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