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.

Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective, depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking smiley face should you use? Is there a difference between each ...

The planets will align to form a smiley face ... glowing smiley emoji in the sky... I'm not quite sure it's going to be the right way up... it could be like a sidewise smiley face?

In a jokey letter to Ann’s sister, he drew a smiley face that resembles a modern emoji. Anemaat said the drawing was a bit of fun. Many letters back then were decorated with “tiny, tiny little ...