emoji

ideograms used in electronic messages and web pages
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emoji

Summary

emoji is a notation[1]. emoji ranks in the top 3% of notation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,291 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • emoji is credited with the discovery of Shigetaka Kurita[3].
  • emoji's video is recorded as Emoji.webm[4].
  • emoji's image is recorded as Emoji u263a.svg[5].
  • emoji's instance of is recorded as notation[6].
  • image is named after emoji[7].
  • character is named after emoji[8].
  • emoji's subclass of is recorded as ideogram[9].
  • emoji's software version identifier is recorded as 13.0[10].
  • emoji's Commons category is recorded as Emoji[11].
  • emoji's country of origin is recorded as Japan[12].
  • emoji's ISO 15924 alpha-4 code is recorded as Zsye[13].
  • emoji's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1999-00-00T00:00:00Z[14].
  • emoji's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02kb4w[15].
  • emoji's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph1217311[16].
  • emoji's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Emoji[17].
  • emoji's Commons gallery is recorded as Emoji[18].
  • emoji's described at URL is recorded as https://home.unicode.org/emoji/about-emoji/[19].
  • emoji's topic has template is recorded as Template:Emoji navbox[20].
  • emoji's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/emoji[21].
  • emoji's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/emoji[22].
  • emoji's BBC Things ID is recorded as 743481e3-2b8d-4039-a871-bc57edf5c18c[23].
  • emoji's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '絵文字'}[24].
  • emoji's different from is recorded as emoticon[25].
  • emoji's different from is recorded as emote[26].
  • emoji's different from is recorded as sticker[27].

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Works and Contributions

emoji is credited with the discovery of Shigetaka Kurita[3]. Things named for emoji include Bitmoji[28], a mobile app[29], founded in 2014[30] and Memoji[31], a software feature[32].

Why It Matters

emoji ranks in the top 3% of notation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,291 views/month).[2] emoji has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] emoji is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for emoji include Bitmoji[28], a mobile app[29], founded in 2014[30] and Memoji[31], a software feature[32].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . Time. time.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . emojipedia.org. Retrieved . emojipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Time. time.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . home.unicode.org. Retrieved . home.unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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