第一批250个左右的emoji表情来自于栗田的前公司Docomo。但它没能为此项设计取得版权，这让其他公司也得以使用emoji。Docomo的竞争对手和苹果这样的技术标准公司，都在大量的使用或者自己设计emoji表情符号。 最终，数百个emoji表情被编入Unicode中。2010年，由于大多数现代计算机系统都兼容Unicode， emoji便趁着东风在全球流行起来。

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