The Unicode Consortium has released a preview of emoji that will be in the Unicode 17.0 release, including Hairy Creature and ...

Emoji are now racially inclusive, avoid gender bias, and include the experiences of people with disabilities. ... which serves as a reference emoji in the application.

To be clear though, this only includes cases that reference the words “emoji” or “emoticon”—it’s unclear if there are possibly more cases where emoji are referenced by symbols alone.

World Emoji Day is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that July 17 is the date shown in the Calendar emoji: 📅 According ...

When judges in the United Kingdom hear evidence of a crime, the appearance of an eggplant icon in people’s online chatter may not mean what they think it does.

Emojis started out as a series of simple emoticons built directly from text (the emoticon was first used in the early 1980s). Since then, they’ve developed into a series of pictures, with more ...

Here are the top 10 emojis Babbel says are often used differently across the generations: Gen Z: Means ‘I’m dead’ – used to ...

While there was a tie for favorite emoji at CNET, one emoji received about 20% of the votes for most-used emoji, and that is the 🙏 folded hands emoji. While this emoji can be understood to mean ...

The league did the same for TNT's NBA crew -- representing Charles Barkley with a half-eaten doughnut.