Humans have been communicating with pictures since the days of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Today, that tradition lives on in one of the most popular visual languages of the digital age: the emoji.

Whether it's a cheeky wink or a grinning cowboy, it might seem like there is already an emoji for every possible situation.

Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom found in fairy tale picture books and Super Mario Brothers. A ...

Show them how you really feel. Eight new emojis are expected to hit smartphones soon, and they’re already popular among users who say that the inclusion of an emoticon with under-eye bags makes them ...

Emojis are basically the internet's way of speaking a language everyone understands. No matter where you're from, they just click. They bring feelings to life in a way plain text can't quite manage.

A new batch of emojis have been approved for iOS 26. A new batch of emojis has been approved for iOS 26. Surprisingly enough, Apple or Google isn’t the ones that decide which emojis come to your phone ...

April 28, 2025 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google For the past five years, Google's Emoji Kitchen has offered a way for users to make unique emojis from existing ...

The flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria. Scores of ...