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An exhibition featuring emojis opened in a shopping mall in Shanghai over the weekend, which will run till the end of this month. [Photo/VCG]

Emojis were first created by Japanese Shigetaka Kurita in 1999 to express a variety of emotions, which later spread to the world, becoming a universal language and a tool for one to engage online with others without working their fingers much. [Photo/VCG]

In August 2014, Oxford Dictionaries online listed 'emoji' as a new word. [Photo/VCG]