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are ideograms or smileys used in electronic messages and Web pages. The characters, which are used much like ASCII emoticons or kaomoji, exist in various genres, including facial expressions, common objects, places and types of weather, and animals. Some emoji are very specific to Japanese culture, such as a bowing businessman, a face wearing a face mask, a white flower used to denote "brilliant homework",〔(【引用サイトリンク】 White Flower Emoji )〕 or a group of emoji representing popular foods: ramen noodles, dango, onigiri, Japanese curry, and sushi. Emoji have become increasingly popular since their international inclusion in Apple's iPhone, which was followed by similar adoption by Android and other mobile operating systems.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Android – 4.4 KitKat )〕 Apple's OS X operating system supports emoji as of version 10.7 (Lion).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Apple - Support - Search )〕 Microsoft added monochrome Unicode emoji coverage to the Segoe UI Symbol system font in Windows 8 and added color emoji in Windows 8.1 via the Segoe UI Emoji font. Originally meaning pictograph, the word ''emoji'' comes from Japanese ''e'' (絵, "picture") + ''moji'' (文字, "character"). The apparent resemblance to English "emotion" and "emoticon" is just a coincidence.〔()〕 == History == Emoji were initially used by Japanese mobile operators, NTT DoCoMo, au, and SoftBank Mobile (formerly Vodafone). These companies each defined their own variants of emoji using proprietary standards. The first emoji was created in 1998 or 1999 in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita, who was part of the team working on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile Internet platform. Kurita took inspiration from weather forecasts that used symbols to show weather, and from manga that used stock symbols to express emotions, such as lightbulbs signifying inspiration. The first set of 172 12×12 pixel emoji was created as part of i-mode's messaging features to help facilitate electronic communication, and to serve as a distinguishing feature from other services.〔 Kurita created the first 180 emoji based on the expressions that he observed people making and other things in the city However, in 1997 Nicolas Loufrani 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Smiley ou l'histoire d'une OPA sur un sourire )〕 recognized the growth in use of ASCII emoticons within mobile technology and he started experimenting with animated smiley faces,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=THE BIG INTERVIEW: Nicolas Loufrani, CEO, Smiley )〕 with the intention of creating colourful icons that corresponded to the pre-existing ascii emoticons made of plain punctuation marks, to enhance them for a more interactive use in digital. From this Loufrani created the first graphical emoticons and compiled an online emoticon Dictionary that was sorted into separate categories: Classics, Moods expressions, Flags, Celebrations, Fun, Sports, Weather, Animals, Food, Nations, Occupations, Planets, Zodiac, and Babies; these designs were first registered in 1997 at The United States Copyright Office and then these icons were posted as .gif files on the Web in 1998, becoming the first ever graphical emoticons used in technology.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nicolas Loufrani im INTERVIEW: "Mein Vater hat den Smiley erfunden." - Interview )〕 In 2000 the Emoticon Directory created by Loufrani was made available for users to download for cellular phones on the internet through smileydictionary.com which compiled over 1000 smiley graphic emoticons and their ASCII versions. This same directory was then published in 2002 in a book by Marabout called Dico Smileys. In 2001 the Smiley Company started licensing the rights for Loufrani's graphic emoticons to be used for cellular phone emoticon downloads by a variety of different telecommunication companies including Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, SFR (vodaphone) and Sky Telemedia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emoji」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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