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The full list of new emoji will come to most platforms in the second half of this year.Įmojis were first used by Japanese mobile phone companies in the late 1990s to express an emotion, concept or message in a simple, graphic way. Other additions include the woolly mammoth, people hugging and a pinched-finger gesture, commonly referred to as 'Italian Hand Gesture' or 'Pinecone', where the tips of the fingers and thumb meet vertically to convey disagreement or confusion. This has now been added to the library alongside the transgender symbol. Last year, same-sex couple and gender-neutral emoji were added to the library to improve representation, but there was criticism over the lack of the transgender flag.
The 'version 13.0' list of new emoji also includes a mustachioed person in a veil, as well as a women in a tuxedo and a person bottle-feeding a baby. In total, 117 new characters and images have been approved for addition to the emoji library, as announced by the Unicode Consortium. The transgender flag, a gender-neutral alternative to Santa Claus and the famous extinct dodo will all be represented in new emoji to be released in 2020.