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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A style of art and animation where anthropomorphic animal characters are drawn using emojis, popular in short-form video.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An anthropomorphic animal character (usually a cat) drawn using emojis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
Etymology tree Middle Chinese 繪 (hwajH)bor. Japanese 絵 (e) Middle Chinese 文字 (mjun dziH)bor. Japanese 文字 (monji) Japanese 文字 (moji) Japanese 絵文字 (emoji)bor. English emoji Proto-Germanic *kattuz Proto-West Germanic *kattu Old English catt Middle English cat English cat English emojicat From emoji + cat.
