《纽约时报》总结年度最火表情符号，第一名竟然是……

2025年，最受欢迎的表情符号是什么？

据《纽约时报》报道，“‌放声大哭‌”表情😭（loudly crying face）登顶榜首！但它不再局限于 “哭泣” 的含义，而是成为了一种“万能”的表情符号——无论是搞笑、感动还是尴尬的场景，都能派上用场。

“‌放声大哭”表情😭在排行榜上一举超越了2024年的前三大热门表情符号：“笑翻”🤣（rolling on the floor laughing）、 “笑哭”😂（face with tears of joy）和 “红色爱心”❤️（red heart）。

语言学家和《纽约时报》分析指出，一大原因是年轻人认为这几个表情已经用滥了。

"Loudly crying face" 😭 reached the top by leapfrogging "rolling on the floor laughing"🤣, "face with tears of joy" 😂 and "red heart" ❤️ on the leaderboard. A big reason: young people decided the other emojis were overused, according to linguists and a New York Times analysis of Reddit posts.

这组数据来自谷歌提供的匿名样本，包含全球用户约6.65亿次表情符号的使用记录。《纽约时报》还通过美国论坛网站红迪网（Reddit），进一步观察了不同年龄群体表情符号的使用习惯。

The new data comes from an anonymous sample of 665 million emojis used by people worldwide on Gboard, a Google keyboard built into most devices using Android, the most widely used operating system. Because the data lacks demographic details, The New York Times turned to Reddit forums for insight on how different age groups use emojis.

尽管人们想要表达的情绪本身并无太多变化，但用来传递这些情绪的表情符号却在不断演变。

The emotions people express often stay the same, but the emojis they use to communicate them evolve.

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前几年，青少年们喜欢用“骷髅头”💀（skull）来表达“笑死我了”，这一表情的热度一度超过了“‌放声大哭‌”😭，但随后使用率迅速回落。

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“凋谢”🥀（wilted flower）是去年表情符号中的最大“黑马”。数据显示，它是2025年增长最快的表情符号，不少人用它代替传统的“心碎”💔（broken heart）来表达悲伤情绪。

“摩艾石像”🗿（moai）的上升势头同样迅猛。2021年，它的排名还在第482名，2025年已跃升到第33名。年轻人常用它来表示面无表情的回应或挑眉。社交平台上，阿尔法世代（2010年后出生的群体）偶尔会使用它，而其他年龄段几乎不会使用。

哪些人群的流行表情符号变化最快？

线上交流时，一个表情包常常胜似千言万语，填补着面对面交流中通过语调、神态、肢体传达的信息的空白。与此同时，表情符号也成为群体身份认同的标识。

When people communicate digitally instead of in person, nonverbal indicators of meaning and emotion — through facial expressions, gestures or tone of voice — are lost. Emojis fill in. They also signal in-group belonging, researchers said.

语言学家亚当・阿莱克西奇认为，那些感到自身被边缘化的群体，往往最擅长创造专属自己的网络语言。“通常，一个群体越是处于少数地位，就越有理由凸显自身的独特性。”他说。

Groups that feel marginalized are often most innovative in developing their own online language, said Adam Aleksic, a linguist. "Usually the more a group is a minority, the more they have reason to differentiate themselves," he said.

多伦多大学语言学教授萨利・塔利亚蒙特则表示：青少年，尤其是十几岁的女孩，常常站在语言变化的前沿。比如，她的五个孩子里，女儿们习惯使用表情符号，而儿子不会。

Teenagers, particularly teenage girls, have always been at the forefront of linguistic change, according to Sali A. Tagliamonte, a professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto. Among her five children, her daughters use emojis but her sons don't, she said.

研究人员们认为，女性往往拥有更广泛的社会关系，表达情绪的词汇也更丰富。而随着年龄增长，人们的语言习惯则会趋于稳定。

Women tend to have more social ties and a bigger emotional vocabulary, researchers said. And as people age, their language becomes more stable.

尽管流行趋势瞬息万变，如今表情符号总数已经超过3600个，但谷歌的数据显示，近几年使用频次最高的十大表情却始终没变，仅排名有所浮动。去年，这10个表情符号的使用量占到全部表情符号使用总量的36%。

For the past few years, at least, the 10 most-used emojis have remained the same, according to Google. Although there are more than 3,600 emojis, these 10 accounted for 36 percent of all emoji usage last year. Most swapped positions.

你最常用的表情符号是什么？

来源：纽约时报 21世纪英文报