Dec 06, 2021 12:30:00

The most used emoji ranking announced in 2021

The Unicode Consortium, which coordinates the development of Unicode , the industry standard for character encoding , announced the most used emoji ranking in 2021. According to the Unicode Consortium, which summarizes data on the use of emoji, '92% of the world's online population uses emoji.'

Emoji Frequency – Unicode
https://home.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-frequency/

'Face with tears of joy' is once again the most-used emoji --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/3/22816001/most-popular-emoji-2021-face-with-tears-of-joy

The top 10 most used pictograms in 2021 are as follows, from left to right: ' laughing and crying, ' ' red heart, ' ' laughing and rolling, ' ' thumbs up, ' ' crying, ' ' gassho, ' ' throwing kiss, ' and 'throwing kiss.' 'Heart and smile ' ' Eyes are hearts ' ' Eyes are laughing smiles '.

The Unicode Consortium has announced the top 10 most used emojis in 2019 as well. The table below shows how much the top 10 in 2021 went up and down compared to this time. The rankings of 'laughing and crying,' 'red heart,' and 'gassho' do not change. 'Laughing' goes from 4th to 3rd, 'Thumbs Up' goes from 10th to 4th, 'Crying' goes from 8th to 5th, 'Throwing Kiss' goes from 9th to 7th, 'Heart' 'Smile' has risen from 16th to 8th, while 'Eyes are Hearts' has dropped significantly from 3rd to 9th.

According to the Unicode Consortium, 'laughing and crying' emojis account for more than 5% of all emojis used. The only emoji used at a level comparable to this is the 'red heart'. Comparing the 2019 ranking with the 2021 ranking, there is almost no difference in the emojis ranked in the top 10. In fact, the emojis that rank in the top 100 most used emojis account for 82% of the total number of emojis used.

In the image below, the size of each pictogram shows the number of pictograms used.

The Unicode Consortium says, 'Emojis make up 82% of the emoji usage, but there are still 3663 types of emojis that support Unicode, and we are considering adding new emojis. Why is this? ”, And in order to focus on popular emojis other than the top 100, we divide the emojis into categories and list the ones that are frequently used by category.

Air Transport Category: Rocket
Body parts category: bicep
Flower category: Bouquet
Animal category: butterflies
People who are sports Category: People who turn sideways

In addition, 'smiles', 'flowers', 'hearts', etc. are listed as categories in which there are many emojis ranked in the top 100 and top 200 emojis that are frequently used. On the other hand, the least popular category is 'flag', and the Unicode Consortium explains that 'flag', in particular, has many emojis but is not used very often.