This is about how you type Emojis (You might call it Emoticons) on your Mac. It’s actually pretty easy once you remember the keyboard shortcut.

How to input Emojis

First off, this is the keys to open the Emoji window.

Pretty easy, hah?

If you press the keys at the same time, you’ll get the small window like this below. All you need to do is now you choose any from them.

Open the Emoji window from the tool bar

Here’s another way of opening the Emoji window.

This is what is opened from the tool bar.

It looks similar to the previous window, but actually this is a bit different.

If you click the button at the right top…

The window changes into the Emoji window that is pretty similar to the one from the keyboard shortcut. This is actually the same window as you opened from the shortcut keys.

Add to Favorite

Well, some of you might have already noticed that there is “Add to Favorite” button on the big window.

As you can imagine, then the Emoji is added to Favorite, so that you can use it quickly from the emoji window.

Is it Emoji or Emoticon, btw?

It’s always confusing how they (like 😀) are called. They are basically the same, but it seems like “Emoticons” are used to be the names to combination of characters (like ; – ) )  used to show your “emotions”.

Emoticons are from an old days like 2000-2010 before all the Emojis become available, but now Emoticons you type with regular characters are automatically transformed into an Emoji on many platforms like Facebook, so practically they are now almost the same thing.

I believe Wikipedia will tell you a lot better in detail.

OK, This is about it. Enjoy the Emoji on Mac. Take care!