and rotating your wrist side to side while your thumb and pinky remains at attention. It's also this emoji, added to Unicode in 2016: 酪. It definitely did not originate from Native Hawaiian ...

Similarly, our analysis showed that people typically use the “top” emoji 🔝 to mean something is good. Another common type of gesture used to draw attention is a beat gesture, distinguished ...

The Global Language Monitor's Top Word of 2014 is not a word, it's an emoji of a heart. The company says the spread of pictures in place of words reflects a broader transformation of English.