Tokyo: From a humble smiley face with a box mouth and inverted “V’s” for eyes, weather symbols and a rudimentary heart, emoji have now exploded into the world’s fastest-growing language.

The now-ubiquitous emoji was invented decades ago after its creator said he learned how much impact one heart symbol can exert. Emojis express a range of emotions in messages on smartphones and ...

But if you're active on Twitter, you've probably seen its popular emoji mashup bots, which combine multiple emojis into one. Only recently, Emoji Kitchen was native to Android users on Gboard.

Barkley celebrated his new deal by posting a message to his agent, Ed Berry. All he needed was two emojis to show his appreciation for the deal getting done. Not too long after, the running back ...