The use of emojis In any social network and messaging platform it is already as basic as text messages, but what many do not imagine is that many of these images originally had a very different meaning and use. The emojis They were created in Japan in the mid-90s and then cell phone manufacturers began to incorporate them into their devices, but the one in charge of standardizing the codes of these images worldwide is the Unicode Consortium. Even so, this organization has established that it is not their responsibility to give it meaning or define it.
This prompted Australian software developer Jeremy Burgue to found Emojipedia, a dictionary of emojis online in which he explains the true meaning, what they look like on each platform and when they were created. Here we will see the hidden meaning of some emojis common.
To pray or to thank?
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The emoji of two hands firmly placed together is usually used as a symbol of praying or asking for something in faith. It has even been used to say “high five”, but actually in Japanese culture this gesture is used to say thank you or apologize.
That’s not a tear
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It is easy to confuse this emoji with tears or sweat drops and is sometimes used to convey sadness, disgust or illness, but this is something else. This image of a yellow face with its eyes closed, its mouth slightly open, and a bubble of blue mucus coming out of its nose. Snot bubbles indicate that a character is tired or sleeping as if it were an anime or manga.
Looks like ice cream
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This popular brown, ice cream-shaped swirl with big, excited eyes and a big friendly smile is usually used for a wide range of idiosyncratic applications, such as conveying a sense of joy or fun. It is also used to refer to issues related to the bathroom, but it was originally designed based on a symbol that in Japanese culture means good luck.
An iconic scream
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This image consists of a yellow face that was screaming in fear, represented by large white eyes, a long, open mouth, hands pressed to its cheeks, and a pale blue forehead. The point of emoji is to represent horror and fear, but it is also commonly used to convey feelings such as shock, amazement, disbelief, and intense emotion or like a screaming fanatic. Anyway, this emoji is based on “The Scream”, the iconic painting created at the end of the 19th century by the artist Edvard Munch.
A monster with a history
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This gruesome image of a horned red face, wide eyes, a large nose, crooked fangs and a shaggy lock of hair has its origins in Japanese culture. This emoji represents an oni, a kind of gruesome ogre in Japanese folklore and can be used to reference supernatural or figurative beasts and demons
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