History

Emojis were invented by Shigetaka Kurita during the late 1990s for a project.

He then created a set of 176 characters. The name emojis means.

  • “e” = picture
  • “mo” = write
  • “ji” = character

(All of these meaning are all in Japanese)

Nowadays there are now 3,790!

This is Shigetaka Kurita