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Emoji simply means "pictograph" or "icon" in Japanese. [8] To make the emoji set, Kurita got inspiration from Japanese manga where characters are often drawn with symbolic representations called manpu (such as a water drop on a face representing nervousness or confusion), as well as from weather pictograms, [10] [11] Chinese characters and ...
In 1999, Shigetaka Kurita created 176 emoji as part of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, used on its mobile platform. [28] [29] [30] They were intended to help facilitate electronic communication and to serve as a distinguishing feature from other services. [7]
J-Phone later became Vodafone Japan and is now SoftBank Mobile; a later, expanded version of the SoftBank emoji set was the basis for the emoji selection available on early iPhones. [10] A highly influential early set of 176 cellular emoji was created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999, [12] [13] and deployed on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, a Mobile web ...
Naoki Kurita (born 1971), Japanese sport shooter; Rosalind Kurita (fl. from 1996), American politician; Shigetaka Kurita (born 1972), Japanese interface designer; Taijiro Kurita (born 1975), Japanese footballer; Takeo Kurita (1889–1977), vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II; Toyomichi Kurita (born 1950), Japanese ...
Per the Unicode Standard "the main purpose of such [regional indicator symbol] pairs is to provide unambiguous roundtrip mappings to certain characters used in the emoji core sets" [21] specifically the ten national flags: [22] 🇨🇳, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇮🇹, 🇯🇵, 🇰🇷, 🇷🇺, and 🇺🇸.
In the 1990s, NTT DoCoMo released a pager that was aimed at teenagers. The pager was the first of its kind to include the option to send a pictogram as part of the text. [1] [2] The pager only had a single pictogram on its options, which was a heart-shaped pictogram.
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.
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).