Open up your browser on your iPhone/iPad/MacBook and go to http://emojipedia.org/emojipedia/. If necessary, scroll down until you see the sentence “Emojis from ...

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 ...

You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are some of the most popular emoji as of the beginning of October. The list changes periodically, so what's popular now might not ...

We are using the term emoji quite loosely here, because you can’t actually hack into the official Unicode list. reading time 5 minutes Was there ever a time that we were able to communicate without ...

The average keyboard only has so many characters labeled on it for use. Beyond that, there are plenty of other symbols and punctuation that are worth using, yet have no home on a Chromebook’s QWERTY ...

If you've been unenthused about the emoji of recent years, you're not alone. A flashlight? A toolbox? A fire extinguisher? A tin can? Who even uses these? The emoji set to appear on your phone next ...

“It’s so easy to be angry online,” says Jennifer Daniel, the creative director of emojis at Google. “Emojis give you permission to be gentler.” In a study involving nearly four million users in 212 ...

Imagine sending a simple emoji in a text message—just a cheerful smiley face or a thumbs-up—without a second thought. Now, what if I told you that same emoji could secretly carry hidden instructions ...

A new cast of draft emojis stands for final approval by the Unicode Consortium Emoji Subcommittee, the America’s Next Top Model panel of emoji judgment. If you, an emoji, think you’re going to cruise ...