Check out the 20 most popular emojis. Are yours among?

Emojis have become part and of our messaging culture, they express the way we feel in just a one small symbol. The Unicode Consortium, the body responsible for maintaining the Unicode Standard recently released its list of the most frequently used emoji. The Unicode Consortium is an industry-wide consensus for the digital encoding and representation of text, symbols and (in recent years) emojis.

This is the first time the organization has released its internal data on the usage of various emoji, a statistic that it claims weights heavily in its decisions to accept new emoji into the standard.

The ‘tears of joy‘ the ‘red heart’ emoji are the two most popular of the bunch, with each accounting for nearly 10% and 7% of overall use, respectively. That’s an impressive number, given that nearly a billion emojis are sent everyday on Facebook alone. It may come as a surprise for some that the eggplant or peach emoji is missing in this top 20 list.

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According to Unicode Consortium, the ranked order is based on the median frequency of use of each emoji across multiple sources. The gender and skin-tone variants are tabulated together, thus ?‍?, ??‍?…??‍?, ?‍?, ??‍?…??‍?… are all collected into one representative item, ?‍?, to give a clearer picture of how frequently the concept is being employed. As expected, newer symbols tend to be of lower frequency, since it often takes time for them to roll out to all devices.

The complete list of the top 20 most popular emoji, with variations between skin tones, gender and so on amalgamated into one, is shown below:

1. ? Face With Tears of Joy
2. ❤️ Red Heart
3. ? Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes
4. ? Rolling on the Floor Laughing
5. ? Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes
6. ? Folded Hands
7. ? Two Hearts
8. ? Loudly Crying Face
9. ? Face Blowing a Kiss
10. ? Thumbs Up
11. ? Laugh till you sweat
12. ? Clap emoji
13. ? Laugh with joy
14. ? Fire/ Hot
15. ? Broken heart
16. ? Sparking heart
17. ? Blue heart
18. ? Crying
19. ? Call me
20. ? Laughter

What do you think of the list? Is it missing some of your favorite emoji? Let us know in the comments below.