Unicode, the non-profit behind Emoji creations, drafted “four new gender-neutral family emojis intended to be represented via silhouettes” possibly for its 15.1 update.

You’ve probably noticed that new emoji show up on your phone or other device every year. For example, the ninja emoji, which was introduced in 2020, or the yawning face in 2019. This year is no ...

A new study has shown that when it comes to developing closeness in your relationships, the emoji you send in your texts are ...

As someone who's been spending serious time observing how people use emoji over the past few years, my hunch was no. But I wasn't able to prove it until a new Unicode dataset came out a few weeks ...

"The emoji helped them to find new ideas and facilitated the communication with us, sometimes breaking the language gap," Mininno told us. Eventually, he asked his students to create art out of ...

Every year, the governing body Unicode adds new emoji to the nearly 3,000 already in existence. Here's how it picks the additions.

This means the deadline for submitting new emoji is also pushed back. People can submit their ideas from June 15th until September 1st. Again, though, these won’t show up on devices until 2022.

Redheads and curly-haired people, the Unicode Consortium has heard your pleas. Those are just a couple of the 77 new characters approved to be added to Unicode’s next emoji update — 157 new ...

As of last week, there are now 3,053 emoji, counting the 230 just approved for this year’s cohort—yes, the icons now get annual releases, like Microsoft Word or tax returns. As a white man ...

This article will explore various emoji activity ideas for teachers, demonstrating how these colorful symbols can transform traditional lessons into engaging and memorable educational adventures.