Get ready to step up your emoji game. Unicode just made its new emoji list for 2019 official, and the update adds 230 new symbols, including a yawning face, white heart, and pinching hand symbol.

For an image to receive the coveted status of becoming an official emoji, it needs to satisfy multiple requirements set forth by the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit that reviews all emoji ...

Sixteen years after they first appeared on cellphone screens, the Oxford English Dictionary just named an emoji as its word of the year. The tears of joy symbol won out for its common usage — ...

The other day, I texted my daughter and asked her to describe herself using emoji. Sophie responded with blue letters spelling “Zzz” — the emoji for sleep. Appropriate, I thought, since she’d just ...