What’s This Smiley? Your Guide to Deciphering Every Emoji
Text messages and online chats can include a combination of text, images, and emojis to convey messages. Text and pictures may be easy to understand, but when someone sends an emoji, you may feel like you’re decoding a secret message.
“😃” or “❤️” is easy to understand, but what’s the difference between “😩” and “😭”? Over time, the meaning of emojis has become subjective, depending on the context of the message and broader cultural trends.
There are over 3,000 emojis to suit almost any need.
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Emojipedia can help
Emoji Encyclopedia is an online encyclopedia of emojis Curated by people who study emojis. The website divides emoji into nine categories, including smiley faces, people, objects, activities, and more. Each category then breaks the emojis down further. For example, if you click on the smiley face, you’ll see a section like Smiling and affectionate and Drowsiness and discomfort.
If you click on an individual emoji, Emojipedia will provide you with a short description of that emoji. For example, here’s what the Emojipedia says about “😶🌫️” (face in cloud) Emoticons:
“A face surrounded by clouds or smoke. Ambiguous in appearance, this may represent a foggy state of mind, confusion, or even a calm sense of happiness. Can also be used to indicate the presence of smoke.”
The Emojipedia will also give you a list of other emojis that work well with that particular emoji. For the face in the clouds emoji, Emojipedia suggestions include “🚬” cigarette and “🌪️” tornado ——The scope is quite large.
What’s a text message without an emoji or two?
Each Emojipedia entry also shows you different artwork for each emoji across platforms, and how the artwork has evolved over time. The emoji entry will also display the shortcode and additional name for each emoji (if applicable).
What are the most popular emojis?
You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are the most popular as of early January. This list changes regularly, so what’s popular now may not be popular next month or around the holidays. Please note that not all the latest emojis are supported on all platforms, so they may not all appear on your device.
What are the latest emojis?
September, Google launches Emoji 16.0which includes eight new emojis. The new emoticons are paint splatter, harp, fingerprint, root vegetables, leafless tree, shovelthis Flag of Sark Island (Population: 500) and A tired expression with bags under the eyes ——To be honest, it’s the same.
However, it may take a while before you see these emojis in text. Google wrote online in July The new emojis will be launched on Android devices in March this year. Until then, iPhone users probably won’t see these emojis either. although Unicode releases version 15.1 New emojis coming in September 2023, they won’t come to iPhone until Apple releases them iOS 17.4 March 2024. So iPhone users may have to wait until March 2025 to get the latest emojis. You may now see the latest emojis as web fonts online.
How often are new emojis added?
anyone can Submit an idea A new emoji. this Unicode Standard — Universal Character Encoding Standard — responsible for creating new emojis. Unicode proposed nine new emojis on November 6, including Sasquatch and Orca. However, these are just proposed emojis. Unicode will decide in September which emoji will be added next.
What about custom emojis, like Apple’s Genmoji?
I bet you can guess what this emoji means.
Apple launches emoji generator Genmon Templeat WWDC 2024, the tech giant incorporated the feature into iOS 18.2. However, only if iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max or device from iPhone 16 series Genmoji is now accessible.
If you don’t have access to Genmoji and want to create your own custom emojis, Emojipedia is now Emoji Mashup Robot. You can choose two emojis from the list below twemoji Once set up, the bot will combine them to create a brand new emoji. These new emojis may not be defined, but some combinations are easy to spot.
Is this all just for emojis?
Yes, but wait there’s more! Emojipedia also hosts World Emoji Awards World Emoji Day, July 17th. Awards are given for “Most Popular New Emoji” and “Most Anticipated Emoji”, among others. Winners are determined by popular vote Xformerly known as Twitter, any emoji approved in the previous year is eligible to win.
New emojis are added every year and there are even awards given out for new emojis.
The winner is The most popular new emojis of 2024 yes Head shaking horizontally (🙂↔️) Next up is Shake head vertically (🙂↕️) and Phoenix (🐦🔥). the winner Most anticipated emoticons Go to the face with eye bags and Most emoticons of 2024 The award was given to melting face (🫠) For the second year in a row – it still fits.
this sparkling (✨) Emoticons are also given Lifetime Achievement Award 2024. Emojipedia writes that the emoji has been one of the most popular emojis since 2015 and has been adopted as the image of choice for artificial intelligence.
exist 2023the most popular emoji is pink heart Emoji (🩷), the runner-up is shake face (🫨). The Most Anticipated Emoji Award of 2023 goes to Head shaking horizontally (🙂↔️).
Want to know more, here are Latest approved emojis, How to use emojis to react to messages on iPhone and How to use emojis instead of comments in Google Docs.
