New Emojis in 2019: From Sarees to Wheelchairs, Inclusive and Diverse Emoticons Are Making the Internet Super Happy
Updates will begin in April and continue through the end of the year, according to Emojipedia.
Just when you thought there was an emoji for almost everything, here we have new emojis to celebrate all kinds of lives. Now you can make your social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram more colourful and vibrant. In 2019, in an effort of making conversations more inclusive and diverse, we will see new emojis introduced for both Android and IOS, and that can be used in different social media such as Facebook.com, WhatsApp, Twitter and Instagram. Unicode has announced a list of exciting new emoji that will be introduced to your devices in 2019. The list includes 59 new emojis that will have 171 variants in terms of gender and skin tone, taking the count to 230. The most amazing things about the newly added emojis are they are inclusive of various skin colour and have a lot of diversity. They are inclusive of people with disabilities as well. The new list of emojis includes a prosthetic mechanical arm, hearing aids used by deaf persons, etc. ‘Small Penis Emoji’ and ‘Period Emoji’: Internet Thrilled With the Addition of 230 New Emojis to Make Debut in 2019.
Take a look at some of the new emojis.
The ringed planet emoji
The autorickshaw emoji
Hindu temple emoji
White heart emoji
The brown heart emoji
Man kneeling emoji
Woman kneeling
Sari Emoji
Safety vest emoji
A group that helps make open standards to allow people to use computers around the world called the Unicode Consortium, believe that the new emoji group will hit phones later this year. Updates will begin in April and continue through the end of the year, according to Emojipedia.
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