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# emoji

«emoji» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small picture or face used in text messages, emails and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an emoji, emojis or emoji)

### meaning for a pupil

An emoji is a small picture or face used in text messages, emails and online posts to show a feeling or idea, like a smiling face or a thumbs-up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and digital lessons, people add emojis to messages to show feelings; pupils learn that emojis can be misunderstood and that messages online should be kind. Phrases: send an emoji, a smiley emoji, the heart emoji.

### examples

- She sent me a smiley emoji. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x1)
- A thumbs-up emoji means OK. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x2)
- I added a heart emoji to my message to Grandma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x3)
- Some emojis can be misunderstood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x4)
- There are emojis for food, animals and weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x5)
- Don't use emojis to be unkind to people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/#x6)

### note

Plural: emojis or emoji. Use an: an emoji. The word comes from Japanese (e = picture + moji = character); it is not related to emotion, even though it sounds similar. An emoticon is a face made from keyboard symbols, like :-).

### In the corpora

- [The same emoji can mean different things to different people, which is one reason we use words when it matters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/24/)
- [Online, it is easy to think small things do not count — one emoji, one fake name, one password passed on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins/11/)
- [Adding a laughing emoji to a mean post is joining in, not just watching.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins/15/)
- [It was Ella's name and Ella's picture, but it did not sound like Ella, who always uses ten emojis.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/17/)
- [Forty-seven crying-laughing emojis.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/479-the-group-chat-that-turns/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «emoji» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emoji/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.