Next year, the world will likely receive a new supply of 38 emoji including bacon, selfie, the “call me” hand, face palm, avocado and something called “Mother Christmas”.
The Unicode Consortium — that’s the Californian organisation which standardises and regulates emoji — has unveiled another set of pictographs which we’ll soon be able to include in all of our digital messaging.
According to Yahoo, the consortium’s emoji subcommittee (yes, that’s a thing) have finalised their additions and have submitted them to a vote. The new emoji (listed below, with some previewed above), will be added to the existing set in June 2016 as part of the Unicode 9.0 update, if everything goes to plan.
So, without further ado, here is the complete list of new emoji we will probably see in the wild next year:
- Face with cowboy hat
- Clown face
- Nauseated face
- Rolling on the floor laughing
- Drooling face
- Lying face
- “Call me” hand
- Selfie
- Raised back of hand
- Left-facing fist
- Right-facing fist
- Handshake
- Hand with first and index finger crossed
- Pregnant woman
- Face palm
- Shrug
- Man dancing
- Prince
- Man in tuxedo
- Mother Christmas
- Wilted flower
- Scooter
- Motor scooter
- Octagonal sign
- Clinking glasses
- Black heart
- Croissant
- Avocado
- Cucumber
- Bacon
- Potato
- Carrot
- Fox face
- Eagle
- Duck
- Bat
- Shark
- Owl
To view the details and proposed images for these emoji, visit the Unicode Consortium’s recent emoji additions document.
The Unicode 8.0 update was unveiled a month ago, and updated existing emoji with skin tones and some extra symbols. While some technology companies like Apple and Microsoft have already implemented some of those emoji, the Unicode Consortium will finalise the update next month.
