Check out the 51 new emojis approved in Unicode 10.0

Fifty-one (51) new emojis have been approved by Unicode as part of the Unicode 10.0 release. Unicode is the group that controls the development and use of emojis.

The new emoji are based on requests from third-parties to the consortium over the past year. The new list consists of woman breastfeeding a baby, a woman wearing a hijab, a T-rex, a giraffe head and many more.

Emoji are “picture characters” originally associated with cellular telephone usage in Japan, but now popular worldwide. The word emoji comes from the Japanese 絵 (e ≅ picture) + 文字(moji ≅ written character).

Emoji are often pictographs—images of things such as faces, weather, vehicles and buildings, food and drink, animals and plants—or icons that represent emotions, feelings, or activities. In cellular phone usage, many emoji characters are presented in colour (sometimes as a multicolour image), and some are presented in animated form, usually as a repeating sequence of two to four images—for example, a pulsing red heart.

The full list can be found here.

There’s no word on the release date of Unicode 10.0 yet