The depiction of Face with Tears of Joy on JoyPixels. FwToJ is the second most popular emoji on Twitter.
Emoji (絵文字 emoji) are small pictures or smileys used in text messages and websites. Emoji have a variety of categories, including smileys, objects, weather, and animals. Emoji are similar to emoticons, but they are actual pictures instead of using existing keyboard symbols.
Emoji originated from Japanese mobile phones in 1997, but became popular worldwide around 2010-2012.
Etymology[]
Emoji literally means 'Picture character' in Kanji as e (絵) means picture and moji (文字) meaning character.