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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 (7,577 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • emoji is credited with the discovery of Shigetaka Kurita[3].
  • emoji's instance of is recorded as notation[4].
  • image is named after emoji[5].
  • character is named after emoji[6].
  • emoji is a type of ideogram[7].
  • emoji's software version identifier is recorded as 13.0[8].
  • emoji's Commons category is recorded as Emoji[9].
  • emoji's country of origin is recorded as Japan[10].
  • emoji's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1999[11].
  • emoji's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Emoji[12].
  • emoji's Commons gallery is recorded as Emoji[13].
  • emoji's described at URL is recorded as https://home.unicode.org/emoji/about-emoji/[14].
  • emoji's topic has template is recorded as Template:Emoji navbox[15].
  • emoji's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/emoji[16].
  • emoji's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/emoji[17].
  • emoji's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '絵文字'}[18].
  • emoji's different from is recorded as emoticon[19].
  • emoji's different from is recorded as emote[20].
  • emoji's different from is recorded as sticker[21].
  • emoji's different from is recorded as emoji character[22].
  • emoji's properties for this type is recorded as P6524[23].
  • emoji's has list is recorded as list of Unicode emoji[24].
  • emoji's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Symbols (emoji variant)'}[25].
  • emoji's name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'symboles (variante émoji)'}[26].
  • emoji's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Emoji[27].

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Definition and Type

emoji's instance of is recorded as notation[4]. emoji is a type of ideogram[7].

Origins

Things named after include image[5] and character[6].

Influence

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 (7,577 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].

Related Entities

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References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Time. time.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . emojipedia.org. Retrieved . emojipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Time. time.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . home.unicode.org. Retrieved . home.unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: 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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