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points by MeVfm 3 hours ago | 0 comments
More specifically, the "e" part is "picture" and the "moji" part is "character."

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

[–] anewhnaccount2 1 hour 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
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