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Did you know? Emoji were invented in 1999 in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita — an employee at NTT DoCoMo. He designed 176 12×12-pixel emoji symbols for his pager company. The word "emoji" in Japanese means "e" (画) "moji" (字) — "picture-character" — nothing to do with "emotion". In 2010 Unicode added emoji to its standard, making them international.

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Emoji were invented in 1999 in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita — an employee at NTT DoCoMo. He designed 176 12×12-pixel emoji symbols for his pager company. The word "emoji" in Japanese means "e" (画) "moji" (字) — "picture-character" — nothing to do with "emotion". In 2010 Unicode added emoji to its standard, making them international.

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