Emojiology: 🤗 Hugging Face Among the newest members in the ever-growing emoji family in 2019 is Yawning Face, which is covering its mouth with a hand. This hand is notable not only because the gesture is central
Emojiology: 🙃 Upside-Down Face Whenever I share the work I do in defining emoji for Emojipedia, I inevitably meet a two-part response. First, people fawn over their faves. Hearts, smiles, and, yes, poo 💩 pile high among them.
Emojiology: 🙏 Folded Hands As clever as the explanation may be, the children’s game of tag is not short for touch and go. Something posh, or luxurious and stylish, isn’t so called because swankier cabins
Emojiology: 👿 Angry Face With Horns While we may be seeing greater convergence in their overall design, emojis still have variations in their appearance across platforms that can significantly alter their tone and personality. In a playful exercise earlier
Sorry, London Times, the Kids These Days Aren't Using 🛀 for ⚰️ On Friday, February 22, the London Times ran an article on emojis that made many of us go 😂, 🙃, or 🤔 online. The Times emoji explainer is killing me. 🍆 🍑 🔥 pic.twitter.com/uA8Th2Mc62 — Latika
Emojiology: 🥰 Smiling Face With Hearts Earlier this month, the Unicode Consortium debuted its final list of new emojis for 2019—and we debated it. Some men felt challenged by what Pinching Hand implied about their bodies while some
Emojiology: 😳 Flushed Face A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words. So, too, at least in the realms of texting and social media, is an emoji. Behold the wide eyes and red cheeks of
Emojiology: 👼 Baby Angel As we saw in our Emojiology on 👻 Ghost, Halloween is downright haunted by emojis to mark the occasion. Close behind it, on the holiday front, is Christmas. From a 🎁 Gift under the 🎄 Christmas
Emojiology: 🔥 Fire As many of us around the world move into the colder months of the year, we bundle up our emojis with scarves 🧣, coats 🧥, and gloves 🧤, prepared for the freezing snow ❄️ and icy winds
Emojiology: 👻 Ghost When it comes to emojis, there’s no time of year quite like Halloween. We fill our texts and tweets with the many tricks and treats emojis offer for the holiday, from jack-o’
No, the OK Hand 👌 is not a symbol of white power Despite another round of viral reports alleging the contrary, the OK gesture is not intrinsically a racist symbol of white power—nor is its emoji form, 👌 OK Hand. Let’s clarify what the
Emojiology: 🤡 Clown Face Think emojis are all just fun and games? Then you haven’t met one that manifests some of our deepest, darkest fears 😱. It wants to give you a balloon 🎈. It wants to charm
Emojiology: 🤠 Cowboy Hat Face In our Emojiology series so far, we’ve clarified the confusion of 😪 Sleepy Face, reconciled the conflicts of 😭 Loudly Crying Face, and unpacked the complexities of 😏 Smirking Face and 😬 Grimacing Face. But emojis,
Emojiology: 😬 Grimacing Face You know something’s up when the dictionary is at a loss for words. “We’re gonna be honest with you,” an article on Dictionary.com admits. “Even the dictionary can have a
Emojiology: 😭 Loudly Crying Face We use emojis to help us express emotions, but sometimes it’s the emojis themselves that bring them on. Exhibit A: 😭. Social media manager Jasmyn Lawson ignited a Twitter debate last year when
Emojiology: 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes By many measures, 😂 Face With Tears of Joy has led the pack as the most used emoji in recent years. Dogging its heels, though, is another smiley: 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes. In 2017,
Emojiology: 😏 Smirking Face One of the great virtues of emojis are their ability to mark tone where plain text cannot. A simple ❤️ Red Heart can add affection to a text message. A string of 😂 😂 😂 Face With
Emojiology: 😪 Sleepy Face You might have scrolled past this emoji—😪—and puzzled about what it means, exactly. Tucked in a column with 🤤 Drooling Face and 😵 Dizzy Face , it's a smiley with closed eyes and a slack
