Here are the Chinese characters for concave and convex: 凹凸
Care to take a stab at the difference between these and emoji?
Care to take a stab at the difference between these and emoji?
The vast majority are complex compounds of smaller radicals.
They are nothing like emoji.
This is one of the most absurd things I have ever read, but in an extremely funny way!
I think you're trying to make the argument that both Chinese characters and emoji are pictographs. Yes, a few Chinese characters originated as pictographs (a tiny minority of them), and emoji are one form of pictograph, but that... doesn't make Chinese characters emoji, not even "the original ones". It doesn't even put them on the same "continuum" -- one is stroke-based logograms that represent individual syllables of words, the other is pure artistic illustration.
You seem to be trying to redefine the word "emoji" into something it's not, your own idiosyncratic personal definition. But that's not how words work.
Really? Funny that neither of those shapes is convex.