diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index b72d0136484..c12d321a9e2 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ Samuele Pedroni
 Sanket Duthade
 Sankt Petersbug
 Saravanan Padmanaban
+Sean Doherty
 Sean Malloy
 Segev Finer
 Serhii Mozghovyi
diff --git a/changelog/14483.bugfix.rst b/changelog/14483.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f8c9b96c1f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/14483.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Preserved valid supplementary-plane Unicode characters, such as emoji, in JUnit XML output instead of visually escaping them as invalid XML.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/junitxml.py b/src/_pytest/junitxml.py
index ae8d2b94d36..30c93c88c07 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/junitxml.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/junitxml.py
@@ -55,9 +55,7 @@ def repl(matchobj: re.Match[str]) -> str:
     # The spec range of valid chars is:
     # Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]
     # For an unknown(?) reason, we disallow #x7F (DEL) as well.
-    illegal_xml_re = (
-        "[^\u0009\u000a\u000d\u0020-\u007e\u0080-\ud7ff\ue000-\ufffd\u10000-\u10ffff]"
-    )
+    illegal_xml_re = "[^\u0009\u000a\u000d\u0020-\u007e\u0080-\ud7ff\ue000-\ufffd\U00010000-\U0010ffff]"
     return re.sub(illegal_xml_re, repl, str(arg))
 
 
diff --git a/testing/test_junitxml.py b/testing/test_junitxml.py
index 5a603c05bc8..ce3e731d45b 100644
--- a/testing/test_junitxml.py
+++ b/testing/test_junitxml.py
@@ -1104,11 +1104,6 @@ def test_invalid_xml_escape() -> None:
     # Test some more invalid xml chars, the full range should be
     # tested really but let's just test the edges of the ranges
     # instead.
-    # XXX This only tests low unicode character points for now as
-    #     there are some issues with the testing infrastructure for
-    #     the higher ones.
-    # XXX Testing 0xD (\r) is tricky as it overwrites the just written
-    #     line in the output, so we skip it too.
     invalid = (
         0x00,
         0x1,
@@ -1122,8 +1117,18 @@ def test_invalid_xml_escape() -> None:
         0xFFFE,
         0x0FFFF,
     )  # , 0x110000)
-    valid = (0x9, 0xA, 0x20)
-    # 0xD, 0xD7FF, 0xE000, 0xFFFD, 0x10000, 0x10FFFF)
+    valid = (
+        0x9,
+        0xA,
+        0xD,
+        0x20,
+        0xD7FF,
+        0xE000,
+        0xFFFD,
+        0x10000,
+        0x1F600,
+        0x10FFFF,
+    )
 
     for i in invalid:
         got = bin_xml_escape(chr(i))