A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions. This should be heartening. In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary announced that their Word of the Year was the emoji 'Face with Tears ...

Emoji Kitchen lets you combine two emojis to generate a new mashup sticker. You can send them to your family and friends ...

The level of precision demanded by that work calls for a specialized vocabulary — some would ... that's theoretically now the argot of the people: emoji. They used the hashtag #emojiresearch.