If you click an individual emoji, Emojipedia will give you a brief description of that emoji. For example, here's what ...

There are nine new "face" emoji, including "face with hand over mouth ... smaller changes to existing emoji as well. You can read all about them, and every other new emoji, over on ...

Next year, we'll get the Unicode 17 emoji, and those characters include hairy creature (like Bigfoot), distorted face, fight cloud, apple core, orca, trombone, landslide, and treasure chest.

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

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