Interesting facts about emoji, emoticons are used daily on the Internet

In the digital age, emoticons (emoji) are so popular that they are considered as a separate language in digital communication, especially by messages and emails. Although popularly used everyday, not everyone knows the interesting facts behind these emoji.

The father of emoji

In 1998, Shigetaka Kurita, a Japanese designer who created the first 176 emoji with a frame of 12x12 pixels containing 144 points.

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Shigetaka Kurita.

The meaning of the name 'emoji'

'Emoji' is not derived from the word 'emoticon' as many people still speculate. In fact, this is a Japanese word, with 'e' meaning image, 'mo' means writing and 'ji' means character.

The explosion of emoji

14 years after its inception, when Apple launched iOS 6 in 2012, the emoji really exploded and became increasingly popular all over the world, to this day. How well-known smartphones like Samsung and Apple compete to create personalized or emoji emoji to give users interesting experiences.

The word 'emoji' is included in the Oxford dictionary

In August 2013, the word 'emoji' was officially included in the Oxford dictionary as a common word. Previously, Japan also had other words included in Oxford dictionaries like 'anime', 'manga', 'sushi', 'kimono', .

Total amount of emoji

According to the Unicode Consortium, the organization responsible for managing the emoji keyboard in 2015 the emoji number was 722 symbols, but by 2018, this number had increased to 2,823 symbols, skin colors, professions and gender selection. novelty added.

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Some new modern emoji icons are added.

Emoji is most used

'Tears of tears' is the dominant emoji emblem on both Google, Facebook and Twitter keyboards for many years in a row. Even in 2015, this emoji was added to the Oxford Dictionary.

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Top 10 most used emoji (Google Gboard keyboard statistics to 2018).

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Top 10 most used emoji on Facebook.

In Vietnam, users often use less common emoji in the world. Here are the 3 most used emoji in Vietnam.

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Emoji International Day

Starting in 2014, it is based on the date of the calendar-shaped emoji, July 17, which is the International Emoji Day, dedicated to emoticons.

On this day, on forums and social networks, there are many awards and voting activities as well as emoji-related movements and games.

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