Is this emoji a violin or a cello?
Please leave your comments down below?
I did some research on the internet and it says that it is a violin. Where is the chin rest? The bow is too short.
Anyway, emojis also happen to be from Japan so here is my lists of fun facts about emojis?
About the word emoji
The word emoji comes from the Japanese word for picture, 絵 (e), and the word for word, 文字 (moji). So it literally means picture word.
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| The sun picture is used for making weather forecasts clear. |
Why were emojis invented?
- In 1999, the letter count for texting was very small, only 48 letters. Shigetaka Kurita (the creator of emojis) tried to come up with a way to send concise messages without going over the letter count.
- He thought that as we are so used to seeing pictures to convey a message like this sun, for sunny weather, we could use it for sending messages to each other.
- They were popular because one emoji could go a long way.
- They were also popular because, you could express ideas better through pictures than through words.
The difference between emojis and emoticons
Let me make one thing clear. Emojis and emoticons are not the same thing!
Definition of an emoji: A small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication
Definition of an emoticon: A representation of a facial expression such as a smile or frown, formed by various combinations of keyboard characters and used in electroniccommunications to convey writer's feelings or intended tone.
So the purpose is different
So the purpose is different
←Emojis look like this
Emoticons look like this→
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| National emoji day! |
National emoji day
- There is a national emoji day, it is on July 17.
- This is because the calendar emoji has July 17 on it!
- You are probably wondering why it is July 17 and not any other date. It is because, the app iCal was premiered at the MacWorld conference in 2002 on that date.
- Here is a link to see how you can celebrate national emoji day!
Which emoji is the most popular?
I found a website that shows you the live usage of each emoji on twitter. Here is the link to that website. At the time of writing, top ten most popular emojis were:
Which country uses a certain emoji the most?
Researchers from Swiftkey looked at 1 billion pieces of data across 16 different languages for trends in the use of emojis. This is what they found:
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| The heart emoji is most used by France |
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| The poo emoji is most used by Canada |
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| 50% of emojis sent in Britain are smiley emojis |
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| The winking emoji is the most popular emoji in Britain |
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| One of the emojis used most by Americans is the pizza emoji |
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| Arabic users use the rose emoji tens times more than everyone |
If there are any more emoji statistics that you would like me to include, please tell me in the comments. I hope that you enjoy reading this as much I had fun writing this post.
1 comment :
This was quite interesting! So cool!!! Plus the violin is missing the chin rest bow is tad bit short and it looks like there might be a standy thingy (cant remember the name for it).
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