When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Unicode 9 is now official, making standard a whole new set of characters and — yes — new emoji.

The Unicode 10.0 standard has been released by the Unicode Consortium. In summary Unicode 10.0 has added 8,518 new characters for a total of 136,690. Among the notable additions to the character ...

Back in November, the Unicode Consortium previewed 51 emoji that are planned for release as part of Unicode 10 later this year. Now, the organization has released the full list of 69 new emoji coming ...