Alas, it’s not anymore. At this point in time, a basic emoji keyboard has 95 smiley faces with varying expressions and gestures, many of which don’t mean the same thing to all of us.

You are about to send a text message. Should you express an emotion with words or an emoji? According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, ...

In 2010, Unicode encoded its first-ever set of emojis. This included many faces, animals, hand signals, and other more basic characters.

In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary declared the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji its Word of the Year, an event that marked ...

In Slack’s emoji menu, there are two versions of basic smiley faces. As shown above, there is :slightly_smiling_face: and :simple_smile:. At first glance, it might appear that the first offers a ...

Yihua Chen, Xingchen Yang, Hannah Howman, Ruth Filik. Individual differences in emoji comprehension: Gender, age, and culture. PLOS ONE, 2024; 19 (2): e0297379 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297379 ...

Gender, culture, and age all appear to play a role in how emojis are interpreted, according to a study published February 14, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Yihua Chen, Xingchen Yang ...