Jennifer Daniel leads the Unicode Consortium’s emoji subcommittee. She tells us how emojis are chosen and discusses their importance in the world of language. Language has been evolving for as long as ...

Imagine sending a simple emoji in a text message—just a cheerful smiley face or a thumbs-up—without a second thought. Now, what if I told you that same emoji could secretly carry hidden instructions ...

Some iPhones can use Apple Intelligence to create your new favorite emoji.

The average keyboard only has so many characters labeled on it for use. Beyond that, there are plenty of other symbols and punctuation that are worth using, yet have no home on a Chromebook’s QWERTY ...

Apple and Samsung brought nine new emoji to their devices this year with the releases of iOS 18.4 and One UI 7. The latest emoji include a face with bags under its eyes (🫩), splatter (🫟) and a harp ...

Version 17.0 of Unicode, the character encoding standard, was released on September 9, 2025. It adds 4,803 new characters, including four new characters and several emojis, bringing the total number ...

9月14日（現地時間）、世界中の文字を収録する文字コード規格 Unicode 14.0で追加される新作の絵文字が発表された。 37種類の新しい絵文字が追加されるが、その内容は、7月に『Emojipedia』が公開したものとほとんど同じとなっており、LGBTQIA+やBIPOC（Black ...

The Unicode Consortium announced that it would no longer accept new flag emojis because of some reasons. The non-profit organization explained that these text icons could be quite troublesome if ...

More than 90 per cent of the world’s online population use emoji and according to data collected by the Unicode Consortium, the not-for-profit organization responsible for digitizing the world’s ...

With the end of the year quickly approaching, the Unicode Consortium is out with a fun study today showing off the emojis that were used most throughout 2021. While the smiley/emotion category was the ...