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These emoticons first arose in Japan, where they are referred to as kaomoji (literally "face characters"). The base form consists of a sequence of an opening round parenthesis, a character for the left eye, a character for the mouth or nose, a character for the right eye and a closing round parenthesis.
In general terms, emoji development dates back to the late 1990s in Japan. By 2010, when the Unicode Consortium was compiling a unified collection of characters from the Japanese cellular emoji sets, which would be included with the October 2010 release of Unicode 6.0, [1] a face with tears of joy was included in the au by KDDI and SoftBank Mobile emoji sets.
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.
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' face characters ' [1]) that can be understood without tilting one's head. [2] This style arose on ASCII NET, an early Japanese online service, in the 1980s. [3] [4] They often include Japanese typography in addition to ASCII characters, [2] and in contrast to Western-style emoticons, tend to emphasize the eyes, rather than the mouth. [5]
Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs, Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A and Transport and Map Symbols.
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