Editing Emoji (section)

{{Short description|Symbols for emotional cues in text}}
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[[File:Popular Emoji Groups Noto Color Emoji.svg|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]]
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{{Contains special characters|emoticon|compact=}}An '''emoji''' ({{IPAc-en|ᵻ|ˈ|m|oʊ|dʒ|i}} {{respell|im|OH|jee}}; plural '''emoji''' or '''emojis''';<ref>{{cite web |title=emoji – English meaning |url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/emoji |access-date=March 30, 2017 |website=Cambridge Dictionary}}</ref> {{langx|ja|[[wikt:絵文字|絵文字]]}}, {{IPA|ja|emoꜜʑi|pron}}) is a [[pictogram]], [[logogram]], [[ideogram]], or [[smiley]] embedded in text and used in electronic messages and [[web page]]s. 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Vyvyan |date=August 12, 2017 |title=Emojis actually make our language better |url=https://nypost.com/2017/08/12/emojis-actually-make-our-language-way-better/ |website=[[New York Post]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306073420/https://nypost.com/2017/08/12/emojis-actually-make-our-language-way-better/ |archive-date= Mar 6, 2023 }}</ref> Emoji exist in various genres, including facial expressions, expressions, activity, food and drinks, celebrations, flags, objects, symbols, places, types of weather, animals, and nature.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/06/difference-between-emoji-and-emoticons-explained |title=Don't know the difference between emoji and emoticons? Let me explain |first=Alex |last=Hern |date=February 6, 2015 |work=[[The Guardian]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608113509/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/06/difference-between-emoji-and-emoticons-explained |archive-date= Jun 8, 2023 }}</ref>

Originally meaning pictograph, the word ''emoji'' comes from Japanese {{nihongo||絵|e|'picture'}}&nbsp;+&nbsp;{{nihongo||文字|moji|'character'}};<ref>{{Cite book |last=Taggart |first=Caroline |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPO4CgAAQBAJ&q=emoji |title=New Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for the Modern World |date=2015-11-05 |publisher=Michael O'Mara Books |isbn=978-1-78243-473-3 |language=en}}</ref> the resemblance to the English words ''emotion'' and ''emoticon'' is [[False cognate|purely coincidental]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPO4CgAAQBAJ|title=New Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for the Modern World |first=Caroline |last=Taggart |date=November 5, 2015 |publisher=Michael O'Mara Books |isbn=9781782434733 |via=Google Books |quote=Hard on the heels of the emoticon comes the Japanese-born ''emoji'', also a <u>DIGITAL</u> icon used to express emotion, but more sophisticated in terms of imagery than those that are created by pressing a colon followed by a parenthesis. ''Emoji'' is made up of the Japanese for ''picture'' (''e'') and ''character'' (''moji''), so its resemblance to emotion and emoticon is a particularly happy coincidence. |access-date=October 25, 2017}}</ref> The first emoji sets were created by Japanese portable electronic device companies in the late 1980s and the 1990s.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2024-05-13 |title=New Earliest Emoji Sets From 1988 & 1990 Uncovered |url=https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-earliest-emoji-sets-from-1988-and-1990-uncovered/ |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=Emojipedia |language=en}}</ref> Emoji became increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after [[Unicode]] began encoding emoji into the Unicode Standard.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last=Blagdon |first=Jeff |title=How emoji conquered the world |url=https://www.theverge.com/2013/3/4/3966140/how-emoji-conquered-the-world |work=The Verge |publisher=Vox Media |access-date=November 6, 2013 |date=March 4, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Smile, You're Speaking EMOJI: The fast evolution of a wordless tongue|date=November 16, 2014|url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html|first=Adam|last=Sternbergh|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=4.4 KitKat |url=http://www.android.com/versions/kit-kat-4-4/ |work=Android}}</ref> They are now considered to be a large part of [[popular culture]] in [[Western World|the West]] and around the world.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/video/how-emojis-took-center-stage-in-american-pop-culture-1001844803597 |title=How Emojis took center stage in American pop culture |date=July 17, 2017 |work=NBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fisher |first=Jonathan |date=2015-04-22 |title=Here's how people in different countries use emoji |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/emoji-worldwide-popularity-and-use-by-country-2015-4 |url-access=registration |access-date=2021-04-15 |website=Business Insider Australia |language=en |archive-date=April 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415133147/https://www.businessinsider.com.au/emoji-worldwide-popularity-and-use-by-country-2015-4 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2015, [[OxfordDictionaries.com|Oxford Dictionaries]] named the [[Face with Tears of Joy emoji]] (😂) the [[Word of the year#Oxford|word of the year]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Oh |first=Yena |date=November 17, 2015 |title=Oxford Dictionaries 2015 Word of the Year is an Emoji |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/oxford-dictionary-says-the-2015-word-of-the-year-is-an-emoji/ |access-date=August 23, 2017 |publisher=PBS Newshour}}</ref><ref>Philiop Seargeant. The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Communication. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.</ref>