Monday 29 April 2019

History of Emoji & How Emoji Keyboards Help to Express Our Feelings

You would be very well familiar with emojis. Emojis are ideograms (that means graphic symbol) and smileys that are used in web pages and electronic message. It exists in various genres, including common objects, facial expression, places and types of weather and animals.

The word Emoji comes from Japanese ‘e’ (picture) + ‘moji’ (character) and it first appeared on Japanese mobile phones in 1997; it became increasingly very popular worldwide in 2010s after being added to several mobile operating systems.

History of Emoji:
The development of emoji was predicted by text-based emoticons as well as graphical representation inside and outside of Japan. The earliest known mobile phones in Japan included a set of emoji and that was released by J-phone on 1st November 1997. The set of 90 emojis was included and later many more were added to the Unicode Standard. At that time, mobile phones were very expensive and not widely used.



Shigetaka Kurita creates the first widely-used set of Emoji in 1999. Kurita used symbol to show weather, street sign and Chinese character from manga (i.e. a conics or graphic novel) that used stock symbol to express emotions.

Benefits of Emoji for Expressing Our Feelings During a Conversation over Phone or Web:

  • If you love to keep connected using Facebook, then emoticons of Facebook would have become your first choice that helps in engaging you to reply dynamically while typing comments on Facebook.
  • Good things about these emoticons are that they allow you to be expressive even when you are silent or don’t find the right word to express your feeling or thoughts.
  • With the help of a real emoji app keyboard, you are able to express you inner feelings without ever needing to type a single word.
  • Emoji is an extension that makes replying to comments a lot easier. You can simply click on these emoticons and say it louder than all the words that you may be required to type.
  • In life, there are many situations when you don’t know how to express your feelings in words. At that time you can use emojis to express your feelings.
  • These emojis express many different sentiments that we experience in our daily lives.
  • Sometimes, we are feeling sorry but it is difficult to say in word and at that time we can use one of the emoticons that convey our apologies in the best way possible.
  • With advancement in communication technology, you can use emoji FC Barcelona keyboard or such feature-rich keyboards to express your passion also.

Not only the emojis feature, but availability of advanced and enriched themes and features like Barcelona keyboard app help make for an interactive chat using your phone. You can easily find these keyboard apps for free for almost all the major OS.
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