Virtually everyone is familiar with emojis. They were first created in the late 1990s.
In fact, many readers probably used emojis’ predecessors, “emoticons,” long before that. Text-based symbols like “:)” and “:(” have been in common use since the early days of personal computing and online messageboards.
Emojis quickly became popular once they were widely available. They were ubiquitous by 2010, as electronic devices were programmed to automatically substitute them for emoticons. An enormous selection of emojis was created to represent almost every imaginable emotion, reaction, and object, and devices have had huge dashboards of emojis ever since.
It’s the mid-2020s now, and we probably don’t have to explain to anyone how to use emojis. They’re second nature to everyone with a phone, and almost everyone over the age of 12 has a smartphone by now.
If you’re a TikTok user, though, you probably don’t know how to use the social media platform’s secret emojis. You probably didn’t even know these cool emojis existed on the app.
Here’s how to use TikTok’s hidden emojis.
Putting TikTok’s Secret Emojis into Your Posts
You should probably set aside a little extra time to spend on TikTok today. Chances are good that you’re immediately going to open the app and try out all of these emojis to see what they look like.
TikTok’s hidden emojis can be used in any TikTok post or comment as long as you know their “shortcodes.” All you have to do is include a shortcode in a set of brackets, like this: [smile].
That smile won’t be the usual yellow smiley face that is so common in texts and on social media; it’s bright pink, instead. None of these TikTok emojis will express a feeling that couldn’t be conveyed with a more traditional emoji — but they’ll set your posts and comments apart from those of most other TikTok users.
Ready for the list? These are the 47 secret TikTok emojis.
[angel], [angry], [astonish], [awkward], [blink], [cute], [complacent], [cool], [cry], [disdain], [drool], [embarrassed], [evil], [excited], [facewithrollingeyes], [flushed], [funnyface], [greedy], [happy], [hehe], [joyful], [laugh], [laughwithtears], [loveface], [lovely], [nap], [pride], [proud], [rage], [scream], [shock], [shout], [slap], [smile], [smileface], [speechless], [stun], [sulk], [surprised], [tears], [thinking], [teams], [weep], [wicked], [wow], [wronged], [yummy],
They won’t look anything like the emojis you’re familiar with, so have fun exploring!
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Peter Hasselworth is a contributor at iDigic, sharing valuable insights about Instagram growth and social media marketing strategies.