Know facts about World Emoji Day celebrated every year on July 17

World Emoji Day, is celebrated every year on July 17, honors an emoji, a small digital picture that represents an idea, concept, or emotion in an on-screen communication, such as texts and Facebook messages.

Hyderabad: The emoji is a great way to add expression, indicate the tone of a message, and add some personality to what we say.

More than 110 new emojis will be added this year including:

• Bubble tea
• Bottle-feeding parents
• Gender-neutral characters
• New animals
• Transgender flag

Emojipedia tweeted about various facts related to emojis and new emojis on World Emoji Day.

• 📆 #WorldEmojiDay fact. Did you know the same company is behind many emojis for 🐦 @Twitter (Twemoji), 💬 @WhatsApp and previously also ⚡️ @messenger
  
  The company: 🏭 @Iconfactory https://t.co/CWeqpvwHPq pic.twitter.com/PRH0CIofLx

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  📆 #WorldEmojiDay fact. Did you know the same company is behind many emojis for 🐦 @Twitter (Twemoji), 💬 @WhatsApp and previously also ⚡️ @messenger
  
  The company: 🏭 @Iconfactory https://t.co/CWeqpvwHPq pic.twitter.com/PRH0CIofLx

  — Emojipedia 📙 (@Emojipedia) July 17, 2020

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  📆 #WorldEmojiDay fact. Did you know the same company is behind many emojis for 🐦 @Twitter (Twemoji), 💬 @WhatsApp and previously also ⚡️ @messenger
  
  The company: 🏭 @Iconfactory https://t.co/CWeqpvwHPq pic.twitter.com/PRH0CIofLx

  — Emojipedia 📙 (@Emojipedia) July 17, 2020

• Coming to Android 11: a new 🐣 pic.twitter.com/O5lf5eNA8c

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  Coming to Android 11: a new 🐣 pic.twitter.com/O5lf5eNA8c

  — Emojipedia 📙 (@Emojipedia) July 16, 2020

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  Coming to Android 11: a new 🐣 pic.twitter.com/O5lf5eNA8c

  — Emojipedia 📙 (@Emojipedia) July 16, 2020

There were 3,304 emojis in the Unicode Standard as of March 2020. The most popular emojis include tears of joy, red heart, heart eyes, fire, and thumbs up. More than 500 billion emojis are sent each day and more than 90% of all Internet users use emojis in their messages

Know facts about World Emoji Day celebrated every year on July 17

• Oxford Dictionaries named the most popular emoji of 2015 – “face with tears of joy” – as “Word” of the Year for best reflecting “the ethos, mood, and preoccupations” of the time.
• “Face with tears of joy” remains the most popular emoji used on Twitter, according to emoji tracker, followed by “smirking face” and “flushed face”.
• On Instagram, the heart is the most popular icon.

History

• What emojis appear on people’s phones and on their social media platforms is not arbitrary but has been coordinated by the Unicode Consortium since 1995, when the first 76 pictograms were adapted by U.S. nonprofit.
• The Consortium has been overseeing the character inventory of electronic text processing since 1991 and sets a standard for symbols, characters in different scripts, and the last but not least – emojis are encoded uniformly across different platforms even though styles may vary between providers.
• Even though the first Unicode listings predate them, a 1999 set of 176 simple pictograms invented by interface designer Shigetaka Kurita for a Japanese phone operator is considered to be the precursor of modern-day emojis.
• The concept gained popularity in Japan and by 2010, Unicode rolled out a massive release of more than 1,000 emojis to get with the burgeoning trend - the rest is history

Know facts about World Emoji Day celebrated every year on July 17