Today the latest list of new emoji recommendations has been approved by the Unicode Consortium, confirming new additions such as the Cracking Face, the Pickle, the Meteor, the Lighthouse, and the Eraser.

The draft list of emoji recommendations for Emoji 18.0 may be revised this week. The Emoji Standard & Research Working Group (ESR) is recommending that Face With Squinting Eyes be replaced by a Cracking Face emoji.

As the new calendar year continues to unfold, let's review the latest list of proposed new emojis that could find their way to our standard emoji keyboards later in 2026. Possible new emojis include a squinting face, two new thumb sign gestures, a pickle, and a lighthouse.

Today Unicode has officially confirmed the new emojis that will be finding their way to our emoji keyboards over the next year or so.

Unicode has revealed which new emojis could be finding their way to our standard emoji keyboards late next year. These possible new emojis include a distorted smiley face, an orca, a treasure chest, several ballet dancers, and a Big Foot-inspired "hairy creature".

Today the latest emoji list will be released by the Unicode Consortium, with additions including a harp, a shovel, a splatter symbol, and a face with bags under its eyes.

A smiley face with bags under its eyes, a paint splatter, and a human fingerprint are among the new emoji concepts up for approval. Today, ahead of World Emoji Day 2024 (July 17), we here at Emojipedia have released our traditional sample designs for all the new emoji candidates.

The latest list of emoji recommendations drafted by the Unicode Consortium - Emoji 15.1 - has been formally approved. This means that 118 new emojis should be arriving across our various digital devices over the next year or so.

A Lime, a Head Shaking Vertically, and a Phoenix Bird emoji are amongst the draft emoji candidates up for approval by Unicode this September, as well as a selection of new direction-based people emojis. Ahead of World Emoji Day 2023, we here at Emojipedia have created sample designs for

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...

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.

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.

Today Unicode has opened submissions for Emoji 16.0, meaning people from around the world can propose new emojis for inclusion in our global emoji keyboards. However, there won't be any new flags.

There's an orange heart. A purple heart. A blue one. Even a brown heart. So why no pink heart emoji? For those who have asked this very question, there is good news on the horizon: a pink heart emoji has passed its first hurdles and could now be on its way to your emoji keyboard.

Today the latest emoji list will be released by the Unicode Consortium, with additions including Biting Lip [https://emojipedia.org/biting-lip/], Troll [https://emojipedia.org/troll/], Saluting Face [https://emojipedia.org/saluting-face/], as well as two heart-related gestures: Heart Hands [https://emojipedia.org/heart-hands/] and Hand

A saluting face [https://emojipedia.org/saluting-face/], biting lip [https://emojipedia.org/biting-lip/], coral [https://emojipedia.org/coral/] and a low battery [https://emojipedia.org/low-battery/] are among the emojis up for approval later in the year. These are currently draft candidates for the next emoji release

Jennifer Daniel leads emoji efforts at Google, and in 2020 became Chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. Jennifer joined me on the most recent episode of Emoji Wrap – Emojipedia's emoji podcast – to share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities ahead for what arrives on your emoji keyboard.

217 new emojis have been approved and will come to devices throughout 2021. Additions include a heart on fire [https://blog.emojipedia.org/117-new-emojis-in-final-list-for-2020/], face in the clouds [https://emojipedia.org/face-in-clouds/], a woman with a beard [https://emojipedia.org/woman-

New emojis will be approved in late 2020, resulting in platform support in 2021. With Unicode 14.0 delayed due to Coronavirus [https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-the-2021-unicode-delay-means-for-emoji/], a minor emoji release known as Emoji 13.1 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-13.1/] will

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

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-

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

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

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