Emoji Meaning

While texting someone in our daily lives, we use several emojis or emoticons to show our emotions or express ourselves. Emoji offers us an innovative way to express our emotions. We have an emoji for almost every emotion, let see how many we have and what they mean and where we can use them.

What is Emoji?

Emoji are used while "texting" or messaging someone, usually for an informal cause. They are pictograms or smiley mostly used to add emotions to the conversation. They are too similar to the emoticons but are available in various genres, few represent various facial expressions and a few represent everyday items, places, etc.

Origin of Emoji

Emoji word is taken from the Japanese word "E-moh-jee," which means "picture character", it was added to the Japanese keyboard in 1997 but got popular worldwide in 2010. Meanwhile, emoticons were added to the keyword dictionary in 1990 by a Japanese company.

Benefits of Emoji

Emojis are used to add emotions to a conversation.
Many emojis are added in the keyboard library with a social message.
Sometimes, when you don't get words to say, emoji's help express your emotions.
It saves your time and does not take much space.

Drawbacks of Emoji

Emoji is misunderstood so many times. Even sometimes, people use them in the wrong mean and sometimes understood in the wrong way, which may cause annoyance among people. Some common drawbacks of emoji are as follows;

It may look unprofessional if you use an emoji in your message.
It may not fit with the reputation of a brand.
It may not render properly, e.g., instead of seeing a heart, the receiver could see a black box or a question mark.
It may deteriorate vocabulary, e.g., kids won't learn new words if they overuse emoji in their messages.
Some emoji are hard to judge and they may have multiple meanings.

List of Emoji

Each emoji has its meaning, which is different from another one. The most popular emoji are described below with their meaning in tabular form.

