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emoji

ideograms used in electronic messages and web pages
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Summary

emoji is a notation[1]. emoji ranks in the top 3% of notation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (26,170 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Shigetaka Kurita[3]
  • Named after: image[4], character[5]
  • Subclass of: ideogram[6], Unicode character[7]
  • Software version identifier: 13.0[8]
  • Commons category: Emoji[9]
  • Country of origin: Japan[10]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1999[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Emoji[12]
  • Commons gallery: Emoji[13]
  • Described at URL: https://home.unicode.org/emoji/about-emoji/[14]
  • Topic has template: Template:Emoji navbox[15]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/emoji[16], https://stackoverflow.com/tags/emoji[17]
  • Native label: 絵文字[18]
  • Different from: emoticon[19], emote[20], sticker[21], emoji character[22]
  • Properties for this type: P6524[23]
  • Has list: list of Unicode emoji[24]
  • Name: Symbols (emoji variant)[25], symboles (variante émoji)[26]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Emoji[27]
  • Unicode range: U+261D,U+270A-270C,U+1F446-1F450,U+1F64C,U+1F64F[28], U+23,U+30-39,U+A9,U+AE,U+20E3,U+2122,U+2139,U+2194-2199,U+21A9,U+21AA,U+231A,U+231B,U+23E9-23EC,U+23F0,U+23F3,U+24C2,U+25AA,U+25AB,U+25B6,U+25C0,U+25FB-25FE,U+2600,U+2601,U+260E,U+2611,U+2614,U+2615,U+261D,U+263A,U+2648-2653,U+2660,U+2663,U+2665,U+2666,U+2668,U+267B,U+267F,U+2693,U+26A0,U+26A1,U+26AA,U+26AB,U+26BD,U+26BE,U+26C4,U+26C5,U+26CE,U+26D4,U+26EA,U+26F2,U+26F3,U+26F5,U+26FA,U+26FD,U+2702,U+2705,U+2708-270C,U+270F,U+2712,U+2714,U+2716,U+2728,U+2733,U+2734,U+2744,U+2747,U+274C,U+274E,U+2753-2755,U+2757,U+2764,U+2795-2797,U+27A1,U+27B0,U+27BF,U+2934,U+2935,U+2B05-2B07,U+2B1B,U+2B1C,U+2B50,U+2B55,U+3030,U+303D,U+3297,U+3299,U+1F004,U+1F0CF,U+1F170,U+1F171,U+1F17E,U+1F17F,U+1F18E,U+1F191-1F19A,U+1F1E7-1F1EC,U+1F1EE-1F1F0,U+1F1F3,U+1F1F5,U+1F1F7-1F1FA,U+1F201,U+1F202,U+1F21A,U+1F22F,U+1F232-1F23A,U+1F250,U+1F251,U+1F300-1F320,U+1F330-1F335,U+1F337-1F37C,U+1F380-1F393,U+1F3A0-1F3C4,U+1F3C6-1F3CA,U+1F3E0-1F3F0,U+1F400-1F43E,U+1F440,U+1F442-1F4F7,U+1F4F9-1F4FC,U+1F500-1F53D,U+1F550-1F567,U+1F5FB-1F640,U+1F645-1F64F,U+1F680-1F6C5[29]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Internet culture[30], WikiProject Emoji[31], WikiProject Writing systems[32], WikiProject Japanese culture[33], Wikiproject Science and technology in Japan[34], WikiProject Japan[35]
  • FAQ URL: https://www.unicode.org/faq/emoji_dingbats.html[36]

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Influence

Things named for emoji include Bitmoji[37], a mobile app[38], founded in 2014[39] and Memoji[40], a software feature[41].

Why It Matters

emoji has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] emoji is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]

Entities named for emoji include Bitmoji[37], a mobile app[38], founded in 2014[39] and Memoji[40], a software feature[41].

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Time. time.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . emojipedia.org. Retrieved . emojipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Time.com. time.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . home.unicode.org. Retrieved . home.unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · 鈴音雨 · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 86
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'ban', 'be', 'bg', 'bh', 'bn', 'ca', 'ckb
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Time of discovery or invention: 1999"
  2. 26d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → emojis
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: emojis, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289926448|emojis (#289926448)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  3. 5w ago · Rose Abrams · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dagens nyheter topic id → emojier
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Dagens nyheter topic id: emojier, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/71083746|Emojier (#71083746)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/488|DN topic]] #mix'n'matc"
  4. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ndl authority id → 00561924
    Verbaalpina id → C7898
    Bibliothèque nationale de france id → 17764722s
    Fast id → 2002980
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C7898, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  5. 14w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → topic/emoji
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Encyclopædia britannica online id: topic/emoji"
  6. 16w ago · Таёжный лес · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Emoji u263a.svg, Popular Emoji Groups Noto Color Emoji.svg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Image: Popular Emoji Groups Noto Color Emoji.svg"
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