The Rise of Emoji 😇

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 consis...