Are Emojis a Universal Language?
By Mary Gilbey
Since 2011, when they first became available to a wide range of mobile users, emojis – the plethora of brightly coloured smiley faces, hearts and so forth – have become commonplace and used by people all over the world. An emoji, from the Japanese word for ‘picture character’, is a visual interpretation of an idea, feeling, status or event, and