July 17 is observed as World Emoji Day, a global celebration of those tiny digital symbols that say so much with so little.

The five popular emojis people always get wrong from the crying smiley face to the screamer & what they really mean Sophie Roberts Published : 16:21, 23 Sep 2020 ...

Our frustrated emoji year: A laughing-through-tears smiley face is the Oxford dictionary "word" of 2015 This rakish face embodying an ineffable mix of hilarity and crying beat out "refugee" and ...

Eschewing more traditional frontrunners such as ‘Brexit’, ‘refugee’ and ‘ad blocker’ the wordsmiths plumped for the tears of joy smiley face emoticon instead, a symbol which has become ...

Some smartphone users even mistake the emoticon for a tears of sadness face. In 2010, Unicode introduced the emoji, which is actually meant to represent “tears of joy”. 2.