The meaning hidden behind 6 common emojis, according to the experts
Be careful when sending these emojis, according to communications experts.
An emoji can be worth a thousand words. But with nearly 600 small digital images of your choice, you want to make sure you Send an SMS to the right message . And, as the therapists and communication experts point out, there is a hidden meaning behind certain emojis. To make sure you don't send mixed signals, keep reading to find out what six common emojis mean for different generations or cultures.
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1 Your laughing emoji could make you look out of contact.
If you are a millennium, you may use the bad emoji that laughs when you find something funny.
"Millennials are starting to misunderstand the use of newly attractive emoji of generation Z", explains Keith Broni , editor -in -chief Emojipedia . "There is a greater feeling of irony and creative reuse within the modern emoji keyboard, which, we must note, has been part of the life of the Z generation since their first years of adolescence, unlike the millennials which started to discover the keyboard at the start of the twenties. "
One of the most common examples of this is emoji or laughter laughing with tears of joy. The Z generation could find this emoji "cringing teeth" and prefers to use the face crying aloud "because of its exaggerated conception, which indicates to be overwhelmed by the way a situation is hilarious, or the skull, the sentence of Argot` `I am dying while laughing" transforming into "I am dead", explains Broni.
2 Beware of which Emoji crying you use.
There are several emojis that cry, but one is actually a sleepy face emoji with a moralizing bubble, not a tear. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"The design of this emoji is inspired by conventions in the Japanese anime and the manga, where a small moralized bubble indicates that a character is tired or sleeping," explains Broni. "But because the emojis are so small on our devices, many people see this face and think it's a crying face."
"It is not the worst mistake if the other did not know the Japanese cultural connotation, but it would certainly lead to confusion if it knew - it might seem that you are bored by the sad news that someone shared with YOU!" Add Broni.
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3 It's not just a blue baseball cap.
You may see that the emoji of the blue baseball cap appear a lot on Tiktok. And the hidden meaning of this emoji has nothing to do with an outfit of the day or the sports team, and all that is to be seen with an association of the slang of Gen Z "where people will answer" Cap "When they accuse someone to lie, or by" no ceiling "when they say they tell the truth," said Broni.
4 You think you say "OK", but you are actually offensive.
Watch out for the "OK" hand symbol. In some parts of Europe and Latin America, this does not mean that everything is good or perfect.
"[The] hand can go from the hand imbued to very offensive, depending on the context in which it is used," explains Broni.
But also be cautious with the Emoji of the High Thumb, which has a historically offensive connotation in the Middle East, adds Broni.
"The thumb up, especially in itself, is the equivalent of sending an SMS to someone just" ok "and in both cases, you don't really want to say, things are fine," said Natalie Pennington , Md, Deputy Professor of Communication Studies At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
5 No, it's not a hospital.
Another current error of emoji is the building with a heart on it. Some might think that it is a hospital or a wedding chapel. It turns out that his real meaning is more NSFW, because it is a "love hotel" or "housing for rent", explains Broni. EMOJI FAPELM.
6 This corn emoji could be NSFW.
Speaking of NSFW, you probably know that eggplant and fishing emojis have sex connotations, but did you know that corn emoji too?
"Corn rhymes with" porn "and [is] used strongly on Tiktok for sexually explicit content," said Hunting cassine , LCSW, a New Orleans based psychotherapist .
"Each emoji [is] filled with double hearing with a literal meaning and secondary meanings that evolve over time," adds Cassine. "Therefore, it is imperative to understand the meanings before using them to communicate a message to avoid embarrassment and offensive or sexually explicit messages."
