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 ...

These new emojis have long-standing symbolic meanings, are visually distinctive, and contain multitudes of expression.” ...

The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization that maintains the Unicode Standard to ensure emojis work across devices, ...

People have made a serious case for the upcoming Apple Core emoji, claiming it’s going to be the new Wilting Rose. The latter ...

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

In celebration of World Emoji Day on July 17, the Unicode Consortium previewed some of the new emoji that will be coming with ...

Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison and collation of text. These are characters which can be built from multiple glyphs, but they also have a pre ...

Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for scientific notation, emoji, and other kinds of marks. The standard currently includes nearly 150,000 unique characters, each with its own ...

Unicode found that 92% of the online population worldwide use emoji, and that the laugh-cry emoji — technically known as "Tears of Joy" — accounts for 5% of that use.

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.