Mountain View, California based organisation Unicode Consortium has now approved 117 new emojis along with new colour options for the year 2020. Also, there are 65 fresh emojis that have also been included in the new update. All the new emojis will soon be coming to our smartphone in 2020.
Those who are unaware, Unicode Consortium is an organisation that decides on text-based standards for the internet. Now for the year 2020, the company has released 117 new emojis. These include 62 brand-new emojis and 55 new gender and skin-tone options. One of the most notable new addition this is the transgender flag that has been proposed by Google and Microsoft. As a part of Emoji 13.0, the update will also include smiling face with a tear, disguised face, pinched fingers with skin tones, anatomical heart, lungs, ninjas with skin tones, women feeding baby with skin tones as well as man feeding a baby with skin tones.
The search giant Google has also proposed a new emoji that is a person feeding baby. To recall last year the organisation released emojis such as hearing aid, wheelchair, prosthetic arm, seeing-eye dog, gender-neutral couple and others.
New in Emoji 13.0: Person Feeding Baby, with skin tone support #Emoji2020 https://t.co/PDZvXruOkr pic.twitter.com/f4By3XGaBw
— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) January 29, 2020
The 2020 line up of new emojis that have approved by the Unicode Consortium will include options for animals also like a black cat, mammoth, beaver, beetle, roach, fly, polar bear, dodo, bison, seal and worm.
Other options for food include an olive, a bell pepper, bubble tea, blueberries, flatbread, teapot, tamale, fondue, bubble tea and blueberries.
New in Emoji 13.0: Anatomical Heart #Emoji2020 https://t.co/T3uYrb1SDz pic.twitter.com/7YboNQTJmq
— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) January 29, 2020
The line up also includes transgender symbol, transgender flag, nesting dolls, sewing needle, knot, flip flop, military helmet, window, plunger, mousetrap, bucket, toothbrush, headstone, rock, wood, hut any many more options.
The company has vouched for the new emojis that will come to our smartphone and PCs very soon. However, it is still unclear when these will be released to the public as Google and Apple design their own versions of emojis before the actual release so it can take some time.
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