Have you found that more and more people are using emojis (表情符号) to c【小题1】 online? Emoji is a kind of pictograph (象形文). Shigetaka Kurita created it in Japan and it was popular on the Internet and in mobile phone users. The purpose of creating emojis was to make people’s expressions more interesting. By 【小题2】 (use) them, we can understand the feelings behind the words, and even an emoji can show our feelings.
One of the nice things about emojis is that people from all over the world can understand them. But I have 【小题3】 (recent) learned that some emojis mean differently in China.
Take the basic smiling face emoji as an e【小题4】. At first, I thought it was just a normal, friendly smile. But later , I 【小题5】 (find) out that it could mean something different. Now it can mean that someone is thinking himself superior (优越的) to you or even laughing at you. I read online that although the emoji is smiling, its eyes are looking downward, which 【小题6】 (make) it look like not a true smile.
Or what about the smiling face with a waving hand? It is certain to look friendly enough. But in fact, Chinese people use this emoji 【小题7】 (show) that they don’t want to talk to someone – the hand is waving “goodbye”, as in “never talk to me again”.
In fact, some emojis also have two different 【小题8】 (mean) in Western countries. One of my favourite emojis is the “cry—laugh” emoji. At first, it meant “rolling on the floor laughing”, or ROFL. But now, the meaning 【小题9】 (change). It is often used to describe situations that are so tragic (悲惨的) that you can’t help but laugh to make 【小题10】 (you) happy again.
It looks like the language of emojis changes over time, just like the real language. We should think twice how we use it when speaking to others.
