An expression pack that can understand routine jokes.

The meanings of all the expressions in the expression pack are shown in the following figure:

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Emoji was created by Japanese Takashi Kurita, who sought inspiration from various childhood elements, such as Japanese cartoons and Japanese characters. "There are many different symbols in Japanese comics.

Cartoonists will draw some expressions to show a person sweating profusely, or when generate comes up with an idea, a light bulb appears on his head. At the same time, he obtained an ability to express abstract concepts such as "secret" and "love" in simple words from Japanese characters.

From August 2065438 to August 2004, the Oxford Dictionary added "emoji" to the new vocabulary, which also means that it has become a formal vocabulary.

The development history of expression packs

On September 1982 and 19, Professor Scott farman of Carnegie Mellon University (professor of computer science in Pittsburgh) first entered such a string of ASCII characters in the bulletin board system: ":-)" (smile, turn 90 degrees clockwise). The first computer smiling face in human history was born. Since then, online characters have become popular in the Internet world and have been widely accepted by the society.

Now many communication programs (especially instant messaging programs) and forums begin to express their feelings with more vivid small icons. Therefore, at the end of the 20th century, a new word to describe these emoticons appeared in English, that is, Emotion and small icons were skillfully combined to form the new word "emotion".

Emoji (Emoji) has become an indispensable factor in the new generation of dialogue. Adding a smiley face symbol to a sentence will make a big difference in tone. 20 16 12 a company in London, England plans to hire an "emoji translator", which is the first job related to emoji in the world.

Refer to the above contents: Baidu Encyclopedia-Emoji, Baidu Encyclopedia-Emoji, Baidu Encyclopedia-Emoji.