'Tears of Joy' Is 2021's Most Used Emoji
「笑到哭」為2021年最多人使用表情圖示

Tears of joy, also known as the laughing-crying face, is the most-used emoji of 2021, accounting for more than 5% of all the emoji we use, according to a new report.

The red heart emoji is in second place, and rolling on the floor laughing is third, according to data from the Unicode Consortium, the organization that decides which emoji are available to use on our phones and devices.

Country flags are the least used emoji, even though they're the largest collection, accounting for 258 of the 3,663 emoji available for use.

But has the COVID-19 pandemic changed how we use emoji?

The answer is "just a little."

Nine out of the 10 emoji we most use now were also in the top 10 in 2019. The only emoji that was in the top 10 in 2019, but didn't get in this year, was the double-heart emoji. The smiling face with hearts — hearts on the outside, not in the eyes — entered the top 10 instead.

The syringe emoji is, however, being used more often. It's number 193 on the list this year, compared to 282 in 2019. The microbe is also now at 477, rising from 1,086 in 2019.

Lauren Gawne, who researches emoji use at La Trobe University in Australia, told The New York Times that, even though we use the microbe emoji a bit more, we still spent a lot of our time wishing each other happy birthday or laughing and asking each other how we are — positive feelings that will be nice to keep sharing as we move into 2022.

根據一項新報告，以哭笑臉著名的「笑到哭」，是2021年最多人使用的表情符號，在我們使用的所有表情符號中佔據5%以上。根據統一碼聯盟的數據，紅色愛心的表情符號排名第二，笑到在地上打滾的則是第三名，該組織負責決定我們在手機和裝置上有哪些表情符號可以使用。雖然國旗是數量最多的系列，但是是最少人使用的。注射筒的表情符號使用頻率則變高了，使用排名從2019年的第282名上升到今年的第193名。細菌的排名從2019年的第1086名上升到今年的第477名。在澳洲樂卓博大學研究表情符號使用的學者向《紐約時報》透露，儘管我們使用細菌的表情符號頻率稍微變高，但我們還是花了多數時間祝賀彼此生日快樂、大笑，或是詢問對方心情如何。

tears of joy/ laughing-crying face笑到哭
red heart 紅色愛心
country flags國旗
double-heart 兩顆愛心
syringe 注射筒
microbe 細菌

References: https://engoo.com/app/daily-news/article/tears-of-joy-is-2021s-most-used-emoji/fiEuylezEeyuI5vHVX-Dxw