Emoji
German, noun/eˈmoːdʒi/
Emoji is spelled E-M-O-J-I (5 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written German, the 27,235th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emoji is a German masculine noun meaning “emoji (digital graphic icon used to represent a concept or object)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “bildliches Symbol, das eine Emotion, eine Person, einen Zustand oder Gegenstand in schriftlicher, meist…”.
What does Emoji mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineneuteremoji (digital graphic icon used to represent a concept or object)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. bildliches Symbol, das eine Emotion, eine Person, einen Zustand oder Gegenstand in schriftlicher, meist digitaler Kommunikation repräsentieren soll
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Emoji
- Emojis genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Emoji?
- /eˈmoːdʒi/
- [eˈmoːd͡ʒi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Emoji
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Emoji in German?
Emoji appears 1.7 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).