Unicode 16.0 release with new emoji brings character count to 154,998 New designs will roll out to phones, tablets, and PCs over the next few months.

The new designs, as summed up by the emoji experts at Emojipedia, include shaking and nodding heads, a phoenix, a lime, an "edible mushroom," and a broken chain.

The next emoji coming to your phone include head shakes and a phoenix Emoji 15.1 has been approved by the Unicode Consortium, meaning that your devices will be getting new emoji in the future.

Here's every new emoji we got in 2023 The Unicode Consortium approved 118 new emojis this year — but not all of them are available on devices just yet.

A long-awaited lime, a cliche bird on fire, and 108 ways to choose people doing 6 different things—here are this year's emoji finalists.

The new candidates for Emoji 15.1, which could be approved later this year, include a fiery phoenix, a broken chain, and more. Alessio Liburdi / EyeEm / Getty Images ...

Approved Unicode 15.1 emoji include phoenix, lime, an edible mushroom, shaking head vertically (as in a "yes" nod), shaking head horizontally (a "no" head shake), and broken chain. There are four ...

The Unicode Emoji Subcommittee says this group of emoji would be “the first full-bodied people emojis to have an explicitly-stated direction from Unicode.” ...

The new characters include a lime, heads shaking vertically and horizontally, and a phoenix bird. Users can also expect four new gender-neutral family emoji, represented via silhouettes (scroll ...

Emoji are the de facto standard for emoting in conversations (and wallpapers) without using words. Thanks to the Unicode Consortium, the body dedicated to maintaining the international standard ...

New emoji coming in 2024 could include head shaking vertically, head shaking horizontally, lime, phoenix, broken chain, brown mushroom, family silhouettes, and directional people emoji with ...

Commentary Nervous System: The Great Emoji War Emojis are ubiquitous today, but they were once brand new communications territory. The differences in how they rendered on different operating ...