These days, digital communication goes far beyond typing a few words or sentences and clickingSend.

Those iconic little images are more popular on theinternetnow than ever before.

There are so many of them thatEmoji translatorsare available to help you figure outwhat they mean.

Emoji are here to stay as long as we all continue tweeting and texting.

Theemoji movement expanded into regular use on all social internet sites.

Apple later introducedanimoji, which are animated emoji in 2017.

The Museum of Modern Art owns and displays Kurita’s original set of emoji.

The change is so rapid, the website bears a warning to anyone with sensitivity to rapidly blinking lights.

The plural of emoji is emoji, not emojis.

New Emoji Are Announced Regularly

New emoji are being added all the time.

New emoji are released each year.

In 2018,157 new emojiwere added.

Emoji Tattoos Show Up in Odd Places

What’s the latest trend in tattoo art?

Emoji, of course.

Who knows, but it sure makes a statement.

Google Allo chat transforms your selfies into custom emoji.

For the record, you could now addEmoji keyboards to your Android gear, too.

So Android users don’t have to suffer through those strange square boxes, either.

Birthday cake and pizza slices are the most-used food emoji year-round.

The musical notes emoji is the most popular emoji in Brazil and Argentina.

FAQ

Emoticons were the precursors to modern emojis.

An estimated 5 billion emojis are used every day on Facebook and Facebook Messenger alone.