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Japanese
Alternative spelling
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繪文字 (kyūjitai)
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Examples
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今、富士山の中✨️新幹線が見える♥️🗻✨️😃😲✨️🎸♪️[1]
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Etymology
From 絵 (e, “picture”) + 文字 (moji, “character”). Similarity to English emoticon is coincidental.
Pronunciation
Noun
絵文字 • (emoji) ←ゑもじ (wemozi)?
- pictograph
- 1968, 大場千秋『文化人類学序說』明好社
- エジプトやバビロニアの文字も、もともとは絵文字から発展したものである。
- Ejiputo ya Babironia no moji mo, motomoto wa emoji kara hatten shita mono de aru.
- The scripts used by the Egyptians and Babylonians both originally developed from pictographs.
1985, Michio Tomita, Pasokon Sōseiki [Genesis of Personal Computers]:
- ビットマップの特長は、機能や情報のまとまりを示す絵文字、アイコンにも生かされた。
- Bittomappu no tokuchō wa, kinō ya jōhō no matomari o shimesu emoji, aikon ni mo ikasareta.
- The strengths of bitmaps were also taken advantage of in icons: pictographs that denoted collections of functions and information.
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- お主 大学では言語学を専攻していたと?
- O-nushi Daigaku de wa gengogaku o senkō shite ita to?
- Say, you majored in linguistics, didn’t you?
は…… 古代文学の解読が夢でありましてマヤの絵文字やクレタの……- Ha…… kodai bungaku no kaidoku ga yume de arimashite Maya no emoji ya Kureta no……
- Yes, sir… I dreamed of being able to decipher ancient texts, such as Mayan logograms or Cretan…
- 1992, 石川昭『グローバル情報ネットワーク』日刊工業新聞社
- 出来上がった文書ファイルは文書を意味する絵文字(アイコンと呼ばれる)で画面上に表示される。したがって、これを送信したいときにはこのアイコンをマウスでつかんで郵便ポストのアイコンに載せてやるという操作になる。
- Dekiagatta bunsho fairu wa bunsho o imi suru emoji (aikon to yobareru) de gamenjō ni hyōji sareru. Shitagatte, kore o sōshin shitai toki ni wa kono aikon o mausu de tsukande yūbin posuto no aikon ni noseteyaru to iu sōsa ni naru.
- The finished document file will be displayed on the screen by a pictograph (called an icon) that represents documents. Therefore, when you want to send this, the operation is to grab this icon using the mouse and put it on the mailbox icon.
- emoji: emoticons that originated in Japanese telephony
Descendants
See also
References
- ^ 2010, けいおん!!第2話『お留守番!』
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN