The hand-over-mouth and peeking-through-fingers faces were perfect for moments of shock and horror. But, in the end, no emoji was better suited for the ups and downs 2022 than the saluting face.

Emoji 15 includes new mammals, birds, and even a jellyfish emoji that nobody wants to find on a beach. This year we’re getting a moose face, donkey, black bird, goose, and a wing. Hyacinth ...

And lastly, there is the shock emoji, which depicts a face with wide-open eyes and a wide-open mouth, often with raised eyebrows. It's used to express intense surprise, shock, disbelief, or fear ...

The shaking face emoji is a nice expression for shock, or it could become the earthquake emoji because of “its vibration-like attributes,” as noted by The Verge.

Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes. It’s one of eight new emojis that will appear on smartphones and computers next year, which also ...

The thinking face claims the ninth spot as the most over-popularised emoji with an extinction score of 26.2, with social media users professing that it no longer signifies the deep thought that it ...

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes.. It’s one of eight new emojis that will appear on smartphones and computers next year, which ...