Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking smiley face should you use? Is there a difference between each different ...

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.

A smiley face with circles under its eyes, a fingerprint, root vegetables and a harp: Anyone who has painfully missed these emojis for embellishing chats and emails so far should be rejoicing in 2025.