Emojis, smiley faces, hearts, winking eyes, were created in 1998 by Shigetaka Kurita, an engineer at the Japanese phone company, NTT Docomo. In this way, he created communication signs with the customer by using icons. He created 176 icons, which he called “emojis.” the name is from the Japanese language “e” means (picture) and “moji” is (character).
Dr. Preeti Singh