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A simple smiley. This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons.Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art.
Emoji can be used to set emotional tone in messages. Emoji tend not to have their own meaning but act as a paralanguage, adding meaning to text. Emoji can add clarity and credibility to text. [120] Sociolinguistically, the use of emoji differs depending on speaker and setting. Women use emojis more than men. Men use a wider variety of emoji.
The Pistol emoji (🔫) is an emoji defined by the Unicode Consortium as depicting a "handgun" or "revolver". [1]It was historically displayed as a handgun on most computers (although Google once used a blunderbuss); [2] as early as 2013, Microsoft chose to replace the glyph with a ray gun, [3] and in 2016 Apple replaced their glyph with a water pistol. [4]
If you receive a text with a thumbs up from a Gen Z, you may as well have received a thumbs down. Gen Z uses the thumbs-up emoji in a sarcastic or passive-aggressive way. 11. 😳 Wide Eyes
Despite its similarity to words like “emotion” and “emoticon,” the word “emoji” is actually a Japanese portmanteau of two words: “e,” meaning picture, and “moji,” meaning ...
This emoji has become a universal symbol for being worried or nervous, but it actually mean the opposite: that you're relieved but also sad. In other words, you're conflicted. 8. 🙀 Weary cat
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. Pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks, numbers and letters Not to be confused with Emoji, Sticker (messaging), or Enotikon. "O.O" redirects here. For other uses, see O.O (song) and OO (disambiguation). This article contains Unicode emoticons or emojis ...
Emojipedia is an emoji reference website [1] which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters [2] in the Unicode Standard.Most commonly described as an emoji encyclopedia [3] or emoji dictionary, [4] Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools for tracking new emoji characters, design changes [5] and usage trends.