diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index c1029e4ef1c7..7ab74a2337a1 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -5054,6 +5054,12 @@
       fingerprint = "8992 44FC D291 5CA2 0A97  802C 156C 88A5 B0A0 4B2A";
     }];
   };
+  kiyengar = {
+    email = "hello@kiyengar.net";
+    github = "karthikiyengar";
+    githubId = 8260207;
+    name = "Karthik Iyengar";
+  };
   kkallio = {
     email = "tierpluspluslists@gmail.com";
     name = "Karn Kallio";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/unipicker/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/unipicker/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fc47a872848f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/unipicker/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, lib, fzf, xclip }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+   pname = "unipicker";
+   version = "unstable-2018-07-10";
+
+   src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "jeremija";
+      repo = pname;
+      rev = "767571c87cdb1e654408d19fc4db98e5e6725c04";
+      sha256 = "1k4v53pm3xivwg9vq2kndpcmah0yn4679r5jzxvg38bbkfdk86c1";
+   };
+
+   buildInputs = [
+      fzf
+      xclip
+   ];
+
+   preInstall = ''
+      substituteInPlace unipicker --replace "/etc/unipickerrc" "$out/etc/unipickerrc"
+      substituteInPlace unipickerrc --replace "/usr/local" "$out"
+   '';
+
+   makeFlags = [
+      "PREFIX=$(out)"
+      "DESTDIR=$(out)"
+   ];
+
+   meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A CLI utility for searching unicode characters by description and optionally copying them to clipboard";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/jeremija/unipicker";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ kiyengar ];
+    platforms = with platforms; unix;
+   };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 70def32057c5..84a839a97ab2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -26024,6 +26024,8 @@ in
 
   unigine-valley = callPackage ../applications/graphics/unigine-valley { };
 
+  unipicker = callPackage ../applications/misc/unipicker { };
+
   unison = callPackage ../applications/networking/sync/unison {
     ocamlPackages = ocaml-ng.ocamlPackages_4_09;
     enableX11 = config.unison.enableX11 or true;