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To ask what people think this emoji indicates?

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CheapSausagesAndSpam · 25/01/2018 10:11

😊

That?

I have to tell you that EVERY time I see it I get irritated.

Smug...little smug face with it's "cute" blushing cheeks.

I want to drop kick it.

What do you think it conveys when you use it if you do?

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SoupDragon · 27/01/2018 17:39

According to Siri it is “hands raised in celebration”

Ohyesiam · 27/01/2018 18:41

Pleased

wewentoutonsunday · 27/01/2018 18:47

Shy smile

PickAChew · 27/01/2018 18:57

Is that hands one not displaying properly for me? 🤔

Always interpret 🙃 as being silly. My mum uses it a lot!

To ask what people think this emoji indicates?
BertieBotts · 27/01/2018 22:28

Mission because they are different things.

Emoticon comes from "emote + icon" as they are small pictures/icons inserted into text by use of a code in order to express emotion. Before the pictures people used to type them out like :P or :D or :'(

Emoji is a Japanese word which comes from e + moji - picture + text. (Apparently the similarity to emoticon is just a coincidence.) Emoji started in Japanese mobile phones years before iphones were a thing.

Technically emoji are treated as and act as (from the computer's perspective) a type character, rather than an image. So differently displaying emojis are, if you like, different "fonts".

They look the same to the human user - a small picture or a smiley face - but to the computer they are very different things and that's why they act differently.

MissionItsPossible · 27/01/2018 22:46

BertieBotts thanks! 👍🏽👍🏽

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retainertrainer · 29/01/2018 20:45

Can someone explain this one to me please 😪

To be it’s ‘I’ve got a cold and I’m full of snot’ but everyone else uses it for being upset.

These are upset surely?😢😥😰

retainertrainer · 29/01/2018 20:45

*to me

BertieBotts · 29/01/2018 21:06

Yes it's snot. People mistake it for a tear because a lot of emojis don't have noses and also because it's blue.

In Japanese cartoons a sleeping person is depicted with a large snot bubble instead of zzzzzzz like western cartoons, so it's meant to depict sleeping.

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