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Cultural/Communication

日本艺术家，1999年为NTT DoCoMo的i-mode服务设计了首套由176个12×12像素图案组成的表情符号集。

Shigetaka Kurita was a member of the team developing NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile internet service in the late 1990s. He created 176 emoji to help facilitate electronic communication, drawing inspiration from manga, kanji, and street signs.

The original 176 emoji covered weather, traffic, technology, and basic emotions in a 12×12 pixel grid — far simpler than today's detailed designs. Kurita's original emoji set is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Though Kurita created the first set, emoji evolved through contributions from multiple Japanese carriers before Unicode standardization in 2010.

相关术语

i-mode i-mode
NTT DoCoMo于1999年推出的移动互联网平台，首批表情符号正是在此诞生，用于丰富文字通信体验。 表情符号（Emoji） 表情符号（Emoji）
来自日语「絵文字」（えもじ），意为「图画文字」，是用于数字通信中表达想法、情感和事物的小型图形符号。

相关工具

📊 表情符号统计 表情符号统计
探索 Unicode 表情符号集的统计数据——分类分布、版本增长和类型分解。

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