Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Unicode 16.0 specifies a total of 3,790 emoji using 1,431 characters spread across 24 blocks, of which 26 are Regional indicator symbols that combine in pairs to form flag emoji, and 12 (#, * and 0–9) are base characters for keycap emoji sequences. [1] [2] [3] 33 of the 192 code points in the Dingbats block are considered emoji
Emoticons is a Unicode block containing emoticons or emoji. [3] [4] [5] Most of them are intended as representations of faces, although some of them include hand gestures or non-human characters (a horned "imp", monkeys, cartoon cats).
RELATED: Keyboard Shortcuts Symbols The (even more comprehensive) guide to emoji meanings. Despite its similarity to words like “emotion” and “emoticon,” the word “emoji” is actually a ...
The emoji keyboard was first available in Japan with the release of iPhone OS version 2.2 in 2008. [159] The emoji keyboard was not officially made available outside of Japan until iOS version 5.0. [160] From iPhone OS 2.2 through to iOS 4.3.5 (2011), those outside Japan could access the keyboard but had to use a third-party app to enable it.
The Unicode 14.0 Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block contains 242 emoji, [3] [4] consisting of all the non-Typikon symbols except for the rifle and the pentathlon symbol. The rifle and the pentathlon emoji has been rejected due to its controversy, analogous to the redesign of the pistol emoji .
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing meteorological and astronomical symbols, emoji characters [3] largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS, and characters originally from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts found in Microsoft Windows.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!