Oxford University Press teamed up with SwiftKey, the company
behind SwiftKey Keyboard, an app that works to predict your favored words, turns of phrase and yes,
emojis, and found that the «
Face with Tears of Joy» was the most frequently used
emoji in 2015, with the expressive icon making up 17 percent of all
emojis used in the U.S., and 20 percent of
emojis in the U.K.