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Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, 'picture') + moji (文字, 'character'); the resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental. [4] The first emoji sets were created by Japanese portable electronic device companies in the late 1980s and the 1990s. [5]
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. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...
Microsoft displays all Mahjong tiles (U+1F000‥2B, not just U+1F004 🀄 MAHJONG TILE RED DRAGON) and alternative card suits (U+2661 ♡ WHITE HEART SUIT, U+2662 ♢ WHITE DIAMOND SUIT, U+2664 ♤ WHITE SPADE SUIT, U+2667 ♧ WHITE CLUB SUIT) as emoji. They also support additional pencils (U+270E LOWER RIGHT PENCIL, U+2710 UPPER RIGHT PENCIL ...
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]
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 emoticon (/ əˈmoʊtəkɒn /, ə-MOH-tə-kon, rarely / ɪˈmɒtɪkɒn /, ih-MOTT-ih-kon), [1][2][3][4] short for emotion icon, [5] is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters —usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters —to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.
The emoji keyboard was first available in Japan with the release of iPhone OS version 2.2 in 2008. [36] The emoji keyboard was not officially made available outside of Japan until iOS version 5.0. [37] 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.
A smiley, sometimes called a smiley face, is a basic ideogram representing a smiling face. [1][2] Since the 1950s, it has become part of popular culture worldwide, used either as a standalone ideogram or as a form of communication, such as emoticons. The smiley began as two dots and a line representing eyes and a mouth.