Emoji (singular emoji, plural emoji or emojis) are ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and web pages. Some examples of emoji are 😃, 😭, and 😈. Emoji exist in various genres, including facial expressions, common objects, places and types of weather, and animals. They are much like emoticons, but emoji are pictures rather than typographic approximations; the term "emoji" in the strict sense refers to such pictures which can be represented as encoded characters, but it is sometimes applied to messaging stickers by extension. Originally meaning pictography, the word emoji comes from Japanese e ("picture") + moji ("character"); the resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental.
Japan was the first country to widely adopt the early emoji sets for use on mobile phones. Japanese mobile operators NTT DoCoMo, au, and SoftBank Mobile all implemented emoji sets in the late 1990s to their phones. These companies each defined their own variants of emoji using proprietary standards. The first set of 176 12×12 pixel emoji was created as part of i-mode's messaging features to help facilitate electronic communication, and to serve as a distinguishing feature from other services. Kurita created the first 180 emoji based on the expressions that he observed people making and other things in his city.
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