Oxford University Press/Dictionaries announced what (most popularly used emoji icon) 'word of the year 2015'?
Emoji number of emoji characters include Noto Emoji, Adobe Source Emoji, and Quivira. Emoji Originating on Japanese mobile phones in 1999, emoji became increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after being added to several mobile operating systems. They are now considered to be a large part of popular culture in the west. In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the Face with Tears of Joy emoji the Word of the Year. The development of emoji was predated by text-based emoticons, as well as graphical representations, inside and outside of Japan. The first emoji was created in 1999 in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita. He
Face with Tears of Joy emoji usage, detailing that in 2015, 😂 was chosen as Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year because it was the most used emoji, globally, in that respective year. In a blog post, Oxford Dictionaries expressed that the emoji "was chosen as the 'word' that best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015." SwiftKey further detailed that the emoji made up 20% of all the emojis used in the UK in 2015, and 17% of those in the US, up from 4% and 9% respectively, in 2014. Oxford Dictionaries president Caspar Grathwohl explained Oxford's choice, stating, "emoji are becoming an increasingly