How the emoji code is formed
Most Internet users, which until recently included me, do not distinguish between a smiley and an emoji, considering these words to be synonyms. This is not entirely true.
Smilies, also known as emoticons, are just a special case of emoji; their goal is to convey an emotion using a small drawing. An emoji can depict anything: from a tree to an ancient Chinese character. A smile can be obtained using ordinary typographical characters, but for emoji you must use a special code from the Unicode standard.
In most cases, the code begins with an ampersand and a hash and ends with a semicolon. Between these characters is a combination of four, five or six numbers. For example, you can get a regular smiley smile using the following code: “
