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Emoji Meaning
While texting someone in our daily lives, we use several emojis or emoticons to show our emotions or express ourselves. Emoji offers us an innovative way to express our emotions. We have an emoji for almost every emotion, let see how many we have and what they mean and where we can use them.
What is Emoji?
Emoji are used while “texting” or messaging someone, usually for an informal cause. They are pictograms or smiley mostly used to add emotions to the conversation. They are too similar to the emoticons but are available in various genres, few represent various facial expressions and a few represent everyday items, places, etc.
Origin of Emoji
Emoji word is taken from the Japanese word “E-moh-jee,” which means “picture character“, it was added to the Japanese keyboard in 1997 but got popular worldwide in 2010. Meanwhile, emoticons were added to the keyword dictionary in 1990 by a Japanese company.
Benefits of Emoji
- Emojis are used to add emotions to a conversation.
- Many emojis are added in the keyboard library with a social message.
- Sometimes, when you don’t get words to say, emoji’s help express your emotions.
- It saves your time and does not take much space.
Drawbacks of Emoji
Emoji is misunderstood so many times. Even sometimes, people use them in the wrong mean and sometimes understood in the wrong way, which may cause annoyance among people. Some common drawbacks of emoji are as follows;
- It may look unprofessional if you use an emoji in your message.
- It may not fit with the reputation of a brand.
- It may not render properly, e.g., instead of seeing a heart, the receiver could see a black box or a question mark.
- It may deteriorate vocabulary, e.g., kids won’t learn new words if they overuse emoji in their messages.
- Some emoji are hard to judge and they may have multiple meanings.
List of Emoji
Each emoji has its meaning, which is different from another one. The most popular emoji are described below with their meaning in tabular form.
| Emoji | Meaning | Uses | Year of appearance |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Happy Face with heart eyes emoji | This emoji is used to show some love and appreciation toward anything. It represents love for some person, place, etc. | 2010 |
 | Smiling Face with three hearts | This emoji is used to show love, affection, range of happiness, or sometimes to share the news of being in love with someone. | 2018 |
 | Starstruck emoji | This emoji is used for excitement or to say “amazing,” fascinating, etc. | 2017 |
 | Crying so loud emoji | This emoji represents sadness, pain. This emoji is an ironic emoji used to show that a person is so hurt or in pain. | 2010 |
 | Crying face emoji | This emoji represents grief, hurt, or sadness but is less intensive than crying so loud emoji. | 2010 |
 | Pensive face emoji | In this emoji, the eyes are downward, showing sadness toward something, like something bad happened or news of someone’s dismissal. This is used to represent sorrow, apology, and tragic situation. This emoji may also be used to represent an apology and to say sorry to someone. | 2010 |
 | Frowning face emoji | This emoji is used to represent dissatisfaction, liking, or sadness about missing a close one. | 1993 |
 | Frowning Face with open mouth | This emoji represents the little sadness, disappointment, amazement, or shock and sometimes concern too | 2012 |
 | Slightly frowning face emoji. | This emoji represents sadness but in a slighter way, anxiety or shock. | 2014 |
 | Confused face emoji | This emoji represents confusion and sadness. | 2012 |
 | Confounded face emoji | These emoji represent sadness in the way that someone is holding tears. This emoji may represent so many emotions like disgrace, sadness, repulsion, etc. | 2010 |
 | Disappointed Face | This emoji represents the miserable emotion, dissatisfaction, pain, sadness, etc. | 2010 |
 | Worried face emoji | This emoji represents the miserable or anxious emotion, concern, nervousness, dissatisfaction, etc. | 2012 |
 | Sad but relieved face emoji | This emoji is used to represent anxiousness, sadness, worry. | 2010 |
 | Weary face emoji | This emoji is used for various sentiments of aggravation, grief, enjoyment, and affection. | 2010 |
 | Pleading eyes emoji | This emoji is used when we want to ask for help from someone or plead or beg for something. It shows cute puppy eyes in a very attractive manner. | 2018 |
 | Fearful face emoji | This emoji is used to represent “terror” or distress. This emoji shows a fearful face or disbelief. For example, “I don’t know that”. | 2010 |
 | Fearful Face with sweat emoji | This emoji represents anxiety, but in a threatening manner, it is used to show the person is disappointed or sad, or anxious. | 2010 |
