![]() ![]() ![]() The first emoji set was created by Japanese phone carrier SoftBank in 1997, with emoji becoming increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after Unicode began encoding emoji into the Unicode Standard. 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. Emoji exist in various genres, including facial expressions, expressions, activity, food and drinks, celebrations, flags, objects, symbols, places, types of weather, animals and nature. The primary function of modern emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation as well as to replace words as part of a logographic system. ![]() The "Grinning Face" emoji, from the Twemoji set Emoji being added to a text message, 2013Īn emoji ( / ɪ ˈ m oʊ dʒ iː/ ih- MOH-jee plural emoji or emojis Japanese: 絵文字, romanized: emoji, Japanese pronunciation: ) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. You may need rendering support to display the Unicode emoticons or emojis in this article correctly. ![]()
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