Emojis have long been considered casual, even sometimes chaotic internet conversation enhancers. But their growing presence in corporate and work-centered content and communications shows how they’re becoming a pivotal part of online professional expression.

As students around the world open their books on a new academic year, they can look to a whole library of emojis to help them talk about their return to the classroom.

TikTok users are ditching “mainstream” emojis for often absurdist alternatives in meme-ified movements designed to confuse, amuse, and divide the in-group from the rest.

Netflix’s "Adolescence" has gained global attention, not just for its story but for scenes exploring supposed hidden meanings in emojis. We examine how the show presents emoji use, question recent media claims about “secret codes,” and highlight how emoji repurposing isn’t new.

As we observe the arrival of the Spring Equinox, emojis can help us make sense of the cosmos and channel our inner astrologers.

The yearly nationwide basketball competition is just now heating up. These are the emojis you’ll likely see in the starting lineup.

Our personal new years are full of opportunities for emojis to help us celebrate our growth—and have some much-earned festive fun along the way.

It’s no stretch to say that emojis have transformed the way people interact on the internet, and in few other areas is that truer than in the world of online dating.

This Sunday is the 59th annual Super Bowl, the biggest night of the American football calendar. This year's championship game is once again a showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles—so expect to see many football emojis this weekend.

We’re officially shedding the old and sinking our fangs into the Year of the Snake, which is why you might have seen the snake emoji surging in usage lately.

Many of us use emojis as playful, lighthearted emblems of self-expression sprinkled into our messages. But emojis can also communicate a sense of gravity, especially when they serve as stand-ins for and reactions to real-world geopolitical phenomena of global consequence.

‘Tis the season when we unwrap those quintessential holiday emojis that have been patiently awaiting their annual re-emergence. Whatever you may be celebrating as this year draws to a close, there’s a whole host of emojis ready to help you express the festive spirit within.

It’s that time of year when many of us gobble up some Thanksgiving grub and express our gratitude for the abundance in our lives. Saying thanks in the right way is a subtle art, but luckily the emoji library is brimming with options for showing how grateful we are.

In the 10 years since Emojipedia first began documenting global emoji use back in 2013, we've seen many of the world's most well-known personalities become strongly associated with specific emojis, both fleetingly or substantially.

For the last 10 years, we here at Emojipedia have been providing the world with up-to-date and well-researched emoji information. In doing so, we've documented a large number of emoji-based viral moments - here are our 10 most memorable.

This week marks the beginning of a new year within the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar, and we here at Emojipedia would like to wish all that celebrate Chinese New Year a very happy year of the 🐅 Tiger!

As we swiftly approach the end of the year, holiday season emojis such as 🎄 Christmas Tree and 🎅 Santa Claus are soaring in use, as they have done since the earliest days of the emoji keyboard.

As we approach Thanksgiving in the United States, various emojis experience a considerable holiday-based jump in use. This is especially true of those emojis that can be associated with the traditionally sizable Thanksgiving dinner.

Happy year of the 🐂 Ox! Or is that the 🐄 Cow or 🐃 Water Buffalo? Either way, there's an emoji for that. In 2021 Chinese New Year falls on February 12. This marks the end of Year of the Rat and the start of Year of the Ox. The order

The pandemic may have warped our collective sense of time, but time has always been strange in the emoji world. Starting around April 2020, a cluster of articles popped up exploring the science of how time feels meaningless during a pandemic. According to the New York Times, Google saw an

There's a lot. Depending on exactly how broad you consider a Christmas emoji list [https://emojipedia.org/christmas/] to be, this is what we've come up with as of December 2020: * 👶 Baby [https://emojipedia.org/baby/] * 👼 Baby Angel [https://emojipedia.org/baby-angel/] * 🎅 Santa Claus [https:

A comprehensive list of emojis used at Christmas time, where they come from, and most importantly: how much cheer they spread on each platform. Both ⛄ Winter [https://emojipedia.org/winter/] and 🎅 Christmas [https://emojipedia.org/christmas/] are well represented on the emoji keyboard. But have you taken a closer look

Is there a time of year that is better represented using emojis than Halloween? Saving you the time of scrolling through your emoji keyboard to find the best spooky emojis, I hereby present the best emojis for Halloween [https://emojipedia.org/halloween/]: 😨 😰 😱 🤡 😈 👿 👹 👺 💀 ☠️ 👻 👽 👾 🤖 🧙‍ 🧚‍ 🧛‍ 🧜‍ 🧝‍ 🧞‍ 🧟‍ 🕴 💚 🖤 🦄 🦇 🦉 🕷 🕸 🥀 🍫 🍬 🍭 🏚 🌃 🛸 🌕 🌚 🌩 ⚡️ 🎃 🔮 🎭 🕯 🗡 ⛓ ⚰️ ⚱️ Some are the typical fare you expect at

It's Chinese New Year [http://emojipedia.org/chinese-new-year], and many people will be celebrating around the globe. This year is year of the 🐓 Rooster [http://emojipedia.org/rooster/]. Fun Fact: Each of the Chinese Zodiac Animal Signs has an emoji. This is deliberate, and dates back

To all those celebrating this holiday, here is a selection of emojis [http://emojipedia.org/thanksgiving/] that might come in handy: * 👏 Clapping Hands Sign [http://emojipedia.org/clapping-hands-sign/] * 🍂 Fallen Leaf [http://emojipedia.org/fallen-leaf/] * 💕 Two Hearts [http://emojipedia.org/two-hearts/] * 🦃 Turkey [http://emojipedia.org/turkey/] * 🍁 Maple