Emoji

Emoji are ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and webpages. The characters, which are used much like ASCII emoticons or kaomojis, exist in various genres, including facial expressions, common objects, places, types of weather, and animals. Emoji have become increasingly popular since their international inclusion in Apple's iPhone and similar adoption by Android and other mobile operating systems. Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from the Japanese e ("picture") + moji ("character"). The apparent resemblance to English "emotion" and "emoticon" is just a coincidence.