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The Technology Behind Text Symbols: How They Work Across Platforms
From the crying-laughing face 😂 to the red heart ️, there are now 3,782 text symbols and emojis in the Unicode ... and “:(” for happy and sad? These were the first “emoticons ...
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Smiley face: Seven things you didn't know about emoji
A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions. This should be heartening. In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary announced that their Word of the Year was the emoji 'Face with Tears ...