Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

They can have unique meanings within certain communities ... they show subtly different things. The Smiling Face With Horns emoji more frequently accompanies minor mischief or suggestive messages ...

Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this week, the Unicode 17 emoji recommendations came out ...