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Do you speak emoji? If you use a smart phone, the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (answer)is probably yes. Emoji is a visual(视觉的) language, It can express ideas and feelings. Are you hungry? Let your friends know {#blank#}2{#/blank#} sending them food emojis, like rice or pizza.
People use emoji a lot. One of the most {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (popular) emojis is the face with tears of joy. "It has been used more than 1.8 billion times on Twitter.
Emo is modern, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}the idea is old .History shows that we've used symbols as language for about 5, 000 years. One of the oldest {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (example)of visual language is Egyptian hieroglyphs(象形文字). Ancient Egyptians {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (begin) using language symbol around 3250 B. C, according {#blank#}7{#/blank#} John Darnell. He is an expert from Yale University.
Who invented emoji? In 1999, the Japanese company NTT Docomo took a heart picture off from its mobile system. As a result, it {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (lose) many customers. So Shigetaka Kurita， a designer（设计师), put the heart back. And he made 175 more pictures. He called {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (they) emoji, the Japanese word for picture characters.
Some people still do not see emoji as a language, but it does {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (improve) our communication. Don't you think so?
