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An emoji is a small picture you put into a message or on a website — a face, a heart, food, a flag. They started in Japan and then spread everywhere phones go. They feel like a cousin of the older typed signs such as :-), but they are not the same thing: an emoji is a picture; those typed signs are . Though actually, many people now say emoji for both, and you will hear that mix-up every day. One more messy truth: the English word looks a bit like emotion, but it does not come from emotion and it is not a pair with . Informal, everyday, used by almost anyone who texts.
表情符號（口語直接說 emoji）
組成Borrowed from Japanese 絵文字 (emoji): 絵 e, 'picture' + 文字 moji, 'character / writing'. It is a false friend of English emotion and emoticon — they look related, but they are not.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
emojinoun/ɪˈməʊ.dʒi/
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A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media.
- In order to communicate quickly, many mobile phone users use emoji characters (similar to emoticons) while sending messages. Service providers have also created a set of emoji characters and have added support for it.
- One of the most exciting announcements at Twitter's Chirp conference this week was "Annotated Tweets". […] The data attached doesn't have to be simple text. Twitter suggests examples such as MIDI data (for music) or emoji (for fancy emoticons).
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Any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, e.g. an image emoticon.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。