{"id":3880,"date":"2017-06-08T21:06:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T04:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2017-06-09T07:28:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:28:19","slug":"emoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=3880","title":{"rendered":"Emoji!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our journal topic tonight was emoji, and both girls just described their favorites. I’ll tell you mine, but first a word on emoji more broadly. They started off in the late 1990s, used by a Japanese communications company, NTT DoCoMo, to differentiate its i-mode mobile internet service. As mobile phones have grown along with international multi-lingual texting, they became universal. The name itself comes from Japanese<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u7d75 (e \u2245 picture) \u6587 (mo \u2245 writing) \u5b57 (ji \u2245 character)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emoji are currently “managed” by Unicode, a standards organization that defines character encoding on modern computer systems. Before emoji, it was pretty obscure (even for a global standards body). Since emoji, its work has become widely known and appreciated even if the organization itself has stayed pretty low-key.<\/p>\n

Emoji are defined in general terms with a description and a rough line drawing. Each platform then implements its own interpretation of them. For a complete list of all current emoji, and their different implementations across Apple, Google, Facebook, and other products, see the latest full emoji list from Unicode<\/a>. For example, here’s the first row in the food-vegetable<\/code> category which shows the various images associated with the avocado<\/code> emoji:<\/p>\n

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Every year or so, Unicode releases a new set of emoji. Here’s a list of all emoji broken down the year they were added<\/a>. 2015 brought the burrito and pink unicorn which became instant classics in our household. And, to finish the emoji theme Claire and Juliet started, 2016 brought my current personal favorite:<\/p>\n

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