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Text messages and chats online can include a combination of words, images and emoji to convey a message. Words and pictures can be easy to understand, but when someone sends an emoji you can feel like you’re decoding a secret message.
“😃” or “❤️” are easy to understand, but how are “😩” and “😭” different? Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective depending on the context of the message and broader cultural trends.
With over 3,000 emoji, there’s one for almost anything.
Which shaking smiley face will you use? Is there a difference between each different heart color? Does the peach emoji really mean fruit? Here’s how to find out what it’s all about 3,790 what is meant by emoji and what is the next emoji.
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Emojipedia is here to help
Emojipedia an online emoji encyclopedia curated by people who research emoji. The site sorts emoji into nine categories, including Smileys, People, Objects, Activities and more. Each category then breaks the emoji into further subsections. So if you click on Smileys, for example, you will see sections like Smiling & Affectionate and Sleepy & Unwell.
When you click on an individual emoji, Emojipedia will give you a brief description of that emoji. For example, here’s what Emojipedia wrote about “😶🌫️” (face of the clouds) emoji:
“A face that appears surrounded by clouds or a puff of smoke. Vague in appearance, it may represent a foggy state of mind, confusion, or even a sense of calm happiness. It may also be used to indicate the presence of smoke.”
Emojipedia will also give you a list of other emojis that this particular emoji works well with. In the case of the face in clouds emoji, Emojipedia’s suggestions include “🚬” CIGARETTES and the “🌪️” tornado — quite a range there.
What’s a text message without an emoji or two?
Each Emojipedia entry also shows you the different artwork for each emoji across platforms, as well as how the artwork has evolved over time. Entering emoji will also show you shortcodes and other names for each emoji, if applicable.
What is the most popular emoji?
You may have your own emoji, but according to Emojipedia, this was the most popular emoji in early January. The list changes from time to time, so what is popular today may not be popular next month or on a holiday. Note that not all platforms support all the latest emoji, so not all of them will appear on your device.
What’s the latest emoji?
In September, Google unveils Emoji 16.0which includes eight new emoji. The new emoji is a paint splatter, harp, fingerprint, root vegetable, tree without leaves, shovelTHE flag of the small island of Sark (population: 500) and a tired emoji with bags under eyes — actually, the same.
It might be a while before you see these emojis in texts, though. Google wrote online in July that the new emoji will be available on Android devices in March of this year. iPhone users probably won’t see these emojis until then, too. while Unicode released its version 15.1 with new emoji in September 2023, those emoji don’t come to iPhones until released by Apple iOS 17.4 in March 2024. So iPhone users will probably have to wait until March 2025 for the latest emoji. You can see the latest emoji online as a web font now.
How often are new emoji added?
Anyone can submit an idea for new emoji. the Unicode Standard — a universal character encoding standard — is responsible for creating new emoji. Unicode proposed nine new emoji on Nov. 6, including a Sasquatch and an orca. However, this is a suggested emoji. Unicode will decide in September which emoji will be added next.
What about custom emoji, like Apple’s Genmoji?
I bet you can guess what this emoji means.
Apple unveils its emoji generator, Genmojiat WWDC 2024, and the tech giant includes the feature of iOS 18.2. However, only people who have a iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max or a tool from The iPhone 16 line can access Genmoji for now.
If you can’t use Genmoji and want to create your own custom emoji, Emojipedia is home to Emoji Mashup Bot. You can choose two emoji from Twemoji set, and the bot will combine them to create a new emoji. This new emoji may not have a definition, but some combinations are easy to understand.
All this just for emoji?
Yes, but wait there’s more! Emojipedia also hosts the World Emoji Awards on World Emoji Day, July 17. Prizes are awarded for things like Most Popular New Emoji and Most Anticipated Emoji. Winners are determined by popular vote on Xformerly known as Twitter, and any emoji approved in the past year is eligible to win.
New emoji are added every year, and there are awards given for the new emoji.
The winner is for Most Popular New Emoji of 2024 is the shaking head horizontally (🙂↔️) followed by shaking head upright (🙂↕️) and the phoenix (🐦🔥). The winner of the Most Anticipated Emoji went to the face with bags under his eyes and the Most 2024 Emoji award went to melted face (🫠) for the second year in a row — still fitting.
the Flickering (✨) emoji is also given a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024. Emojipedia writes that this emoji is one of the most popular emoji since 2015, and it has been adopted as the go-to image for AI.
on 2023the most popular emoji is pink heart emoji (🩷) and the runner-up is trembling face (🫨). The most anticipated emoji award of 2023 has gone to shaking head horizontally (🙂↔️).
For more, here is the latest approved emoji, how to reply to messages with emoji on your iPhone and how to use emoji instead of comments in Google Docs.
