Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective, depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking smiley face should you use? Is there a difference between each ...

A new report from language education platform Preply found that 81% of Americans have been confused ... painting emoji, the dashing away cloud emoji and the upside-down smiley face are the most ...

The iconic yellow smiley face has an interesting story ... dear’ could be written as ‘oh (deer emoji)’, which is perhaps why emojis are confused for modern Hieroglyphics.