Say ¿Qué?: Emoji on World Emoji Day
“Emoji [are] digital pictograms used widely throughout social media, texting, [and] e-mail... The term emoji was born from two Japanese words: e, meaning “picture,” and moji, meaning “written character.””
July 17 is World Emoji Day. According to Make Use Of, the most popular emoji in the world is “Face with tears of joy” (😂). How wonderful!
To honor that emoji joy, we translated “emoji” into the top ten spoken languages in the world:
Emoji [English] (*Borrowed from Japanese]
Biǎoqíng fúhào (表情符号) [Mandarin]
Imojee (इमोजी) [Hindi]
Emoji [Spanish]
Emoji [French]
'Iimuji (إيموجي) [Arabic]
Emoji [Portuguese]
Emodzi (Эмодзи) [Russian]
Imūjī (ایموجی) [Urdu]
Emoji [Swahili]
#TopTenSpokenWorld
What’s your favorite emoji? What’s your most used emoji? Our fave may be the side eye (👀). Connect with us on Twitter/X: @village_values.
Native speakers, let us know how we did! (connect@villagevalues.org). Thank you [Xièxiè (谢谢), Dhanyavaad (धन्यवाद), Gracias, Merci, Shkran lak (شكرًا لك), Dhan'yabāda (ধন্যবাদ), Obrigado, Spasibo (Спасибо), Shukriya (شکریہ), Asante) for reading!
