Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this week, the Unicode 17 emoji recommendations came out [PDF ...

Quantitative data about emoji usage reveals a lot about their role in language—and how they help us express emotions we have no words for. Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The ...

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 ...

Whether it's a friendly smiley face or a cheeky aubergine, emoji now form a staple part of many of our day-to-day conversations. Now, the draft emoji list for 2025/2026 has been revealed - and it ...

Good news, emoji fans: 56 new characters are officially ready to make their debut. But that doesn't mean the wait is over just yet, as it will take some time before companies will make the update ...

The high and low collided at the world’s first emoji convention in San Francisco on Saturday, and the result was . Linguists, emoji designers from tech powerhouses like Google and officials from the ...

You are about to send a text message. Should you express an emotion with words or an emoji? According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, ...