Emoji
A pictorial symbol used in digital text to express an idea, object, reaction, or emotion.
Context
Unicode defines characters and sequences used for many emoji. A device or application supplies the artwork, so the same emoji can look different across platforms.
An emoticon builds an expression from ordinary text characters. Emoji supply pictorial symbols, sometimes formed from a sequence of several encoded characters.
Examples
- A message can end with a smiling-face emoji, such as 🙂, to help convey its tone.