"other email services have also introduced ""emoji"" that can be sent and received from mobile handsets as well as computers. Mobile phone industry in Japan The Japanese mobile phone industry is one of the most advanced in the world. As of July 31, 2013 there were 139,180,300 mobile phones in use in Japan. This is 110 percent of Japan's total population according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. In Japanese, are often referred to as simply or for short. There are four cellular service operators in Japan. Willcom is the last PHS Personal Handy-phone System service operator. DoCoMo"
"and Pictographs block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing meteorological and astronomical symbols, emoji characters largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS, and characters originally from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts found in Microsoft Windows. The block contains 637 emoji: U+1F300–U+1F321, U+1F324–U+1F393, U+1F396–U+1F397, U+1F399–U+1F39B, U+1F39E–U+1F3F0, U+1F3F3–U+1F3F5, U+1F3F7–U+1F4FD, U+1F4FF–U+1F53D, U+1F549–U+1F54E, U+1F550–U+1F567, U+1F56F–U+1F570, U+1F573–U+1F57A, U+1F587, U+1F58A–U+1F58D, U+1F590, U+1F595–U+1F596, U+1F5A4–U+1F5A5, U+1F5A8, U+1F5B1–U+1F5B2, U+1F5BC, U+1F5C2–U+1F5C4, U+1F5D1–U+1F5D3, U+1F5DC–U+1F5DE, U+1F5E1, U+1F5E3, U+1F5E8, U+1F5EF, U+1F5F3 and U+1F5FA–U+1F5FF. The block has 312 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the"
"Pictogram A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and in computer usage an icon, is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographs are often used in writing and graphic systems in which the characters are to a considerable extent pictorial in appearance. A pictogram may also be used in subjects such as leisure, tourism, and geography. Pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. Some pictograms, such"
"design beyond their stated desire for ""scale, proportion, and shape."" Also of note is Emoji, based on a vocabulary of 722 emoticons, and popular in electronic communications throughout Japan. Emoji icons are heavily slanted toward conveying emotional ""punctuation,"" and more useful in augmenting SMS than in communicating complete stand-alone messages. Other pictographic systems have been less successful, as described here: List of writing systems. There have also been many attempts to create universal ""spoken"" languages, the most notable of which is Esperanto. For more examples, see Universal language. IConji iConji is a free pictographic communication system based on an open,"
"Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing meteorological and astronomical symbols, emoji characters largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS, and characters originally from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts found in Microsoft Windows. The block contains 637 emoji: U+1F300–U+1F321, U+1F324–U+1F393, U+1F396–U+1F397, U+1F399–U+1F39B, U+1F39E–U+1F3F0, U+1F3F3–U+1F3F5, U+1F3F7–U+1F4FD, U+1F4FF–U+1F53D, U+1F549–U+1F54E, U+1F550–U+1F567, U+1F56F–U+1F570, U+1F573–U+1F57A, U+1F587, U+1F58A–U+1F58D, U+1F590, U+1F595–U+1F596, U+1F5A4–U+1F5A5, U+1F5A8, U+1F5B1–U+1F5B2, U+1F5BC, U+1F5C2–U+1F5C4, U+1F5D1–U+1F5D3, U+1F5DC–U+1F5DE, U+1F5E1, U+1F5E3, U+1F5E8, U+1F5EF, U+1F5F3 and U+1F5FA–U+1F5FF. The block has 312 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following 156 base"
"and the morphographic reading (native Japanese) is called the ""kun"". Morphogram A morphogram is the representation of a morpheme by a grapheme based solely on its meaning. Kanji and hanja are two writing systems that make use of morphograms, where Chinese characters were borrowed to represent native morphemes because of their meanings. Thus, a single character can represent a variety of morphemes which originally all had the same meaning. An example of this in Japanese would be the grapheme 東 [east], which can be read as ""higashi"" or ""azuma"", in addition to its logographic representation of the morpheme ""tō"". Additionally,"
"blocks: Dingbats, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Transport and Map Symbols. The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Emoticons block: Emoticons (Unicode block) Emoticons is a Unicode block containing graphic representations of faces, which are often associated with classic emoticons. They exist largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS. All of the characters in the Emoticons block are emoji. Each emoticon has two variants: If there is no variation selector appended, the default is the emoji-style. Example: The Emoticons block has eight"
"Morphogram A morphogram is the representation of a morpheme by a grapheme based solely on its meaning. Kanji and hanja are two writing systems that make use of morphograms, where Chinese characters were borrowed to represent native morphemes because of their meanings. Thus, a single character can represent a variety of morphemes which originally all had the same meaning. An example of this in Japanese would be the grapheme 東 [east], which can be read as ""higashi"" or ""azuma"", in addition to its logographic representation of the morpheme ""tō"". Additionally, in Japanese, the logographic (Chinese-derived) reading is called the ""on"","
"Sticker (messaging) A sticker is a detailed illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action that is a mix of cartoons and Japanese smiley-like ""emojis"". They have more variety than emoticons and have a basis from internet ""reaction face"" culture due to their ability to portray body language with a facial reaction. Stickers are elaborate, character-driven emoticons and give people a lightweight means to communicate through kooky animations. Stickers originated in Japan in 2011 when a Korean Internet company called Naver began developing Line in Japan. Due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011, many of the"
