It provides a code and description of each emoji -- for example, U+1F601 and "grinning face with smiling eyes" -- but it does not offer an actual image. Advertisement.

It detected the wide grin emoji without any difficulty. Advertisement. Google Handwriting Input. It did, however, have a hard time deciphering my drawing of kissing lips, ...

Did you mistake the grimace emoji for a grin? Here are 7 other emojis you're probably using wrong You've probably been using these emoji wrong. Time to swot up on what they really mean.

For the "grinning face with smiling eyes,” emoji, there was a nearly 5-point difference between the rating of the Apple version and the rating of the Google, Microsoft, Samsung, ...

In the most extreme case — Microsoft's big grin emoji — there was on average a 4.4-point difference in where any two people rated it on the 10-point sentiment scale.

It turns out you've been using THIS emoji all WRONG EMOJIS can appear VERY different on everyone of your recipients' smartphones. And it turns out, there is one emoji that can cause a lot of ...

Emoji are often misinterpreted. Researchers at the University of Minnesota asked a few hundred participants to rate emoji for sentiment from -5 (very negative) to +5 (very positive) and asked for ...

Unsurprisingly, the grinning face with smiling eyes emoji was singled-out once again. When viewed on an Apple iPhone or iPad, the emoji was clobbered with a negative -1 sentiment rating.