We loved and laughed: these are the most popular emojis in the world in 2021

A red heart, a raised thumb and a face rolling with laughter: The World Standards Organization has released the ten most common emojis of the past year.

And who and surprisingly jumped from 88th place to 25th place?

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Yinon Ben Shoshan

05/12/2021

Sunday, 05 December 2021, 07:40 Updated: 07:42

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The global standards organization Unicode, which is responsible for approving emoji (emoticons), the same little symbols that correspond with the Internet and the mobile phone, published this weekend the ten most popular emojis in 2021.

Although every year we get to see new emojis Adding to the familiar ones, it turns out that most of us choose to use only a few.

According to Unicode, 92% of the world's online population uses emotions, and the emoji-crying-laugh - technically known as "Tears of Joy" - ranks first and accounts for more than 5% of usage.

Immediately after it, very close, is the red heart emoji.

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"Tears of Joy" alongside a crying face (Photo: Walla! Technology)

The other emotions that took third to tenth place in order: a face "rolling on the floor with laughter", a raised thumb, a crying face, two clasped hands (thank you), a flower blossoming face, a smiling face with hearts, a smiling face with heart eyes and a smiling face With smiling eyes.

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In fact, the Laugh-Emoji emoji has been ranked number one in Apple's operating systems - macOS and iOS - since 2017. Still, there are a few other icons that have gained a lot of popularity in the past year: The birthday cake has jumped from 88th place to 25th place ;

The red balloon emoji was ranked 48th - up from 139th.

Jumped this year: emoji birthday cake and red balloon (Photo: Walla! Technology)

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