[mardef]

> The thing about emoji is that they're highly contextual.

Same with the flying money emoji. It's on the list as confusing, but it lists "gaining money, losing money, and transferring money" as 85% of meanings. Context clears up which one of those it is

It clearly means "money is flying" but it leaves the direction of flight to context.

[dheera]

They're also sometimes culturally contextual. In China and quite possibly a lot of east Asia a smile emoji (https://emojipedia.org/slightly-smiling-face) very often means unhappiness-but-wish-to-avoid-a-confrontation and very often shows up in business contexts to pressure someone to do something. It is almost never used for genuine happiness.

It also surprises me that there is no good emoji for hugging. WeChat had to create a non-standard emoji for it and it is highly used. Especially when western culture far more normalizes platonic hugging, I would have expected 20 different hug emoji but they don't exist.

[deathanatos]

> It also surprises me that there is no good emoji for hugging.

… U+1FAC2 "People Hugging"?

> Especially when western culture far more normalizes platonic hugging

… I see U+1FAC2 used this way quite often in a forum I frequent…