Emoticon short for "emotion icon", also know simply as an emote, is a pictorial representation of facial expression using characters, usually punctuation marks, numbers, and letters to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, or as a time-saving method.
Sending an Emoticon on SMS.
Click the icon where the arrow is pointed on the figure above, to show the list of emoticons you can choose from.
Clicking the emoticon icon will show you different types of emoticon. You can choose from those emoticons, click the preferred emoticon by right clicking the chosen emoticon. Then it will be displayed on the message area.