In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary announced that their Word of the Year was the emoji 'Face with Tears of Joy'. The OED chose this emoji because they said it best reflected the passing year ...

In their former lives as emoticons, which are typographic symbols ... and finally made their mobile phone debut the following year. The word emoji is a contraction of the Japanese words, which ...

It turns out that the most popular word of 2014 wasn't actually a word at all. According to a new list by the Global Language Monitor, the heart emoji was the most commonly used word in the ...

Use of the word emoji has increased dramatically on a global scale, as well as the use of the images themselves. The Face with Tears of Joy emoji was the most used image worldwide, prompting Oxford to ...