Semiotic analysis is the study about sign. This study focuses on semiotic analysis using Charles Sanders Peirce‟s theory. This research was conducted to investigate the interpretant types and the meaning categories that contained of frequently-used emojis, particulary in a WhatsApp Group. The research method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. This research uses five emojis that frequently-used in a WhatsApp group, which have many meaning to be analyzed as the data. And to collect the data, the researcher use documentation by screenshots of community service program (KKN) chatting group starting from the twelve March 2019 to the twenty-eighth of March 2019 the in WhasApp application. In the stages of data analysis, the analysis technique used in this study is the Analysis of Filling System, where data from observations will be analyzed by making certain categories or certain domains. The results of the study are related to the interpretant types and the categories of meaning contained in the emojis. The interpretant types of frequently-used emojis are quip, request, happy, curious, obedient, arrogant, ask, rejecting, clarify, order, shy, reinforce the contents of the message, and shock. The meaning categories frequently-used of emojis are real meaning and fake meaning.

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