Pre-standardisation symbols later treated as emoji
Unicode 5.2 predates emoji standardisation. It added miscellaneous symbols and dingbats that Japanese carriers were already using as pictographs, and these were later classified as emoji once 6.0 formalised the category. Nothing here was designed as an emoji at the time.
| Released | |
|---|---|
| New emoji characters | 25 |
| Total including sequences | 25 |
| Emoji in our database | 25 |
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Approval is only half the story. To see which iOS release actually put these on a phone, and when, see iOS emoji updates.