Frequently Asked Questions
The invention of the emoji is credited to Shigetaka Kurita, a Japanese artist who worked for NTT DOCOMO in the late nineties.
In 1998 NTT DOCOMO, a Japanese company, created the heart emoji! â€ïž
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Since emoji are used on so many different platforms and often in private messages, it is difficult to get an exact count, but these 10 have been reported by the Unicode Consortium to be the most popular in 2021: ð â€ïž ð€£ ð ð ð ð 𥰠ð ð
Each version of the Unicode Standard has it's own number of emoji. The latest, Version 15, has 3,664 emoji. Some other recent versions are Version 14 which has 3,633 emoji, Version 13 which has 3,304 emoji, Version 12 which has 3,019 emoji, Version 11 which has 2,789 emoji and Version 10 which has 2,666 emoji.