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.

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.

Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective, depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking smiley face should you use? Is there a difference between each ...

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'.