Emoji, the not-quite-a-language language, were becoming part of the world’s linguistic—and commercial—infrastructure, importing some of the unruliness of IRL interaction into virtual spaces.

It’s a banner day to be an emoji. Monday marks the tenth annual World Emoji Day 🗺️🤩📆, and there’s never been a better time to be a cute and colorful little communication character. ...

Are you literal or ironic with emojis? Celebrate World Emoji Day by exploring the results of CNN’s texting quiz — and then taking it yourself.

Gen Zers have called out the popular thumbs-up emoji for being “rude” and “hostile,” but other emojis can be used to help you come across as “more likable.” ...

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.

Emoji can be fun to use when texting friends and family, but you can only send so many laughing crying emoji before that emoji seems a little stale. If you're getting bored with the current emoji ...

You can also react to a message with more than one emoji — just repeat the process to tack another reaction beside (or onto) the first one. And that's it. You now have 3,500+ options for message ...

However, perhaps with 18.2 later in the year, or 18.3 or 18.4 early next year we’ll finally get our hands on the exhausted emoji we all deserve. For reference, iOS 17.4 was the release that ...

"When Unicode first started to encode emoji, there were only about 700 concepts in your keyboard," Daniel said. "And if you flash-forward to today, there's way over 3,000 of these tiny glyphs at ...

Now you don't have to wait for the Unicode Standard to propose, create and bring new emoji to devices. For more on iOS 18, here's what you need to know about iOS 18.5 and iOS 18.4 .

Emoji riddle: Elliot and Gertie . Answer: ET phone home Keep challenging yourself with some of the best riddles for adults.They’ll keep your brain sharp! Why trust us. Reader’s Digest is known ...

Truth is, there’s a surprising range of heart emoji meanings. To get the scoop, we spoke with Keith Broni, the editor-in-chief of Emojipedia, the go-to guide for everything emoji.