What is World Emoji Day?
World Emoji Day is a celebration of the emoji and its powerful role in modern communication. Emojis, though small, convey a vast range of emotions and ideas, becoming essential in various forms of human interaction—from texts to movies. Billions of emojis are sent and received daily for numerous reasons. With emojis available for almost everything and new ones being created regularly, they excel in adding emotion to text-based messages.
When is World Emoji Day 2024?
World Emoji Day 2024 is celebrated on Wednesday, July 17th. This annual holiday is always held on the same date each year.
Fun Fact: The date for World Emoji Day was chosen because the calendar emoji 📅 typically depicts July 17th.
History of Emojis
- Invention: Emojis were created in 1997 by Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita, who developed 176 different emojis representing objects, expressions, and weather for an online messaging service. They quickly gained popularity in Japan.
- Global Spread: The global rise of emojis was driven by increased cell phone accessibility and the rise of instant messaging apps.
- Unicode Standard: The Unicode Consortium, an organization that standardizes character values for global computer systems, added emojis to the Unicode Standard. This allowed consistent display of emojis across different devices and languages, enabling them to transcend linguistic and cultural barriers.
- Diversity: Over time, emojis have become more diverse, with options for different skin tones, professions, activities, and objects, available in both male and female versions. New emojis are regularly added to the Unicode Standard, further increasing inclusivity.
How to Celebrate World Emoji Day 2024
- Share Emojis: Use emojis as much as possible in your messages and on social media.
- Host/Attend Events: Participate in or organize emoji-themed events.
- Design an Emoji: Create your own emoji to express yourself and celebrate the day.
Teaching Resources for World Emoji Day
Twinkl offers a variety of educational resources crafted by teachers, including:
- Design an Emoji Activity: Encourages creativity and writing skills in children in third to fifth grade.
- Emoji Stickers: Useful for adding emotional feedback in student rewards.
- Emoji Multiplication Mosaic: A fun, visually pleasing math activity where students complete multiplication problems to finish a color-by-number grid.
Celebrate World Emoji Day 2024 by sharing emojis, attending themed events, and utilizing educational resources to make the most of this fun and expressive holiday!
World Emoji Day wishes
World Emoji Day Quotes
Quotes about Emoji Usage and Communication
- “I am emoji-heavy as hell. I would use the same emoji 140 times just to communicate how excited I am.” – Frankie Grande
- “My emoji vocabulary is pretty limited to, like, the smiling poop, the rainbow, and a unicorn or something.” – Bob Morley
- “I don’t use emojis. I go vintage.” – Rami Malek
- “I text nonstop, and I love emoji. I’m also on the phone quite a bit for work – probably more than 10 calls per day.” – Evan Spiegel
- “Oceans of emotion can be transmitted through a text message, an emoji sequence, and a winking semicolon, but humans are hardwired to respond to visuals.” – Jenna Wortham
- “I’m a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emojis.” – Sam Heughan
- “What are the two biggest things online? Selfies and emojis. We’re combining them. Instead of sending some character that means nothing with a hat – what if it was your face doing something? Me-moji.” – Howie Mandel
- “‘LOL’ is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don’t have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.” – John McWhorter
- “The poem is a form of texting… it’s the original text. It’s a perfecting of a feeling in language – it’s a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.” – Carol Ann Duffy
- “Most single people I know, myself included, have a difficult time even meeting up with the people they like, be it busy schedules, texting games, or whatever.” – Aziz Ansari
Celebrate World Emoji Day with these quotes that highlight the fun, expressive, and essential role emojis play in our digital communication!
