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Unicode 17.0 is the presumed release of the <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a> for September 2025, with emojis added in this update expected to come to major platforms in late 2025 and throughout 2026.

There are currently eight draft candidates for new emoji codepoints for Unicode 17.0.

For the new emoji list coming to devices in 2024/2025, see&nbsp;<a href="/zh/emoji-16.0">Emoji 16.0</a>.

17.0

Unicode 16.0 is the version of the <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a> released on 10 September 2024, with the emojis added in this update expected to come to major platforms in late 2024 and throughout 2025.&nbsp;

Unicode 16.0&nbsp;introduced a total of 5,185 new characters, of which 7 were new emoji code points. This brought the total number of characters encoded within Unicode to&nbsp;154,998.

All the emojis recommended within Unicode 16.0 were also included within <a href="/emoji-16.0">Emoji 16.0</a>, which also featured one additional emoji sequence.

📝&nbsp;<a href="https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/">Unicode 16.0 details on Unicode.org</a>

&nbsp;

16.0

Unicode 15.1 is the version of the Unicode Standard released on September 12, 2023.

This update featured no new emoji code points, though <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a> did introduce 118 new emoji sequences,

A total of&nbsp;627 characters were recommended in this update,&nbsp;bringing the total number of characters encoded within Unicode to 149,813.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-15-1-and-emoji-15-1/">Learn more about Unicode 15.1 and Emoji 15.1.</a>

15.1

Unicode 15.0 is the version of the Unicode Standard&nbsp;released on&nbsp;September 13, 2022. 20&nbsp;new emoji&nbsp;code points were added in this release,&nbsp;with all 31 new emojis (including 11 sequences)&nbsp;listed under <a href="/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>.

Unicode 15.0 introduced a total of 5,185 new characters, including the 20 new emoji codepoints listed below. This brought the total number of characters encoded within Unicode to&nbsp;149,186 characters.

<ul>
	<li>📝&nbsp;<a href="https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/">Unicode 15.0 details on Unicode.org</a></li>
</ul>

15.0

Unicode 14.0 is the version of the Unicode Standard&nbsp;released on&nbsp;September 14, 2021.&nbsp;37 new emoji&nbsp;code points were added in this release,&nbsp;with all 112 new emojis (including sequences for skin tones)&nbsp;listed under <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>.

This release of this Unicode Standard was&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.unicode.org/2020/04/unicode-140-delayed-for-6-months.html">delayed from March 2021</a> due to COVID-19.&nbsp;

Unicode 14.0 introduced a total of 838&nbsp;new characters, including the 37 new emoji code points listed below. This brought the total number of characters encoded within Unicode to&nbsp;144,697.

<ul>
	<li>📝&nbsp;<a href="https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode14.0.0/">Unicode 14.0 details on Unicode.org</a></li>
</ul>

14.0

Unicode 13.0 is the version of the <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a>&nbsp;released on&nbsp;March 10, 2020. 55 new emoji&nbsp;code points were added in this release,&nbsp;with all 117 new emojis for 2020 (including sequences for gender and skin tone)&nbsp;listed under <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>.

Unicode 13.0 introduced a total of 5,930&nbsp;new characters, including the 55 new emoji code points listed below. This brought the total number of characters encoded within Unicode to&nbsp;143,859.

More about <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-13-0/">what&#39;s new in Unicode 13.0</a>.

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/">🔣 Unicode 13.0.0 Specification</a></li>
</ul>

13.0

Unicode 12.0 is the version of the <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a>&nbsp;released on March 5,&nbsp;2019.&nbsp;Emojis that require new code points for release are listed on this page. See&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>&nbsp;for the full 2019&nbsp;emoji list.

Unicode 12.0 introduced a total of 554 new characters, including the 61 new emoji code points listed below. This brought the total number of characters encoded within Unicode to 137,928..

<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-12-0/">More about this update</a>.

12.0

Unicode 11.0 was released on June 5,&nbsp;2018.&nbsp;Emojis that require new code points for release are listed on this page&nbsp;but for the full 2018 emoji list&nbsp;see&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>.

Emoji 11.0 includes every new emoji, including variations for skin tone, gender and new emojis that don&#39;t require additional code points, such as the <a href="/chess-pawn/">chess pawn</a> or <a href="/pirate-flag/">pirate flag</a> which are not shown on this page.

11.0

Unicode 10.0 is the version of the <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a> released on June 20, 2017.&nbsp;8,518 new characters were included with this update, of which&nbsp;56 were emoji characters. This brought the total number of characters recommended by Unicode to 136,690 characters.

