Emoji is a visual emotional symbol used in Japanese wireless communication. Drawing refers to pictures, and words refer to characters, which can be used to express a variety of expressions, such as smiling faces and cakes.
In Chinese mainland, emoji is usually called "Little Yellow Face", or simply emoji.
In NTTDoCoMo's i-mode telephone system, the size of the drawn text is 12x 12 pixels, and a graphic has 2 bytes when it is transmitted. Unicode codes are E63E to E757, and shift JIS codes are F89F to F9FC.
The basic hieroglyph * * has 176 symbols, and 76 emotional symbols have been added in the programming language of C-HTML4.0.
Since the emoji was added to the iOS 5 input method released by Apple, this emoji has become popular all over the world. Emoji has been adopted by Unicode coding compatible with most modern computer systems, and is widely used in various mobile phone short messages and social networks.
Emoji was created by Japanese Takashi Kurita, who sought inspiration from various childhood elements, such as Japanese cartoons and Japanese characters.
There are many different symbols in Japanese cartoons. Cartoonists will draw some expressions to show a person sweating profusely, or when generate comes up with an idea, a light bulb appears on his head.