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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.
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.
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 December 2024. 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 ...
World Emoji Day is a "global celebration of emoji" created by Burge in 2014. [14] [69] [70] According to the New York Times, he created the day on "July 17 based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones". [71] [72] Burge told Axios in 2017 that "Tim Cook tweeted about [World Emoji Day] this year so I was kind of excited about that". [73]
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).
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]
Microsoft used World Emoji Day in 2021 to preview [48] an overhaul to the Windows emoji set using the Fluent Design System for the first time. [49] Facebook used World Emoji Day 2021 to announce Soundmojis, [50] Google unveiled a solution for faster emoji updates on Android, [51] and Emojipedia revealed sample images for the latest emoji draft ...