
Originated from Japan, now Emoji symbols are popular in all major operating systems, social websites and messaging apps. The next version of the Unicode standard is planned to be released in the middle of 2015 as version 8.0. Some of the new Emoji will be Spider, Spider Web, Middle Finger, Hot Pepper, Candle, and Joystick. What is more no announcement has been released by Google, Microsoft, and Apple on their schedule for including the latest Emoji units into their platforms. However, these are still not available for Android and iOS users.
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In June 2014 Unicode standard update 7.0 has been introduced and 250 additional Emoji units were added to the list. At present, you can barely send a message without using Emoji symbols and there is no doubt these Japanese characters became a worldwide phenomenon.Ĭurrently, there are 722 Emoji symbols available and the vast majority of them were released more than one year ago. One of the main reasons Emojis are so popular today is that users can easily use one or two symbols to express their emotions instead of typing lots of words.

Few years after the start Emojis began to appear in many email services and websites which resulted in worldwide popularity. The term Emoji means picture (e) + character (moji) or a pictograph to describe it in one word. Currently, Emoji symbols are supported on all major platforms including OS X, iOS, Windows, and Android.Įmoji originated in Japan and that is the main reason why we have so many symbols designed specifically for Japanese culture (Japanese foods, a bowing businessman or a Japanese face mask). You can also notice emojis used on Snapchat Trophies. These characters or images are very popular on social media websites and messaging apps like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Google Hangouts, Snapchat, iMessage, Whatsapp and others. With the use of them, users convey a certain emotion which creates an emotional impact for the receiver.

Emoji are emoticons, smileys and ideograms used to express emotions in websites or electronic messages.
