NEW YORK — We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that’s sad? There’s loaf of bread and a croissant. But where’s the sliced bagel? How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy ...

Like side parts, skinny jeans, and girlbossing, emoji can be categorized as dated internet ephemera. These days, certain symbols, like , are seen as especially cringe and — even worse — Millennial.

There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon. Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive emoji, ...

The people, represented by the group Emojination, had a simple request: consider the hippo. “The HIPPOPOTAMUS, or HIPPO for short, is one of the last remaining popular charismatic megafauna that still ...

Aside from a brief stint in middle school when I was convinced I was Sabrina the Teenage Witch — mostly because we shared an affinity for zigzag hair parts and talking animals — I've never been too ...

Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

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Officially it’s not a shaka. But it’s close enough, and people who use emojis will soon be able to send a hand gesture emoji instead of typing \m/ when saying ‘shaka’ in text messages. Among 72 ...

The fourth annual World Emoji Day (yes, it's a thing) is Monday, celebrating the explosion in use of the little characters that have changed the way people around the world communicate. Some have ...

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The Unicode Consortium announced plans (PDF) to support new emoji aimed at promoting gender equality—11 new “professional” emoji will depict both men and women performing different jobs, and there ...

More inclusive emojis may be coming to future software updates, including one of a pregnant man. Ahead of World Emoji Day on Saturday, popular emoji reference site Emojipedia released new images of ...