絵文字

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Contents 1 Japanese 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Coordinate terms

[edit] Japanese

Kanji in this term
絵	文字

[edit] Etymology

絵 (え, e: “picture”) + 文字 (もじ, moji: “letter”)

Historical reading (possibly anachronistic): /wemozi/: wemozi > emozi > emoji.

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia

絵文字 (hiragana えもじ, romaji emoji, historical hiragana ゑもじ)

1. pictograph
2. (Internet) An Emoticon, a special character used to represent a person's mood or emotion, especially on mobile phones.

[edit] Coordinate terms

• 顔文字: a sequence of keyboard characters such as (^_^)