World Emoji Day 2021: World Emoji Day is celebrated each year on 17 July. Wanna know the history how this day’s celebration started, who created emoji, how the day is celebrated and what are new features of emojis…Read this blog for we bring the detailed updates on World Emoji Day here.
World Emoji Day 2021 is celebrated to represent an idea or an emotion through an electronic means. Emoji is the fastest growing language in history. Every day we use emoji on Facebook, Twitter, message, etc..
Emoji, as a small digital icon, is becoming quite popular these days and no doubt, it has become an integral part of our conversation.
Every time we feel lazy or when we are at a loss of words, we use emojis to express ourselves. There is an emoji for every feeling and these emojis have been evolving since last many years which not only expresses simple human feelings but more than that.
Let’s see history from where and how emojis evolved and started.
Emoji or emojis is Japanese-origin word which originated on Japanese mobile phones in 1997. Existing as ideograms and smileys, they are used in electronic messages and web pages and are similar to emoticons. With the passage of time, they became so popular that Oxford Dictionaries named the Face with Tears of Joy emoji the Word of the Year in 2015.
World Emoji Day History
The World Emoji Day has been celebrated annually since 2014.
Termed to be the brainchild of Emojipedia creator Jeremy Burge, the Emojipedia is an emoji reference website that created in 2013 which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters in the Unicode Standard. New York Times said that Burge created the day on July 17 based on the way in which the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones.
World Emoji Day Celebration
Many events are held in honour of the emoji, like the World Emoji Day Red Carpet event in 2016, and the lighting up of the Empire State Building in a “emoji yellow” for World Emoji Day in 2017. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, no big gatherings are being organised but people can still celebrate by sending one another messages using only the emojis.