"Long after you and I are dust in the wind there will be a red wine emoji," said Mark Davis, the co-founder and president of Unicode Consortium who also works at Google. Anyone can propose an emoji.

If a particularly loved emoji hasn’t been given the star treatment by Google, don’t worry, as there are sure to be more added over time. Gboard has no shortage of other features you can use ...

We all need love — but sometimes, we have to find it from somewhere other than a human counterpart. That's what model Nargis Fakhri found out when she began a relationship with her poop emoji ...

From the proposals to the design, a bevy of rules govern emojis. To submit a proposal to Unicode, you must follow a strict format, in writing, that includes your emoji's expected usage level ...

These tiny pictographs became a part of our online language with the ascent of cellphones, getting their start in Japan in 1999 — "emoji" combines the Japanese words for "picture," or "e ...

In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries declared the "face with tears of joy" emoji its word of the year. New York's Museum of Modern art has added the original emoji set to its permanent collection.