Meaning	Uses	Year of appearance
Happy Face with heart eyes emoji	This emoji is used to show some love and appreciation toward anything. It represents love for some person, place, etc.	2010
Smiling Face with three hearts	This emoji is used to show love, affection, range of happiness, or sometimes to share the news of being in love with someone.	2018
Starstruck emoji	This emoji is used for excitement or to say "amazing," fascinating, etc.	2017
Crying so loud emoji	This emoji represents sadness, pain. This emoji is an ironic emoji used to show that a person is so hurt or in pain.	2010
Crying face emoji	This emoji represents grief, hurt, or sadness but is less intensive than crying so loud emoji.	2010
Pensive face emoji	In this emoji, the eyes are downward, showing sadness toward something, like something bad happened or news of someone's dismissal. This is used to represent sorrow, apology, and tragic situation. This emoji may also be used to represent an apology and to say sorry to someone.	2010
Frowning face emoji	This emoji is used to represent dissatisfaction, liking, or sadness about missing a close one.	1993
Frowning Face with open mouth	This emoji represents the little sadness, disappointment, amazement, or shock and sometimes concern too	2012
Slightly frowning face emoji.	This emoji represents sadness but in a slighter way, anxiety or shock.	2014
Confused face emoji	This emoji represents confusion and sadness.	2012
Confounded face emoji	These emoji represent sadness in the way that someone is holding tears. This emoji may represent so many emotions like disgrace, sadness, repulsion, etc.	2010
Disappointed Face	This emoji represents the miserable emotion, dissatisfaction, pain, sadness, etc.	2010
Worried face emoji	This emoji represents the miserable or anxious emotion, concern, nervousness, dissatisfaction, etc.	2012
Sad but relieved face emoji	This emoji is used to represent anxiousness, sadness, worry.	2010
Weary face emoji	This emoji is used for various sentiments of aggravation, grief, enjoyment, and affection.	2010
Pleading eyes emoji	This emoji is used when we want to ask for help from someone or plead or beg for something. It shows cute puppy eyes in a very attractive manner.	2018
Fearful face emoji	This emoji is used to represent "terror" or distress. This emoji shows a fearful face or disbelief. For example, "I don't know that".	2010
Fearful Face with sweat emoji	This emoji represents anxiety, but in a threatening manner, it is used to show the person is disappointed or sad, or anxious.	2010
Grimacing face emoji	This emoji is used to represent dissatisfaction. It shows a person is disapproving or telling a person is wrong.	2012
Unamused face emoji	This emoji is used to show disagreement, irritation, or crankiness toward something or the action of another person.	2010
Smirking face emoji	People usually get confused with unamused Faces, but it is usually used to show flirtation or mysterious facial expressions. For example, when you are texting someone with excitement but don't get a reply with the same happiness or excitement, you can use this emoji to show your disappointment.	2010
Emoji with raised eyebrows	This emoji is used to represent the "suspecting". Also, it may be used to represent worry, concern, skepticism, mistrust.	2017
Emotionless emoji	It is used to represent the disgrace or disapproval of something. For example, when we don't like the action done by someone.	2012
Neutral face	This emoji is used to represent "disappointment" or "whatever". It is used when we don't like what the other person is saying and want to reply to them, "okay, whatever."	2010
Face without mouth emoji	This emoji represents "I don't know what to say" or embarrassment toward something.	2010
Emoji with rolling eyes	This emoji is used to represent scorn, displeasure, aggravation, and lethargy. It may also be used in a sassy way to say, "Yeah, whatever."	2015
Face with open mouth emoji	This emoji expresses both happiness and sadness, and it can be used anywhere. It represents happy eyes with an open mouth.	2012
Hushed face emoji	This emoji represents a peaceful situation or shock, and it is often used to say, "oh my god."	2012
Astonished Face	This emoji represents a surprise situation. It is often used when a person wants to say "I don't believe it", "no idea about it," etc.	2010
Zipper mouth face	It shows "my lips are sealed", this may be used as if we have to keep something secret and not going to tell anyone.	2015
Grinning face	This emoji shows your happiness or pleasure toward something and shows a pleasant smile.	2012
Grinning Face with big eyes	This emoji shows a common pleasure or happiness. This is similar to a grinning face but with bigger eyes.	2010
Grinning Face with smiling eyes	It is used to show general but less excitement or happiness than grinning face or grinning face with big eyes emoji.	2010
Beaming Face with a smile	This emoji shows big teeth as it is super excited for something or teasing. It is used to show affection and happiness or while teasing someone.	2010
Sweating Grinning face emoji	This emoji represents "distress" or the close call, for example, "woof, thank god she didn't notice me."	2010
