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Unicode 15.1 specifies a total of 3,782 emoji using 1,424 characters spread across 24 blocks, of which 26 are Regional indicator symbols that combine in pairs to form flag emoji, and 12 (#, * and 0–9) are base characters for keycap emoji sequences.
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 ...
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 block was first proposed in 2008, and first implemented in Unicode version 6.0 (2010).
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.
Support for UTF-32 and full support for UTF-16 and UTF-8 (under the name utf8mb4) was added in version 5.5, with utf8 retained as an alias for the up-to-three-byte version, although this is intended to be changed in the future. The introduction of Unicode emoji created an incentive for vendors to improve their support for non-BMP characters.
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.
Template:Emote [edit] 😀 This template is meant to allow people to conveniently use the Unicode emoticons. It is used by using { {emote|xxx}}, where "xxx" includes the unicode number or text shortcut. The names from the mouseover text above work if used directly, and usually if condensed to a key word ("grinning" or "unamused" for example ...