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In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to ...
World Emoji Day is held every year on July 17 because that's the day on the 📅 calendar emoji. This year, the Unicode Consortium-- a non-profit devoted to developing, maintaining and promoting ...
Unicode 17.0 is slated to be released on September 9, 2025, but these new emoji likely won't be added to Android and iOS until a bit after the standard is updated.
Apple and Samsung brought nine new emoji to their devices this year with the releases of iOS 18.4 and One UI 7. The new emoji ...
A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji. Other approved emoji from Unicode 17.0 ...
The Unicode Consortium has released a preview of emoji that will be in the Unicode 17.0 release, including Hairy Creature and Fight Cloud ...
Unicode Emoji 16.0 Alpha is open for early review, with new emoji set to be released in September 2024. The new emoji include a face with bags under eyes, a fingerprint, a leafless tree, a root ...
We've seen a few people share on social media that the Unicode 16.0 release includes a "greenwashing" emoji designed by Shepard Fairey, an artist best known for the 2008 Barack Obama "Hope" poster.
The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...