Hugging face emoji	This emoji represents "the hug"; this represents thank, love, and care or expresses affection, optimistic emotion.	2015
Smiling face emoji	This emoji represents happiness and warmth and a positive feeling.	1993
Smiling Face with smiling eyes or Blushing emoji	This emoji is used to show that you're happy about something or positive response to something.	2010
Face showing tears of joy emoji	This emoji represents laughter, and this emoji is laughing so hard that tears with joy are coming out of its eyes. This is another way to say "lol."	2010
Rolling on the floor with laughter emoji	This emoji is used to say "ROLF". It is used when we want to tell someone that they are so funny that we can't stop laughing so hard.	2016
Squinting grinning face emoji	This emoji is used to express excitement or happiness or heartily expression.	2010
Emoji with relieved Face	This emoji is used to represent reprieve, composed, harmony or satisfaction, etc.	2010
Thinking face emoji	This emoji represents that the person is thinking a lot of wondering. These emoji tell that 'hmm' or 'oh, I see'.	2015
Shushing Face	This emoji is used to say "ssshh". We use this emoji when we want to tell another person to keep things a secret or keep their mouth shut about anything.	2017
Winking face emoji	This emoji is used to show that the person is flirty or not serious about something. It may also be used when a person is funny or makes fun of things or lighthearted things.	2010
Smiling Face with sunglasses emoji	This emoji is used to show coolness or represent a lighthearted attitude, self-confidence. For example, when we want to tease or tell that I already knew that then we use this emoji.	2010
Slighting smiling face	It is used in different ways. Sometimes as positive happiness or a soft smile, whereas sometimes to show disapproval and to tell someone that you're okay with his action but actually you are not.	2014
Smiling Face with halo	This emoji is used to represent the blessing, prayers, or some pure intentions.	2010
Smiling Face with tear emoji	This emoji can be used in different means or many emotions such as major happiness or trying to look happy when sad, and many more.	2020
Blowing kisses emoji	This emoji is mostly used while saying bye. This emoji is friendly, but sometimes people also use it as the "flirty kisses."	2010
Kissing Face	It is used to express love and affection by simply offering a kiss.	2012
Kissing Face with smiling eyes	This emoji is used to describe love and praise someone by simply kissing them.	2012
Kissing Face with close eyes emoji	This emoji is used to show affection and to say thank you to someone. For example, when we want to say thank you or say good night to a closer one, friend, or crush.	2010
Face savior food emoji	It is simply used to represent the food is yum, or someone is too attractive.	2012
Drooling Face	It is used to show extreme cravings or wish about something. For example, when we want to say something is 'delicious'.	2016
Emoji with tongue	This emoji is used to represent pleasure, childishness, foolishness, and a little amount of goofiness.	2012
Winking Face with tongue	It is used to represent fun, happiness, mischief, and a little more goofiness than the emoji with tongue.	2010
Squinting Face with tongue	This emoji is used to represent a great sense of fun, craziness, happiness, and excitement.	2010
Zany Face	This emoji is used to represent craziness but in a positive manner. Like when you want to text someone and tell them you're partying and they are missing the fun, you use can use it.	2017
Sleeping face	This emoji is used to represent that the person is not interested or it sounds sleepy.	2012
Sleepy face	It may be used in two ways to represent dizziness or illness or to represent sleep, or boredom.	2010
Tired face	This emoji represents that person is tired; it is used to tell that you are bored or tired of something or someone or even a portion of food.	2010
Upside down Face or sarcastic emoji	This emoji is used in a situation where you want to say or tell another person that this was a silly or goofy move of him sarcastically.	2015
Money mouth	This emoji represents money, love, or "wealth."	2015
Face in cloud	This is the latest emoji that is not available on all devices but can only be found on the newest devices, and these emojis can represent confusion or an unclear state of mind.	2020
Face exhaling	This emoji represents exhaustion, relief, or a sign of disappointment.	2020
Lying Face	This emoji is used to represent dishonesty or disbelieve; for example, when we want to say to someone that they must be kidding, we use this emoji. It may be used in the wrong manner so many times.	2016
Emoji with a surgical mask	During the time of the pandemic, this emoji became popular. This emoji represents a social message to avoid sickness or staying healthy by wearing a mask.	2010
Emoji with thermometer	This emoji is used to represent the illness or the person is suffering from fever, cold, or flu.	2015
Face with head bandage	These emoji represent that the sender is physically hurt or in pain, but this emoji can also represent that the person is emotionally hurt.	2015
