What is SmileEmoji .com ?
Smile emoji is a website which has a collection of emojis, emoji symbols and emoji faces which you can copy and use on facebook, twitter and other social media.
Smile Emoji Features
- Search option available
- copy emoji to clipboard with single click
- All emoji are categorised: Smileys and People, Animals
and Nature, Food and Drink, Activity, Travel and Places,
Objects, Symbols, Flags
- It saves your last used emojis so you don't need to find again
- You can add text with emoji and copy the whole string with one click
What are Emoji?
Emojis are smileys and ideograms which are used for communicationon mobile devices web pages and social media. Unlike emoticons, emoji are actual pictures.
Emojis are originally from Japan, e ("picture") + moji ("character") and resemblence to english words emoticon and emotion is purely coincidental.
Emojis first appeared on Japanese mobile phones in 1997. Now they are used on all social media websites and apps including Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram. Mobile operating systems apple and android use emoji.
History of Emoji
We have always longed to truly express the way we feel, prompted by the coldness of the screens that surround us, we've developed a new kind of language a universal communication tool that led to subtly express our emotions.
It's been called the fastest-growing language ever. One study suggests that about three billion people now use it.
It's central to the way we express ourselves and those who study it say it will become even more vital in the coming years.
39 percent of communication on a regular day is through technology. We've shut out that rhythm, the sound of the voice and so emojis is almost a brilliant human way of replacing that.
Emoji appeared in most of our lives in about 2011, when Apple began including it on iPhones but people have been searching for a truly visual language for thousands of years.
In the 1860s in France, a scientist first tried to create a dictionary of human expressions by electrocuting volunteers with a probe and photographing them. Charles Darwin later used these pictures to try and make his own taxonomy of expressions. But emoji was truly born in the late 1990s in Japan where social nuances are incredibly important.
Japanese pagers first allowed people to send each other a heart. When the heart was removed from pages later sales plummeted.
Who is Shigetaka Kurita?
Shigetaka Kurita, a young engineer at the Japanese phone company NTT DoCoMo realized that people were desperate to include feeling and tone in their digital messages.
With text messages there was the missing element of human emotion that couldnβt exactly be expressed with letters and numbers.
Before emojis , Aside from simple faces using colons and brackets there was no way to visually express the emotion behind the message.
He was inspired by Japanese visual imagery that would sometimes use symbols to express a characters emotion without using text and weather reports that used a sun to communicate good weather.
He created first set of 176 symbols that allowed for the user to express things in a visual way that basic text couldnβt.
He called this set "EMOJI" with "E" meaning picture and "MOJI" meaning character, and released in 1999. His images quickly became a hit and began to be heavily used by Japanese mobile phone.
Apple adopted emoji in first Iphone in 2007.
Some of the characters are still very Japanese but apart from the Happy Face, which is pretty universal, everyone on earth now uses them differently.
Shigetaka Kurita never expected much to happen after he made his emoji set. His favorite remains The Heart.
The Museum of Modern Art acquired the original set of 176 emojis.
Most Popular Emojis on Social Media
- Face with tears of joy π
- Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes π
- Face throwing a kiss π
- Rolling on the floor laughing face π€£
- Grinning face π
- Heavy black heart (red heart) β€οΈ
- Winking face π
- Smiling face with smiling eyes π
- Thumbs Up π
- Smiling face with open mouth and smiling eyes π
Emoji Facts
- Emoji originated in Japan in 1997
- "EMOJI" word comes from Japanese with "E" meaning picture and "MOJI" meaning character
- As of 2019, there are in total 2,823 emojis in the Unicode Standard.
- World Emoji Day is celebrated every year on July 17.
- "Face with tears of joy π β was named Word of the Year in 2015
- The book βEmoji Dickβ is written entirely in emojis.
It is a translation of the
classic Herman Melville book, βMoby Dickβ.