If you click an individual emoji, Emojipedia will give you a brief description of that emoji. For example, here's what Emojipedia writes about the "👅" (tongue) emoji: "A tongue, sticking out.

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.