diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Helper/Table.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Helper/Table.php
index 1f026dc504adb..968110be088aa 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Helper/Table.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Helper/Table.php
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ private function renderCell(array $row, int $column, string $cellFormat): string
 
         // str_pad won't work properly with multi-byte strings, we need to fix the padding
         if (false !== $encoding = mb_detect_encoding($cell, null, true)) {
-            $width += \strlen($cell) - mb_strwidth($cell, $encoding);
+            $width += \strlen($cell) - mb_strwidth($cell, $encoding) + substr_count($cell, "\xef\xb8\x8f") + substr_count($cell, "\xef\xb8\x8e");
         }
 
         $style = $this->getColumnStyle($column);
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Helper/TableTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Helper/TableTest.php
index 608d23c210bef..aa125cb4a9429 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Helper/TableTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Helper/TableTest.php
@@ -2078,4 +2078,36 @@ public function testGithubIssue52101HorizontalFalse()
             $this->getOutputContent($output)
         );
     }
+
+    public function testGithubIssue60038WidthOfCellWithEmoji()
+    {
+        $table = (new Table($output = $this->getOutputStream()))
+            ->setHeaderTitle('Test Title')
+            ->setHeaders(['Title', 'Author'])
+            ->setRows([
+                ["🎭 💫 ☯"." Divine Comedy", "Dante Alighieri"],
+                // the snowflake (e2 9d 84 ef b8 8f) has a variant selector
+                ["👑 ❄️  🗡"." Game of Thrones", "George R.R. Martin"],
+                // the snowflake in text style (e2 9d 84 ef b8 8e) has a variant selector
+                ["❄︎❄︎❄︎ snowflake in text style ❄︎❄︎❄︎", ""],
+                ["And a very long line to show difference in previous lines", ""],
+            ])
+        ;
+        $table->render();
+
+        $this->assertSame(<<<TABLE
++---------------------------------- Test Title -------------+--------------------+
+| Title                                                     | Author             |
++-----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+
+| 🎭 💫 ☯ Divine Comedy                                     | Dante Alighieri    |
+| 👑 ❄️  🗡 Game of Thrones                                   | George R.R. Martin |
+| ❄︎❄︎❄︎ snowflake in text style ❄︎❄︎❄︎                           |                    |
+| And a very long line to show difference in previous lines |                    |
++-----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+
+
+TABLE
+            ,
+            $this->getOutputContent($output)
+        );
+    }
 }