An expert reveals the hidden meanings behind emojis that parents should look out for - including the cat face, dynamite and ...

You just need a really good 10-page paper. Emoji is actually a Japanese word that means "pictogram" or "pictograph." SoftBank, a Japanese wireless carrier, created the first known emoji set in 1997.

It turns out that the most popular word of 2014 wasn't actually a word at all. According to a new list by the Global Language Monitor, the heart emoji was the most commonly used word in the ...

A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions. This should be heartening. In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary announced that their Word of the Year was the emoji 'Face with Tears ...