"and support colors and animation. DoCoMo's emoji are the most compact to transmit while Au's version is more flexible and based on open standards. From 2010 onwards, some emoji character sets have been incorporated into Unicode, a standard system for indexing characters, which has allowed them to be used outside Japan and to be standardized across different operating systems. Hundreds of emoji characters were encoded in the Unicode Standard in version 6.0 released in October 2010 (and in the related international standard ISO/IEC 10646). The additions, originally requested by Google (Kat Momoi, Mark Davis, and Markus Scherer wrote the first"
"character explaining the story behind the design, who they are, and their country of residence. Once accepted, the character was made available for use globally, by all iConji users. The artist had the ability to track the use of their character using the iConji Explorer application on the iConji website (no longer maintained). The first iConji Communications workshop was held at Colorado State University on April 7, 2011. 40 participants representing a dozen countries convened to discuss the cross-cultural potential of this pictographic system. Over 100 new pictographs were designed and entered into the iConji vocabulary. There has been no"
"CJK Unified Ideographs The Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts share a common background, collectively known as CJK characters. In the process called Han unification, the common (shared) characters were identified and named CJK Unified Ideographs. As of Unicode 11.0, Unicode defines a total of 87,887 CJK Unified Ideographs. The terms ""ideographs"" or ""ideograms"" may be misleading, since the Chinese script is not strictly a pictographic or ideographic system. Historically, Vietnam used Chinese ideographs too, so sometimes the abbreviation ""CJKV"" is used. This system was replaced by the Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet in the 1920s. The basic block named ""CJK Unified"
"""taito"" are both compound ideographs created by reduplicating a common character, namely the 12-stroke Japanese ""kumo"" or Chinese ""yún"" 雲 ""cloud"" (with the ""rain radical"" 雨 and ""un"" or ""yún"" 云 phonetic), and the 16-stroke ""dragon radical"" Japanese ""ryū"" or Chinese ""lóng"" 龍. The 雲 ""cloud"" character is tripled into 36-stroke ""tai"" or ""duì"" 䨺 ""cloudy"" and quadrupled into 48-stroke ""dō"" or ""nóng"" 𩇔 ""widely cloudy""; the 龍 ""dragon"" character is interchangeably doubled or tripled into 32- or 48-stoke ""tō"" or ""dá"" 龖 or 龘 ""appearance of a dragon in flight"" and quadrupled into 64-stroke ""tō"" or ""zhé"" 𪚥 ""chatter;"
"are supported by additional fonts MingLiU-ExtB, MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB, PMingLiU-ExtB, SimSun-ExtB included in Microsoft Windows since Vista. CJK Unified Ideographs The Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts share a common background, collectively known as CJK characters. In the process called Han unification, the common (shared) characters were identified and named CJK Unified Ideographs. As of Unicode 11.0, Unicode defines a total of 87,887 CJK Unified Ideographs. The terms ""ideographs"" or ""ideograms"" may be misleading, since the Chinese script is not strictly a pictographic or ideographic system. Historically, Vietnam used Chinese ideographs too, so sometimes the abbreviation ""CJKV"" is used. This system was"
"CJK Compatibility Ideographs CJK Compatibility Ideographs is a Unicode block created to contain Han characters that were encoded in multiple locations in other established character encodings, in addition to their CJK Unified Ideographs assignments, in order to retain round-trip compatibility between Unicode and those encodings. Such encodings include the South Korean KS X 1001:1998 (U+F900–U+FA0B, 268 characters), Taiwanese Big5 (U+FA0C–U+FA0D, 2 characters), Japanese IBM 32 (CP932 variant; U+FA0E–U+FA2D, 32 characters), South Korean KS X 1001:2004 (U+FA2E–U+FA2F, 2 character), Japanese JIS X 0213 (U+FA30–U+FA6A, 59 characters), Japanese ARIB STD-B24 (U+FA6B–U+FA6D, 3 characters) and the North Korean KPS 10721-2000 (U+FA70–U+FAD9, 106 characters)"
"term ""character"" refers to a grapheme or grapheme-like unit of text, as found in natural language writing systems (""scripts""). In typography and computing, the range of graphemes is broader than in a written language in other ways too: a typographical font often has to cope with a range of different languages each of which contribute their own graphemes, and it may also be required to print other symbols such as dingbats. The range of glyphs required increases correspondingly. In summary, in typography and computing, a glyph is a graphical unit. Glyph In typography, a glyph is an elemental symbol within"
"the Japanese term. A Ministry of Culture-sponsored standardization of typography terms in 1993 replaced ""myeongjo"" with ""batang"" (“”), the Korean word for “foundation” or “ground” (as opposed to “figure”), and is the current term for the typeface. Technically, only Chinese characters can be printed in a Ming typeface. However, most modern typefaces (that is, digital typefaces) often also include kana glyphs in a matching style, usually in a precise style resembling handwriting with a brush. Modern Ming typefaces also incorporate Roman type glyphs for Latin characters, letterlike symbols, and numbers. In its modern role comparable to that of western serif"
