Agreed. There are in fact many languages (e.g. Mandarin and Japanese) that use symbols, in their written form, to represent concepts instead of letters, and som

Agreed. There are in fact many languages (e.g. Mandarin and Japanese) that use symbols, in their written form, to represent concepts instead of letters, and some of those symbols were originally pictures, just like emojis. The cool thing about emojis is that not only they can represent whole concepts in one character, but a lot of them are almost universal across languages and cultures. Pretty much anyone in the world understands an emoji of a laughing face.