Emoji (from Japanese 絵文字, read えもじ) (pl. emoji) are the tiny pictures you can put on your texts.
The word dates back to the early Japanese mobile phones. With the iPhone's plethora of icons, the word "emoji" became widespread, as it was what the keyboard was named.
It is made of two components, 絵 and 文字, meaning "picture" and "letter" respectively.
Therefore, any claims that tie the word to "emoticon" are etymologically WRONG.
Many teenage girls put way too many emoji in their texts, resulting in more icons than text. Some clever people manage to draw pictures using emoji, or play Connect Four, Tic-Tac-Toe, or even Chess using emoji.
The word dates back to the early Japanese mobile phones. With the iPhone's plethora of icons, the word "emoji" became widespread, as it was what the keyboard was named.
It is made of two components, 絵 and 文字, meaning "picture" and "letter" respectively.
Therefore, any claims that tie the word to "emoticon" are etymologically WRONG.
Many teenage girls put way too many emoji in their texts, resulting in more icons than text. Some clever people manage to draw pictures using emoji, or play Connect Four, Tic-Tac-Toe, or even Chess using emoji.
"I'm so bored. Let's play connect four
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Use red"
"Whenever my mom nags me using iMessage, I respond with an emoji of an eggplant. That gets her pissed every time."
Mom: "Do the dishes as soon as you're finished doing nothing."
Clever guy: "(eggplant emoji)"
Mom: "Are you fucking kidding me?"
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Use red"
"Whenever my mom nags me using iMessage, I respond with an emoji of an eggplant. That gets her pissed every time."
Mom: "Do the dishes as soon as you're finished doing nothing."
Clever guy: "(eggplant emoji)"
Mom: "Are you fucking kidding me?"
by cutesy pastel living doll June 30, 2013
Emoji’s, the worlds most accessible form of cancer. If you want to jump of a cliff, seeing a 🤪😎🤣😁😩 will really give you that last piece of encouragement you need! Emoji’s are mainly used by 11 year old thots on musical.ly who think their stick body’s are thic and curvy. If you thought you wanted to die, look at an emoji and prepare to go into a dark, deep depression you won’t be able to cure (unless you watch a rip vine compilation). Anyone who uses an emoji unironically can join me when I jump off a bridge!!! 🤠🤠🤠 be safe kids, and stop using these fucking emojis!
11 year old commenting on an Instagram comedians video with an excessive use of gods main disappointment, emoji’s : “😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 hahah omg lele pons ur so hilarious 😝🤩😯🤑🤭🤯😉😆😁”
by Harrystylesownsmyasshole69420 August 25, 2018
by Khaotiq September 5, 2018
An Emoji is that little picture you put in your texts. Many shitty phones cannot read these Emoji, so for fuck's sake, don't get a shitty phone.
(Guy with iPhone) *sends Emoji*
(Guy with Nokia) What is that?
(Guy with iPhone) lol its an Emoji, dumbass. *sends Lolface Emoji*
(Guy with Nokia) It's a fucking square!
(Guy with Nokia) What is that?
(Guy with iPhone) lol its an Emoji, dumbass. *sends Lolface Emoji*
(Guy with Nokia) It's a fucking square!
by EmojiHasTruth April 1, 2015
Because typing out an entire word describing something is just was to hard. There fore people use the lazy thing and describe things with tiny pictures.
You: Emoji's are awesome I can type in pictures instead of explaining things with words, I love being lazy!
Me: SHUT UP!!!ಥ_ಥ
Me: SHUT UP!!!ಥ_ಥ
by ThatDankMemeGuy March 11, 2016
Cyrus lost the respect of the members of his department after he emojied all of them with his frequent emotional outbursts and delusions of persecution.
by fast-bucko March 21, 2018
by 2MoreFlatWhitesNathan January 29, 2019