Unicode 14.0 Adds 37 New Emoji Including ‘Melting Face’ and ‘Beans’

After a, the Unicode Consortium a. In total, the update adds 838 characters to the file. Of those 838 characters, 37 represent new emoji that will arrive on your devices before the end of the year and throughout 2022. The selection includes all of the emoji that the Unicode Consortium included on its back in July. This means that characters like “beans”, “troll”, “mirror ball” and “melting face” made the cut.

Notably, the finalized list also includes several variations of the skin tone of the handshake emoji. Due to, this was one of the few characters from previous versions that you couldn’t modify to represent different skin tones. The Unicode Consortium and its volunteers have spent the better part of two years working to fix this problem, and now they have.