"Ideogram An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek ""idéa"" ""idea"" and ""gráphō"" ""to write"") is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept, independent of any particular language, and specific words or phrases. Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarity with prior convention; others convey their meaning through pictorial resemblance to a physical object, and thus may also be referred to as pictograms. In proto-writing, used for inventories and the like, physical objects are represented by stylized or conventionalized pictures, or pictograms. For example, the pictorial Dongba symbols without Geba annotation cannot represent the Naxi language, but are used as"
"Logogram In written language, a logogram or logograph is a written character that represents a word or phrase. Chinese characters (including Japanese kanji) are logograms; some Egyptian hieroglyphs and some graphemes in cuneiform script are also logograms. The use of logograms in writing is called logography. A writing system that is based on logograms is called a logographic system. In alphabets and syllabaries, individual written characters represent sounds only, rather than entire concepts. These characters are called phonograms in linguistics. Unlike logograms, phonograms do not have word or phrase meanings singularly until the phonograms are combined with additional phonograms thus"
"Ideographic Description Characters (Unicode block) Ideographic Description Characters is a Unicode block containing graphic characters used for describing CJK ideographs. They are used in Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) to provide a description of a ideograph, in terms of what other ideographs make it up and how they are laid out relative to one another. An IDS provides the reader with a description of an ideograph that cannot be represented properly, usually because it is not encoded in Unicode; rendering systems are not intended to automatically compose the pieces into a complete ideograph, and the descriptions are not standardized. The following"
"widely used in conjunction with input-method editor software (IMEs) to write Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters (CJK). The technology is popular and inexpensive and offers a method for interacting with the computer in a more natural way than typing on the keyboard, with the pen tablet supplanting the role of the computer mouse. Uptake of handwriting recognition among users who use alphabetic scripts has been slower. Graphic tablets are commonly used in the artistic world. Using a pen-like stylus on a graphic tablet combined with a graphics-editing program, such as Illustrator or Photoshop by Adobe Systems, or CorelDraw, gives artists"
"The application can be expanded with purchasable downloadable content, which adds new pen colors, stationary, note capacity and lessons. Despite being a successor to PictoChat, ""Swapnote""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s messaging model is not based on the standard instant messaging model as PictoChat has always been, as the application lacks in instant messaging features such as keyboard functionality, chat rooms, and live-continuous messaging. Swapnote Swapnote, known as Nintendo Letter Box in PAL regions and in Japan, is a messaging application for the Nintendo 3DS family. ""Swapnote"" was released on December 21, 2011 in Japan and December 22, 2011 in Europe, Australia and North America"
"Japanese, although typical orthography uses kanji (logograms), pangrams are required to contain every kana (syllabic character) when written out in kana alone: the Iroha is a classic example. In addition, it is possible to create pangrams that demonstrate certain aspects of logographic characters. In Chinese, the Thousand Character Classic is a 1000-character poem in which each character is used exactly once; however, it does not include all Chinese characters. The single character (permanence) incorporates every basic stroke used to write Chinese characters exactly once, as described in the Eight Principles of Yong. A self-enumerating pangram is a pangrammatic autogram, or"
"characterizes 榊 as ""a doubly exceptional logograph""; it is an ideograph ""character representing an idea"" (which is an infrequent type of logograph ""character representing a word"", see Chinese character classification), and it is a ""kokuji"" 国字 ""national character; Japanese-made character"" (rather than a typical ""kanji"" 漢字 ""Chinese character"" loanword). The etymology of ""tamagushi"", like many Japanese words, is uncertain. Despite consensus that ""-gushi"" 串 means ""skewer; stick"" (of ""sakaki""), the original signification of ""tama-"" 玉 ""jade; jewel; ball"" remain obscure. The Kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) suggested an etymon of ""tamukegushi"" 手向け串 ""hand-offered stick/skewer"". The Shinto theologian Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843)"
"""deity"", a logograph for the Akkadian word ""šamu"" ""sky"", or a syllabogram for either the syllable ""an"" or ""il"". Although Chinese characters are logograms, two of the smaller classes in the traditional classification are ideographic in origin: An example of ideograms is the collection of 50 signs developed in the 1970s by the American Institute of Graphic Arts at the request of the US Department of Transportation. The system was initially used to mark airports and gradually became more widespread. Mathematical symbols are a type of ideogram. Inspired by inaccurate early descriptions of Chinese and Japanese characters as ideograms, many"
"Pictoword Pictoword is a word puzzle game by Kooapps. It was released for iOS on March 1, 2013 and for Android on May 31, 2013. In Pictoword, the player will “read” two pictures to form a word. The puzzles can be a combination of the pictures (A picture of an ear and ring will form Earring), a homonym (A picture of a knight and mare will form Nightmare) or what the pictures sound like (A picture of a taxi and dough will form Tuxedo). Pictoword comes in 14 Theme Packs, which can be unlocked by coins earned in the game."
