Emoji (from Japanese ็ตตๆๅญ, read ใใใ) are tiny pictures you can put as a character in
text. Their appearance differs slightly between platforms.
The concept and the word both date back to early Japanese mobile phones; โemojiโ means โpictogramโ in Japanese. Emoji spread worldwide when the
iPhone implemented the emoji keyboard, made possible by the Unicode Consortiumโs efforts to combine all the
worldโs text encodings into one.
The word โemojiโ is made of
two components, ็ตต (e) and ๆๅญ (moji), meaning โpictureโ and โletterโ respectively. Therefore, any claims that tie the word to โemoticonโ are etymologically wrong.
Emoji are also not to be confused with emotes, which appear on platforms like Twitch or
Discord, and do not have Unicode
code points; for example, ๐ and ๐ are emoji, while PogChamp and OmegaLUL are not.
โIโm so bored. Letโs play connect four
โชโชโชโชโชโชโช
โชโชโชโชโชโชโช
โชโชโชโชโชโชโช
โชโชโช๐ตโชโชโช
Use redโ
โAndroid phones have
USB-3 ports, headphone
jacks, expandable storage, non-store apps, and Google Maps. iPhones can make your
face an emoji.โ