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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.
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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.
Example of a smiley face An example of an emoticon smiley face (represented using a colon followed by a parenthesis) used in direct communication, as seen in this screenshot of an email. Another example of a smiley. A smiley, sometimes called a smiley face, is a basic ideogram representing a smiling face.
An emoji typeface, in one usage, is one designed specifically for displaying emoji, and thus consists (almost) entirely of emoji characters and/or provides (nearly) all of them. Another usage is a primarily textual typeface that also provides a substantial number of emoji, something that is uncommon enough in textual typefaces to be significant.
In October 2018, a Wojak with a gray face, pointy nose and blank, emotionless facial expression, dubbed "NPC Wojak", became a popular visual representation for people who cannot think for themselves or make their own decisions, comparing them to non-player characters – computer-automated characters within a video game.
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.