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From avocados to spoons, 72 new emojis released
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The Face with Tears of Joy was chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as its 2015 "word" of the year, based on its popularity and reflecting the rise of emojis to help charitable causes, promote businesses and generally assist people in further expressing themselves on social media and in texts. (Shutterstock/-)
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f emojis are a big part of your messaging activity, you can rejoice as up to 72 new emojis from a variety of categories have been released in Unicode 9.0's emoji package.
Each category has a wide range of expressions and objects that are expected to ease and support online communication. In addition to entirely new emojis such as clowns, gorillas, bats, and wilted flowers, some of them are also a revised version of the old ones.
In numbers, there are at least four new transportation emojis, seven face emojis, seven people emojis, seven gesture emojis, 12 athletic emojis, 13 animal emojis, and 18 food and beverage emojis.
(Read also: Emojimania: Fans and brands crying tears of joy)
Unicode has also released emojis that support lesser known languages, intending to represent diverse cultures. These include Osage, a Native American language; Fulani, an African language, and the language of the ancient Chinese Tangut nation.
Although the emojis were officially released in mid-2016, gadget owners wouldn’t necessarily see them in their emoji packs as they would need to wait for new operating systems such as Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android for the incorporation. (jam/kes)
