Once reserved for romantic partners and other loved ones, the heart emoji can now mean anything—which means it has no meaning ...

But that’s by design. The heart emojis are so popular because you can use them to convey a range of positive human emotions, including romance, affection, love, happiness, peace, gratitude ...

What do you call the little yellow coloured icons showing emotions? Did you know that if you have been calling them emojis, then you’ve been using the word wrong? Often when we talk about icons ...

combine two face emojis to create a new emotion. You can mix faces with inanimate objects like fruits, flowers, and other ...

Emoticons then reached world-wide discussion systems such as Usenet - similar to what we would now call an internet forum. An emoticon is a blend of ‘emotion’ and ‘icon’, made up of ...

Like regular emojis, you're stuck with water pistols, if anything at all. The key to a good Genmoji is being descriptive. Use specific words describing feelings or emotions (e.g. "happy," or ...

In the digital age, using emoji makes us more effective communicators. We’re better able to express our emotional selves and better able to signal our personality. It stands to reason then that ...

Your favourite emoji might not mean what you think it does. A forensic linguist explains how these seemingly innocent symbols could have legal and social implications.

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 ...