It produced a corresponding emoji. In place of the word “care,” I saw a heart emoji. A big, red cartoon heart. A childlike condolence. The depth of my emotion reduced to a pictogram.

While there was a tie for favorite emoji at CNET, one emoji received about 20% of the votes for most-used emoji, and that is the 🙏 folded hands emoji. While this emoji can be understood to mean ...

Complexity, when emoji are involved, will always find its way back. The Consortium’s Emoji Subcommittee—a “crack team of emoji wranglers,” in Houston’s words—had its hands full.

The judge pointed to a Dictionary.com definition of the thumbs-up emoji, which said it is used to express assent, approval or encouragement in digital communications. This court cannot (nor should ...