Nauseated Face	This emoji is green in color; this represents illness or disguised in most cases.	2016
Vomiting face	Not to confuse with nauseated face, this also represents the disguised or physical illness but in a little more serious manner than the nauseated face.	2017
Sneezing Face	This emoji represents someone's emotional state or sadness; for example, they are crying so loud that they need tissues to wipe tears and nose, etc.	2016
Hot Face	This emoji can represent the hotness; this hotness can vary in meaning. It can be used to call someone attractive or to tell that the weather is too hot to handle.	2018
Cold Face or freezing Face	It can be used when we want to tell the person that his action is so cold or the weather is cold.	2018
Woozy Face	This emoji may be used to represent "tired and emotional", as it can represent the person is irritated or disguised or not completely satisfied with something.	2018
A dizzy face	This emoji represents that a person is in shock, surprise, disbelief, intoxication, or completely exhausted. For example, when they want to say slang, "I'm dead."	2010
Face with spiral eyes	This emoji is used to show dizziness or may also represent hypnotisms, etc.	2020
Exploding head	These emojis represent the mind blow. It may be used to say that the person is amazed, surprised, shocked, etc.	2017
Cowboy emoji	It may express a sense of excitement, daydream, self-assurance, exploitation, or any other emotion.	2016
Face with steam from nose emoji	This emoji is also called a "frustrated" emoji. This emoji is used when we feel proud or to say I was right about something or "I did it"	2010
Flushed Face	It can be used in both a good and sad manner; this is used to represent embarrassment or shyness, sometimes surprise.	2010
Partying emoji	This emoji is used to show celebration or happiness. This has a party face full of joy and happiness, expressing celebration for any occasion or party.	2018
Pouting Face	It is used to represent extreme anger or rage, For example, when we want to tell someone that their act is making us so furious, we use this emoji.	2010
Angry Face	It represents irritation, anger, disappointment, etc. When we want to tell someone that they are so mean, we can use this emoji.	2010
Face with the symbol on the mouth	These emoji represent that the person is so furious that he is getting abusive or vulgar.	2017
Nerd's Face	This emoji is mostly used when a person wants to call themselves "nerd" or boring.	2015
Face with hand over mouth	This emoji represents a shy face with surprise, shock, amaze and sometimes shyness but all in a positive manner.	2017
Emoji with horns	This emoji represents naughtiness, mischief behavior, or devilish behavior.	2010
Angry face with horns emoji	This emoji represents anger or devilish behavior but in a horror way. This emoji is used to show terror or that the person wants to say that it was a devil move.	2010
Clown face	As clown represents two different behaviors, this emoji may be used in two ways; one can be scary or cringe, whereas the other one says someone foolish or funny.	2016
Skull emoji	This emoji represents death. It might be used to say it's so funny that I'm dying laughing or can say this is dangerous or life-risking.	2010
Skull and cross bone	This emoji represents danger or death. Like the skull, it may be funny or irony both ways. For example, when we want to tell someone that it is dangerous or horror, or too funny, etc.	1993
Jack-o- lantern	This emoji represents jack-o - lantern, which is counted as the symbol of Halloween, so with Halloween wishes, this emoji is a perfect match.	2010
Heart suit emoji	This emoji represents some negative response toward something or painful emotion; accordingly, to the situation, it may represent sadness or dark humor.	1993
Red heart emoji	This emoji is a representation of love and romance. Often it is used in valentine greetings; unlike other emoji containing heart in them, there is a solid red color look which shows romance toward someone.	1993
Heart with arrow emoji	This emoji is used to represent an old folk about love shot or a shot of love. There is a heart with an arrow in the middle in this emoji that shows it is the cupid of love.	2010
Beating heart	This emoji represents a heart that is beating. It may be in red or pink color. It used to show love or life.	2010
Sparkling heart	This emoji is used to represent love. This emoji looks shimmering or shining loud.	2010
Emoji with two hearts, also known as "pink heart emoji."	This emoji represents some passionate love or affection, which is mostly used to decorate romantic texts or love toward the opposite gender.	2010
Growing heart	It represents growing love. When we want to tell that our interest is growing or increasing in someone, we use this emoji. Sometimes people also use this emoji as a beating heart.	2010
Heavy heart exclamations emoji	It is mostly used to show agreement toward thinking. For example, when we want to say, 'yes, I think you are right, or 'I agree,' we use this emoji.	1993
Blackheart emoji	This emoji is referred to as emotionless or heartless. It is used when a person is emotionless but still understands them. This emoji is also known as the dark emoji.	2016
