Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

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and 118 new emoji. Among them are a lime, a phoenix, a brown mushroom, a broken metal chain, two shaking heads and four gender neural families. There's also more than 100 people facing sideways in ...

For instance, in 2024, it added the mushroom, phoenix and “nodding” emojis, among others. This is the most popular heart emoji—and the most versatile. Unfortunately, it can also be the most ...