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摘要

FIRST things first: emojis are not emoticons. Emoticons such as the smiley or crying face are formed from typographical marks. Emojis, however, are images. As of 18 May, when the US-based Unicode Consortium released version 10 of its standard international encoding for all computer-based text (which includes emojis), there are around 1900 images to choose from.