Word derived from the Japanese for "picture writing"

• Face with tears of joy, for one
• Face of modern technology
• Japanese style of symbols used in text messaging
• Modern pictograph
• The Oxford Dictionaries 2015 "Word" of the Year is one
• Yours may be a happy face
• Infiltrating demo, jingoistic icon
• Smiley face, maybe
• Texting icon

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of the standardized ideogrammatic icons used in Japanese text messaging (which have since been adopted internationally).