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This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...
Emoticons have played a significant role in communication through technology, and some devices and applications have provided stylized pictures that do not use text punctuation. They offer another range of "tone" through texting through facial gestures. [ 9] Emoticons were the precursors to modern emojis .
A smiley, sometimes called a smiley face, is a basic ideogram representing a smiling face. [ 1][ 2] Since the 1950s, it has become part of popular culture worldwide, used either as a standalone ideogram or as a form of communication, such as emoticons. The smiley began as two dots and a line representing eyes and a mouth.
An emoji ( / ɪˈmoʊdʒiː / ih-MOH-jee; plural emoji or emojis; [ 1] Japanese: 絵文字, Japanese pronunciation: [emoꜜʑi]) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages.
Face with Tears of Joy (😂) is a smiley emoji depicting a face crying with laughter. It is part of the Emoticons block of Unicode, and was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 in Unicode 6.0, the first Unicode release intended to release emoji characters. One of the most popular emoji, Face with Tears of Joy was proclaimed the Word of the ...
A Kaomoji painting in Japan. Kaomoji was invented in the 1980s as a way of portraying facial expressions using text characters in Japan. It was independent of the emoticon movement started by Scott Fahlman in the United States in the same decade. Kaomojis are most commonly used as emoticons or emojis in Japan .
Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.
Emoticons is a Unicode block containing emoticons or emoji. [ 3][ 4][ 5] Most of them are intended as representations of faces, although some of them include hand gestures or non-human characters (a horned "imp", monkeys, cartoon cats ). The block was first proposed in 2008, and first implemented in Unicode version 6.0 (2010).