"while is a tree. The current forms of the characters are very different from the originals, though their representations are more clear in oracle bone script and seal script. These pictographic characters make up only a small fraction of modern characters. ""Shiji"" (Mandarin: ""zhǐshì"") characters are ideographs, often called ""simple ideographs"" or ""simple indicatives"" to distinguish them and tell the difference from compound ideographs (below). They are usually simple graphically and represent an abstract concept such as ""up"" or ""above"" and ""down"" or ""below"". These make up a tiny fraction of modern characters. ""Kaii"" (Mandarin: ""huìyì"") characters are compound ideographs,"
"on the screen. The Japanese spelling is taken from the English pronunciation ; the actual Japanese spelling in katakana is . According to Eiichi Kōno, the name was chosen for its exotic-sounding pronunciation and its compactness. Although it is a proportional font, the font name does not contain a 'P' to indicate this in Windows font lists, as with and . Tokyo Type Directors club awarded 2007 Type design prize to Eiichi Kōno, C&G Inc (Satoru Akamoto, Takeharu Suzuki, Yukiko Ueda), and Matthew Carter for the Meiryo font. Meiryo It was decided that a new Japanese font was needed, as"
"Emoticons (Unicode block) Emoticons is a Unicode block containing graphic representations of faces, which are often associated with classic emoticons. They exist largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS. All of the characters in the Emoticons block are emoji. Each emoticon has two variants: If there is no variation selector appended, the default is the emoji-style. Example: The Emoticons block has eight emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF to provide for a range of skin tones using the Fitzpatrick scale: Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode"
"Piktochart Piktochart is a web-based infographic application which allows users without intensive experience as graphic designers to easily create infographics and visuals using themed templates. In March 2012, the first iteration of Piktochart was launched by co-founders, Goh Ai Ching and Andrea Zaggia in Penang, Malaysia. By the end of the same year, Piktochart grew its user base to more than 170,000 users and received a $140,000 grant from the Malaysian government’s Cradle Fund, as well as announcing that it had raised seed funding from a number of investors. Its userbase grew with the addition of new formats such as"
"This character is not currently encoded in the Unicode character set. However, in December 2015 it was included in document IRGN2107 as one of 1,640 characters submitted to the Ideographic Rapporteur Group for encoding (character source reference UTC-02960). The character is provisionally included in ""IRG Working Set 2015"", which are candidates for inclusion in a future CJK Unified Ideographs extension. Taito (kanji) Taito, daito, or otodo () is a ""kokuji"" (""kanji character invented in Japan"") written with 84 strokes, and thus the most graphically difficult CJK character—collectively referring to Chinese characters and derivatives used in the written Chinese, Japanese, and"
"文字(moji)=character(s)) that can be understood without tilting one's head to the left. This style arose on ASCII NET of Japan in 1986. As SMS and the internet became widespread in the late 1990s, emoticons became increasingly popular and were commonly used on text messages, internet forums and e-mails. Emoticons have played a significant role in communication through technology, and some devices and applications have provided stylized pictures that do not use text punctuation. They offer another range of ""tone"" and feeling through texting that portrays specific emotions through facial gestures while in the midst of text-based cyber communication. The word"
"the first 180 emoji based on the expressions that he observed people making and other things in the city. For NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, each emoji is drawn on a 12×12 pixel grid. When transmitted, emoji symbols are specified as a two-byte sequence, in the private-use range E63E through E757 in the Unicode character space, or F89F through F9FC for Shift JIS. The basic specification has 1706 symbols, with 76 more added in phones that support C-HTML 4.0. Emoji pictograms by Japanese mobile phone brand Au are specified using the IMG tag. SoftBank Mobile emoji are wrapped between SI/SO escape sequences,"