 | Grimacing face emoji | This emoji is used to represent dissatisfaction. It shows a person is disapproving or telling a person is wrong. | 2012 |
 | Unamused face emoji | This emoji is used to show disagreement, irritation, or crankiness toward something or the action of another person. | 2010 |
 | Smirking face emoji | People usually get confused with unamused Faces, but it is usually used to show flirtation or mysterious facial expressions. For example, when you are texting someone with excitement but don’t get a reply with the same happiness or excitement, you can use this emoji to show your disappointment. | 2010 |
 | Emoji with raised eyebrows | This emoji is used to represent the “suspecting”. Also, it may be used to represent worry, concern, skepticism, mistrust. | 2017 |
 | Emotionless emoji | It is used to represent the disgrace or disapproval of something. For example, when we don’t like the action done by someone. | 2012 |
 | Neutral face | This emoji is used to represent “disappointment” or “whatever”. It is used when we don’t like what the other person is saying and want to reply to them, “okay, whatever.” | 2010 |
 | Face without mouth emoji | This emoji represents “I don’t know what to say” or embarrassment toward something. | 2010 |
 | Emoji with rolling eyes | This emoji is used to represent scorn, displeasure, aggravation, and lethargy. It may also be used in a sassy way to say, “Yeah, whatever.” | 2015 |
 | Face with open mouth emoji | This emoji expresses both happiness and sadness, and it can be used anywhere. It represents happy eyes with an open mouth. | 2012 |
 | Hushed face emoji | This emoji represents a peaceful situation or shock, and it is often used to say, “oh my god.” | 2012 |
 | Astonished Face | This emoji represents a surprise situation. It is often used when a person wants to say “I don’t believe it”, “no idea about it,” etc. | 2010 |
 | Zipper mouth face | It shows “my lips are sealed”, this may be used as if we have to keep something secret and not going to tell anyone. | 2015 |
 | Grinning face | This emoji shows your happiness or pleasure toward something and shows a pleasant smile. | 2012 |
 | Grinning Face with big eyes | This emoji shows a common pleasure or happiness. This is similar to a grinning face but with bigger eyes. | 2010 |
 | Grinning Face with smiling eyes | It is used to show general but less excitement or happiness than grinning face or grinning face with big eyes emoji. | 2010 |
 | Beaming Face with a smile | This emoji shows big teeth as it is super excited for something or teasing. It is used to show affection and happiness or while teasing someone. | 2010 |
 | Sweating Grinning face emoji | This emoji represents “distress” or the close call, for example, “woof, thank god she didn’t notice me.” | 2010 |
 | Hugging face emoji | This emoji represents “the hug”; this represents thank, love, and care or expresses affection, optimistic emotion. | 2015 |
 | Smiling face emoji | This emoji represents happiness and warmth and a positive feeling. | 1993 |
 | Smiling Face with smiling eyes or Blushing emoji | This emoji is used to show that you’re happy about something or positive response to something. | 2010 |
 | Face showing tears of joy emoji | This emoji represents laughter, and this emoji is laughing so hard that tears with joy are coming out of its eyes. This is another way to say “lol.” | 2010 |
 | Rolling on the floor with laughter emoji | This emoji is used to say “ROLF”. It is used when we want to tell someone that they are so funny that we can’t stop laughing so hard. | 2016 |
 | Squinting grinning face emoji | This emoji is used to express excitement or happiness or heartily expression. | 2010 |
 | Emoji with relieved Face | This emoji is used to represent reprieve, composed, harmony or satisfaction, etc. | 2010 |
 | Thinking face emoji | This emoji represents that the person is thinking a lot of wondering. These emoji tell that ‘hmm’ or ‘oh, I see’. | 2015 |
 | Shushing Face | This emoji is used to say “ssshh”. We use this emoji when we want to tell another person to keep things a secret or keep their mouth shut about anything. | 2017 |
 | Winking face emoji | This emoji is used to show that the person is flirty or not serious about something. It may also be used when a person is funny or makes fun of things or lighthearted things. | 2010 |
 | Smiling Face with sunglasses emoji | This emoji is used to show coolness or represent a lighthearted attitude, self-confidence. For example, when we want to tease or tell that I already knew that then we use this emoji. | 2010 |
 | Slighting smiling face | It is used in different ways. Sometimes as positive happiness or a soft smile, whereas sometimes to show disapproval and to tell someone that you’re okay with his action but actually you are not. | 2014 |
