Japanese emoticons are called ‘kaomojis’ from ‘kao’ (meaning ‘face’) + moji. Kaomojis use the kanji keyboard and have a larger range of expression in the eyes than the western emoticon ...

Used billions of times every day around the world, emojis have become a true visual language. However, their interpretation ...

Japanese, Korean and Lithuanian. But the latest translation eschews the written word altogether, telling the story through emoji icons—the pictograms seen in text messages and e-mails.

There was a surge in people using emojis in around 2008, after they were included in Unicode (a global text encoding standard for computers) for them to be displayed on devices outside Japan as well.