Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

For example, if you sent a message explaining that you've got the all-clear from the doctor, then you could use this emoji.

Your choice will be limited to laughing out loud, a winking face emoji, the cool sunglasses, the heart eyes, and the good old standard smiley face. Why emojis mean different things in different ...