Published the same year the first emoji set was drawn
Unicode 3.0 was published in 1999, the same year Shigetaka Kurita designed the original 176-emoji set for NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service in Japan. The two were unconnected at the time. A couple of characters from this version were later folded into emoji sets.
| Released | |
|---|---|
| New emoji characters | 2 |
| Total including sequences | 2 |
| Emoji in our database | 2 |
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