The anatomical heart, the smiling face with a tear, and a release that landed in a strange year
Unicode 13.0 was published on 10 March 2020, days before much of the world shut down. Fifty-five new code points became 117 emoji with sequences. The smiling face with tear ๐ฅฒ turned out to be uncannily well timed, and the anatomical heart ๐ซ and lungs ๐ซ gave medical and health conversations proper characters for the first time.
| Released | |
|---|---|
| New emoji characters | 55 |
| Total including sequences | 117 |
The transgender flag ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ and transgender symbol โง๏ธ were part of this release, closing a gap that had been raised in proposals for several years.
Unicode publishing a standard and your phone drawing the emoji are two separate events, usually months apart. These are the releases that added support.
| Platform | Added in | When |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | iOS 14.2 | November 2020 |
| Android 11 | 2020 | |
| Samsung | One UI 2.5 | 2020 |
Happy and sad at once. Released in March 2020, which gave it immediate and unplanned resonance.
The real organ rather than the symbol. Cardiology, health scares, and a literal counterpoint to โค๏ธ.
Breathing and respiratory health, which became a far more common topic within weeks of release.
One of the few fictional-profession emoji, and popular with gaming accounts.
A direct response to a long campaign from boba fans across Asia and the diaspora.
Magic, transformation, and a tidy shorthand for fixing something effortlessly.
North American plains wildlife, and a conservation symbol.
Extinction and the distant past. Later adopted as an unofficial mascot by Mastodon users.
Lightness, writing, and significance in many Indigenous cultures.
Closed one of the more obvious holes in the fruit set.
Money, flipping a decision, and later a staple of crypto posts.
Added as an accessibility symbol as much as a building feature.
Reflection and self-image.
The Italian hand gesture. Enormously popular, and frequently misattributed to a later release.
Added as a sequence after several years of proposals.
๐ค arrived in Unicode 13.0, published on 10 March 2020. It is often credited to a later release because it took off on TikTok well after launch, but the character itself dates from the 2020 set.
๐ซ is an anatomical drawing of the human heart, intended for medicine, biology and health. โค๏ธ is the stylised symbol used for love and affection. The 2020 release added the organ specifically because the symbol could not carry a clinical meaning.
Fifty-five new code points, rising to 117 once gender and skin-tone sequences are counted. Apple shipped them in iOS 14.2 in November 2020.
See what arrived most recently on our newest emoji page, check which characters people are using right now in trending emoji, or dig into the numbers in our emoji statistics.
Approval is only half the story. To see which iOS release actually put these on a phone, and when, see iOS emoji updates.