Emoji

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Emoji ( or ; Japanese pronunciation: [emodi]) are the ideograms or smileys used in
Japanese electronic messages and webpages, the use of which is spreading outside Japan. Originally
meaning pictograph, the word emoji literally means "picture" (e) + "character" (moji). The characters are
used much like ASCII emoticons or kaomoji, but a wider range is provided, and the icons are
standardized and built into the handsets. Some emoji are very specific to Japanese culture, such as a
bowing (apologizing) businessman, a face wearing a face mask, a white flower used to denote "brilliant
homework" or a group of emoji representing popular foods: ramen noodles, dango, onigiri, Japanese
curry, and sushi. The three main Japanese operators, NTT DoCoMo, au, and SoftBank Mobile (formerly
Vodafone), have each defined their own variants of emoji.[citation needed]

Although originally only available in Japan, some emoji character sets have been incorporated into
Unicode, allowing them to be used elsewhere as well. As a result, some phones such as the Windows
Phone and the iPhone lines allow access to the symbols without requiring a Japanese carrier. Emoji have
also started appearing in emailing services such as Gmail (accessed via Google Labs) in April 2009[1] and
websites such as Flipnote Hatena. Apple's Mac OS X operating system supports emoji as of version 10.7
Lion with the Apple Color Emoji typeface.[2]

Android devices support emoji differently depending on the operating system version. Google added
native emoji support to the Google Keyboard in November 2013 for devices running Android 4.4 and
later.[3] Emoji is also supported by the Google Hangouts application (independent of the keyboard in
use), in both hangout and SMS modes.[4] Several third-party messaging and keyboard applications (such
as SwiftKey) for Android operating system phones[5] also provide plugins that allow the use of emoji.

Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Legacy encoded emoji
3 In the Unicode standard
3.1 Blocks
4 Emoji characters
4.1 SoftBank encoding
4.2 Apple encoding
4.2.1 OS X Lion
4.2.2 OS X Mountain Lion and later
4.2.2.1 People
4.2.2.2 Nature
4.2.2.3 Objects
4.2.2.4 Places
4.2.2.5 Symbols
5 Usage
5.1 OS X and iOS
5.2 Microsoft Windows
5.3 Linux
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
History[edit]
[icon] This section requires expansion. (November 2013)
The first emoji were created in 1998 or 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita, who was part of the team working on
NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile internet platform. The first set of 172 1212 pixel emoji was created as
part of i-mode's messaging features to help facilitate electronic communication, and to serve as a
distinguishing feature from other services.[6]

Legacy encoded emoji[edit]
For NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, each emoji is drawn on a 1212 pixel grid. When transmitted, emoji symbols
are specified as a two-byte sequence, in the private-use range E63E through E757 in the Unicode
character space, or F89F through F9FC for Shift JIS. The basic specification has 176 symbols, with 76
more added in phones that support C-HTML 4.0.

Emoji pictograms by au are specified using the IMG tag. SoftBank Mobile emoji are wrapped between
SI/SO escape sequences, and support colors and animation. DoCoMo's emoji are the most compact to
transmit while au's version is more flexible based on open standards.

In the Unicode standard[edit]
Hundreds of emoji characters were encoded in the Unicode Standard in version 6.0 released in October
2010 (and in the related international standard ISO/IEC 10646). The additions, originally requested by
Google (Kat Momoi, Mark Davis, and Markus Scherer wrote the first draft for consideration by the
Unicode Technical Committee in August 2007) and Apple Inc. (whose Yasuo Kida and Peter Edberg
joined the first official UTC proposal for 607 characters as coauthors in January 2009), went through a
long series of commenting by members of the Unicode Consortium and national standardization bodies
of various countries participating in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, especially the United States, Germany,
Ireland (led by Michael Everson), and Japan; various new characters (especially symbols for maps and
European signs) were added during the consensus-building process.

