Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media. · Any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, e.g. an image emoticon.
Etymology tree Middle Chinese 繪 (hwajH)bor. Japanese 絵 (e) Middle Chinese 文字 (mjun dziH)bor. Japanese 文字 (monji) Japanese 文字 (moji) Japanese 絵文字 (emoji)bor. English emoji Borrowed from Japanese 絵文字(えもじ) (emoji), from 絵(え) (e, “picture”) + 文字(もじ) (moji, “character”). False cognate of English emotion and emoticon.
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