HOW OFTEN DO YOU USE THESE GUYS?

2017-07-28 -

Diamond with a Dot

> A glyph that is used for kawaii

in japan, resembling the shape of a flower.

> Diamond With a Dot was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Diamond Shape With a Dot Inside” and added to emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Moai/ Moyai Chestnut

> It’s a human > rock carving from Easter Island. > It’s also a statue near shibuya station in tokyo — the likely inspiration for being included in the emoji character set. Joins local > landmarks such as the Tokyo Tower and Shibuya 109.

> Perfectly good ‘I have a facepack on’ face. A chestnut emoji. Sometimes mistaken for an acorn. > a popular snack in japan (as well as other locations around the world) is the roasted chestnut.

Looks like a Hershey’s Kiss, does it not? Or a garlic that’s turned allegiances. Use with restraint. What for, we dunno.

Tanabata tree

> A wish tree that people use to attach pieces of paper with good

wishes. Often done for spiritual or religious reasons, in many cultures.

> The trees feature in Tanabata, japanese star Festival. >We don’t know anyone who uses this. We didn’t get around to asking our Japanese pals.

Hugging Face

> A face displayed with an open hands gesture, offering

a hug (and is not to be mistaken for jazz hands).

> Don’t bombard your work groups with this one. Not even if you’re addicted to creating chaos, not even if you’re really,

really, bored.

Tear-off calendar

> A tear-off calendar, featuring a single day, with ring-binders across the top for changing dates. > Date displays

july 17 on most versions on this emoji. Google’s Android version of this emoji previously showed the number 12. It is not clear what significance of this date was.

Floppy disk

> A popular form of transferring files in the 80s

and 90s (Kids, some of you might never have seen one). This is the 3.5 inch variant of the floppy disk, which had a hard outer shell.

> The successor to the floppy, the CD, was a great reflector thing to scare off pigeons with. Don’t ask.

Alembic

> A spherical vessel with a long, downward pointing neck. Used for distilling

liquids. Appears like an oddlyshaped vase containing blue liquid, sitting on a wooden stool.

> When might you use it? When you’re pfaffing in Chemistry class, maybe?

Moon viewing

> Ceremonies (tsukimi in

japan) held each year in autumn to celebrate the fulland waxing moon in Japan.

> Shows japanese pampas grass and dango (dessert) as well as the moon in the background.