From friendly smiley faces to cheeky peaches, emoji form a staple part of many of our daily messages. Now, eight new emoji ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

By chaining the selectors together, he was able to encode invisible messages inside an emoji (or any other Unicode character). Here is how it works: Unicode assigns variation selectors (U+FE00–U ...

From simple smiley faces and love hearts to high heels and rainbows, it seems like there is already an emoji for every possible situation.