diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/String/composer.json b/src/Symfony/Component/String/composer.json
index 10d0ee620e4da..2c79697da52f7 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/String/composer.json
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/String/composer.json
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
     ],
     "require": {
         "php": ">=8.2",
+        "symfony/emoji": "^7.1",
         "symfony/polyfill-ctype": "~1.8",
         "symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme": "~1.0",
         "symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer": "~1.0",
@@ -24,7 +25,6 @@
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "symfony/error-handler": "^6.4|^7.0",
-        "symfony/emoji": "^7.1",
         "symfony/http-client": "^6.4|^7.0",
         "symfony/intl": "^6.4|^7.0",
         "symfony/translation-contracts": "^2.5|^3.0",