This isn't news, but I find it interesting how some emoji are being used in ways that differ from their Unicode names, reflecting alternative interpretations of common glyphs. I'll compare data from the Unicode chart with interpretations taken from Emojipedia, which I think do reflect real-world usage:
U+1F617 KISSING FACE 😗 Current keywords: face|kiss → whistle (= nonchalance ; happiness) http://emojipedia.org/kissing-face/ U+1F481 INFORMATION DESK PERSON 💁 ≊ person tipping hand Keywords: hand | help | information | sassy | tipping → sassy ; hair flick http://emojipedia.org/information-desk-person/ U+1F601 GRINNING FACE WITH SMILING EYES 😁 Keywords: face | grin → grimace (discomfort, pain) http://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/ U+1F624 FACE WITH LOOK OF TRIUMPH 😤 ≊ face with steam from nose Keywords: face | triumph| won → angry; frustration; contemptuous http://emojipedia.org/face-with-look-of-triumph/ I see that *some* of those alternative readings are registered in the Unicode table as ≊ , while others are present in keywords, and still others are absent. Is there any criteria for that? Is someone trying to keep track of emoji in use? I think distributional methods are promising, as shown by Thomas Dimson: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/117889701472/emojineering-part-1-machine-learning-for-emoji By this we find that, for example, U+1F46F WOMAN WITH BUNNY EARS, also marked as *≊ people partying*, has additional connotations of sisterhood—specifically female friendship and loyalty ( #sistasista, #sistersforlife, #sistersister, #bestiesforlife, yearsoffriendship, #sisterfromanothermister, #morelikesisters, #bffl, #bestiesfortheresties, #bestfriendsforever ). U+1F647 PERSON BOWING DEEPLY 🙇 is seeing use as a marker of worry or shame ("late night thoughts", "deleting later", "in my feelings", "laughing but very serious"); probably due to the emotion lines drawn on most fontsets. <http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-annotations.html#hand>
