Early groundwork, five years before emoji existed as a category
Unicode 4.1 added characters that Japanese mobile carriers were already sending as pictographs. They were encoded as ordinary symbols, and only became emoji retrospectively when Unicode 6.0 defined the category in 2010.
| Released | |
|---|---|
| New emoji characters | 14 |
| Total including sequences | 14 |
| Emoji in our database | 14 |
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.