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 [http://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/grimacing-face-emoji/]. “Even the dictionary can have a hard time putting things into words 😬.” What tongue-tied the dictionary?

Google has today shared new statistics that show 😘 Face Blowing a Kiss [https://emojipedia.org/face-throwing-a-kiss/] beating out the 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes [https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-heart-shaped-eyes/] emoji. It is World Emoji Day [https://worldemojiday.com] after all, and Google noted: “to celebrate this day with the global community, we

To celebrate World Emoji Day [http://worldemojiday.com] on July 17[1] Apple has today offered a first look at the iOS emojis for 2018. We spoke to Apple VP of User Interface Design Alan Dye about the new emoji updates and when we can expect them. Popular additions coming

With World Emoji Day [http://worldemojiday.com/] fast approaching on July 17, Facebook has taken the opportunity to look at how emojis are being used on Facebook [https://emojipedia.org/facebook/] and Messenger [https://emojipedia.org/messenger/] platforms. Starting with the most popular emojis, these include the obvious 😂 Face With

In this month's Emoji Wrap podcast Google's Jennifer Daniel laments the lack of a sweaty heart emoji. Every month I send a newsletter [http://emojiwrap.com/] containing topics in the wider world of emoji and I like to discuss them with a guest in the emoji

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 she proposed some guidelines for crying emojis: > Use these emojis for crying 😪😰😢😥 Not this emoji 😭 That

Google today released a new beta [https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/06/android-p-beta-2-and-final-apis.html] of Android P which includes a preview of new emoji updates coming later in 2018. Mixed amongst a collection of emoji design changes and new emojis are two changes that give a nod to a potential

Today Unicode officially released version 11.0 of the Unicode Standard [https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-11-0/] and Twitter has added support for all 157 new emojis to the latest version of Twemoji. Twitter is typically one of the first companies to support new emoji releases[1] and Twemoji 11.0

A new emoji-like avatar from Apple is called Memoji [https://emojipedia.org/memoji/] and coming to iOS 12 this year. Announced in the keynote for Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, Memoji is basically Animoji [https://emojipedia.org/animoji/] but with your own face as the character. Like Animoji,

Unicode 11.0 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-11.0/] arrives on June 5, 2018. This signals the date which companies can begin supporting the new emojis. The final emoji list for 2018 [https://blog.emojipedia.org/157-new-emojis-in-the-final-2018-emoji-list/] was announced back in February, and the underlying release required to make this possible

Emojipedia's emoji archives now date back ten years, but how do you check what an emoji used to look like? You're not dreaming. There used to be a gavel emoji on iOS. It didn't get removed, it simply changed appearance. Yesterday's gavel

Users of Twitter for Android may notice an emoji change when accessing the service today. Twemoji [https://emojipedia.org/twitter/] designs are now shown within Twitter, replacing native emojis previously shown from platform vendors such as Google [https://emojipedia.org/google/] and Samsung [https://emojipedia.org/samsung/]. This update appears

2018 has been an active year for Twemoji. While we have yet to see any of the new Emoji 11.0 additions [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-11.0/] just yet, today Twitter has begun to roll out Twemoji 2.7 - the vendor's third minor update this year. This

Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder and beloved video game character, is a bit easier to spot in the real world now thanks to a new set of plates on his car. Originally posted on Hawk's Instagram story [https://www.instagram.com/tonyhawk/], photos show his front license plate featuring

As work on the the emoji list for 2019 continues, a white heart, flamingo, and maté have been added to the draft candidates list. White heart [https://emojipedia.org/white-heart/] has been one of the most popular emojis requested [https://blog.emojipedia.org/top-emoji-requests-2018/] by Emojipedia users in 2018. This,

Google's developer conference opened this year with CEO Sundar Pichai addressing the burger emoji “controversy” of 2017. Google previously displayed the 🍔 Burger emoji [https://emojipedia.org/hamburger/] with cheese underneath the burger patty [https://blog.emojipedia.org/how-do-you-like-your-burger-emoji/]. Addressing the matter in a lighthearted way, Pichai tweeted in

By many measures, 😂 Face With Tears of Joy [https://emojipedia.org/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 [https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-heart-shaped-eyes/]. In 2017, this emoji ranked 4th on Apple platforms [https://images.

Microsoft's Windows 10 “April 2018 Update” (most commonly referred to as Spring Creators Update until now) has been released today with 104 emoji changes. Whilst there are no new additions to the set,[1] tweaks and iterations are a definite nod in the direction of artwork on other

It's a flush. Every major vendor has now committed to redesign the gun emoji [https://emojipedia.org/pistol/], replacing it with a water pistol / squirt gun design. It took a while, and then it happened all at once. In the days since Google started rolling out a new

An update rolling out now to Android users has updated the gun emoji to appear as a toy water pistol, in line with recent changes by other vendors. It seems inevitable in retrospect. While vendors might have baulked at Apple's overnight redesign of the 🔫 Pistol [https://emojipedia.org/

Samsung has begun rolling out another set of updates to its emoji set. These changes contain design revisions which give further credence to 2018 being a year of increased emoji convergence [https://blog.emojipedia.org/2018-the-year-of-emoji-convergence/]. Samsung’s last emoji update was in February of this year, when Samsung Experience

Roughly two months since making a series of small design changes via its Twemoji 2.5 update [https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-2-5-emoji-changelog/], Twitter has today begun the rollout of Twemoji 2.6. Akin to the latest release, this update features no new emojis: Twitter has been fully up-to-date with Emoji

The emoji keyboard is mostly universal, but some vendors have final say over which characters appear in which regions on each device. iPhone users in China are missing one specific emoji on their emoji keyboard that shows on all others: 🇹🇼 Flag for Taiwan [https://emojipedia.org/flag-for-taiwan/]. > The iOS

One of the great virtues of emojis are their ability to mark tone where plain text cannot. A simple ❤️ Red Heart [https://emojipedia.org/heavy-black-heart/] can add affection to a text message. A string of 😂 😂 😂 Face With Tears of Joy [https://emojipedia.org/face-with-tears-of-joy/] can show we find something funny

One major dictionary company has begun documenting emojis. Is this a sign of things to come? Dictionary.com [http://dictionary.com] has expanded from covering just words, to also including emojis (and memes). Lexicographer Jane Solomon told Time [http://time.com/5186512/emoji-dictionary/]: > “These aren’t just a joke,