Jeremy Burge

Six years ago I decided to create a global holiday, and in 2020 it's still with us: World Emoji Day [https://worldemojiday.com]. In fact, as of this week, the 📅 Calendar emoji [https://emojipedia.org/calendar/] now shows July 17 on nearly every major platform: Above: 📅 Calendar [https:

What does equality look like on the emoji keyboard? Much progress has been made in recent years, with emojis that were once white and male[1] now offering a choice of skin tones and equal gender options. Last year 100 new emojis were released to support combinations of people holding

In just two short years one emoji has captured our imaginations like no other. Of every 100 tweets sent in April 2020, one of them contained a relative-newcomer on the emoji scene: 🥺 Pleading Face [https://emojipedia.org/pleading-face/]. A recent Emojipedia analysis of 68 million tweets saw no Covid slowdown

When Jameela Jamil [http://twitter.com/jameelajamil/] posted a tweet with a single ‘shocked face’ emoji last week, she didn't expect to see blowback. Much to Jamil's confusion, many responses felt the (since-deleted) single-emoji-tweet was inconsiderate, or mocking in tone. * "This is in such poor

The Unicode Consortium is delaying Unicode 14.0 [https://emojipedia.org/unicode-14.0/] by six months due to COVID-19.  This means that emojis that would have arrived on phones in 2021 will instead roll out in 2022. Does this mean 2021 will be an emoji-free year, and what does it

The Unicode Consortium has today released version 13 of the Unicode Standard. The release includes 55 new emoji characters and 5,875 non-emoji characters. This follows last month's announcement of the final list of 117 new emojis for 2020 [https://blog.emojipedia.org/117-new-emojis-in-final-list-for-2020/], and paves the way

Of the 117 new emojis approved last month, Pinched Fingers [https://emojipedia.org/pinched-fingers/], Transgender Flag [https://emojipedia.org/transgender-flag/], and Smiling Face With Tear [https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-tear/] were the most popular on social media. Least popular? Bucket [https://emojipedia.org/bucket/], Placard [https://emojipedia.org/placard/], and Elevator

The emoji list for 2020 is now complete, with 117 emojis making the final cut for release this year. Additions include Bubble Tea [https://emojipedia.org/bubble-tea/], Smiling Face With Tear [https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-tear/], bottle-feeding parents [https://emojipedia.org/person-feeding-baby/] and the Transgender Flag [https://emojipedia.org/transgender-flag/].[1]

Today's latest iOS beta — iOS 13.2 beta 2 — is the first to include new emojis previewed by Apple in July [https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-reveals-new-2019-emojis-for-world-emoji-day/] of this year. Update: iOS 13.2 has been released. View all new emojis here [https://emojipedia.org/apple/ios-13.2/new/

Originally planned for release in 2020, a number of new gender neutral emojis have been moved into a late-2019 update from the Unicode Consortium, following support from 'at least two' major vendors. The creation of Emoji 12.1 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-12.1/] means an additional 168 emojis

iPhone users in Hong Kong have noticed a change in the latest version of iOS: the 🇹🇼 Flag for Taiwan emoji [https://emojipedia.org/flag-for-taiwan/] is missing. Previously restricted [https://blog.emojipedia.org/one-emoji-doesnt-show-on-ios-in-china/] on Chinese iOS devices, all other regions of the world have continued to enjoy access to all

With today's release of iOS 13 it's hard to miss one big new addition to the emoji keyboard. Alongside  the frequently used emojis are new options: a sweating [https://emojipedia.org/face-with-cold-sweat/] 🐙 Octopus [https://emojipedia.org/octopus/], a 👻 Ghost [https://emojipedia.org/ghost/] with heart eyes

New on Emojipedia today is a listing for the open source emoji project OpenMoji [https://emojipedia.org/openmoji/]. This set of 3,180 images covers every emoji approved as part of Emoji 12.0 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-12.0/], and is available with a Creative Commons ( Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

New emojis were approved [https://blog.emojipedia.org/230-new-emojis-in-final-list-for-2019/] by the Unicode Consortium as part of Emoji 12.0 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-12.0/] in March 2019. So when do they arrive on phones? The rollout date for each platform varies. On iOS, updates apply to all apps at the

Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 will ship later this month with support for all the new emojis approved in 2019 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-12.0/]. Among the updates are people with mobility aids such as a wheelchair [https://emojipedia.org/manual-wheelchair/], cane [https://emojipedia.org/probing-cane/], or hearing aid

Happy #WorldEmojiDay 2019 🎉 Here at Emojipedia we're be celebrating in a few ways. The National Museum of Cinema Emojipedia partnered with the National Museum of Cinema in Turin for an exhibition [http://www.museocinema.it/en/exhibitions/facceemozioni-1500-2020-physiognomy-emojis] launching today (July 17). The exhibition looks at physiognomy [https:

Emojipedia has run the World Emoji Awards [http://worldemojiawards.com] on World Emoji Day [https://worldemojiday.com] each year since 2017. These look at which new emojis are popular or most loved, by way of voting or statistics. It's official: the most popular new emoji is 🥰 Smiling Face

Apple has shown its new emoji collection for 2019 for the first time, in celebration of World Emoji Day [http://worldemojiday.com]. Approved earlier this year by the Unicode Consortium, t [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-12.0/]he 2019 updates [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-12.0/] include a number of popular additions

The Unicode Consortium today announced the possibility of color variations within the emoji character set, to be discussed at the forthcoming Technical Committee meeting. Until now, Unicode has taken the position that each emoji should not be too specific where possible, and that one emoji should represent an entire category

Apple today announced a range of improvements to Memoji functionality including new customization options and integration of Memoji into the emoji keyboard. Coming to iOS 13 later this year, these Memoji updates allow customization of teeth, makeup, jewellery, and even AirPods. In a big usability enhancement, no longer do you

Summary: No new emojis, two minor changes, and one almost imperceptible change in Apple's latest iOS release. iOS 12.2 [http://emojipedia.org/apple/ios-12.2/changed/] is out now and here's what's new in the updates to Apple's emoji set. Changed

Coming to Android this year: a third gender option for emojis such as Police Officer [https://emojipedia.org/police-officer/], Zombie [https://emojipedia.org/zombie/], Person Facepalming [https://emojipedia.org/face-palm/], Construction Worker [https://emojipedia.org/construction-worker/] and People With Bunny Ears [https://emojipedia.org/woman-with-bunny-ears/]. Revealed by Google in a

Since updating the Emojipedia archives with the SoftBank emoji set from 1997 [https://blog.emojipedia.org/correcting-the-record-on-the-first-emoji-set/], it's a good time to now show how this original set of 90 emojis released over two decades ago has a direct lineage to the emoji set used on iOS today.

Until now, Japanese phone carrier Docomo has most often been widely [https://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/03/26/meet-shigetaka-kurita-the-father-of-emoji/] credited [https://www.theverge.com/2013/3/4/3966140/how-emoji-conquered-the-world] as the originator of what we know as emoji today. It turns out, that might not be the case, and

The latest version of WhatsApp includes a Transgender Pride flag [https://emojipedia.org/transgender-pride-flag/], hidden from the emoji keyboard. This is created using a ZWJ sequence [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-zwj-sequences/] of the 🏳️ White Flag [https://emojipedia.org/waving-white-flag/] emoji and ⚧ Male with Stroke and Male and Female Sign [https://emojipedia.