Travel and people
This one consists of a wide variety of images like Ferris wheel, roller coaster, silhouette of Japan, camping, tent, national park, motorway, railway track, sunrise over mountain, mosque, church, etc.
Objects
Icons in this category include bed, door, world map, umbrella on the ground, bags, balloon, party popper, Japanese dolls, wind chime, envelope, closed mailbox with lowered flag, calendar, etc.
Symbols
You will find a lot of icons like black heart, yellow heart, green heart, blue heart, purple heart, broken heart, two hearts, and etc., here. They are all so very helpful in expressing the different feelings being experienced by users.
Facts about emojis:
• The total number of emojis currently stands at 2,666.
• Emoji is the world’s fastest growing language. In the past two years, over ten billion emojis were used on Twitter.
• The word emoji was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013.
• In March 2015, Instagram, an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social-networking platform, reported that nearly half of the texts on Instagram contained emojis.
• New emojis are being added all the time. In 2017, the Unicode Consortium finalised 69 new ones, including a vampire, a genie, a mermaid and many others.
• All popular emojis give positive meanings.
• A restaurant “Little Yellow Door” in London city has written its menu in emoji language.
• Pop star Justin Bieber has developed his emoji app known as ‘justmoji’.
• The face with tears of joy in the eyes is the most used emoji worldwide. The red heart, the heart eyes face and the pink hearts emojis meanwhile fall in second, third and fourth places.
Published in Dawn, Young World July 15th, 2017l