In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to ...

But you might try to copy and paste the above symbol into a document or bring it up in the Character Viewer and get no result. That’s because of the issue above: Unicode is comprehensive while ...

right there with you, bags-under-eyes emoji Unicode 16.0 release with new emoji brings character count to 154,998 New designs will roll out to phones, tablets, and PCs over the next few months.

We could see them around spring 2026 if Apple sticks with its typical emoji release timeline. In 2025, Apple will introduce the Unicode 16 characters, which were approved in September 2024.

Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a-Character," which allows you to adopt any emoji, letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard. Different characters cost different amounts.

Unicode 7.0 adds 2,834 new characters to the existing list of 110,187 characters defined by Unicode 6.3, including new symbols for currency, new "lesser-used and historic scripts," and extended ...