Functional type of an emoji glyph

as_emoji_type(x) maps emoji glyphs to a small functional vocabulary – "face", "gesture", "person", "nature", "food", "place", "activity", "object", "symbol", "flag", "component" – recoded from the Unicode group and subgroup. The distinction that matters most in the literature is face (emotional) against object (semantic).

Usage

as_emoji_type(x)

Arguments

x

A character vector of emoji glyphs.

Value

A character vector the same length as x.

Details

The recode is: faces and costumed characters in Smileys & Emotion become face and the rest of that group (hearts, the anger symbol, ...) becomes symbol; hands and gesturing people in People & Body become gesture and the rest person; the remaining Unicode groups map one-to-one. Glyphs the reference table does not know return NA.

See also

emoji_type() for the data-frame verb, emoji_faceness() for the per-row share, emoji_categorize() for the raw Unicode categories.

Examples

as_emoji_type(c("\U0001f600", "\U0001f44d", "\U0001f355", "\u2764\ufe0f"))
#> [1] "face"    "gesture" "food"    "symbol"