Will it be the clown face? The pregnant woman? The man dancing? How about the selfie emoji? Or the cucumber?
Or all of them?
These are just a handful of the new emoji that you may soon come to your phone.
The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization that's responsible for how text is shown in software — yes, that includes emoji — recently released a list of 74 candidates for new emoji characters.
Not all of these characters will be chosen, and we also don't know how many the consortium will choose. But we'll find out later this year after the group's second quarter meeting. They'll come to your phone around June.
Here are the candidates for new emoji faces:
And the candidates for the new emoji people:
And body:![emoji body]()
The only possible new "emotion" emoji that could be added is the black heart. ![emoji emotion]()
There are lots of awesome new animals:![Emoji animals 1]()
![emoji animal 2]()
We could get a new plant emoji!![emoji plants]()
Some delicious new food emoji:![emoji food 1]()
![emoji food 2]()
And some cookware and utensils:![emoji food items]()
How about that canoe?
Some new sports emoji, just in time for the summer Olympics:![emoji sports]()
![emoji sports 2]()
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