Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in ...

Formerly known as smileys and often confused with emoticons, emoji ... Grinning Face. Smiling Face With Open Mouth And Tightly-Closed Eyes. These are similar to the two simpler smiley faces.

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, 21-year-old Hafeezat Bishi spoke about her experience with the emoji as some of her new ...