Softbank released a set of 90 emojis, including the well-loved pile of poo emoji back in 1997 on the Skywalker service for the DP-211SW mobile phone. Update: Jeremy Burge, Chief Emoji Officer at Emojipedia issued a correction to a very widely known, yet incorrect fact that DoCoMo was the originator of emoji.Įmojis were invented by Shigetaka Kurita as a solution to the 250 character limit on i-mode, NTT DoCoMo’s new mobile internet system (back in 1999). 絵 ( e) ≈ picture) 文 ( mo ≈ writing) 字 ( ji ≈ character) But as a native Chinese speaker, I always wondered, why those particular words? I mean, there are literally tens of thousands of Chinese characters, so why those? Some background (context is important) Maybe if you don’t read any of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) languages, these symbols mean nothing to you. Have you scrolled through the entire list of emojis, got to the symbol section and wondered why those Chinese character symbols are there? No? It’s just me? Well, I ponder such deep questions often throughout my day. My state of mind was 🎉 when the 🤷 and 🤦‍♀️ emojis were released.

Do you know that the Full Emoji Data actually loads super-quick when I visit because I go there so often most of the data is cached my browser already.

I can’t help myself, they are just so…apt.

Just read anything I write, there’s almost always at least 1 emoji thrown in there somewhere.

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