How to find out what a particular emoji smiley means

What does this or that Emoji mean? Many people ask this question because it is not always clear what

stands for smiley.Emoji with two hands together, for example. What does this emoticon mean? Are these two people giving each other a high five? Or is it someone praying? If you sometimes doubt what an Emoji means, then we have prepared several tips that will help you answer this question.

How to find out what a particular Emoji smiley means on your Mac

There are several ways to find out the meaning of an emoji smiley on your Mac.

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The first way is pretty simple:

Step 1:In the Messages app on your Mac, tap an emoji to open the Emoji keyboard.

Step 2:Find the emoji whose meaning you want to know.

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Step 3:Hover your cursor over an Emoji and after a couple of seconds, you will see a tooltip with a description of that emoji.

The second way:

Step 1:In any application, go to the menu bar>Edit> "Emoji Icons and Symbols" (or "Special Characters" in some versions of OS X). This will bring up a window with all the symbols present on your computer.

Step 2:Select Emoji in the left sidebar.

Step 3:Select the Emoji whose meaning you want to know and click on it.

Step 4:On the right side, you will be presented with the meaning of this Emoji.

Find out what Emoji means using your iPhone

If on a Mac you can easily find out what a smiley emoji means, then on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch it is more difficult to do. We're going to use the feature to say the name of the emoji out loud.

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Please note that for some reason, thisThe feature is not available on iOS 9, but it still works on older versions of iOS. It is not known why Apple removed this feature, it may have been a mistake and they will be bringing it back in the future.

Step 1:On your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, go to menuSettings> Basic> Universal Access> Speechand turn it onSpeaking.

Step 2:Create a new email or note and insert the Emoji whose meaning you want to know.

Step 3:Select an emoji and select “Say” from the menu. Siri will say the name and symbol of the emoji.

Use the Emoji Dictionary app

There are many apps on the App Store thathave emoji emoji descriptions, but one of the simplest and free apps is Emoji Dictionary. Download the app and see the meaning of your favorite Emoji. Unfortunately, this app hasn't been updated since January 2015, so the Emoji list is a bit out of date. For example, it does not include the most recent Emoji found in iOS 9.1.

Learn about Emoji characters on Emojipedia

Emojipedia is the Wikipedia of the emoji world. The site contains all the Emojis and detailed information about each of them. This is definitely the most detailed information about Emoji characters.

Do you know other ways to find out the meaning of a certain Emoji? If you know, then share them in the comments.