These are the ten most popular emoji, including ‘tears of joy’ and ‘red heart’

The Unicode Consortium this week released its list of the most frequenly used emoji. The body is responsible for maintaining the Unicode Standard, an industry-wide consensus for the digital encoding and representation of text, symbols and (in recent years) emojis. This is the first time the organization has released its internal data on the usage of various emoji, a statistic that it claims weights heavily in its decisions to accept new emoji into the standard.

The ‘tears of joy’ emoji and the ‘red heart’ emoji are the two most popular of the bunch, with each accounting for nearly 10% and 7% of overall emoji use, respectively. That’s an impressive number, given that nearly a billion emojis are sent everyday on Facebook alone.