What's your most used emoji?
Indeed, 2015’s Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year was the tears of joy emoji. It’s also the UK’s most used, even more than the old-fashioned smiley.
Faces are the most commonly used - anything showing expression via human emotion the most popular, regardless of location or culture.
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Hide AdHowever, the poo emoji is used the most in Canada, while Arabic-speaking countries use plants more often than anywhere else.
“Around 45 per cent of emoji are happy faces, around 14 per cent are sad faces and a little over 12 per cent relate to hearts of various types, including broken heart," linguistics expert Prof Vyvyan Evans of the University of Bangor told the BBC.
"So roughly 70% of emoji usage, sent every day, relates to emotional experience of some kind."