emoji
Sayee-MOH-jeeUS/ɪˈmoʊd͡ʒi/UK/ɪˈməʊdʒi/
Pluralemojis, emoji
- 1A small picture or symbol you can put in a message, like a smiley face or a heart.
Like a tiny picture you stick into a message instead of writing a word.
She added a smiling emoji to the end of her text.
He uses lots of emojis when he chats with his friends.
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Origin
It comes from Japanese emoji, made from e ('picture') and moji ('character'). It only sounds like the English words emotion and emoticon by chance.