The laughing face ... things are emoji, the graphic "language" built into Apple's iOS, and they're slowly but surely taking over the world. Imagine those cute images in real life.

From your WhatsApp messages to your work emails, it can sometimes feel like emoji are everywhere you look ... In the early hours of the morning, a rare 'smiley face' conjunction will line up ...

Credit: screenshot: rachel kraus / mashable / emojipedia The real-time tracker ... it's the second most used emoji overall — the most popular emoji in total is : Face with tears of joy ...

But it is the exhausted-looking 'face with bags under eyes' emoji that has Apple fans most excited. On X one excited iPhone user wrote: 'I've never related to an emoji so much in my life'.

Ahead of the World Emoji Day which is on Sunday, we've gotten a preview of what they might look like. The list includes donkey, goose, moose, jellyfish, blackbird, shaking face, heart in a couple ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

The “face with tears of joy” continued a six-year streak of being the most used emoji this past year, despite being deemed “uncool” by Gen Z users, according to the “State of Emoji ...