Only new emoji code points are listed on this page.&nbsp;For the full 2017 emoji list;&nbsp;see <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>&nbsp;which included&nbsp;all 239 emoji additions including sequences for skin tone and gender.

<ul>
	<li><a href="/emoji-5.0/">😃 Emoji 5.0 list</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/">🔣 Unicode 10.0.0 Specification</a></li>
</ul>

10.0

The Unicode Consortium accepted the following emoji 72 emojis&nbsp;for Unicode 9.0. This update&nbsp;was released&nbsp;on June 21, 2016. Most vendors added support for this update within the 2016 calendar year.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-9-0-released-with-72-new-emojis/">Sample images and more about Unicode 9.0</a>.

<a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a> was published in late 2016, which added additional emoji professions.

<h2>New in Unicode 9</h2>

The Unicode Consortium has approved the following 41 emoji characters as part of <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/">Unicode 8.0</a>, released on June 17, 2015. This is comprised of 37 new emojis, plus five emoji modifiers. Find out <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-8-what-and-when">more about this update</a> on the Emojipedia Blog.

The Unicode Consortium approved the following characters as part of <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/">Unicode 7.0</a>, released on June 16, 2014.&nbsp;Support for these emoji characters rely on updates from platform vendors such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

Initially, 250&nbsp;new characters in Unicode 7.0 were approved for emoji presentation, however this was later reduced to 103 Standard Additions which are listed below. The other characters remain part of Unicode, but are not recommended&nbsp;to be included as emojis.

The exception to this was the <a href="/left-speech-bubble/" title="🗨 Left Speech Bubble">Left Speech Bubble</a>, and as such wasn&#39;t initially specified on other platforms as an emoji. A later-accepted&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-spy-proposal/">proposal</a>&nbsp;updated this.

A small update to the much larger Unicode 6.0. Unicode 6.1 included 13 new emoji characters.

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the <a href="/the-unicode-consortium">Unicode Standard</a> to support emoji.

Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.

Unicode 5.2&nbsp;pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by one&nbsp;year, and included many characters primarily sourced from the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07391-n3341.pdf">ARIB set of Japanese broadcasting symbols</a>.

The following characters were among those added to Unicode in 2009, several of which were given&nbsp;emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

The following characters were amongst those added to Unicode in 2008, the majority of which were given&nbsp;emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

The following characters were added to Unicode in 2006.

The following characters we added to Unicode in 2005 and&nbsp;given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

The following characters we added to Unicode in 2003 and&nbsp;given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

The following characters we added to <a href="/unicode-consortium">Unicode</a> in 2002, with many given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

Those given emoji presentation status by <a href="/unicode-consortium">Unicode </a>were part of <a href="/emoji-1.0">Emoji 1.0</a> in 2015.

The following characters we added to Unicode in 2001.

The following characters we added to Unicode in 1999, with most being given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

Unicode 1.1 were pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by 17 years, and included many characters primarily sourced from the Zapf Dingbats font.

The following characters were added to Unicode in 1993 and many were given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

A yellow face with open eyes, a thin closed-mouth smile, and a single tear falling from one of its eyes. Can be used to express a wide range of emotions and expressions&nbsp;including gratitude, tender happiness, an attempt to look happy when actually sad, or&nbsp;smiling through pain. Can also be a response to something that is bittersweet.

This emoji and <a href="/slightly-smiling-face/">🙂 Slightly Smiling Face</a> have a similar smile, and <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a> and <a href="/crying-cat/">😿 Crying Cat</a> have a similar lone tear. Not to be confused with&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face with Tears of Joy</a>, which has a wide toothy grin&nbsp;and tears coming from both eyes.

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Smiling Face with Tear

A yellow face with big glasses, a large nose, thick eyebrows, and a mustache. Used to represent someone in disguise.

The features of this particular disguised face are taken from the &ldquo;Groucho Mask&rdquo; or &ldquo;Groucho Glasses,&rdquo; designed in the likeness of the caricature played by Julius Henry Marx in the Marx Brothers&#39; films. These comedic films were popular in the 1930s and &lsquo;40s, and the mask has been a mainstay of joke shops since <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/books/there-ain-t-no-sanity-claus.html">as early as the 1940s</a>.

Other emoji faces in disguise include <a href="/superhero/">🦸 Superhero</a> and <a href="/supervillain/">🦹 Supervillain</a>.

Disguised Face

An emoji showing the fingers held together in a vertical orientation, often referred to as the Italian hand gesture ma che vuoi, sometimes called the &quot;finger purse.&quot;&nbsp;In Italy this gesture tends to be used in disagreement, frustration, or disbelief and can mean &ldquo;What do you want?&rdquo; or &ldquo;What are you saying?&rdquo; Outside Italy anyone performing a caricature of an Italian person, regardless of context or tone, might use this gesture.

