絵文字

Japanese

Kanji in this term
絵	文	字
え Grade: 2	もん > も Grade: 1	じ Grade: 1
Irregular

Etymology

絵 (e, “picture”) +‎ 文字 (moji, “character”)

Historical reading (possibly anachronistic): wemozi → emozi → emoji

Pronunciation

(Irregular reading)
- (Tokyo) えもじ [èmóꜜjì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]^[2]^[3]
- (Tokyo) えもじ [èmójí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[3]
- IPA^(key): [e̞mo̞ʑi]

Noun

絵文字 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 繪文字, hiragana えもじ, rōmaji emoji, historical hiragana ゑもじ)

a pictograph
(typography, Internet) an emoji

Descendants

→ Chinese: 繪文字
→ English: emoji
- → Korean: 이모지 (imoji)
→ French: emoji, émoji
→ Russian: эмодзи (emodzi)

See also

顔 (かお)文 (も)字 (じ) (kaomoji)

References

1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
1 2 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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