EMOJI Definition & Meaning

emoji

[ ih-moh-jee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

plural emoji, emojis.

Digital Technology. a small digital picture or pictorial symbol that represents a thing, feeling, concept, etc., used in text messages and other electronic communications and usually part of a standardized set:
She texted me an emoji of “money with wings,” which probably means she’s out shopping.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of emoji¹

First recorded in 1990–95; from Japanese: literally, “pictograph,” equivalent to e “picture, drawing” + moji “(written) character, letter”; kaomoji ( def )

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Example Sentences

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But what Trump and his minions cannot do, as they blunder around breaking things and congratulating each other by emoji, is to force Europe backward into picture-postcard fantasyland, or build a new American empire.

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The tragicomic hallucination that you see unfolding every day, wherein ostensible adults discuss secret war plans in hackable social media texts replete with emojis, exclamation points and lols, is what the American people freely chose.

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A separate exchange used an expletive to describe punching an inmate "after he bit me so there's some closure", along with a laughing emoji.

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Two weeks ago, Delaney published a tight close-up photo of herself and Morgan with their faces nearly touching, captioning it “Pure love” with a red heart emoji and the hashtags #lucky and #grateful.

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As each participant read their texts aloud as they typed, Hesgeth threw in a mix of war plans, gifs and eggplant emojis.

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