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Leonard Nimoy demonstrating the Vulcan salutation at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention in 2011 The Vulcan salute is a hand gesture popularized by the 1960s television series Star Trek . It consists of a raised hand with the palm forward and the thumb extended, while the fingers are parted between the middle and ring finger .
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.
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.
The names from the mouseover text above work if used directly, and usually if condensed to a key word ("grinning" or "unamused" for example). The templates involving the cat have shortcuts like "cat wry", "heart-shaped" is abbreviated to "heart", "open mouth" is usually omitted, closed = "tightly-closed eyes".
The yellow-faced emojis commonly used today evolved from other emoticon sets and cannot be traced back to Kurita's work. [13] In 2016, the original set of 176 emojis was added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and was exhibited in the exhibition Inbox: The Original Emoji, by Shigetaka Kurita.
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.
As of Unicode version 16.0, there are 155,063 characters with code points, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets.This article includes the 1,062 characters in the Multilingual European Character Set 2 subset, and some additional related characters.