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FAQ — Emoji and Pictographs
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Unicode Consortium
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- Unicode Consortium
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- technical reference
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 72GRADE Asupports
Only one of emoticon and emoji contains emotion.
Emoticon is English emotion plus icon. Emoji is Japanese picture plus character: conceptual neighbors, unrelated formations.
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*meue- → movēre → ēmovēre → emouvoir / esmovoir → émotion → emotion → emoticon
What are emoji?; How do emoji differ from emoticons?Directly contrasts Japanese picture-character with English emotion-plus-icon.
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RANK 141GRADE Asupports
It has nothing to do with emotion.
Emoji is Japanese 絵 e “picture” plus 文字 moji “written character.” Emotion plus icon produced the separate word emoticon.
絵文字
絵文字 → emoji
What are emoji?; How do emoji differ from emoticons?Documents both the Japanese compound and the distinct emotion-plus-icon formation.
emoji dossier ↗truth record ↗85UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
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Is emoji formed from emotion plus icon?
No. Unicode and Merriam-Webster identify Japanese 絵 e “picture” plus 文字 moji “written character.” Emotion plus icon is the distinct English formation emoticon.
What are emoji?; How do emoji differ from emoticons?Analyzes 絵文字 and separately defines emoticon as emotion plus icon.
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Is emoticon another name or etymology for emoji?
No. Emoticon is English emotion plus icon. Emoji is Japanese e “picture” plus moji “character.” They can depict overlapping things without sharing a word formation.
What are emoji?; How do emoji differ from emoticons?Places the two formations side by side and distinguishes their origins.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 299supportsestablished
emoji → 絵文字
Present-Day English → Japanese · borrowing
- SOUND
- Japanese emoji was romanized and adapted to English phonology without treating its spelling as an English compound.
- MEANING
- Japanese “picture character” entered English as the name for the digital symbols.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · Unicode Consortium
What are emoji?Identifies Japanese 絵文字 and its two components.
EDGE 300supportsboundary
絵文字 → UNKNOWN
Japanese → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary
- SOUND
- No single predecessor form is asserted because 絵文字 is synchronically analyzable as a two-component Japanese compound.
- MEANING
- The whole-word lineage stops while the canonical graph branches into “picture” and “written character.”
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- SET-U editorial boundary · Unicode Consortium
What are emoji? — 絵 e plus 文字 mojiSupports branching the compound into two components rather than inventing one whole-word parent.
EDGE 307supportsestablished
絵文字 → 絵
Japanese → Japanese · compound component
- SOUND
- Synchronic Japanese compound analysis; no historical sound change is asserted between the whole and this component.
- MEANING
- The picture component contributes the pictorial half of “picture character.”
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Unicode Consortium · Merriam-Webster Editors
What are emoji? — 絵 e means pictureDirectly identifies the first compound component.
EDGE 308supportsestablished
絵文字 → 文字
Japanese → Japanese · compound component
- SOUND
- Synchronic Japanese compound analysis; no historical sound change is asserted between the whole and this component.
- MEANING
- The written-character component contributes the character or letter half of “picture character.”
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Unicode Consortium · Merriam-Webster Editors
What are emoji? — 文字 moji means characterDirectly identifies the second compound component.
EDGE 477supportsestablished
emoticon → emotion
Present-Day English → Present-Day English · compound component
- SOUND
- English emoticon truncates and joins emotion with icon; this dossier path follows the emotion component.
- MEANING
- Feeling supplies the expressive content of the keyboard-character image.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · Unicode Consortium
How do emoji differ from emoticons?Independently identifies emotion plus icon and the ASCII character-sequence function.
EDGE 490supportsestablished
emoticon → icon
Present-Day English → Present-Day English · compound component
- SOUND
- English emoticon truncates and combines emotion with icon.
- MEANING
- The representative-image component supplies the visual-sign side of a keyboard expression.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · Unicode Consortium
How do emoji differ from emoticons?Independently identifies emotion plus icon.
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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
No lexical witness currently cites this source.
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COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
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Japan
Places the source word in Japanese mobile-phone usage and identifies its components.
What are emoji? · regionalstage 4context
Networked English communication
Documents ASCII sequences and the contrast with emoji.
How do emoji differ from emoticons? · global071
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
parallel digital symbol formationsupports
TWO VISUAL LANGUAGES, TWO WORD FORMATIONS
Emoticon is English emotion plus icon and originally denotes character sequences. Emoji is borrowed from Japanese e “picture” plus moji “character.” Their uses overlap, but their lexical parents do not.
Unicode Consortium · Merriam-Webster editors · established082
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