So, what is the upside-down smiley? The upside-down smiley emoji tends to be used in a sarcastic sense. The emoji is a flipped version of the usual smile face which is one of the most used emoticons.

Emoticons are made up of punctuation marks, and emoji are at least on the "special characters" set of the keyboard. Perhaps they're sufficient by themselves, without other punctuation? Let's take ...

Now, thanks to iOS 16, you can make your lock screen's background a tribute to your most adored emoji. Here's how to do it. Any previous lock screen and home screen backgrounds will be saved here.

Expressing yourself though emoticons, or emotional icons, has become so commonplace, it's inspired everything from plush emoji pillows to The Emoji Movie, which was pretty much universally panned.