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moji

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for moji.

Editorial note

BTW, even the word emoji (from Japanese e = picture, moji = character) is unrelated to the word emoticon.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A Loloish language spoken by the Phula people of China.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of moji gathered in one view.

noun

A Loloish language spoken by the Phula people of China.

noun

(informal) Clipping of emoji. [A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media. Or, by extension, any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, i.e. an image emoticon.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for moji.

noun

A Loloish language spoken by the Phula people of China.

noun

(informal) Clipping of emoji. [A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media. Or, by extension, any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, i.e. an image emoticon.]

Example sentences

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BTW, even the word emoji (from Japanese e = picture, moji = character) is unrelated to the word emoticon.

2

While it is a coincidence that e+moji sounds like emotion, that is their purpose: to communicate emotions.

3

Emojis (絵/e = picture, 文字/moji = character) refer to characters that represent a picture of something as a single character.

4

Instead of putting on a smile hold up moji and it will do it for you!

5

Also I just read that emoji is not related to emoticons but ~eh-moji, a Japanese term.

6

Right - the fact that Emoji and Emoticons share the first 3 letters is a complete coincidence; The word Emoji is a portmanteau of the Japanese words É (絵; picture) and Moji (文字; letters).

7

( I am unable to find a link to where I first read this ) The Japanese are also responsible for why we call them emoji (e means image, and moji means character.

8

Emoji support, even having been added, is not working correctly, as the moji don't look anything like the ones that other handsets use, so you have no idea what the person originally sent you.

9

I get where you are coming from, and I have a huge collection on telegram for every possible moment (and thausands of sexual ones I barely use) But the majority of moji I see is gladly still emoji.

Quote examples

1

And make it clear that "moji-un-baking" is the library's central and main use-case, not just an "interesting thing" it can do.

2

Actual Japanese for text color would be "文書の色" (bunsho no iro) and font size would be "文字の大きさ" (moji no ookisa), and variants thereof.

3

In fact, the Japanese rendering is "gyatei gyatei haragyatei harasōgyatei boji sowaka", while the Korean rendering is "aje aje bara-aje baraseung-aje moji sabaha".

4

It's from Japanese, a wasei kango (和製漢語) formation using on -readings of Chinese characters: 絵 ( e, "picture") + 文字 ( moji, "script").

Proper noun examples

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You should check out this paper where they tested different representations on humans to see what they could tell apart, and came up with a novel representation called Moji.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use moji in a sentence?

BTW, even the word emoji (from Japanese e = picture, moji = character) is unrelated to the word emoticon.

What does moji mean?

A Loloish language spoken by the Phula people of China.

What part of speech is moji?

moji is commonly used as noun.