Emoji (from Japanese 絵文字, read えもじ) 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; “emoji” means “pictogram” in Japanese. Emoji spread worldwide when the iPhone implemented the emoji keyboard, made possible by the Unicode Consortium’s efforts to combine all the world’s text encodings into one.
The word “emoji” is made of two components, 絵 (e) and 文字 (moji), meaning “picture” and “letter” respectively. Therefore, any claims that tie the word to “emoticon” 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, 😂 and 🍆 are emoji, while PogChamp and OmegaLUL are not.
The concept and the word both date back to early Japanese mobile phones; “emoji” means “pictogram” in Japanese. Emoji spread worldwide when the iPhone implemented the emoji keyboard, made possible by the Unicode Consortium’s efforts to combine all the world’s text encodings into one.
The word “emoji” is made of two components, 絵 (e) and 文字 (moji), meaning “picture” and “letter” respectively. Therefore, any claims that tie the word to “emoticon” 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, 😂 and 🍆 are emoji, while PogChamp and OmegaLUL are not.
“I’m so bored. Let’s play connect four
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Use red”
“Android phones have USB-3 ports, headphone jacks, expandable storage, non-store apps, and Google Maps. iPhones can make your face an emoji.”
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Use red”
“Android phones have USB-3 ports, headphone jacks, expandable storage, non-store apps, and Google Maps. iPhones can make your face an emoji.”
by cutesy pastel living doll July 1, 2020
Get the emojimug. by lunarclientuser9393 July 12, 2023
Get the Hana with a cute emojimug. When engaging in factual debate with conspiracy theorists on social media and they resort to emoji binging to express their critical thinking.
I was on Facebook debating Politics, and The Emoji Army entered the chat so I gave them a bit of shit back and left..
by Miss Jane October 12, 2023
Get the The Emoji Armymug. by anonymous May 22, 2024
Get the monkey covering eyes emojimug. Do you want to have 💀🌳 with me?
You look like a person who would have 💀🌳
Are you a Skull Emoji + Bed Emoji?
You look like a person who would have 💀🌳
Are you a Skull Emoji + Bed Emoji?
by TransgenderIndividual1284 June 25, 2025
Get the Skull Emoji + Bed Emojimug. Dove emoji twitter consist of the guys and girls who claim to be ‘activists’ because they post #freethenipple and #blacklivesmatter when they’re relevant and only when they’re relevant. They exclusively listen to Frank Ocean, Tyler, The Creator & SZA and believe Bella Hadid is a fashion icon. You can usually catch them wearing rainbow and tye-dye t-shirts and ripped light blue denim jeans with a bunch of ‘alternative’ singers posters on their wall
“yo have you heard Frank Ocean’s new single?”
“nah... that’s dove emoji twitter music, I’ll listen to his next BIG song”
“nah... that’s dove emoji twitter music, I’ll listen to his next BIG song”
by badboytony May 29, 2019
Get the dove emoji twittermug. by GoofyGoofJuiceGod2446 December 4, 2021
Get the Bozo Emojimug.