Emoji 101: Share and Express Love Gen Z Style

 

Emojis are a great helping tool to express your feelings and emotions without misinterpreting what you want to convey. It aims to set a mood and vibe for your classmates, colleagues, friends, family, and your special someone. Emojis are not new to electronic messages because they first appeared on Japanese mobile phones in the late ’90s. Later on, it grew worldwide, and sooner it transformed into a millennial message. It feels young and trendy communicating through Gen Z style.

Have you ever thought that a single rose emoji could mean something? Believe it or not, it’s possible. It is similar to heart-shaped emoji that represents love or romance. Notable, isn’t it? Gen Z nowadays has these emojis on their sweet messages, and it ultimately perceives the context pleasingly to the heart and especially to the eyes.

What Emojis to Use for Expressing That You Love Someone?

Love has numerous meanings and is often challenging to define what it is. Indeed, love is more than words. Luckily, there’s an easy way to illustrate love. Don’t look so far now; Gen Z got you covered. This article will help you select the right emoji to show your care and affection to your loved ones. Emojis are for everyone, so don’t miss to know these frequently used emojis by Gen Z. Practice it as soon as you learn it because it is so lit. Lit as Gen Z describes something cool.

Be Vibrantly in Love Using Heart Emojis

A heart emoji satisfyingly uplifts someone’s mood, and it never fails to convey affection and romance. Messages with heart emojis are meaningful yet straightforward, as it expresses happiness, heart-touching moments, excitement, and deeply in love. Several people are familiar with the classic red heart, but acknowledging the other heart emoji colors is impressive.

These are the vibrant colors of orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and black.  Each represents uniqueness and the meaning attached to it.  If you want to express your love to anyone, red hearts are the best choice. A simple, “I love you, I’m here for you <3” can uplift a mood.  Moreover, yellow hearts are for families and friends. You can send a yellow heart to greet your mom on her special days. Some prefer to choose a heart color that matches their partner’s favorite color.

Express Unexplained Happiness by Smiling Face with Hearts Emoji 

There are times in love when you feel you’re floating and words can’t express its feeling. Luckily, the smiling face with hearts emoji speaks so much. You can send that emoji to let them know that you appreciate their sweet gestures. After all, love is not always about giving, but it includes receiving too.

The yellow face with smiling eyes, a closed smile, rosy cheeks, and several hearts floating are around its head conveys various ranges of happiness, contentment, love, and appreciation. The feeling of butterflies inside your stomach, but it feels like the entire zoo. Send your loved ones a smiling face with hearts emoji, and indeed they will get it right away.

Confess Your Love with a Love-You Gesture Emoji

It is incredible how ILY, which means “I love you,” is visible in this emoji. As you look closely, it is shaping the letters ILY corresponding to the alphabet in American Sign Language or ASL. You can utilize this emoji without a context attached to it, and it is clear that it signifies the word “ I love you.” 

Don’t be confused with Love-you Gesture Emoji and horns emoji, as they both have raised index and pinky fingers. Also, some may resemble this gesture to the web-slinging superhero, but the Love-You gesture emoji is about showing your love using a hand sign. 

The I❤️you are overused for quite a while now, be extra and express that you love someone using the Love-You Gesture 🤟 emoji. How cool is that! 

Keep It Sweet and Send a Face Blowing a Kiss Emoji 

A yellow face winking with puckered lips blowing a kiss, depicted as a small, red heart, or the face blowing a kiss emoji adds sweet gestures to your messages. You don’t want to sound boring in your text and chat messages to your special someone; a face blowing a kiss is a great emoji to avoid awkwardness.

It will not seem like you’re flirting; it will show extra affection even if your message is simple. Instead of having plain messages, add this emoji to make a difference, “Good morning 😘, “Have a nice day 😘.”Try it and see a big difference!

Celebrate Good Times through Clinking Glasses Emoji 

Do you want to celebrate your love anniversary, but you are not physically together yet? Why wait if you can celebrate it virtually! This clinking glasses emoji is the best choice to go along with special occasions. It is an emoji to let people know it is worth celebrating. 

Sharing your success and accomplishments with your lover is significantly remarkable. It is simply saying cheers to a new beginning and prosperous life. Toast for more celebration for you and your lover! Clink!

Take Your Love to the Next Level with Ring Emoji

Have you already felt that it is the right time to settle down and take your love to the next chapter? Surprise your lover by sending a ring emoji, followed by a promising message about your relationship.

You can also put this emoji on your social media and share the new beginnings with your loved ones. They will be open-mouthed and teary-eyed seeing a ring emoji to your status.  Moreover, a combination of a ring, church, and bell emoji could complete the announcement about your love. 

In a nutshell

You can express love in various ways. Sometimes it doesn’t need to be told using flowery or exaggerated words. You only need a sincere heart towards the person you love. Moreover, it is not just choosing the right emoji to express love but also being honest to every heartfelt message.

Gáspár Incze is the youngest member of the team. Currently a university student, he is studying management at Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Gáspár participated in several social initiatives, having volunteered as a tour guide at the Teleki Castle in the village of Gornești and currently working at ÉRTED, a Transylvanian Hungarian student initiative committed to community work, mainly in the cultural, scientific, economic, and environmental areas.