Tears of Joy Emoji Usage Guide
- 8 years ago
This is our life now: Oxford Dictionaries announced their hotly anticipated word of the year, but instead of choosing a word in the traditional sense, they put forth an emoji.
Specifically, it's the "face with tears of joy" emoji, as it's known to the few people compelled to match vocabulary to an image that manages to be both the "word" and the definition in one tiny yellow package.
The Oxford University Press said it worked with SwiftKey, a "predictive-text keyboard" used on mobile devices that tracks frequency of usage of letters and symbols.
SwiftKey found that the "tears of joy" emoji was the most used emoji around the world in 2015 - making up a whopping 17 percent of all emoji use in the U.S. "Emojis are no longer the preserve of texting teens," the Oxford University Press said.
"Instead, they have been embraced as a nuanced form of expression, and one which can cross language barriers."
Specifically, it's the "face with tears of joy" emoji, as it's known to the few people compelled to match vocabulary to an image that manages to be both the "word" and the definition in one tiny yellow package.
The Oxford University Press said it worked with SwiftKey, a "predictive-text keyboard" used on mobile devices that tracks frequency of usage of letters and symbols.
SwiftKey found that the "tears of joy" emoji was the most used emoji around the world in 2015 - making up a whopping 17 percent of all emoji use in the U.S. "Emojis are no longer the preserve of texting teens," the Oxford University Press said.
"Instead, they have been embraced as a nuanced form of expression, and one which can cross language barriers."