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Emoji

lastmod 2025-04-25created 2022-02-069 edits

Emoji refers to electronically processed pictographs developed in Japan, and the technology behind them. It is a Japanese word made up of 絵 (e), meaning picture, and 文字 (moji), meaning character.

Because the name is similar to emoticon, the two are easy to confuse (in fact, many people mistake emoji for emoticons), but the etymologies of the two words are completely unrelated. They also differ in that an emoticon represents a shape with a combination of text, while an emoji is an image treated as a single character in itself.

Emoji insertion mode

Select an emoji from the list (Emoji selector dialog)

  1. Press the Emoji annotation shortcut (Ctrl+.) to switch to the emoji inserting mode - the character e̲ is inserted
  2. Press Ctrl+Space to open the emoji group selector
  3. Using the keyboard, select a group and press Enter to switch to the emoji selector view
  4. Select an emoji and press Enter to insert it into the text and switch back to the regular mode (the "e̲" character will be replaced by the selected emoji character)

Input methods in the IME

  • On Windows, press "a Hangul consonant + the Hanja key" to enter special characters
  • On Ubuntu, enter emoji mode with Ctrl + . (in Korean keyboard mode, Ctrl + ; seemed to work too), and

Unicode input methods

See Terminal emulator#How to enter Unicode characters in Linux.

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