The core emoji set as of Unicode 6.0 consists of 722 characters, of which 114 characters map to
sequences of one or more characters in the pre-6.0 Unicode standard, and the remaining 608 characters
map to sequences of one or more characters introduced in Unicode 6.0.[7] There is no block specifically
set aside for emoji the new symbols were encoded in seven different blocks (some newly created), and
there exists a Unicode data file called EmojiSources.txt that includes mappings to and from the Japanese
vendors' legacy character sets. "Regional indicator symbols" were defined as part of this set of
characters as an alternative to encoding separate characters for national flags. An additional group of
approximately 250 emoji, many of which were adopted from Webdings and Wingdings fonts, are
included in Unicode 7.0.

Blocks[edit]
Main articles: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (Unicode block), Emoticons (Unicode block),
Transport and Map Symbols (Unicode block), Miscellaneous Symbols (Unicode block) and Dingbats
(Unicode block)
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
C D E F
U+1F30x

U+1F31x

U+1F32x

U+1F33x

U+1F34x

U+1F35x

U+1F36x

U+1F37x

U+1F38x

U+1F39x

U+1F3Ax

U+1F3Bx

U+1F3Cx

U+1F3Dx

U+1F3Ex

U+1F3Fx

U+1F40x

U+1F41x

U+1F42x

U+1F43x

U+1F44x

U+1F45x

U+1F46x

U+1F47x

U+1F48x

U+1F49x

U+1F4Ax

U+1F4Bx

U+1F4Cx

U+1F4Dx

U+1F4Ex

U+1F4Fx

U+1F50x

U+1F51x

U+1F52x

U+1F53x

U+1F54x

U+1F55x

U+1F56x

U+1F57x

U+1F58x

U+1F59x

U+1F5Ax

U+1F5Bx

U+1F5Cx

U+1F5Dx

U+1F5Ex

U+1F5Fx

Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 7.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
Emoticons[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
C D E F
U+1F60x

U+1F61x

U+1F62x

U+1F63x

U+1F64x

Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 7.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
Transport and Map Symbols[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
C D E F
U+1F68x

U+1F69x

U+1F6Ax

U+1F6Bx

U+1F6Cx

U+1F6Dx

U+1F6Ex

U+1F6Fx

Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 7.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
Miscellaneous Symbols[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
C D E F
U+260x

U+261x

U+262x

U+263x

U+264x

U+265x

U+266x

U+267x

U+268x

U+269x

U+26Ax

U+26Bx

U+26Cx

U+26Dx

U+26Ex

U+26Fx

Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 7.0
Dingbats[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
C D E F
U+270x

U+271x

U+272x

U+273x

U+274x

U+275x

U+276x

U+277x

U+278x

U+279x

U+27Ax

U+27Bx

Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 7.0
Additional emoji can be found in the following Unicode blocks: Arrows, CJK Symbols and Punctuation,
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, Enclosed Ideographic
Supplement, General Punctuation, Geometric Shapes, Latin-1 Supplement, Letterlike Symbols, Mahjong
Tiles, Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, Miscellaneous Technical, Playing Cards, and Supplemental
Arrows-B.

Emoji characters[edit]
SoftBank encoding[edit]
This encoding was used in Apple's iOS prior to version 5.[8] It uses the following characters from the
Unicode Private Use Area (this is unlikely to display correctly on systems that do not use SoftBank
encoding, but a conversion table is available between Unicode, SoftBank and various other
encodings[9]).



























Apple encoding[edit]
OS X Lion[edit]
This set includes all the symbols available in Apple Color Emoji on OS X Lion and iOS 5.

# 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

#0123456789

































OS X Mountain Lion and later[edit]
This set includes all the symbols available in Apple Color Emoji on OS X Mountain Lion and iOS 6.

