points by brumar 12 hours ago | 0 comments
> Contrary to popular belief “emo-ji” doesn’t mean “emo-tional”. It’s a Japanese word that literally translates into “picture character”
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[–] MeVfm 4 hours ago
[–] anewhnaccount2 3 hours ago
Yes but we used to call them emoticons which was a bit clunky to pronounce so it's probably a form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching
e (絵) + moji (文字) = emoji (絵文字)
https://jisho.org/word/%E7%B5%B5 https://jisho.org/word/%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97