Emojis are everywhere. They pop up in social media feeds, SMS messages, commercials, products, and more. The number of emojis continues to grow each year and our digital language evolves in turn.
It can sometimes be difficult to determine the meaning of an emoji. While it might seem simple on the surface, emojis can have different meanings depending on context. To help you out, we've collected together the 100 most popular emojis and explained their purpose and intent.
This list was first established by the Unicode Consortium. They are a group that maintain Unicode, an encoding standard for text data across modern technology; part of their remit is emojis. To help determine which emojis should become standard, they monitor emoji popularity.
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Now you know what lots of the standard emojis mean, why not go a step further and turn yourself into an emoji---also known as a Memoji? It's fun and easy to do. Here's how to create and use Memoji on iPhone and how to animate yourself as Memoji on Android.
