Emoji lovers will be delighted to hear that Unicode, the organisation that standardises characters across devices, has announced the list emoji (Emoji 5.0) for 2017. A total of 56 (69 if one counts gender variations) emoji is on the list.
They include smileys, people, food, drink, flags, and for the first time: new fantasy characters such as a mermaid, genie, and vampire.
The editor of the organisation’ blog Jeremy Burge writes that the emoji ‘have been designed in the “Apple style” to picture how these emojis may look when hitting phones later in the year. Changes from past drafts include the flags of England, Scotland, and Wales. These join previously approved candidates such as vomit face, orange heart, and T-Rex.’
