Meaning

2 senses
  1. A graphical representation of a particular emotion of the writer, used especially in SMS, email, or other electronic communication.

    A graphic made up of text characters to represent such emotion; a smiley.

    Emoticon

    сма́йликsmájlik, эмотико́нemotikón, смайлsmajl

  2. An image or graphic icon used to represent such emotions; an emoji.

More definitions
  • a representation of a facial expression (as a smile or frown) created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Do you know what the differences between emoticons and emojis are?

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  2. Do you know what the difference between an emoticon and an emoji is?

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  3. Even though computer programmers may use semicolons every day, nowadays most people only use semicolons for emoticons.

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  4. This :-) is an emoticon.

    ruЭто :-) - смайлик.

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  5. Where programmers use semi-colons every day, the majority of people only use them in emoticons.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
representation of an emotion of the writer:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
representation of an emotion of the writer:

Origin

Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn)der.

Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn)der.

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