Today, the Unicode Consortium has released Unicode version 7.0, adding 2,834 new characters ... for the Russian ruble and Azerbaijani manat, approximately 250 emoji (pictographic symbols), many other ...

In the digital age, using emoji makes us more effective communicators ... To capture this the typographers represented the applause with a wink symbol ;) and there's been much debate in recent ...

Once you have chosen your two combinations, you should see a new emoji appear on the right beyond the "=" symbol. Note: Your emoji mash-up will be pasted as a .png file and not an emoji.

Previously, long-pressing a message in Google Messages would open a pop-up menu with 7 emoji reactions: Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes, Face with Tears of Joy, Face with Open ...