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Check Out All 230 New Emojis Arriving This Year
Heads up, emoji lovers: A brand new batch of icons - including gender inclusive couples, a waffle, pinching hand, sloth, otter, yawning face, guide dog, ice cube, and white heart - are coming later this year, and the Unicode Consortium just offered a preview of them.
In total, 230 new emoji are slated to arrive on mobile phones this year - likely in September or October - the part of the Emoji 12.0 release, the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit responsible for approving new emojis, wrote in a Tuesday blog post. That includes 59 distinct new emojis and 171 gender and skin tone variants.
For a peek at all the new icons, check out the video below from Emojipedia, the search engine for emoji.
The list includes a bunch of accessibility characters: two different types of wheelchairs (manual and motorized), a service dog, guide dog, probing cane, mechanical arm and leg, deaf person, and an ear with a hearing aid.
The list includes a bunch of accessibility characters: two different types of wheelchairs (manual and motorized), a service dog, guide dog, probing cane, mechanical arm and leg, deaf person, and an ear with a hearing aid.
There are new food and beverage options: an onion, garlic, butter, falafel, mate drink, and boxed drink; new clothing: shorts, one-piece swim suit, briefs, a safety vest, and sari; and animals: an orangutan, flamingo, skunk, and oyster.

Angela Moscaritolo