), but I see 1. Meanwhile, `first` returns only the first element, not the whole family. Why is this happening? How to properly work with such composite emoji? What is the difference between `count`, `utf8.count`, and `unicodeScalars.count`? Thanks in advance for your help! <<>>

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