 | Smiling Face with halo | This emoji is used to represent the blessing, prayers, or some pure intentions. | 2010 |
 | Smiling Face with tear emoji | This emoji can be used in different means or many emotions such as major happiness or trying to look happy when sad, and many more. | 2020 |
 | Blowing kisses emoji | This emoji is mostly used while saying bye. This emoji is friendly, but sometimes people also use it as the “flirty kisses.” | 2010 |
 | Kissing Face | It is used to express love and affection by simply offering a kiss. | 2012 |
 | Kissing Face with smiling eyes | This emoji is used to describe love and praise someone by simply kissing them. | 2012 |
 | Kissing Face with close eyes emoji | This emoji is used to show affection and to say thank you to someone. For example, when we want to say thank you or say good night to a closer one, friend, or crush. | 2010 |
 | Face savior food emoji | It is simply used to represent the food is yum, or someone is too attractive. | 2012 |
 | Drooling Face | It is used to show extreme cravings or wish about something. For example, when we want to say something is ‘delicious’. | 2016 |
 | Emoji with tongue | This emoji is used to represent pleasure, childishness, foolishness, and a little amount of goofiness. | 2012 |
 | Winking Face with tongue | It is used to represent fun, happiness, mischief, and a little more goofiness than the emoji with tongue. | 2010 |
 | Squinting Face with tongue | This emoji is used to represent a great sense of fun, craziness, happiness, and excitement. | 2010 |
 | Zany Face | This emoji is used to represent craziness but in a positive manner. Like when you want to text someone and tell them you’re partying and they are missing the fun, you use can use it. | 2017 |
 | Sleeping face | This emoji is used to represent that the person is not interested or it sounds sleepy. | 2012 |
 | Sleepy face | It may be used in two ways to represent dizziness or illness or to represent sleep, or boredom. | 2010 |
 | Tired face | This emoji represents that person is tired; it is used to tell that you are bored or tired of something or someone or even a portion of food. | 2010 |
 | Upside down Face or sarcastic emoji | This emoji is used in a situation where you want to say or tell another person that this was a silly or goofy move of him sarcastically. | 2015 |
 | Money mouth | This emoji represents money, love, or “wealth.” | 2015 |
 | Face in cloud | This is the latest emoji that is not available on all devices but can only be found on the newest devices, and these emojis can represent confusion or an unclear state of mind. | 2020 |
 | Face exhaling | This emoji represents exhaustion, relief, or a sign of disappointment. | 2020 |
 | Lying Face | This emoji is used to represent dishonesty or disbelieve; for example, when we want to say to someone that they must be kidding, we use this emoji. It may be used in the wrong manner so many times. | 2016 |
 | Emoji with a surgical mask | During the time of the pandemic, this emoji became popular. This emoji represents a social message to avoid sickness or staying healthy by wearing a mask. | 2010 |
 | Emoji with thermometer | This emoji is used to represent the illness or the person is suffering from fever, cold, or flu. | 2015 |
 | Face with head bandage | These emoji represent that the sender is physically hurt or in pain, but this emoji can also represent that the person is emotionally hurt. | 2015 |
 | Nauseated Face | This emoji is green in color; this represents illness or disguised in most cases. | 2016 |
 | Vomiting face | Not to confuse with nauseated face, this also represents the disguised or physical illness but in a little more serious manner than the nauseated face. | 2017 |
 | Sneezing Face | This emoji represents someone’s emotional state or sadness; for example, they are crying so loud that they need tissues to wipe tears and nose, etc. | 2016 |
 | Hot Face | This emoji can represent the hotness; this hotness can vary in meaning. It can be used to call someone attractive or to tell that the weather is too hot to handle. | 2018 |
 | Cold Face or freezing Face | It can be used when we want to tell the person that his action is so cold or the weather is cold. | 2018 |
 | Woozy Face | This emoji may be used to represent “tired and emotional”, as it can represent the person is irritated or disguised or not completely satisfied with something. | 2018 |
 | A dizzy face | This emoji represents that a person is in shock, surprise, disbelief, intoxication, or completely exhausted. For example, when they want to say slang, “I’m dead.” | 2010 |
 | Face with spiral eyes | This emoji is used to show dizziness or may also represent hypnotisms, etc. | 2020 |
 | Exploding head | These emojis represent the mind blow. It may be used to say that the person is amazed, surprised, shocked, etc. | 2017 |
