What is the difference between emojis and emoticons?

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The internet has very changed the way we communicate. Because body language and verbal tones are not translated in our text or email message, we have developed an alternative way to deliver nuanced meaning. The most prominent change for our online style is the addition of two new hieroglif languages: emoticons and emojis.

Let's start with the older than both: emoticons. Emoticons are punctuation, letters, and numbers used to make illustrated icons that generally display emotions or sentiments. (It's actually where the portmanteau "emoticon" comes from: an emotional icon.) Oh, and because of the limit of our keyboard, most emoticons need to be read to the side.


Emoticons appeared after a wrong joke at Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. Gag about fake mercury spills posted to the online message board sent the university to Tizi, and because of this confusion, Scott E. Fahlman suggested jokes and non-pekes marked by two sets The character we now recognizes as a standard emoticon: a smiley face :-) and the face that crashes :-(. After this, emoticons are a big hit among internet users.


Emoji (from Japan E, "Image," and moji, "character") is a little newer discovery. Don't be confused with its predecessor, Emoji is a facial piktograf, items and symbols. You may get used to different styles of Emoji Apple: Yellow cartoon face with various expressions, as well as family, buildings, animals, food objects, mathematical symbols, and more.


Emoji was found in 1999 by Shigette Kurita and intended for a Japanese user base. The first emoji is very simple - only 12 pixels with 12 pixels - and inspired by manga and starch art characters. To attract Japanese customers, Apple hides the Emoji keyboard on the first iPhone in 2007, but North American users quickly realized the keyboard. Now, emojis is available in almost all messaging applications, and while different applications have different emoji styles, emojis can translate cross platforms, thanks to Unicode. This is why iPhone users can receive a stack of Poo Emoji who smiles from someone who uses the Samsung Galaxy.


So, if you find a smiling face that contains a character that you can find on your computer keyboard, it is an emoticon. If it's a bit of a cartoon image that is free from bonding punctuation, numbers, and letters, it is emoji.

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