Last week Unicode, the international organization that standardizes emojis and all other digital characters, launched a brand new website for its Adopt-A-Character program.

Late last year, Unicode announced that it would be delaying the release of Unicode 16.0, instead opting for a streamlined 15.1 released in 2023. In making this announcement, the future of an Emoji 15.1 was initially unclear...

Emojipedia now includes the full set of highly-detailed glossy emoji sticker designs that debuted within various Twitter features throughout this year.

Today we here at Emojipedia have expanded the selection of languages that can be used to browse and search our site, bringing the total number of supported languages to nineteen.

Today Samsung has officially begun rolling out their support for Android 13 via their One UI 5.0 update. This update introduces support not only for 2021 emoji recommendations such as the 🫠 Melting Face and 🫶 Heart Hands, but also emojis from the recent 2022 list.

Microsoft have begun rolling out a new update to Windows 11, bringing support for the likes of 🫠 Melting Face, 🫡 Saluting Face, and 🫶 Heart Hands to their emoji set. This update also revises several previously-released 2D Fluent emoji designs.

Earlier today the latest batch of emojis, Emoji 15.0, was formally approved by Unicode. Mere hours later, Google unveiled a whole host of new emoji-based features, which included their support for Emoji 15.0.

The latest emoji list drafted by the Unicode Consortium is due for formal approval today, with new emojis including a Goose, a Hyacinth, a Shaking Face, and a plain Pink Heart.

This week a new emoji-filled book has begun to pop up in stores worldwide: The Hanmoji Handbook: Your Guide to the Chinese Language through Emoji. Published by MITeen Press and Candlewick Press, the book uses emojis as a means of introducing and memorizing Chinese characters.

Today Emojipedia has received its first new major site redesign since early September 2015, with the introduction of new fixed navigation and search features for both desktop and mobile users.

series of videos featuring Emojipedia have been going viral across Tiktok, most of which hone in on the unique, detailed, and occasionally over-the-top emoji designs from the emojidex vendor set.

A Twitter bot is sharing different designs from Google's popular Emoji Kitchen feature within Gboard, which allows users to combine different emoji designs and send them as stickers. It joins the ranks of many other emoji-based bots on the platform.

Happy World Emoji Day! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its ninth year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of the 2022 celebration! 🌎📅🥳

Today, on World Emoji Day 2022, JoyPixels have released version 7.0 of their freemium emoji set. The update includes emojis such as 🫠 Melting Face, 🫡 Saluting Face, and 🫶 Heart Hands, as well as the considerable number of design changes that has come to be expected of major JoyPixels update.

Today, ahead of World Emoji Day 2022, Emojipedia now includes the animated 3D Fluent emoji designs found within Microsoft Teams.

A Shaking Face, two pushing hands, and a plain Pink Heart. These are just some of the emojis that are up for approval this September. Ahead of World Emoji Day, Emojipedia has created sample designs for each candidate emoji.

With World Emoji Day 2022 only 5️⃣ days away, we here at Emojipedia are rolling out a new, globally-focused feature for our site: support for five new languages.

Ahead of World Emoji Day this coming Sunday (July 17), the Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that WhatsApp will be updating its emoji reactions feature for both iOS and Android devices.

Last year, ahead of World Emoji Day 2021, we revealed that emoji use on Twitter had reached a ten-year high. Today, with one week to go before our World Emoji Day 2022 celebrations, Emojipedia can reveal that emoji use on the microblogging platform has experienced another record-breaking increase.

The ninth annual World Emoji Day is just nine days away, as part of our global hosting duties Emojipedia will be debut a series of interview-focused videos exploring emojis from several different angles, together titled "Emojis Across The World".

Earlier this year, South Korean financial technology company Toss (토스) debuted its own emoji design set. Initially launched with a series of intentionally divergent designs, the set has since been updated to accurately reflect Unicode recommendations.

Last week Google launched a brand new emoji-focused font: Noto Emoji. Monochrome and minimalist, the font renders emojis as simply as possible and also introduces a series of new blob-inspired designs.

Facebook has begun rolling out a new emoji update, introducing the likes of 🫠 Melting Face, 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears, and 🫶 Heart Hands to the platform while also updating the existing 🤭 Face with Hand Over Mouth and 💉 Syringe emoji designs.

WhatsApp have today released a new update for their Android messaging app, bringing support for new emojis like 🫠 Melting Face, 🫡 Saluting Face, 🫶 Heart Hands, and 🪩 Mirror Ball with the app's native emoji set.