Minecraft – How to teleport an item to a player in Minecraft 1.13

You can't put special characters in target selectors (it pretty much only supports names that players can have), but you can match them in NBT data.

/scoreboard players tag supports NBT data matching and adds a tag to an entity which can then be used in a selector. For example:

/scoreboard players tag @e[type=XPOrb] add DeathOrb {CustomName:"(ಥ﹏ಥ)"}

Which means: "add a 'DeathOrb' scoreboard tag to any XPOrbs with a CustomName of (ಥ﹏ಥ)"

Then you can select it like:

/execute @e[tag=DeathOrb] ~ ~ ~ /tp @p @e[tag=DeathOrb]

If you're always going to be summoning in the orbs, then you could also summon it with the DeathOrb tag, like so:

/execute @a[score_deaths_min=1] ~ ~ ~ /summon XPOrb ~ ~ ~ {CustomName:(ಥ﹏ಥ),CustomNameVisible:1,Tags:[DeathOrb]}

Then select it with @e[tag=DeathOrb] as above.

In 1.13 many things are JSON that were previously just simple strings. So the syntax is now:

give @p diamond_sword{display:{Name:"{\"text\":\"Sword of Power\"}"}}

This also means that you can colour the text, make it underlined, translatable, obfuscated, etc.

With Minecraft 1.14, support for single-quoted strings has now been added. This means that you can shorten JSON strings by surrounding them in single quotes ' instead of double quotes:

give @p diamond_sword{display:{Name:'{"text":"Sword of Power"}'}}

Whenever an NBT check doesn't work like you expected, I always recommend /data get. For example in this case you can hold the item and run:

/data get entity @s SelectedItem