People[edit]









Nature[edit]






Objects[edit]











Places[edit]






The last 10 characters in the above set (the national flags) are each encoded using two Unicode values in
the Regional Indicator Symbol range:

(Flag of Japan) = U+1F1EF U+1F1F5 (JP)
(Flag of South Korea) = U+1F1F0 U+1F1F7 (KR)
(Flag of Germany) = U+1F1E9 U+1F1EA (DE)
(Flag of China) = U+1F1E8 U+1F1F3 (CN)
(Flag of the United States) = U+1F1FA U+1F1F8 (US)
(Flag of France) = U+1F1EB U+1F1F7 (FR)
(Flag of Spain) = U+1F1EA U+1F1F8 (ES)
(Flag of Italy) = U+1F1EE U+1F1F9 (IT)
(Flag of Russia) = U+1F1F7 U+1F1FA (RU)
(Flag of the United Kingdom) = U+1F1EC U+1F1E7 (GB)

Symbols[edit]
1234567890#









Usage[edit]
OS X and iOS[edit]


The mini character palette showing emoji emoticons
Apple first introduced emoji to their desktop operating system with the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
Users can view Emoji characters sent through email and messaging applications, which are commonly
shared by mobile users, as well as any other application. Users can create Emoji symbols using the
"Characters" special input panel from almost any Mac OS X application by selecting the Edit menu and
pulling down to Special Characters, or by the key combination Command+ Option+T. OS X uses
the Apple Color Emoji font that was introduced in iOS. This provides users with full color
pictographs.[10]

With the introduction of Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, users can now access a dedicated emoji input palette
in most text input boxes by using the key combination. Command+Ctrl+Space.[11]

Microsoft Windows[edit]
Windows 8 and higher supports the full Unicode emoji characters through Microsoft's Segoe UI family of
fonts. Emoji characters are accessed through the onscreen keyboard's "smiley" key. As of Windows 8.1
Preview, Segoe UI Emoji font supplies full-color pictographs. Differently than OS X & iOS, color glyphs
are only supplied when the application supports Microsoft's DirectWrite API, and Segoe UI Emoji is
explicitly declared, otherwise monochrome glyphs appear. An update for the Segoe UI Symbol font in
Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 brings a subset of the monochrome Unicode set to those
operating systems.[12] The font update rebrands the font as Segoe UI Symbol. The difference between
the two fonts is that Segoe UI lacks any and all Emoji characters, while Segoe UI Symbol does not.

Linux[edit]
Some Linux distributions support Emoji Characters after installing extra fonts. In Ubuntu or Debian
based distributions this can be achieved by installing the Package ttf-ancient-fonts.

See also[edit]
iConji
kaomoji
References[edit]
Jump up ^ New in Labs: Extra emoticons
Jump up ^ emoji support by Apple
Jump up ^ "Google adds SMS to Hangouts Android app, Emoji to KitKat keyboard". Retrieved 2014-04-
17.
Jump up ^ "Hangouts - Google Play". Retrieved 2014-04-17.
Jump up ^ "emoji - Google Play". Market.android.com. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
Jump up ^ Blagdon, Jeff (4 March 2013). "How emoji conquered the world". The Verge. Vox Media.
Retrieved 6 November 2013.
Jump up ^ Unicode FAQ: Emoji and Dingbats Q: How are emoji encoded in Unicode?
Jump up ^ "Supporting iOS 5 New Emoji Encoding". Manbolo Blog. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
Jump up ^ "php-emoji/table.htm at master iamcal/php-emoji GitHub". Github.com. 2011-07-27.
Retrieved 2012-11-09.
Jump up ^ "Access and Use Emoji in Mac OS X". Osxdaily.com. 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
Jump up ^ Cipriani, Jason (2013-10-23). "How to access emoji in OS X 10.9 Mavericks". CNET. Retrieved
2014-01-18.
Jump up ^ "An update for the Segoe UI symbol font in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 is
available". Microsoft Support.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Emoji.
au by KDDI: Emoji, Type 1 2 (in Japanese)
Emoji Symbols - The original proposals for encoding of Emoji symbols as Unicode characters.
The Unicode FAQ - Emoji & Dingbats
Background data for Unicode proposal
A table displaying available emojis without requiring Unicode
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