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Emoji
Recorded year1997
SoftBank's J-Phone ships 90 tiny picture characters on a mobile phone; NTT Docomo's 1999 set follows, and Unicode makes emoji global in 2010.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.