If you click an individual emoji, Emojipedia will give you a brief description of that emoji. For example, here's what Emojipedia writes about the "👅" (tongue) emoji: "A tongue, sticking out.

And the roughly 1,500 emoji identified by Unicode are hardly a replacement for the 250,000-plus words in English or the variety of the real world. Standard emoji sets, for instance, aren’t ...