Sexy, self-confident or selfish… what your top most used emoji says about YOU. Lydia Hawken; Published: 16:00, 17 Jul 2018; Updated: 18:08, 17 Jul 2018; ...

“For younger people, the thumbs-up emoji is used to be really passive-aggressive,” a 24-year-old Redditor wrote. “It’s super rude if someone just sends you a thumbs up,” they added.

Emoji presented a new and unique dilemma to Unicode. “With most text, you don’t have things being invented left, right, and center,” says Peter Constable, the vice-president of Unicode.

Sexy, self-confident or selfish… what your top most used emoji says about YOU. To celebrate World Emoji Day, we asked an expert what our favourite icons really say about us ...