You'd think that with thousands of official emoji on our devices, I'd be able to find one for any mood or expression. And yet ...

The latest such update is more expressive hand gesture emoji on Gboard. Google’s approach to emojis has been more fun than the bubbly, almost plastic look that Apple has adopted on iOS.

This is my personal favorite and the heart emoji I use most often. I like to think of it as the heart with jazz hands—a demonstrative, over-the-top, sparkly love. When to use: When you want to ...

In the early days of online chatting people used different characters on the keyboard as a shortcut to convey an emotion. The happy face :) to convey happiness or joy. The frowny face :( to convey ...

In the digital age, using emoji makes us more effective communicators. We’re better able to express our emotional selves and better able to signal our personality. It stands to reason then that ...