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People love adding an emoji to their online comments. Emojis (or emoticons) might seem to be straightforward and just a bit of fun. However, these small symbols can mean different things to people in other countries. They arenโt as universal as most people believe. If you are an international business, you need to understand that a smiley face or a thumbs up may not be appropriate for all audiences. This is why you need to pay attention to translating emojis.
The Challenge of Translating Emojis
You are probably already aware of how hard it is to surmount cultural barriers, particularly when the sourced and targeted languages are very different. And, translating emojis adds another layer of cultural difficulty and complexity. Emojis were initially created just for mobile devices, but now they have populated all kinds of internet content and have proliferated to express so many different emotions. If you translate and localize web content, apps, or social media messages, you canโt ignore emojis. The following are six useful tips to help you translate emojis for international audiences.
- Do Some Emoji Research
Itโs a good idea to carry out some localized social media research to see which emojis the locals are using to express their feelings in different circumstances. Besides happy faces and hearts, there are multiple ways to use emojis in your content, depending on each targeted culture. One study found that different populations have distinct preferences when using symbols like emojis on social media. Here are some examples:
- Russians like romantic symbols, e.g., emojis with heart eyes or kisses or depicting loving couples.
- The French use emojis with hearts much more than any other nation.
- Users in Arabian countries prefer messages that include flowers and plants.
- Canadians seem to engage more with emojis that have something to with money.
- Americans are quite happy to use LGBT emojis, including ones involving rainbows and same-sex couples.
2. Donโt Make Assumptions
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Even though emojis have taken over the internet, itโs not always easy to understand what they mean to your target audience. When translating emojis, you should make sure you know the meaning of every one that you plan to use to enrich your content. Fortunately, you can use resources like Emoji Meanings or Emojipedia to learn more about what emotion or situation each emoji represents. However, keep in mind that some symbols can have more than one meaning and could easily be misconstrued. You need to fully understand the purpose of an emoji within the context in order to keep your translation accurate and keep the meaning of the original message intact.
3. Recognize That Images Alone May Not Be Enough
Emojis are non-verbal symbols that can add emotional value to translated content when used wisely. These little icons can be an effective way for your brand to form an emotional connection with your local audiences. However, the line between inducing an emotion and creating confusion can sometimes be somewhat fuzzy.
- Example: In 2015, Chevrolet wrote a press release using only emojis to announce its 2016 Chevrolet Cruze. To this date, communication professionals are still undecided about whether this emoji-over-the-top message had any value at all for prospective customers. The company had to decode its message soon after the release as too many emojis didnโt facilitate an understanding of its message.
If your source content uses emojis that donโt make sense to people in other countries, itโs best to remove or substitute them.
4. Understand That an Emoji Can Have Several Different Meanings
Using icons to communicate may seem to be straightforward and efficient, but out in the world of different cultures things can quickly become quite complicated. Individuals from various cultures associate emotions with different concepts. Think about universal feelings, like love, anger, or fear. The way people relate and react to them is influenced by social norms that vary widely within every language and culture. Even within the same culture, an emoji can send different signals depending on the personโs social background or the way the emoji is used on a product or service.
- Example: A study revealed that even the popular emoji depicting a smiley face with an open mouth and tightly closed eyes can elicit both a positive and negative reaction. This is because people relate to faces and how they express emotions differently.
- Example: Emojis are different on Android and iOS. This means that what you write on your smartphone app may be seen differently by a user with another type of mobile device.
5. Always Take Context Into Account
Emojis were meant to be a universal language that could be easily understood by anyone. However, most people never learn the meaning behind any particular emoji. Generally, they just give the emoji the sense they think is appropriate to the context. So, when translating emojis, you need to understand what they mean to your target audience in the context of your whole text. When emojis are correctly aligned with your text, they will enhance your content and generate higher engagement.
6. Use an Emoji Glossary
Emojis are altogether too popular to be banished from your content. However, if you misuse them, you risk sending the wrong message to your target customers. Before translating emojis, make sure you understand their purpose in the original content. This way, you can localize your content and use the right emojis to generate and enhance engagement. The right way to think about emojis is to regard them as a non-verbal dialect. Setting up an emoji glossary for every language you are working with can help you translate these little symbols accurately and in less time.
Let Localize Help You With Emojis
Localizeโs translation management platform allows you to create a translation glossary to help you translate your industry-specific terms correctly and consistently. The glossary helps to ensure that your translated content delivers the same message and carries the same tone and voice and as your original content. Talk to us about setting up your glossary to make translating and localizing your brand easier. Book a conversation with Localize to learn more.
The emoji list for 2020 is now complete, with 117 emojis making the final cut for release this year.
Additions include Bubble Tea, Smiling Face With Tear, bottle-feeding parents and the Transgender Flag.[1] Emojipedia is today releasing sample images for each of the new emojis approved as part of this list.
Above: New emojis approved for release in 2020. Video: Emojipedia.
Welcome additions include an emoji showing People Hugging which shows a greater sense of empathy than the previous excited-looking ๐ค Hugging Face, a pinched finger gesture which is commonly referred to simply as 'Italian Hand Gesture'.
Variations of existing emojis now approved for 2020 include a woman or gender-inclusive person in a tuxedo, as well as a gender-neutral person or a man in a veil (both were changes proposed by Google). These, along with other approved emojis, will be coming to phones later this year.[2]
Also included in this update is a gender-inclusive alternative to ๐ Santa Claus and ๐คถ Mrs. Claus, named Mx. Claus. This addition is part of an ongoing effort to make more consistent set of gender options across the board, and expands upon the 138 new gender-neutral emojis added in late 2019 as part of Emoji 12.1.[3]
Above: New emoji options available in 2020: Woman in Tuxedo, Mx Claus, Man with Veil.