Pinched Fingers has a variety of other culturally specific uses. In Israeli culture it can mean &ldquo;hold on,&rdquo; &ldquo;relax,&rdquo; or &ldquo;be patient.&rdquo; The K-Pop star <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwon_Yu-ri">Yuri</a> uses it as a signature gesture to represent a <a href="/dumpling/">dumpling</a> and a general warm sentiment. It can also be used to represent the act of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisting">fisting</a>.

Not to be confused with <a href="/pinching-hand/">🤏 Pinching Hand</a>, which has overlapping senses. Both are used to represent <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/the-pinching-hand-emoji-is-a-lot/">precision</a> when someone is making a sharp point with accompanying speech.

Pinched Fingers

A red anatomical heart, shown with blue or purple veins on some platforms.

Sometimes used interchangeably with <a href="/red-heart/">❤️ Red Heart</a>.

Anatomical Heart

Pink anatomical lungs and trachea, shown with bronchial tubes on some platforms. Used in medical contexts to talk about lung health. Sometimes used in reference to taking deep breaths, hyperventilating, or breathing in general. Also used in the context of smoking or vaping.

Lungs

A person dressed as a ninja with a black hood, a mask covering the lower half of their face, and the hilt of a knife or sword&nbsp;emerging from behind their shoulder.

The now-discontinued Microsoft&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ sequence</a>&nbsp;<a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;did not include the&nbsp;ninja&nbsp;emoji at all as it was developed several years before ninja&nbsp;was approved. It combined&nbsp;<a href="/cat-face/">🐱 Cat Face</a> and <a href="/bust-in-silhouette/">👤 Bust in Silhouette</a> and was&nbsp;only available from Microsoft prior to the debut of the Fluent emoji set in November 2021.

Ninja

Two people hugging, shown as faceless blue forms on most platforms. Details of each person are not distinct and thus no options are available to customize the gender or skin tone of either individual.

Not to be confused with <a href="/hugging-face/">🤗 Hugging Face</a>, which is less clearly a representation of hugging and sometimes used as jazz hands or to express excitement.

People Hugging

A brown bison&nbsp;shown in full profile with horns, a beard, and woolly mane. Also called a buffalo in North America.

Bison

A brown wooly mammoth with large curved tusks. Can also be used to represent a mastodon.

Mammoth

A brown beaver with buckteeth and a wide paddle-like tail. Can be used in the context of actual beavers, or metaphorically to evoke qualities of beavers like working hard, as in the expression beavering away.&nbsp;

Commonly associated with Canada, as beavers are a national emblem of the country. May also be used in reference to the vagina, which is an informal sense of the word beaver.

Beaver

A brown or gray dodo shown in full profile. Generally depicted with a curved yellow beak, small wings, a fluffy white tail, yellow or orange feet, and&nbsp;black talons.

May be used to represent dodos or the concept of being extinct.

Dodo

A single feather slanted to one side. On most platforms it&#39;s light brown with a dark brown barred or striped pattern. Can be used to talk about feathers or birds, or to represent something that is lightweight, fluffy, or soft.

Feather

A gray seal with dark eyes and a dark nose. Most platforms feature a design with whiskers.

Can be used to talk about seals, marine life, or cute animals in general. May also be used in phrases with &#39;sealed&#39; as in sealed with a kiss, my lips are sealed, or&nbsp;signed, sealed, and delivered.

Seal

A green or brown beetle shown with antennae and six legs. Can be used to talk about beetles, bugs, or insects in general.

Not to be confused with <a href="/lady-beetle/">🐞 Lady Beetle</a>, <a href="/cockroach/">🪳 Cockroach</a>, <a href="/bug/">🐛 Bug</a>, <a href="/ant/">🐜 Ant</a> or other emoji representations of insects.

Beetle

A brown cockroach shown with antennae, six legs, and two sensory pads at its rear called cerci.

Can be used to talk about cockroaches or insects in general. May also be used metaphorically as an insult to call a person a pest, an annoyance, or to suggest they are subhuman. &nbsp;&nbsp;

Cockroach

A fly with a dark or iridescent green body, six legs, and two translucent wings. On most platforms, its eyes are red.

Can be used to talk about the insect or flight in general. May also be used metaphorically as an adjective meaning &quot;cool.&quot;

A pink or brown worm. Most platforms have more realistic designs, though Google and Samsung feature cartoony worms who are smiling sweetly.

Can be used to talk about worms or disease spread by worms. Can also be used to refer to a deceitful person. May be used to in reference to the dance move &#39;the worm.&#39;

Worm

A leafy green plant in pot. Plant type varies by platform.

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