Emoji Meanings: What Do All Those Icons Really Mean?

Have you ever wondered the true meaning behind all of those emojis?

So you’ve installed the Emoji keyboard on your phone, and you are excited to start speaking to all your friends via small yellow faces instead of words – we were there once, too. However, don’t hit the Send button too soon. You see, while some Emojis are fairly self explanatory – such as the smiley face, or the smiley face with eyes open, or the smiley face with larger eyes open than the smiley face with eyes open – others can be much more confusing. Ok, perhaps the simple emojis have confusing meanings that need to be explained also.

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By now (the time this is being written), humans have been using emojis for some time, and the likelihood for emoji-speak to develop into a universal hieroglyphic language capable of transcending all current linguistic boundaries is quite high. By the time you even read this the new epoch of human communication could already have arrived. This means that if you don’t want to be left in the dust by everyone else in our advanced civilization, getting up to speed on how to effectively communicate all of your complex thoughts and emotions via a library of some eight hundred freckle-sized pictures should be your number one priority.

But if understanding the importance of emojis is only the start, how does one go about learning all of the emoji meanings so that they can apply this knowledge to the real world, such as when applying for jobs, or sending sensitive information that needs to be communicated effectively? Well, the good folks over at Guess the Emoji have compiled an extensive database of emoji meanings for all the emojis on your device. With large, easy-to-view images of each emoji and a comprehensive sorting system (the emojis and their meanings are categorized by their page on your device), finding the meaning for whatever emoji you are looking for is a cake emojiperson walking emoji.

So stop living in the dark age of black text on white backgrounds. The power of eight hundred colorful emojis and their meanings is at your fingertips.

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