Blue heart emoji	This emoji may be used in two manners, a. To show someone love or affection in a romantic manner but the passion like red or pink emoji b. To show someone coldness or bitterness in a dark or sarcastic manner
Purpleheart emoji	This emoji is used to represent maternal love or affection because of its color. It can also be used to represent great love and affection toward someone. Schoolgirls mostly use this emoji to message their friends or classmates.	2010
Greenheart emoji	This emoji is used to express someone's love but only in a friendly manner.	2016
Broken heart	This emoji is representing heartbreak. When someone wants to tell another person they have hurt them, they use this emoji with texts.	2010
Love letter	This one is used to convey love letters; in a more simple way, we can say it is used romantically to express love toward someone or with romantic messages.	2010
Okay hand emoji	It is used to show approval or satisfaction toward something. This can also show that you think that the person is stupid or doing something stupid.	2010
Thumbs up emoji	It is used to show that the person agrees or supports another person's work. For example, when we want to say, 'yeah, you're doing it right,' we use this emoji.	2010
Raising hand emoji	It represents celebration or excitement, usually to say "hurray" or "give me ten".	2010
Clapping hand emoji	It is used to represent applause or clapping. When we want to praise someone or say "bravo," we use this emoji.	2010
Victory hands	This emoji may have two meanings, first to show victory or support or it may be used in an offensive way (in British concept).	1993
Folding hands emoji	It is used to say please or thank you. It is often used to represent beg, request, sorrow, disapproval, or gratitude toward someone or something, but sometimes people also use it as the "high five."	2010
Sign of horns emoji	This emoji may have various meanings, like saying someone "rocks on" or to show swag or disgrace someone, also to encourage or for the devil.	2015
Middle finger emoji	This emoji is used to show offensive results or slang like " fuck off", "fuck you," etc.	2014
Musical note emoji	It represents music. We use this emoji to tell someone that we are in a good mood or listening to music or singing.	2010
No evil see monkey	This emoji must be used in various ways. As the old saying "don't see bad things" or may be used to say "I don't want to see this" to the information sent by anyone or to show shyness or cuteness. This emoji is also known as cute emoji.	2010
Eyes emoji	This emoji is mostly used positively. It is used to say something is very attractive or dishonest in manner.	2010
Sun emoji	It represents sun or warmth feeling toward someone or hot weather.	2010
Fire emoji	It represents something attractive or hot, or lit. This emoji is red and orange, like fire. It is also used to show snap streaks on snap chat.	2015
Ghost emoji	This emoji is used to represent Halloween. It may also be used for fun or goofy things. Sometimes people tease or say, "yay".	2010
Pile of poop	It represents poop or to tell someone that they are saying a shitty thing or slag. It may also be used to say another person is silly or stupid.	2010
Party popper emoji	This emoji is used to show celebration or congratulate someone. This emoji represents a party or party popper.	2010
Hundred point emoji	This emoji represents 100. It is used to say "well-done" or "give your 100 percent".	2010
The person raising hand	This emoji is simply used to raise a hand. We use this emoji When a person wants to raise a hand or ask a question. Sometimes people use this emoji for asking a favor.	2010
oncoming fist emoji	This emoji is mostly used to greet between close friend and an agreement with someone.	2010
Kiss marks emoji	This emoji is used to represent kisses. It is used romantically, simply to say "kisses to you."	2010
Sparkling emoji	It represents shine. It is used when we want to call someone or something famous, shiny, or sparkling. It is the best way to compliment someone or call them a bright star or a bright future.	2010
Person facepalming	It is used to represent "disappointment". It is used to express "oh no, how stupid you can be" or "you made a mistake".	2016
Person tripping hand	It is used to represent "unsure about something", when we want to say 'I don't know about this or "if not this, then what should be the answer."	2016
Piston emoji	This emoji is mostly used as a sign of violence or to show that someone is having a bad time.	2010
Checkmark emoji	This emoji is used to show a "positive response" toward something. When we want to say something is right or all is well, we use this emoji.	1993
Cherry blossom emoji	It represents spring. Cherry blossom is a Japanese flower that blossoms in spring, so this emoji is used to express happiness.	2010
Rose emoji	Rose represents love. It is used to show romance and romantic way or to flirt.	2010
Crown emoji	It is used to represent "king". When we want to talk about something best or royal, this emoji is used.	2010
Anchor emoji	It is used to represent a ship or deep bond. In most cases, this emoji is used to show someone is secured in a relationship with someone.	2005