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Is there a feature that defines all emojis in iPhone?

Is there a feature that defines all emojis


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Posted on Feb 13, 2024 3:58 PM

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Posted on Feb 13, 2024 4:31 PM

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/

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Feb 15, 2024 10:21 AM in response to Bri10um

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


Feb 15, 2024 3:39 PM in response to Bri10um

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I'm aware of no such description for all, and the partial lists that some have posted are woefully incomplete or outdated.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

Feb 16, 2024 1:27 PM in response to Bri10um

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

Feb 15, 2024 2:59 PM in response to Bri10um

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.

Is there a feature that defines all emojis in iPhone?

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