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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).
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]
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.
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.
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 Three Arrows ( German: Drei Pfeile) is a social democratic political symbol associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), used in the late history of the Weimar Republic. First conceived for the SPD-dominated Iron Front as a symbol of the social democratic resistance against Nazism in 1932, it became an official symbol of ...
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 ...
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.
See also. U+262E☮PEACE SYMBOLU+01F54A🕊DOVE OF PEACE. The V sign is a hand gesture in which the index and middle fingers are raised and parted to make a V shape while the other fingers are clenched. It has various meanings, depending on the circumstances and how it is presented.