Announced today by the Unicode Consortium, the 117 new emojis form part of Emoji 13.0 and will come to most platforms in the second half of 2020.[4] As part of today's announcement, Unicode has posted data files and charts for Emoji 13.0, with the sample images shown in the charts for vendor guidance.
Above: Original images from Emojipedia showing how the new emojis may look.
As with all new emoji releases, the appearance of each emoji varies by platform. Images shown on this page (and tweet thread) are original designs created by Emojipedia in a glossy style to show one potential way these may look when implemented on major platforms such as iOS, Android, WhatsApp, or Twitter.
Listed below are are each of the new emojis approved in Emoji 13.0, minus any skin tone variations.
๐ Now approved: 117 new emojis for 2020 #Emoji2020https://t.co/SojQuXZvv6pic.twitter.com/sHp7GDsSal
โ Emojipedia ๐ (@Emojipedia) January 29, 2020| Image | Emoji |
|---|---|
| Smiling Face with Tear | |
| Disguised Face | |
| Pinched Fingers With Skin Tones | |
| Anatomical Heart | |
| Lungs | |
| Ninja With Skin Tones | |
| Person in Tuxedo With Skin Tones | |
| Woman in Tuxedo With Skin Tones | |
| Person with Veil With Skin Tones | |
| Man with Veil With Skin Tones | |
| Woman Feeding Baby With Skin Tones | |
| Person Feeding Baby With Skin Tones | |
| Man Feeding Baby With Skin Tones | |
| Mx Claus With Skin Tones | |
| People Hugging | |
| Black Cat | |
| Bison | |
| Mammoth | |
| Beaver | |
| Polar Bear | |
| Dodo | |
| Feather | |
| Seal | |
| Beetle | |
| Cockroach | |
| Fly | |
| Worm | |
| Potted Plant | |
| Blueberries | |
| Olive | |
| Bell Pepper | |
| Flatbread | |
| Tamale | |
| Fondue | |
| Teapot | |
| Bubble Tea | |
| Rock | |
| Wood | |
| Hut | |
| Pickup Truck | |
| Roller Skate | |
| Magic Wand | |
| Piรฑata | |
| Nesting Dolls | |
| Sewing Needle | |
| Knot | |
| Thong Sandal | |
| Military Helmet | |
| Accordion | |
| Long Drum | |
| Coin | |
| Boomerang | |
| Carpentry Saw | |
| Screwdriver | |
| Hook | |
| Ladder | |
| Elevator | |
| Mirror | |
| Window | |
| Plunger | |
| Mouse Trap | |
| Bucket | |
| Toothbrush | |
| Headstone | |
| Placard | |
| Transgender Symbol | |
| Transgender Flag |
For the purposes of this list, Person in Tuxedo and Person with Veil are shown as new, even though these are existing code points. Not listed: new sequences for Man in Tuxedo and Woman with Veil which are expected to have the same appearance as the current implementations.
Above: Key additions in the emoji set each year. Images: Apple 2014โ2018; Emojipedia 2019โ2020.
For most users, these new emojis will come to devices in software updates throughout 2020.
A number of designs from Google are shown below which are subject to change prior to final release, but give a reasonable indication of how these might look on Android. In past years, Apple has waited until the second half of the year to preview new emojis, often doing this on World Emoji Day in July.
Prior to today's announcement, Twitter already supported Woman in Tuxedo, Transgender Flag and Transgender Symbol emojis, and these are also shown below.
Above: Emojis coming to Android and Twitter in 2020. Images: Google (via Unicode chart / Twitter (via Twemoji).
Unicode announced the publishing of Emoji 13.0 data files on 2020-01-29 (California / US Pacific Time), with the announcement being made ahead of the rest of the Unicode 13.0 release to give vendors appropriate time to work on their emoji release for the year.
Expect to see these new emojis on major operating systems in the second half of 2020.
These tend to come to Android in beta around August, and to iOS and macOS in October or November.
- 2020 Emoji List (Emoji 13.0)
- Emojipedia Sample Images for 2020 (Images)
- Emojipedia Sample Images for 2020 (Video)
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Above: New in 2020: Ninja, Bubble Tea, Pinched Fingers, Accordion, Coin, Person Feeding Baby, Smiling Face With Tear, Teapot, People Hugging. Images: Emojipedia Sample Image Collection.
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Transgender Flag was drafted as a 2020 emoji candidate in 2019, and some vendors including WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter added this ahead of approval by Unicode. The result has been a flag that works on some platforms, but not others. โฉ๏ธ
This has been achieved by reclassifying the previous emojis for Man in Tuxedo and Bride with Veil as gender-neutral. Future software updates will show these with an ambiguous gender, and rename them to Person in Tuxedo and Person with Veil respectively. New sequences in Emoji 13.0 permit a choice of a woman or man for either the tuxedo or veil-wearing emojis. During this transition, current platforms will continue to show the older, gendered appearance for these emojis, until the new gendered sequences are implemented on iOS, Android, and other apps later in 2020. โฉ๏ธ
First pushed by Google in early 2019, having three choices for human emojis (person - with no gender specified, or options for a woman or man) avoids issues where some emojis have a woman, man, or an ambiguous gender. Many of these decisions are a relic of much earlier emoji releases, such as the gender pair of a bride being a man in tuxedo, which previously prevented there from being the option of a woman wearing the same clothing. โฉ๏ธ
Unicode lists this update as 62 emoji additions, with 55 gender or skin tone variations. This is technically correct per the Unicode emoji specifications, however it does mean that Mx Claus is counted in the 'new' section, while Man with Veil is counted as merely a gender variation. Of the 117 emojis, one is considered an emoji component, meaning it is used as part of a sequence, but will not necessarily be shown on emoji keyboards. โฉ๏ธ