The site sorts emoji into nine categories, including Smileys, People, Objects, Activity and more. Each category then breaks down emoji into further subsections. So if you click into Smileys, for ...

Often when we talk about icons expressing emotions, we tend to use the words emoji and emoticon interchangeably. However, Merriam-Webster has revealed that the two words aren’t the same! ‘Emoticon’ ...

An emoticon is a blend of ‘emotion’ and ‘icon’, made up of characters from a keyboard, whereas an emoji (a combination of the Japanese ‘e’ for ‘picture’ and ‘moji’ for ...

This is especially true for the emoji we use to express love … or is it passion? Heartbreak, maybe? Truth is, there’s a surprising range of heart emoji meanings. To get the scoop, we spoke ...

The OED chose this emoji because they said it best reflected the passing year in language. 5. Abraham Lincoln might have been the first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the difference between ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Emoji. For some of us, it's a second language. But did you know anyone can make an emoji? You don't need funding. You don't need to know someone ...

In the early days of online chatting people used different characters on the keyboard as a shortcut to convey an emotion. The happy face :) to convey happiness or joy. The frowny face :( to convey ...

But if you're active on Twitter, you've probably seen its popular emoji mashup bots, which combine multiple emojis into one. Only recently, Emoji Kitchen was native to Android users on Gboard.

You can use this as many times as you want, but you can only choose up to 113 emoji to combine and they are all smileys. That means you can't be as creative in your creation as you might be in the ...