New Delhi: Emoticons or emojis in the digital era have emerged crucial part of expressing thoughts through charming digital characters. Just when words fail to convey our feeling to our loved ones, emojis come to the rescue.
Emojis are also popularly called pictograms, logograms, ideograms, and smileys. The emergency of emojis first happened in 1982 when computer scientist Scott Fahlmamn introduced the graphic method of text communication with symbols like 🙂 and 🙁 to replace language.
With emojis becoming popular over the years, iOS, Android, and WhatsApp started rolling out new characters, making changes to their current emojis. Hardly any people don’t use emojis to express their feelings and thoughts.
Every year on July 17, World Emoji Day is celebrated. The day belongs to Jeremy Burge, the inventor of Emojipedia, an emoji reference website that lists the meaning and use of all emojis. Besides, in 1999, Shigetaka Kurita, a Japanese programmer, invented emojis to enable pagers in his nation to transmit and receive heart-shaped emoticons. This has led to the creation of the Unicode Consortium which developed universal standards for characters, including emoji across all software systems. Frequency developed as one of the important criteria in whether emoticons are cut.
Thus to celebrate World Emoji Day, take a look at the most common emojis used by the people:
Loudly crying face ?
The emoji shows a yellow face with mouth open and streams of tears flowing through the eyes can express a dire sadness. However, don’t worry, through the emoji indicates grief the emoji has largely been used to share positivity.
Face with tears of joy ?
This emoji represents someone so happy that tears are rolling down their cheeks. This emoji represents joy and merriment and can be used when someone says or does something amusing or humiliating.
Red heart ❤️
One of the most popularly used emojis to express love and enthusiasm. The keyboard includes two red heart emojis – a regular red heart and a heart suit.
Rolling on floor laughing emoji ?
The emoji shows a yellow face, squished and tilted to one side as if rolling down the floor. When compared to Face with Tears of Joy, this emoji represents uncontrollable laughter. It can also be used to represent “when somebody says something dumb.”
Pleading face ?
The “big puppy-dog eyes” emoji has multiple interpretations. While some people use it to show that they are unhappy or worried, others use it to show that they care. The emoji also represents sympathy, love, and admiration for someone else.
