Despite containing the phrase “open inside”, this is indeed a NoSafetySmokingFirst, as it reads correctly left-to-right, but one’s first instinct is to read it top to bottom.
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I believe the root of the word is Japanese, not Greek, so there would be no distinction between singular and plural forms. One emoji, two emoji.
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Nope, the Japanese borrowed it from the ancient Greeks, who were inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphs.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emoji
No mention of Greek or Egyptian. Every entry starts with “borrowed from Japanese”.