What is an emoji?

On social networks or on sms, emojis are small characters or symbols that designate an expression or represent a situation . The best known are a yellow circle symbolizing a face on which black and simple shapes symbolize the eyes and the mouth. Perfect for emotions! Others represent squarely small scenes of everyday life, plants, animals. As for those who symbolize food, they are ideal to accompany our food pictures. And there are also flags, meteorological symbols etc. We have long debated the meaning of some of these symbols and a dictionary was even created online: the emojipedia. In short, to make it simpler for everyone, we give you the meanings of some that we tend to misuse!

Do you know the hidden meaning of emoticons?

• The two hands touching each other:

  

For this emoji, there are 2 possible meanings . The first refers to Japan and the gesture traditionally used to say "thank you" or "please." The image of this emoji has been changed recently. In the past, you could see a luminous halo above your hands, as if you were referring to prayer. For others, this emoji is simply a high-five (the English equivalent of "tape-m'en-five")! Moreover, in the new version, Apple has removed the luminous halo so that everyone can use it as he wants.

• Mouth to heart:

A whistle! Contrary to what one has always thought, it is not a stolen kiss! It is used instead to make the innocent, to divert attention when one has, for example, made a wine task on our best friend's t-shirt. We agree: it's the perfect emoji to tell the piper.

• The smile:

Above all not to use in an exchange of SMS with his boss or his mother-in-law! The smirk or 'sneaky smile' usually goes hand in hand with a joke or a sexual reference . Basically, we prefer to avoid it, except with his girlfriends or his lover.

• Eggplant :

You are already smiling behind your screen. The eggplant emoji was diverted from its original meaning by Internet users with a badly turned mind. Some saw a representation of the male sex , besides for a time this emoji was banned from the social networks. Since the "sanction" has been lifted but to avoid any misunderstandings, one prefers to use another one.

• Hearts :

As for the flowers we offer, the colors of emojis hearts have different meanings. The red heart represents love, the black heart represents a dark love, and the yellow heart represents friendship. Moreover, on Snapchat, people who send a lot of photos or videos often see this famous yellow heart of friendship appear next to their name, which then turns into a red heart when the exchanges are really very frequent .

• The shooting star :

Contrary to what one might think, this is not a shooting star ... but a sign of dizziness! When one falls in the apples or one has the head that turns, one uses this emoji!

• The forced smile:

If many of us use it to represent a grimace, we are all wrong! It is actually a forced smile, as when you are obliged to make the discussion to the coffee machine with knowledge. We pull it off when we want to talk about a situation that makes us uncomfortable , and we can even accompany it with a #awkward (embarrassing in French).

• The emoji "arm around the head:

It is a mistake every time you imagine a ballerina watching this emoji. In reality, the arms around his head represent the letter O and it simply means "ok".

• The snake :

This snake, a priori quite simple, is used as an insult. In English-speaking slang, the word 'snake' means an egoist, a cheater, a traitor. And it has caused harm to many personalities on social networks, Internet users using it especially to rot the publications of celebrities - usually women - suspected of being infidels, treacherous, housebreakers or Dom Juan. feminine. The victims of the snake emoji? Taylor Swift, but also Marion Cotillard ...

• The smiling crap:

When we have a bad day, to say that we do not like someone or something, we sometimes use this smiley of "smiling caca". But in reality, it means something quite different from what we think. In Japanese culture, this symbol represents good luck. To send it would be a means of transmitting good waves. Also had you noticed that this smiley to the same shape as the cream in the smiley "ice"? To meditate !