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That's not an emoji. Otherwise I think these are oddly a good idea. I used to make frequent use of unicodesnowmanforyou.com to get my ️snowman emojis (I'd add

by Y_Y 9y ago

That's not an emoji. Otherwise I think these are oddly a good idea. I used to make frequent use of unicodesnowmanforyou.com to get my ️snowman emojis (I'd add one but hn does not permit). Would hardly be able to justify the domain registration expense though.

nothrabannosir 9y ago
That is absolutely an emoji. The term predates their inclusion in Unicode.
- anonfunction 9y ago
  I believe these text based characters are called emoticons whereas an emoji is an image.
  - nothrabannosir 9y ago
    Well, then I was absolutely wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    - dilap 9y ago
      I've noticed more an more people using emojis to encompass the little text drawings, so I think we're actually in the middle of shifting usage.
    - hinkley 9y ago
      I believe you did that on purpose, good sir, so you had an excuse to shrug.
  - bitexploder 9y ago
    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    - ozzmotik 9y ago
      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- madeofpalk 9y ago
  It's absolutely not an emoji. At best, it's an emoticon. > Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"). The resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental. Emoji specifically refers to these 'pictures' that were definitely transmitted via Unicode, originating in the 90s from Japan. > For NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, each emoji is drawn on a 12×12 pixel grid. When transmitted, emoji symbols are specified as a two-byte sequence, in the private-use range E63E through E757 in the Unicode character space, or F89F through F9FC for Shift JIS. As you pointed out, this predates the Unicode standard that we have now, but there is still a very distinct difference between emoticons (which this is) and emojis (which this definitely isn't)
- guessmyname 9y ago
  Emoji — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji Emoticon — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
  - madeofpalk 9y ago
    > Users from Japan popularized a kind of emoticon called kaomoji (顔文字; lit. 顔(kao)=face, 文字(moji)=character(s)) that can be understood without tilting one's head to the left. Interesting. So more accurately, this is a kaomoji.
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kazinator 9y ago
Correct. In Japan, the term for a picture of a face made of multiple characters is kaomoji (顔文字: "face characters"), not emoji (絵文字: "picture character(s)"). These related words also exist: スマイリー (sumairii/smiley: could be kaomoji or emoji, I think) エモーティコン (emoochikon/emoticon) フェイスマーク (feisumaaku/"face mark").

by Y_Y 9y ago

nothrabannosir 9y ago

That is absolutely an emoji. The term predates their inclusion in Unicode.

anonfunction 9y ago
I believe these text based characters are called emoticons whereas an emoji is an image.
- nothrabannosir 9y ago
  Well, then I was absolutely wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - dilap 9y ago
    I've noticed more an more people using emojis to encompass the little text drawings, so I think we're actually in the middle of shifting usage.
  - hinkley 9y ago
    I believe you did that on purpose, good sir, so you had an excuse to shrug.
- bitexploder 9y ago
  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - ozzmotik 9y ago
    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
madeofpalk 9y ago
It's absolutely not an emoji. At best, it's an emoticon. > Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"). The resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental. Emoji specifically refers to these 'pictures' that were definitely transmitted via Unicode, originating in the 90s from Japan. > For NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, each emoji is drawn on a 12×12 pixel grid. When transmitted, emoji symbols are specified as a two-byte sequence, in the private-use range E63E through E757 in the Unicode character space, or F89F through F9FC for Shift JIS. As you pointed out, this predates the Unicode standard that we have now, but there is still a very distinct difference between emoticons (which this is) and emojis (which this definitely isn't)
guessmyname 9y ago
Emoji — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji Emoticon — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
- madeofpalk 9y ago
  > Users from Japan popularized a kind of emoticon called kaomoji (顔文字; lit. 顔(kao)=face, 文字(moji)=character(s)) that can be understood without tilting one's head to the left. Interesting. So more accurately, this is a kaomoji.

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kazinator 9y ago

Correct. In Japan, the term for a picture of a face made of multiple characters is kaomoji (顔文字: "face characters"), not emoji (絵文字: "picture character(s)"). These related words also exist: スマイリー (sumairii/smiley: could be kaomoji or emoji, I think) エモーティコン (emoochikon/emoticon) フェイスマーク (feisumaaku/"face mark").