Two activists want the Unicode Consortium to add the American Sign Language handshape for "I love you" to Unicode 9.

There's an emoji for every occasion and every sign in the zodiac. New York Post photo composite Cue up your pictographs and send your sentiments my babies, World Emoji Day is upon us.

The pictorial language has moved away from ideography and toward illustration. It’s lost some expressive power in the process.

Using the wrong emoji at work can shift the meaning of your message. Staying curious about tone and generational preferences ...

Scrabble adds 'OK' and 'emoji' as acceptable words — and some fans are calling it the 'death of the English language' Lauren Holter September 24, 2018 ...

"Language is just as artistic as music, but music is comprised of music notes. And those musical notes need to be standardized if they're going to be digitized in some way," Daniel said.

Emoji aren't just for text messages — they're also being used to cross language barriers.

As emoji grow more popular, the “language” also risks fragmentation As more emoji are created, it will take more work to keep them universal.

Will emoji will ride their cultural appeal long enough to become a discrete, complete means of communication?

A global translation firm based in London is looking to employ an 'emoji translator'. It's already received about 100 applications from around the world.

Attempting to create a universal glyph-based language for human beings in the digital age is a noble endeavor. But unfortunately, the entity behind our semi-ubiquitious emoji system, Unicode ...

The problem is simple: Emoji don’t work the same way everywhere. Trying to send the images between mobile and web services doesn’t mix well and usually leaves a (literal) gap in the experience ...