What is Emoji?
[[File:Emoji u1f610.svg|thumb|right|100px|An emoji ]] {{nihongo|'''Emojis'''|絵文字|4=えもじ}} are [[symbol]]s or faces often used in [[text message]]s on a [[mobile phone]] device or [[computer]]. They come in all shapes and sizes and can mean many things depending on when and how it is used. There are emoji for [[physical body|objects]], [[location (geography)|places]], [[emotion]]s and much more. Emojis are normally used when people text each other. The first emojis were created in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://time.com/4114886/oxford-word-of-the-year-2015-emoji/|title=Oxford's 2015 Word of the Year Is This Emoji|website=Time|language=en|access-date=2019-01-20}}</ref> Later on, people began to put emojis on [[webpage]]s and they became very popular outside Japan when they were added to [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s [[iOS]] and [[Google]]'s [[Android (operating system)|Android]] software. In November 2016, a [[conference]] about emoji was held in [[San Francisco]], [[California]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://time.com/4559662/emojicon-emoji-convention-2016/|title=What It's Like Inside the World's First Emoji Convention|website=Time|language=en|access-date=2019-01-20}}</ref> ==In fiction == The 2017 [[Animation|animated]] film [[The Emoji Movie]] is about emojis in a phone who [[Anthropomorphism|live and act like people]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} * [https://emojipedia.org/ Emojipedia — Home of Emoji Meanings] [[Category:Internet slang]] [[Category:Japanese art]] {{tech-stub}}