Apple added eight new emoji to all iPhones when the company released iOS 18.4 in March, and Samsung brought those same emoji to some devices in April with the initial release of One UI 7. The new ...

Yeah, emoji are originally Japanese, and although they’re now being more widely adopted—indeed, since 2010, the global Unicode Consortium has worked to integrate a subset into the Unicode ...

If you click an individual emoji, Emojipedia will give you a brief description of that emoji. For example, here's what Emojipedia writes about the "👅" emoji: "A tongue, sticking out.

And yeah people - I guess in my personal research, I found that white people tended to use the yellow emoji much more than people who were visibly people of color.

KELLY: Yeah, the hijab emoji was the initiative of a 15-year-old Saudi teenager, Rayouf Alhumedhi. She told the BBC in 2016 why it was so important to her. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

Wood: Yeah, see that’s going to happen now just because we’ve talked about it. Emoji are unbelievably popular, they’re kind of developing into their own language, tell me why emoji are ...

Gen Z recently dubbed the thumbs-up emoji as “rude” and “hostile.” Getty Images/iStockphoto “For younger people, the thumbs-up emoji is used to be really passive-aggressive,” a 24-year ...