The people who do work for ­Unicode tend to be computer-programming ... one with the crying-emoji-sending mother) sent me a combo she’s fond of: Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes with Pistol ...

“(Church emoji) (smiling pile of poo emoji), I can’t believe I get to see you in 24 hours,” I type to my sister with the help of the emoji keyboard. She replies with an excited, “I can’t ...

“Emoji are a great way to mitigate potential misunderstandings — a quick smiley face on the end of your message can go a long way,” said Kamile Demir, a computer scientist at Adobe and Adobe ...

So, what is the upside-down smiley? The upside-down smiley emoji tends to be used in a sarcastic sense. The emoji is a flipped version of the usual smile face which is one of the most used emoticons.

After all, universal basic emotions do exist, so a smiley emoji must mean the same thing for everyone, right? On a bad day, emoji use can be an… emojinal minefield. This is especially true when ...