Feeling confused, exasperated, heartbroken, or passionate? There's an emoji for that. Unicode Consortium, the decider of all things emoji, just announced the release of more than 200 new characters.

Official names tell one story. Real usage tells another. Here are the emojis most often misread, plus what people actually mean today.

In our modern lives, emojis have become punctuation marks of feeling. We don’t just say we’re sad — we drop a . We don’t just flirt — we test the waters with a . But according to a new study, how you ...

Will the new Emoji 16.0 icons stick around this time?

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is replacing its "feeling fat" emoji with "feeling stuffed" after thousands of people signed an online petition to protest that it promoted online body shaming. Catherine ...

Emotion is something that is incredibly difficult to get across in a digital format. Aside from ending your texts with “lol” to appear less threatening, or ending a tweet with “/s” to indicate sarcasm ...

When someone texts you news of a promotion or a date with that special someone they've been eyeing, how do you respond? Many of us might go right for the reaction gif, or a quick "Congratulations!" ...

Pancake, the English Bulldog, can’t hide how she’s feeling because her facial expressions always give her away. Her mom recently put together what she calls Pancake’s “Emoji Dictionary,” and ...