diff --git a/emoji-spmenu b/emoji-spmenu
index c4d5bfa..82550d6 100755
--- a/emoji-spmenu
+++ b/emoji-spmenu
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ notify() {
     fi
 }
 
-EMOJI_CACHE_FILE="${XDG_CACHE_DIR:-$HOME/.cache/emoji-spmenu/emoji-cache}"
+EMOJI_CACHE_FILE="${XDG_CACHE_DIR:-$HOME/.cache}/emoji-spmenu/emoji-cache"
 
 get_cache() {
     curl -s "https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/${UNICODE_VERSION:-latest}/emoji-test.txt" | \
-        awk -F# '/E[0-9]/ {gsub(/E[0-9]*\.[0-9] /, ""); gsub(/  */, " "); print $NF}' > "$EMOJI_CACHE_FILE" && return 0 || return 1
+        grep -vE "unqualified|minimally-qualified" | awk -F# '/E[0-9]/ {gsub(/E[0-9]*\.[0-9] /, ""); gsub(/  */, " "); print $NF}' > "$EMOJI_CACHE_FILE" && return 0 || return 1
 }
 
 check_reqs() {