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Sign in to savethumb|Each of the most popular emoji from the 9 major emoji categories according to the Unicode Emoji Frequency study from 2021, rendered in the Noto Color Emoji font
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Emoji are small pictorial symbols used in digital communication to express emotions, objects, and ideas quickly across text messages and online platforms. They matter because they've become a universal language that helps people communicate more expressively and efficiently regardless of the spoken language they use.
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- History
- Predecessors
- Early emoji sets (1980s–1990s)
- Growth of emoji sets (2000–2007)
- Beginnings of Unicode emoji (2007–2014)
- UTS #51 and modern emoji (2015–present) <span class="anchor" id="1.0"></span><span class="anchor" id="2.0"></span><span class="anchor" id="3.0"></span><span class="anchor" id="4.0"></span><span class="anchor" id="5.0"></span><span class="anchor" id="11.0"></span><span class="anchor" id="12.0"></span><span class="anchor" id="12.1"></span><span class="anchor" id="13.0"></span><span class="anchor" id="13.1"></span><span class="anchor" id="14.0"></span><span class="anchor" id="15.0"></span><span class="anchor" id="16.0"></span>
- Cultural influence
- Use in furthering causes
- Linguistic function of emoji
- <span id="Emoji communication problems">Emoji communication problems</span>
- Variation and ambiguity
- Controversial emoji
- Emoji implementation
- Early implementation in Japan
- Unicode support considerations
- Color support
- Implementation by different platforms and vendors
- Modifiers
- Emoji versus text presentation
- Skin color
- Joining
- In Unicode<span class="anchor" id="Unicode blocks"></span>
- In popular culture
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Each of the most popular emoji from the 9 major emoji categories according to the Unicode Emoji Frequency study from 2021, rendered in the Noto Color Emoji font
An emoji ( ; plural emoji or emojis; , ) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of modern emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation as well as to replace words as part of a logographic system.