Is there a feature that defines all emojis in iPhone?

Bri10um wrote:

This is very helpful.

Hopefully soon Apple will allow the emoji to be defined by holding it down

Pragmatically, there are no fixed definitions.

Emoji are pictures that can be used to convey gestures, feelings, images, or whatever.

In various contexts, emoji can be used to convey what can be subtle or misconstrued when solely using text. This includes context such as text intended as a joke 😀🤪🤭 and text that is sarcasm 🙄🥸.

For some related history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon

If you would like to see the Unicode emoji name displayed—which I can assure you is not how various emoji are commonly used, and no I’m not going to post examples of that usage here—you can log some feedback with Apple: Product Feedback - Apple

Bri10um wrote:

So, what I mean by define is to determine or identify the essential qualities or meaning of. Not describe what is shown. Example: the list that was given defines an emoji with heart eyes as such, but the emotional definition would be in love or something similar.

There are no "definitions". Different people, different subcultures use them to mean different things. And those uses change over time, sometimes fairly rapidly.

Emojis are part of the Unicode standard, and all standards have docs: http://unicode.org/main.html

Unicode Emoji details are here: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-25.html

Here are the official Unicode Emoji tables: https://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/15.1/

Bri10um wrote:

So, what I mean by define is to determine or identify the essential qualities or meaning of. Not describe what is shown. Example: the list that was given defines an emoji with heart eyes as such, but the emotional definition would be in love or something similar.

I'm aware of no such description for all, and the partial lists that some have posted are woefully incomplete or outdated.

You can certainly create an app that presents your own perceptions of "the essential qualifies or meaning of" the myriad emoji too of course, but there'll exist errors and exclusions and differing perceptions.

And emoji usage will shift.

An English instructor of my acquaintance once told me that English was fixed and forever unchanging. In that single (and utterly wrong) statement, I learned far more about educators and advanced degrees than that instructor had likely intended, or probably even ever realized. 😳

Alas, “The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”, as some rando once wrote. 🤭

PS: I trust a generative text tool to be correct right up into it is not. These errors from generative tools are sometimes called "hallucinations", as another salient example of how language shifts. Sometimes rapidly.

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Bri10um wrote:

So, what I mean by define is to determine or identify the essential qualities or meaning of. Not describe what is shown. Example: the list that was given defines an emoji with heart eyes as such, but the emotional definition would be in love or something similar.

Emojis adopted for standard use are approved by Unicode on the basis of proposals, which can be expected to include a lot of info about the things they might be used for. You can have a look at such proposals for example at

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-proposals.html

Bri10um wrote:

This is very helpful.

Hopefully soon Apple will allow the emoji to be defined by holding it down

What do you mean by “defined”?

Alancito wrote:

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That's quite the significant question these days!

See also:

Emoji Meanings - List of all WhatsApp and Facebook Smileys

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