Once reserved for romantic partners and other loved ones, the heart emoji can now mean anything—which means it has no meaning ...

So I was cheered to read that a new period emoji is set to be introduced by the Unicode Consortium, following a campaign by Plan International UK that received support from more than 55,000 people.

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Sometimes it can be difficult to understand what someone means in a message, and when you throw emoji in the mix things get even more complicated. A " " or " ️" are easy to understand ...

But if you're active on Twitter, you've probably seen its popular emoji mashup bots, which combine multiple emojis into one. Only recently, Emoji Kitchen was native to Android users on Gboard.

This is especially true for the emoji we use to express love … or is it passion? Heartbreak, maybe? Truth is, there’s a surprising range of heart emoji meanings. To get the scoop, we spoke ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Emoji. For some of us, it's a second language. But did you know anyone can make an emoji? You don't need funding. You don't need to know someone ...