Even with thousands of emoji, you still may not find the one you want. The Genmoji feature can help with that.

Click the one you like, and it'll create the Genmoji using that character ... and clicking the smiley with a plus sign icon to search the emoji keyboard. If you made a Genmoji and later decide ...

Japanese emoticons are called ‘kaomojis’ from ‘kao’ (meaning ‘face’) + moji. Kaomojis use the kanji keyboard and have a larger range of expression in the eyes than the western emoticon ...

If you don't see the right emoji, or you want to use a sticker, tap the gray smiley to the far right of the menu to pull up your emoji keyboard. You can scroll through the emoji or use the search ...