Smiling Face With Open Mouth & Sweat Emoji 😅Īlso known as: Happy Sweat Emoji, Exercise Face, 'The One With The Gross-Sounding Description.” Often conveys general happiness and good-natured amusement.' 2. What Emojipedia says: ' A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms. Great for: Congratulations, good news, finding the bright side of bad news, excitement, joie de vivre, sarcastically pretending your life doesn't suck, just sayin' hey. Smiling Face With Open Mouth Emoji 😀Īlso known as: Smiley Face, Happy Face, 'OMG My Braces Are Finally Off' Face. Here's what 22 of the most commonly-encountered face emoji mean. You could text peace signs and exploding hearts and angry cats all the livelong day, but which version of Smiling Face does one even use, and why are there so many of them? These are the important questions, friends. Sure, there’s the hand emoji, cat emoji, heart emoji, and more - but it's the faces that are somehow both the most straightforward and hardest to use. Did you know that it means 'picture letter,' or pictograph, in Japanese? Well, you do now! Think of emoji as its own alphabet, with each little face representing a specific emotion. And, with the March 2022 addition of 37 new emojis in Apple’s iOS 15.4 update, knowing what each face emoji means has never been more complicated. Sure, you can “turn that frown upside down” into a smiley face - but what does it mean when someone sends you a heart eyes emoji? Should you be relieved, or concerned? As of September 2021, Emojipedia says there are over 3,000 emoji total.

But, in the world of emojis, things can get a tad confusing. It’s majestic.Īlso - importantly - I now have another way to irritate my Italian colleagues.When it comes to IRL facial expressions, most people can do a pretty good job deciphering the message someone is conveying by their beaming smile or disappointed frown. The fact that this one little pinching hand emoji can mean so many different things across the world talks to the breadth and richness of the human experience. It shows in a roundabout way, just how powerful and flexible emoji can be. You see ‘Italian Hand Gesture’, I see ‘Gujarati person eating dal bhat rotli shaak’ /ef7YEzQLva One of the best examples of this came from Shivali Best: There’s also an extra layer of interest beyond the Italian angle because, you know, the world’s a lot fucking bigger than Western Europe. In other words, you can’t use it to agree, back-up a point, or comment on spicy meatballs (sorry).īellan went onto say that he believes the pinched hand is used too much by non-Italians - something that’s only going to get worse now it’s in emoji form.īut I now put this question to him and his compatriots: What are you going to do about it? You gonna sue me, Italy? For using this gesture for anything I want? I’d like to see you try. Instead, this ‘Italian hand’ emoji should only be used in disagreement, which - in Bellan’s words - happens most of the time in Italy. He went onto say that, because of this, many people use it as a catch-all for Italianism. Which is just plain wrong. So, I put the question to him.īellan told me that this is the most common gesture foreigners choose when doing their best impression of an Italian. Thankfully, our every own Gianluca Bellan - an Innovation Program Lead in TNW’s X team - was on hand. And, as an investigative journalist of the highest renown, I knew what I had to do: Ask an actual Italian.

This left me confused, angry, and hungry. With varying levels of seriousness, we had people saying this Italian hand gesture was to do with sex, signaling something’s spiciness, or the country’s version of the middle finger. Thing is… do any of us non-Italians actually know what the hell this pinching hand really means?Ī quick ask around in TNW’s newsroom suggested not.

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