diff --git a/admin/unidata/emoji-zwj.awk b/admin/unidata/emoji-zwj.awk
index f13f796bcac..4b648aa675e 100644
--- a/admin/unidata/emoji-zwj.awk
+++ b/admin/unidata/emoji-zwj.awk
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ END {
 
      for (elt in ch)
     {
-        entries = sprintf("%s\n\"\\N{U+%s}\\N{U+FE0E}\"\n\"\\N{U+%s}\\N{U+FE0F}\"", vec[elt], elt, elt)
+        entries = vec[elt] sprintf("\n\"\\N{U+%s}\\N{U+FE0E}\"\n\"\\N{U+%s}\\N{U+FE0F}\"", elt, elt)
         printf("(#x%s .\n,(eval-when-compile (regexp-opt\n'(\n%s\n))))\n", elt, entries)
     }
      print "))"