 | Cowboy emoji | It may express a sense of excitement, daydream, self-assurance, exploitation, or any other emotion. | 2016 |
 | Face with steam from nose emoji | This emoji is also called a “frustrated” emoji. This emoji is used when we feel proud or to say I was right about something or “I did it” | 2010 |
 | Flushed Face | It can be used in both a good and sad manner; this is used to represent embarrassment or shyness, sometimes surprise. | 2010 |
 | Partying emoji | This emoji is used to show celebration or happiness. This has a party face full of joy and happiness, expressing celebration for any occasion or party. | 2018 |
 | Pouting Face | It is used to represent extreme anger or rage, For example, when we want to tell someone that their act is making us so furious, we use this emoji. | 2010 |
 | Angry Face | It represents irritation, anger, disappointment, etc. When we want to tell someone that they are so mean, we can use this emoji. | 2010 |
 | Face with the symbol on the mouth | These emoji represent that the person is so furious that he is getting abusive or vulgar. | 2017 |
 | Nerd’s Face | This emoji is mostly used when a person wants to call themselves “nerd” or boring. | 2015 |
 | Face with hand over mouth | This emoji represents a shy face with surprise, shock, amaze and sometimes shyness but all in a positive manner. | 2017 |
 | Emoji with horns | This emoji represents naughtiness, mischief behavior, or devilish behavior. | 2010 |
 | Angry face with horns emoji | This emoji represents anger or devilish behavior but in a horror way. This emoji is used to show terror or that the person wants to say that it was a devil move. | 2010 |
 | Clown face | As clown represents two different behaviors, this emoji may be used in two ways; one can be scary or cringe, whereas the other one says someone foolish or funny. | 2016 |
 | Skull emoji | This emoji represents death. It might be used to say it’s so funny that I’m dying laughing or can say this is dangerous or life-risking. | 2010 |
 | Skull and cross bone | This emoji represents danger or death. Like the skull, it may be funny or irony both ways. For example, when we want to tell someone that it is dangerous or horror, or too funny, etc. | 1993 |
 | Jack-o- lantern | This emoji represents jack-o – lantern, which is counted as the symbol of Halloween, so with Halloween wishes, this emoji is a perfect match. | 2010 |
 | Heart suit emoji | This emoji represents some negative response toward something or painful emotion; accordingly, to the situation, it may represent sadness or dark humor. | 1993 |
 | Red heart emoji | This emoji is a representation of love and romance. Often it is used in valentine greetings; unlike other emoji containing heart in them, there is a solid red color look which shows romance toward someone. | 1993 |
 | Heart with arrow emoji | This emoji is used to represent an old folk about love shot or a shot of love. There is a heart with an arrow in the middle in this emoji that shows it is the cupid of love. | 2010 |
 | Beating heart | This emoji represents a heart that is beating. It may be in red or pink color. It used to show love or life. | 2010 |
 | Sparkling heart | This emoji is used to represent love. This emoji looks shimmering or shining loud. | 2010 |
 | Emoji with two hearts, also known as “pink heart emoji.” | This emoji represents some passionate love or affection, which is mostly used to decorate romantic texts or love toward the opposite gender. | 2010 |
 | Growing heart | It represents growing love. When we want to tell that our interest is growing or increasing in someone, we use this emoji. Sometimes people also use this emoji as a beating heart. | 2010 |
 | Heavy heart exclamations emoji | It is mostly used to show agreement toward thinking. For example, when we want to say, ‘yes, I think you are right, or ‘I agree,’ we use this emoji. | 1993 |
 | Blackheart emoji | This emoji is referred to as emotionless or heartless. It is used when a person is emotionless but still understands them. This emoji is also known as the dark emoji. | 2016 |
 | Blue heart emoji | This emoji may be used in two manners, a. To show someone love or affection in a romantic manner but the passion like red or pink emoji b. To show someone coldness or bitterness in a dark or sarcastic manner | |
 | Purpleheart emoji | This emoji is used to represent maternal love or affection because of its color. It can also be used to represent great love and affection toward someone. Schoolgirls mostly use this emoji to message their friends or classmates. | 2010 |
 | Greenheart emoji | This emoji is used to express someone’s love but only in a friendly manner. | 2016 |
 | Broken heart | This emoji is representing heartbreak. When someone wants to tell another person they have hurt them, they use this emoji with texts. | 2010 |
