Emojipedia
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| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| Editor | Jeremy Burge |
| Parent | Zedge |
| URL | emojipedia |
| Launched | 2013 |
Emojipedia is an emoji reference website[1] which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters[2] in the Unicode Standard. Most commonly described as an emoji encyclopedia[3] or emoji dictionary,[4] Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools for tracking new emoji characters, design changes[5] and usage trends.[6][7] It is owned by Zedge since 2021.
Emojipedia is a voting member of The Unicode Consortium.[8][9]
History[]
Jeremy Burge[10] created Emojipedia in 2013,[11] and told the Hackney Gazette "the idea came about when Apple added emojis to iOS 6, but failed to mention which ones were new".[12]
Emojipedia rose to prominence with the release of Unicode 7 in 2014, when The Register reported the "online encyclopedia of emojis has been chucked offline after vast numbers of people visited the site"[13] in relation to the downtime experienced by the site at the time.
In 2015, Emojipedia entered its first partnership with Quartz to release an app that allowed users access previously-hidden country flag emojis on iOS.[14]
Emojipedia told Business Insider in early-2016 that it served "over 140 million page views" per year, and was profitable.[15] In mid-2016, Emojipedia "urged Apple to rethink its plan to convert the handgun emoji symbol into a water pistol icon" citing cross-platform confusion.[16]
In 2017 The Library of Congress launched the Web Cultures Web Archive[17] which featured a history of memes, gifs, and emojis from references including Emojipedia, Boing Boing and GIPHY.[18]
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the site served 23 million page views in October 2017.[19] Total page views for 2013–2019 were said to have reached one billion by February 2019.[20] The New Yorker reported Emojipedia served 50 million page views in April 2020.[21]
In August 2021, Emojipedia was acquired by Zedge for an undisclosed amount.[22]
News and Analysis[]
In 2016 an Emojipedia analysis[23] showed that the peach emoji[24] is most commonly used to represent buttocks.[25]
In 2017, after Google CEO Sundar Pichai pledged to "drop everything" to update Android's burger emoji,[26] Emojipedia revealed[27] the cheese layering issue had been resolved.[28][29][30]
In 2018 Emojipedia revealed[31] that Apple planned to "fix" its bagel emoji[32] design[33] by adding cream cheese,[34] following user complaints.[35]
A 2020 study by Emojipedia[36] found that U+1F637