[Image: Apple] The top three most popular emoji are the joy smiley face emoji (conveys teary-eyed laughter), used a whopping 9.9% of the time; the red heart emoji, used 6.6% of the time; and the ...

Unicode has revealed the list of new emoji is is condering for Emoji 15.0 The list includes pink heart, jellyfish, khanda, shaking face and wireless symbol Emoji are expected to be approved in ...

The smiley face and heart icons popular in text messages predate today's smartphones. To trace their roots, you have to go back to Japan in the mid-1990s, when pagers were all the rage with teens.

An update to Unicode Standard is now available, and introduces approximately 250 emoji pictographic symbols. The emojis are a part of the Unicode 7.0 software update from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

July 17 is Emoji day - chosen because that is the date shown on most calendar emojis. The first emoji were invented by Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita in 1999, and have since become so popular that ...

Other emoji on the draft list include a pale blue heart and a grey heart, the “stop” (or “high five”) hand gesture, a flute, maracas and a hair pick.

Unicode 9.0 brings 72 new emojis: Selfie, black heart, pregnant woman, ... The latest version of Unicode also bundles six new scripts. By Sarmistha Acharya 06/23/16 AT 11:36 AM BST.