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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.
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.
Emoji became increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after Unicode began encoding emoji into the Unicode Standard. [6] [7] [8] They are now considered to be a large part of popular culture in the West and around the world. [9] [10] In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the Face with Tears of Joy emoji (😂) the word of the year. [11] [12]
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 ...
Interestingly, the just straight crying face only ranked as the 11th most-used, standing for "ughh, omgg and xc" - whatever that means. The second most-popular emoji is the heart-shaped-eyes face.
Emoji Unicode name Codepoints Added in Unicode block Meaning 😀 Grinning Face U+1F600: Emoji 1.0 in 2015 Emoticons: Grinning: 😂 Face with Tears of Joy U+1F602: Emoji 1.0 in 2015 Emoticons see Face with Tears of Joy emoji: 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes U+1F60D: Emoji 1.0 in 2015 Emoticons see Face with Heart Eyes emoji: 🕴️
Entrepreneur, blogger. Jeremy Burge (born 14 July 1984) [1] is an Australian emoji historian, founder of Emojipedia, creator of World Emoji Day and widely regarded as an expert on emoji. [2][3][4][5] Business Insider listed Burge in the UK Tech 100 in 2016, [6] 2017 [7] and 2018 [8] referring to him as "The Emoji Maestro" [9] while other ...
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.