При попытке вставить эмотикон в таблицу mariadb ругается на поле text1:

MySQL answer: Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x98\x80' for column `my_db`.`pages`.`text_1` at row 1.

При этом структура таблицы pages:

| pages | CREATE TABLE `pages` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `ng_id` int(5) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `text_1` text COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `text_2` text COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT 'NOT NULL',
  `img_text` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `enabled` tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`,`ng_id`),
  KEY `fk_ng_id` (`ng_id`),
  CONSTRAINT `pages_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`id`) REFERENCES `pages_blocks` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE,
  CONSTRAINT `pages_ibfk_2` FOREIGN KEY (`ng_id`) REFERENCES `languages` (`ng_id`) ON DELETE CASCADE
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci

В настройках mariadb указано использовать utf8mb4:

> show variables WHERE Variable_name LIKE 'character\_set\_%'  OR Variable_name LIKE 'collation%';

+--------------------------+--------------------+
| Variable_name            | Value              |
+--------------------------+--------------------+
| character_set_client     | utf8mb4            |
| character_set_connection | utf8mb4            |
| character_set_database   | utf8mb4            |
| character_set_filesystem | binary             |
| character_set_results    | utf8mb4            |
| character_set_server     | utf8mb4            |
| character_set_system     | utf8               |
| collation_connection     | utf8mb4_unicode_ci |
| collation_database       | utf8mb4_unicode_ci |
| collation_server         | utf8mb4_unicode_ci |
+--------------------------+--------------------+
10 rows in set (0.002 sec)

Чего еще не хватает для корректной работы с эмотиконами в БД?