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Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, 'picture') + moji (文字, 'character'); the resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental. [4] The first emoji sets were created by Japanese portable electronic device companies in the late 1980s and the 1990s. [5]
While only U+261D ☝ WHITE UP POINTING INDEX is officially an emoji, Microsoft and Samsung add the other three directions as well (U+261C ☜ WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX, U+261E ☞ WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX, U+261F ☟ WHITE DOWN POINTING INDEX).
U+1FBC1 ﯁ LEFT THIRD WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX; U+1FBC2 ﯂ MIDDLE THIRD WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX; U+1FBC3 RIGHT THIRD WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX; Emoji. Five Unicode manicule characters are emoji, including one of those in Unicode 1.0 and all four introduced in Unicode 6.0.
Emoji variation sequences U+: 2194: 2195: 2196: 2197: 2198: 2199: 21A9: 21AA base code point: ↔: ↕: ↖: ↗: ↘: ↙: ↩: ↪ base+VS15 (text) ↔︎: ↕︎: ↖︎: ↗︎: ↘︎: ↙︎: ↩︎: ↪︎ base+VS16 (emoji) ↔️: ↕️: ↖️: ↗️: ↘️: ↙️: ↩️: ↪️
Western style emoticons are mostly written from left to right as though the head is rotated counter-clockwise 90 degrees. One will most commonly see the eyes on the left, followed by the nose (often omitted) and then the mouth.
Wave is a gesture in which the hand is raised and moved left and right, as a greeting or sign of departure. Thanks can be given by holding a hand upright, palm outwards, with all fingers pointing upwards, with the hand at the same level as the face or just above, usually held for around a second, in British and other cultures. This is commonly ...
The Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block contains seven emoji: U+2B05–U+2B07, U+2B1B–U+2B1C, U+2B50 and U+2B55. [3] [4] The block has fourteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the seven emoji.
Irony punctuation is any form of notation proposed or used to denote irony or sarcasm in text. Written text, in English and other languages, lacks a standard way to mark irony, and several forms of punctuation have been proposed to fill the gap. The oldest is the percontation point in the form of a reversed question mark ( ⸮ ), proposed by ...
Finger heart. The mini heart gesture is a trend that was popularized in South Korea in which the index finger and thumb come together like a snap to form a tiny heart. [1] The gesture was popularized by K-pop idols, who would often use the gesture to express their love and gratitude to their fans. It is represented in Unicode with the codepoint ...
Pointing. Pointing is a gesture specifying a direction from a person's body, usually indicating a location, person, event, thing or idea. It typically is formed by extending the arm, hand, and index finger, although it may be functionally similar to other hand gestures.
