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# emoji

noun (an emoji, emojis or emoji)

«emoji» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

An emoji is a small picture or face used in text messages, emails and online posts to show a feeling or idea, like a smiling face or a thumbs-up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#m1)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and digital lessons, people add emojis to messages to show feelings; pupils learn that emojis can be misunderstood and that messages online should be kind. Phrases: send an emoji, a smiley emoji, the heart emoji.

### Examples

- She sent me a smiley emoji. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x1)
- A thumbs-up emoji means OK. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x2)
- I added a heart emoji to my message to Grandma. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x3)
- Some emojis can be misunderstood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x4)
- There are emojis for food, animals and weather. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x5)
- Don't use emojis to be unkind to people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x6)

### Note

Plural: emojis or emoji. Use an: an emoji. The word comes from Japanese (e = picture + moji = character); it is not related to emotion, even though it sounds similar. An emoticon is a face made from keyboard symbols, like :-).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «emoji» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«emoji» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/emoji.html) on Mova free.