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by bdchauvette 3907 days ago
> It depends on language, in Japanese input methods a lot of emoji can be written exactly the same way you write rest words.

The SwiftKey keyboard on Android offers this feature. If you turn it on and type 'angry', for example, it offers both the word and the emoji as predictions.

It works pretty well for English, but I'm not sure how well it works for other languages SwiftKey supports.