You can add special characters on a PC or Mac computer by using keyboard shortcuts or accessing a pop-up window.

You can type a degree symbol with your keyboard using key combinations on a computer or numerical keyboard menus on a phone ...

Sixteen years after they first appeared on cellphone screens, the Oxford English Dictionary just named an emoji as its word of the year. The tears of joy symbol won out for its common usage — ...

There are so many emojis at your fingertips nowadays, they’ve practically become their own language. Even still, sometimes you’ll find that there isn’t one that quite fits what you’re trying to say.

There are emoji everywhere these days—but creating them doesn’t come cheap, and now, says the Unicode Consortium, it’s time to pay up. Of course, the consortium puts it a little more nicely than that: ...

Texting can sometimes feel bland, lacking the nuance and inflection of face-to-face communication. That's where emojis come in, adding a burst of personality and emotion to your messages. But what if ...

As of this month, there are 3,633 “official” emojis available across the world. The tiny pictographs can convey tons of emotions and ideas, but like any form of symbolic communications, their meanings ...