Ten things you've never known … emojis



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1. The word emoji comes from Japanese "e" (photo) and "moji" (character).

2. The word has been used in Japanese since 1928, but according to the Oxford Dictionary was seen in English in 1997.

3. Since 1988, however, we used the word emoticon to refer to representations of facial expressions formed from text and punctuation.

The word emoji has appeared in Oxford Dictionaries since 2013.

5. In 2015, Oxford dictionaries named the Emoji Face with Tears of Joy as their word of the year.

6. The most popular emoji is currently the face with tears of joy to express laughter.

7. The Unicode Standard consists of 2,823 emojis. Half of all comments on Instagram include emojis.

8. From 2016 to 2017, the use of emoji in marketing messages has almost been multiplied by nine.

9. In 2009, a project began to translate the whole of Moby Dick into emoji. Emoji Dick, as it's called, got a place at the Library of Congress in 2014.

10. The original emoji collection created in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita stands at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, New York.

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