emoji

emoji /ɪˈməʊdʒi/

noun (plural same or emojis)
A small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication:

• emoji liven up your text messages with tiny smiley faces
• On my devices, I have three keyboards configured: English, Italian and Emoji.
• You can still use the default iOS emoji within Facebook Messages by enabling them in your device's keyboard settings.
• Thanks to emoji, the subtlety of first generation emoticons could be lost on younger generations.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/emoji


Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…

the tears of joy emoji




http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/11/word-of-the-year-2015-emoji

Difference between emoji and emoticons explained
An emoticon is a typographic display of a facial representation, used to convey emotion in a text only medium. [...]
In contrast to the grassroots creation of the emoticon, emoji were created in the late 1990s by NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese communications firm. The name is a contraction of the words e and moji, which roughly translates to pictograph. Unlike emoticons, emoji are actual pictures, of everything from a set of painted nails () to a slightly whimsical ghost (). [...]
To complicate matters, some emoji are also emoticons. [...]
There’s more.

Although the name’s not much used in the west, it’s probably best to distinguish kaomoji from emoticons in general. Independently invented around the same time as emoticons, they make the most of the fuller character set necessary to write in Japanese, and can be read head-on. They may be as simple as (*_*), or as complex as (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧. or ಠ_ಠ.

Oh, and then there’s stickers, the custom pictures used in a number of instant messaging clients such as Facebook Messenger or Line. Some apps refer to them as emoji, but they’re fully specific to the app, and can’t be cut and paste anywhere else except when they’re treated as an image.

With that much variation, is it surprising that people get a little (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ if you confuse with ?

How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets (The New York Times Magazine)

Ωραίο άρθρο, έμαθα και κάτι για το έργο του Unicode Consortium. Βρίσκω αστεία τη σκέψη ότι για κάποιους είναι ο κακός της υπόθεσης.

Συμπαθάτε με αν βρήκα τον σύνδεσμο κάπου αλλού στο φόρουμ· έψαξα αλλά δεν τον βρήκα πουθενά, και δεν θυμάμαι καθόλου πού τον πέτυχα.

The Colbert emoji (face-with-one-eyebrow-raised)