2014全球媒体使用频率最高的是心形符号
A heart 'emoji' was the most widely used character in blogs, Twitter and Facebook and in 250,000 global news outlets in the last 12 months, according to analysts.
有分析数据显示，过去的12个月中，博客、推特、脸书以及全球25万家新闻媒体使用频率最高的字符是心形“表情符号”。
The increasing prominence of the emoji or emoticon shows how symbols are making their way into the English language with the rise of the internet.
There are now 722 recognised characters which portray an emotion, expression, or state of mind, or a person, place or thing - with another 250 to be made available over the next year. The list was compiled by the Global Language Monitor in Austin, Texas, which analyses the use of words and symbols in blogs, social media and 250,000 of the most popular online and print news outlets across the world.
Researchers found the heart emoji appeared billions of times a day across the world.
Other words that rose to popularity in 2014 were 'vape' from the term vaporise, used to refer to electronic or e-cigarettes. This word appeared in the Oxford Dictionary's top word for 2014. Prince George also made the list along with the phenomena blood moon - referring to the blood red colour of the moon after it passes in the earth's shadow, causing the sun's red light to scatter.
Paul Payack, president of Global Language Monitor, said: 'The English Language is now undergoing a remarkable transformation unlike any in its 1400 year history - its system of writing, the alphabet, is gaining characters at amazing rate.
'These character are ideographs or pictographs that are called emoji and emoticons.
'There are about a thousand emoji characters now officially recognised by Unicode Consortium, the official keepers of coding that forms the basis of the internet.
'They regularly review new suggestions with the next 37 or so being finalised for June 2015.
'Then the new emoji can be embedded in any number of devices for any number of languages.'
The list is the 15th annual survey compiled by Global Language Media. Last year '404' appeared as the most popular word - the internet error message showing the popularity of online media.