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== History ==

In the 1990s, [[NTT DoCoMo]] released a [[pager]] that was aimed at teenagers. The pager was the first of its kind to include the option to send a [[pictogram]] as part of the text.<ref>{{Cite web |title=WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – Shigetaka Kurita: World’s first designer created emoji sets |url=https://worldkings.org:443/news/asia-records-institute/worldkings-worldkings-news-asia-records-institute-asri-shigetaka-kurita-worlds-first-designer-created-emoji-sets |access-date=2023-04-28 |website=Worldkings - World Records Union |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The OrigiOrigin Of The Word 'Emoji' |url=https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-word-emoji/ |access-date=2023-04-28 |website=Science Friday |language=en-US}}</ref> The pager only had a single pictogram on its options, which was a heart-shaped pictogram. This is thought to be [[Shigetaka Kurita]]'s first exposure to the use of digital symbols in text form. The pager received rave reviews in [[Asia]] which led to other companies in the region to consider using pictograms in the list of text characters. [[NTT DoCoMo]] then released another pager aimed at businesspeople, but this time dropped the heart [[pictogram]] from the characters on the pager. Following its release, there was an outcry by users that the pictogram was no longer available, and many customers switched to other providers that had now included a heart pictogram in their markup. This led [[NTT DoCoMo]] to reverse their decision and include the heart pictogram.<ref name=sciencefriday>{{cite web |last=Mayer |first=Johanna |title=The Origin Of The Word ‘Emoji’ |url=https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-word-emoji/ |work=[[Science Friday]]}}</ref>

As the emoji became more popular, other heart colours were launched by [[Unicode]]. Since then, each heart color has been given its own meaning.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Hsieh |first1=Carina |last2=Varina |first2=Rachel |title=The Color of the Heart Emoji You Send Is Seriously Important |url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a28635219/heart-emoji-meanings/ |magazine=[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]] |date=5 August 2021 |access-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>

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=== Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes ===

{{main|Face with Heart Eyes emoji}}

The Heart Eyes (😍) emoji is to express happiness towards something. The [[Unicode Consortium]] listed it as the third most used emoji in 2019, behind the Red Heart and [[Face with Tears of Joy]] emoji.<ref>{{cite web |title=Frequency of Emoji Use 2019 |url=https://home.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-frequency/ |publisher=[[Unicode]]}}</ref> It frequently appears in the top 10 lists for the most common emoji.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Silva |first1=Christianna |title=Tears of joy emoji might be experiencing a renaissance |url=https://mashable.com/article/tears-of-joy-twitter-top-emoji |publisher=[[Mashable]] |date=February 9, 2022}}</ref>

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In [[Code page 437]], the original character set of the IBM PC, the value of 3 (hexadecimal 03) represents the [[Hearts (suit)|heart suit]] symbol. This value is shared with the non-printing [[End-of-text character|ETX]] control character, which overrides the glyph in many contexts.

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