Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark ...

But they don't teach emoticons in school, and some of them are actually hard to understand — at least for some of us. Below we've listed the actual definitions for all the main emoticons.

Kakao announced on the 11th that it has released emoticons and goods in collaboration with senior artists.

Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because before there were emoji, there were emoticons. Emoticons were the pictorial ...

The ‘E’ stands for picture or drawing and ‘moji’ denotes letter and character. Emoticons are expressions of emotions while emojis are used to explain things. So, for example, 😅😂🤣🥲 are emoticons ...

The set features 16 uniquely designed emoticons, capturing the festive cheer of the Lunar New Year with vibrant and playful designs. Free for all WeChat users, these emoticons are part of a ...

To find out what some of our most-used emoticons might say about us, Young Post spoke to psychologist Leah Selakovic, who shared all about how emojis changed the way we communicate. Selakovic ...