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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 Unicode name Codepoints Added in Unicode block Meaning 😀 Grinning Face U+1F600: Emoji 1.0 in 2015 Emoticons: Grinning: 😂 Face with Tears of Joy U+1F602: Emoji 1.0 in 2015 Emoticons see Face with Tears of Joy emoji: 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes U+1F60D: Emoji 1.0 in 2015 Emoticons see Face with Heart Eyes emoji: 🕴️
An emoji (/ ɪ ˈ m oʊ dʒ iː / ih-MOH-jee; plural emoji or emojis; [1] Japanese: 絵文字, Japanese pronunciation:) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages.
The term emoji is of Japanese origin, with the term only adopted in the west from 2010 onwards. Japan itself also struggled to define the emoji for a number of years. It wasn't until telecom companies began experimenting with the use of graphic images or pictograms in messaging facilities that the emoji concept became a working idea.
The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Communication. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-49664-3. Veszelszki, Ágnes (2017). Digilect: The Impact of Infocommunication Technology on Language. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-049911-7
Flirty, festive, and super fun, this emoji has a playful, frisky spirit you're gonna wanna call on when sliding into a crush's DMs, texting your new fella, or just commenting on your bestie's socials.
The second most-popular emoji is the heart-shaped-eyes face. It can stand for "gorgeous," "goregous" or "gorgous." Apparently "gorgeous" is a really hard word to spell.
A 10-year-old boy has taken it upon himself to petition Apple to change one of its emojis.. Teddy from Oxfordshire, England, would like to rename the emoji that wears black frame glasses and has ...