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Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

Despite the coronavirus pandemic and political and economic uncertainty the world over, texters in 2021 preferred to keep it light when it came to the emojis they used. An annual study by Facemoji ...

Characters that come with varying skin tones and genders were counted together, and newer emoji didn't rank highly since they take time to roll out to every platform. Check out the top 10 most ...

You might think the sentiment conveyed by a text message heart emoji would be self-explanatory but new research finds ...

It turns out that the most popular word of 2014 wasn't actually a word at all. According to a new list by the Global Language Monitor, the heart emoji was the most commonly used word in the ...

This is the most popular heart emoji—and the most versatile. Unfortunately, it can also be the most confusing, Broni says. A red heart can be as innocuous as liking a picture on social media ...

Argentina's flag in top 20: Messi effect The Partying Face is in the top 10 lists of several European nations, including Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Russia, indicating a post ...

Emoji keyboards have become one of the most popular consequences to Apple offering third-party keyboard replacements in iOS 8. Apple’s default emoji keyboard leaves much to be desired, and developers ...