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.

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'. Another ...

More info An Irish expert reveals the hidden meanings behind emojis that parents should look out for - including the cat face, dynamite ... can match things in real life like the green heart ...

An expert has explained the hidden meanings behind emojis that parents should look out for - including the cat face, dynamite and ... heart can match things in real life like the green heart ...

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 ...

Emoji Scavenger Hunt is a new game from Google for hunting down real-life emojis. The game presents you with an emoji, and you have to use your phone's camera to find that object in the real world ...

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.