diff --git a/Applications/Terminal/TerminalWidget.cpp b/Applications/Terminal/TerminalWidget.cpp
index d08094263de..5d4338fca91 100644
--- a/Applications/Terminal/TerminalWidget.cpp
+++ b/Applications/Terminal/TerminalWidget.cpp
@@ -225,21 +225,57 @@ void TerminalWidget::paint_event(GPaintEvent& event)
             painter.fill_rect(row_rect, Color::Red);
         else if (has_only_one_background_color)
             painter.fill_rect(row_rect, lookup_color(line.attributes[0].background_color).with_alpha(m_opacity));
-        for (u16 column = 0; column < m_terminal.columns(); ++column) {
-            char ch = line.characters[column];
-            bool should_reverse_fill_for_cursor_or_selection = (m_cursor_blink_state && m_in_active_window && row == row_with_cursor && column == m_terminal.cursor_column())
-                || selection_contains({ row, column });
-            auto& attribute = line.attributes[column];
-            auto character_rect = glyph_rect(row, column);
-            if (!has_only_one_background_color || should_reverse_fill_for_cursor_or_selection) {
-                auto cell_rect = character_rect.inflated(0, m_line_spacing);
-                painter.fill_rect(cell_rect, lookup_color(should_reverse_fill_for_cursor_or_selection ? attribute.foreground_color : attribute.background_color).with_alpha(m_opacity));
+
+
+        // The terminal insists on thinking characters and
+        // bytes are the same thing. We want to still draw
+        // emojis in *some* way, but it won't be completely
+        // perfect. So what we do is we make multi-byte
+        // characters take up multiple columns, and render
+        // the character itself in the center of the columns
+        // its bytes take up as far as the terminal is concerned.
+
+        ASSERT(line.text().length() == m_terminal.columns());
+        Utf8View utf8_view { line.text() };
+
+        for (auto it = utf8_view.begin(); it != utf8_view.end(); ++it) {
+            u32 codepoint = *it;
+            int this_char_column = utf8_view.byte_offset_of(it);
+            AK::Utf8CodepointIterator it_copy = it;
+            int next_char_column = utf8_view.byte_offset_of(++it_copy);
+
+            // Columns from this_char_column up until next_char_column
+            // are logically taken up by this (possibly multi-byte)
+            // character. Iterate over these columns and draw background
+            // for each one of them separately.
+
+            bool should_reverse_fill_for_cursor_or_selection = false;
+            VT::Attribute attribute;
+
+            for (u16 column = this_char_column; column < next_char_column; ++column) {
+                should_reverse_fill_for_cursor_or_selection |=
+                    m_cursor_blink_state
+                    && m_in_active_window
+                    && row == row_with_cursor
+                    && column == m_terminal.cursor_column();
+                should_reverse_fill_for_cursor_or_selection |= selection_contains({ row, column });
+                attribute = line.attributes[column];
+                auto character_rect = glyph_rect(row, column);
+                if (!has_only_one_background_color || should_reverse_fill_for_cursor_or_selection) {
+                    auto cell_rect = character_rect.inflated(0, m_line_spacing);
+                    painter.fill_rect(cell_rect, lookup_color(should_reverse_fill_for_cursor_or_selection ? attribute.foreground_color : attribute.background_color).with_alpha(m_opacity));
+                }
             }
-            if (ch == ' ')
+
+            if (codepoint == ' ')
                 continue;
-            painter.draw_glyph(
+
+            auto character_rect = glyph_rect(row, this_char_column);
+            auto num_columns = next_char_column - this_char_column;
+            character_rect.move_by((num_columns - 1) * font().glyph_width('x') / 2, 0);
+            painter.draw_glyph_or_emoji(
                 character_rect.location(),
-                ch,
+                codepoint,
                 attribute.flags & VT::Attribute::Bold ? Font::default_bold_fixed_width_font() : font(),
                 lookup_color(should_reverse_fill_for_cursor_or_selection ? attribute.background_color : attribute.foreground_color));
         }
diff --git a/Libraries/LibVT/Terminal.h b/Libraries/LibVT/Terminal.h
index d6bf5e736b9..3169c92860f 100644
--- a/Libraries/LibVT/Terminal.h
+++ b/Libraries/LibVT/Terminal.h
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ public:
         void clear(Attribute);
         bool has_only_one_background_color() const;
         void set_length(u16);
+        StringView text() const { return { characters, m_length }; }
+
         u8* characters { nullptr };
         Attribute* attributes { nullptr };
         bool dirty { false };