The Rise of Emoji 😇

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The Beginning:

In late 90’s when a Japanese Telecom company  NTT DoCoMo first started the mobile phone internet system, since then pictogram has begun its journey. Now many celebrities’ even politicians also use Emoji in their social media account to communicate with people. Emoji is sets of two Japanese words. ‘e’ means Picture and ‘moji’ means Character . Initially there were not many emoji characters available but competition in the telecom sector during 2000s let the colourful glyphs spread very rapidly. It is expected that, in 2023 there will be about 3491 emoji characters available to use. 




Who Does Sanction the Emoji? ✋

California based Unicode Consortium specifies the international standard across modern digital computing and sanctions all emojis that are used in the technology world. By 2022 they have sanctioned 3460 emojis and many more to sanction in the coming years. Unicode Consortium is made up by mainly American multinational corporations and consists of 11 full members with voting rights. Among 11 full members, 8 members are American software and hardware companies; Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google, ETCO, Facebook (Meta) and Salesforce. Other members are Netflix, SAP SE and YAT who has the full membership with voting right.  There is a vetting process which has qualifying criteria to get approved for new emojis. According to this critieria, emoji cannot depict any living or dead person or use any divinities (GOD, Angel etc).  Hence, we don’t see any celebrity or religious leader emoji. Perhaps, in the future, these criteria may change.

Anyone can create their own Emoji but that won’t be sanctioned by the Unicode Consortium unless it fulfils their criteria. Some countries like Finland they created their own sets of national emojis but they don’t have any plans to submit them to get sanctioned from Unicode Consortium. Hence, you don’t see their emojis in your smartphone or in the digital keyboard.

Can Emoji 😆 be Universal Language?

Many of us use the pictograms on a daily basis to communicate with others using our smartphone and computers. It represents our feeling, status, event etc. It represents a strong structure of communication. For example, if someone someone try to express their feelings to a person saying, ‘I love you’. They can easily tell this using emojis 👩💖👨, 'I want to kiss you' 👩💋👨, Running ⏰, On the 🚆, or ☎ me in their smart phone. Therefore, emoji looks like the first universal form of communication that doesn’t have any specific language like English, Bangla, Japanese or Chinese.

To form a language, it takes thousands of years and it follows many grammatical rules. We can use the emoji only in our digital device and widely used since 2010 in social media and some digital platform. Thus, we can say emoji is not a language like English, German or French. Because of the technology, form of communication keep changing but emoji is not being used in face to face verbal communicate nor is it widely accepted yet to consider as a language. Rather it is supporting our textspeak communication on the digital platform by providing the visual expression of our feelings and status. It is hard to predict if emoji can be a universal language in our digital or verbal communication world. Only future can say that and we have to wait many years to know this.


Some Popular Emojis:

😃Smiling Face with open mouth

😄Smiling Face with open mouth and smiling eyes

😀 Grinning face

😁 Grinning Face with smiling eyes

😂 Face with tears of joy

😆 Smiling Face with open moth with tightly closed eyes

😇 Smiling Face with Halo

💘 Heart with Arrow

💔 Broken Heart

💖 Sparkling Heart

💋 Kiss Mark

👍Thumbs Up

👎Thumbs Down

👊Fisted Hand


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Comments

  1. Anonymous26 December 2022 at 21:53

    Perhaps one day we will see a common language for everyone and that is this Emoji. I am a fan of your writings.

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