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This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.
Playing cards deck. [edit] Unicode has code points for the 52 cards of the standard French deck plus the Knight(Ace, 2-10, Jack, Knight, Queen, and King for each suit), two for black and white (or red) jokers and a back of a card, in block Playing Cards(U+1F0A0–1F0FF). Also, a specific red joker and twenty-two generic trump cards are added.
Unicode input. Unicode input is the insertion of a specific Unicode character on a computer by a user; it is a common way to input characters not directly supported by a physical keyboard. Unicode characters can be produced either by selecting them from a display or by typing a certain sequence of keys on a physical keyboard.
Specials. Specials is a short Unicode block of characters allocated at the very end of the Basic Multilingual Plane, at U+FFF0–FFFF. Of these 16 code points, five have been assigned since Unicode 3.0: U+FFFC OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, placeholder in the text for another unspecified object, for example in a compound document.
Emoticons have played a significant role in communication through technology, and some devices and applications have provided stylized pictures that do not use text punctuation. They offer another range of "tone" through texting through facial gestures. [ 9 ] Emoticons were the precursors to modern emojis .
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The Pistol emoji (🔫) is an emoji defined by the Unicode Consortium as depicting a "handgun" or "revolver". [1] It was historically displayed as a handgun on most computers (although Google once used a blunderbuss); [2] as early as 2013, Microsoft chose to replace the glyph with a ray gun, [3] and in 2016 Apple replaced their glyph with a water pistol. [4]
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