Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

Once reserved for romantic partners and other loved ones, the heart emoji can now mean anything—which means it has no meaning ...

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.

Prof Fahlman posted the ‘sideways smiley’ onto an ... be understood as a language, emoji combinations are largely subject to interpretation. What do you mean broccoli-broccoli-crying face?

Heartbreak, maybe? Truth is, there’s a surprising range of heart emoji meanings. To get the scoop, we spoke with Keith Broni, the editor-in-chief of Emojipedia, the go-to guide for everything emoji.