emoji

«emoji» in Mova's school dictionary: a small picture or face used in text messages, emails and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an emoji, emojis or emoji)

meaning for a pupil

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 →

sense 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 →
• A thumbs-up emoji means OK. tree →
• I added a heart emoji to my message to Grandma. tree →
• Some emojis can be misunderstood. tree →
• There are emojis for food, animals and weather. tree →
• Don't use emojis to be unkind to people. tree →

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 :-).

In the corpora

• The same emoji can mean different things to different people, which is one reason we use words when it matters.
• Online, it is easy to think small things do not count — one emoji, one fake name, one password passed on.
• Adding a laughing emoji to a mean post is joining in, not just watching.
• It was Ella's name and Ella's picture, but it did not sound like Ella, who always uses ten emojis.
• Forty-seven crying-laughing emojis.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «emoji» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.