Good news, mermaids and mermen: Your emoji are officially coming this year. Unicode, the organization that standardizes characters across devices, released its final list of 2017 emoji on Monday.

Even with thousands of emoji, you still might be unimpressed with the current offerings. That's where Genmoji comes in.

Unicode, the organization that oversees the creation of new emoji, released the latest version of its Unicode Standard, which includes support for the new emoji as well as thousands of other ...

In version 7.0, Unicode also comes with documentation for 250 new emoji characters. Emojipedia has a list of the names chosen for the new emoji, which include “Wind Blowing Face”, “National Park”, ...

Apple introduced new emojis in its iOS 18.4 update, and the facial expression one may be very apropos for some users.

and now anyone can propose an emoji. The first step is to submit your proposal to the Unicode Consortium. It's a nonprofit organization that sets the standard for how text is represented and ...

According to Android Authority, Android users testing this preview will get 7 new emoji. These are based on the Unicode 16.0 standard which adds new characters for communication. Android 16 DP2 ...

The winner for the Most Popular New Emoji in 2024 was the head shaking horizontally (🙂‍↔️) followed by the head shaking vertically (🙂‍↕️) and the phoenix (🐦‍🔥). The winner of the Most Anticipated ...

Tara Davis-Woodhall has partnered with Dove to call for Black hair emojis and representation in digital spaces.

The Unicode Standard-- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible for creating new emoji, and once a year approved emoji are added to all devices. With Genmoji, you don't have to ...