Sometimes words just aren't enough to convey what you have to say. Emoji has been around since 1999, but these winky faces and seemingly random characters have only caught on fairly recently.

Many of these emojis are being misused in texts because we misunderstand each's purpose. Here are 22 of these emojis and their real meanings. Produced by Rob Ludacer. Original Reporting by Gus ...

It's called "pinched fingers" and depending on where you are in the world, a new emoji announced by the Unicode Consortium, which approves standard emojis worldwide, could have a completely ...