Where millennials relied on a consistent code of emojis to express feelings, Gen Z embraces randomness and irony.

Get ready to step up your emoji game. Unicode just made its new emoji list for 2019 official, and the update adds 230 new symbols, including a yawning face, white heart, and pinching hand symbol.

New faces, foods, animals, people (real and fictional), and articles of clothing could make it into Unicode 10. Giraffes, broccoli, and curling stones, oh my! The Unicode Consortium this week proposed ...

From friendly smiley faces to cheeky aubergines, emoji now form a staple part of many of our messages. While most popular characters are harmless fun, other seemingly-innocent symbols have secret ...

Older people are the only ones now who use the symbols in any great numbers. And the older you are, the more of them you use Older people who don’t want to feel that they’re ‘past it’ are using emojis ...

The Unicode Consortium today released Unicode 8, the next update to the Unicode Standard that defines special characters and symbols, including emoji. Unicode 8 introduces 7,716 new characters, ...

Most people have had the experience of scrolling through their phone keyboards in search of a specific emoji, only to find it absent. A very small percentage of those people have actually stepped up ...

Other emoji on the draft list include a pale blue heart and a grey heart, the “stop” (or “high five”) hand gesture, a flute, maracas and a hair pick. New emojis including a shaking head, the symbol ...

Last night my 21-year-old daughter, who goes to college in another state, texted me a skull 💀 emoji followed by a crying emoji 😭. It was a strange response to a photo I sent earlier that day. (For ...