 | Love letter | This one is used to convey love letters; in a more simple way, we can say it is used romantically to express love toward someone or with romantic messages. | 2010 |
 | Okay hand emoji | It is used to show approval or satisfaction toward something. This can also show that you think that the person is stupid or doing something stupid. | 2010 |
 | Thumbs up emoji | It is used to show that the person agrees or supports another person’s work. For example, when we want to say, ‘yeah, you’re doing it right,’ we use this emoji. | 2010 |
 | Raising hand emoji | It represents celebration or excitement, usually to say “hurray” or “give me ten”. | 2010 |
 | Clapping hand emoji | It is used to represent applause or clapping. When we want to praise someone or say “bravo,” we use this emoji. | 2010 |
 | Victory hands | This emoji may have two meanings, first to show victory or support or it may be used in an offensive way (in British concept). | 1993 |
 | Folding hands emoji | It is used to say please or thank you. It is often used to represent beg, request, sorrow, disapproval, or gratitude toward someone or something, but sometimes people also use it as the “high five.” | 2010 |
 | Sign of horns emoji | This emoji may have various meanings, like saying someone “rocks on” or to show swag or disgrace someone, also to encourage or for the devil. | 2015 |
 | Middle finger emoji | This emoji is used to show offensive results or slang like ” fuck off”, “fuck you,” etc. | 2014 |
 | Musical note emoji | It represents music. We use this emoji to tell someone that we are in a good mood or listening to music or singing. | 2010 |
 | No evil see monkey | This emoji must be used in various ways. As the old saying “don’t see bad things” or may be used to say “I don’t want to see this” to the information sent by anyone or to show shyness or cuteness. This emoji is also known as cute emoji. | 2010 |
 | Eyes emoji | This emoji is mostly used positively. It is used to say something is very attractive or dishonest in manner. | 2010 |
 | Sun emoji | It represents sun or warmth feeling toward someone or hot weather. | 2010 |
 | Fire emoji | It represents something attractive or hot, or lit. This emoji is red and orange, like fire. It is also used to show snap streaks on snap chat. | 2015 |
 | Ghost emoji | This emoji is used to represent Halloween. It may also be used for fun or goofy things. Sometimes people tease or say, “yay”. | 2010 |
 | Pile of poop | It represents poop or to tell someone that they are saying a shitty thing or slag. It may also be used to say another person is silly or stupid. | 2010 |
 | Party popper emoji | This emoji is used to show celebration or congratulate someone. This emoji represents a party or party popper. | 2010 |
 | Hundred point emoji | This emoji represents 100. It is used to say “well-done” or “give your 100 percent”. | 2010 |
 | The person raising hand | This emoji is simply used to raise a hand. We use this emoji When a person wants to raise a hand or ask a question. Sometimes people use this emoji for asking a favor. | 2010 |
 | oncoming fist emoji | This emoji is mostly used to greet between close friend and an agreement with someone. | 2010 |
 | Kiss marks emoji | This emoji is used to represent kisses. It is used romantically, simply to say “kisses to you.” | 2010 |
 | Sparkling emoji | It represents shine. It is used when we want to call someone or something famous, shiny, or sparkling. It is the best way to compliment someone or call them a bright star or a bright future. | 2010 |
 | Person facepalming | It is used to represent “disappointment”. It is used to express “oh no, how stupid you can be” or “you made a mistake”. | 2016 |
 | Person tripping hand | It is used to represent “unsure about something”, when we want to say ‘I don’t know about this or “if not this, then what should be the answer.” | 2016 |
 | Piston emoji | This emoji is mostly used as a sign of violence or to show that someone is having a bad time. | 2010 |
 | Checkmark emoji | This emoji is used to show a “positive response” toward something. When we want to say something is right or all is well, we use this emoji. | 1993 |
 | Cherry blossom emoji | It represents spring. Cherry blossom is a Japanese flower that blossoms in spring, so this emoji is used to express happiness. | 2010 |
 | Rose emoji | Rose represents love. It is used to show romance and romantic way or to flirt. | 2010 |
 | Crown emoji | It is used to represent “king”. When we want to talk about something best or royal, this emoji is used. | 2010 |
 | Anchor emoji | It is used to represent a ship or deep bond. In most cases, this emoji is used to show someone is secured in a relationship with someone. | 2005 |
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