Three new hearts, a shaking face, and the goose that got away
Unicode 15.0 was published on 13 September 2022 with 20 new code points and 31 emoji once sequences are counted. It finally filled three gaps in the heart set that people had complained about for years: pink ๐ฉท, light blue ๐ฉต and grey ๐ฉถ. The shaking face ๐ซจ was the other standout, and the goose ๐ชฟ arrived carrying a surprising amount of internet baggage.
| Released | |
|---|---|
| New emoji characters | 20 |
| Total including sequences | 31 |
The heart additions matter more than they look. Pink, light blue and grey had been among the most requested emoji for close to a decade, because the existing set forced people to use red or nothing.
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 16.4 | March 2023 |
| Android 14 | 2023 | |
| Samsung | One UI 5.1 | 2023 |
Shock, disbelief, or being physically rattled. Animated on several platforms, which is rare.
Requested for years. Softer and less romantic than the red heart, which is exactly why people wanted it.
Calm and platonic. Widely adopted for friendship where ๐ felt too heavy.
Ambivalence, numbness, or muted affection. The most emotionally specific of the three.
Arrived already loaded with meaning thanks to Untitled Goose Game and years of goose memes.
Canada, wilderness, and the northern United States.
A working animal that had been conspicuously missing.
One of the better-drawn additions across most vendor sets.
Cooking and home remedies, and a favourite of food accounts.
Completed a long-standing hole in the vegetable set.
A single wing, usable in pairs or alone for flight and freedom.
Spring and renewal, and one of the few purple flowers available.
Designed to pair with ๐ซธ for a high five or a blocking gesture.
The other half of the pair. Together they make a two-handed push.
Picked up quickly by ballroom and drag communities.
A specific and overdue addition to the grooming set.
Percussion, celebration, Latin music.
Drawn as a simple transverse flute across most platforms.
The symbol of Sikhism, added after a long-running proposal.
The Wi-Fi symbol, finally available as an emoji rather than a copied glyph.
Three: pink ๐ฉท, light blue ๐ฉต and grey ๐ฉถ. They had been among the most requested emoji for close to ten years, because the existing heart colours offered no soft, calm or neutral option.
๐ซจ shows a face vibrating with motion lines. It reads as shock, disbelief or being rattled by news. Several platforms animate it, which makes it unusually expressive compared with static faces.
Twenty new code points, which becomes 31 once skin-tone and variant sequences are counted. Apple shipped them in iOS 16.4 in March 2023.
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.