- The Unicode Consortium announced 37 new icons and another 75 skin tone variations as part of the 2022 Emoji 14.0.
- New additions include biting lip, melting face, heart hands, face holding back tears, and more.
- You can expect to see the new icons available on your smartphones and other devices sometime in the next year.
There are even more emoji now to make sure you can get away in your text conversations without typing a single word. With Unicode 14.0, the Unicode Consortium announced the availability of 37 brand new emojis and an additional 75 skin tone variations for a total of 112 new options.
Biting lip, melting face, face with eyes open and hand over mouth, saluting face, face with peeking eye, and face holding back tears are notable additions this time around. There are also more heart-related gestures this time. I honestly thought the heart hands were already available, and finger heart (hand with index finger and thumb crossed) is popular with K-pop fans.
The new 2022 emoji bring the total number of icons to 3,633. I use two regularly so this number definitely surprised me.
However, there is a waiting time before you can send heart hands to your favorite people in the world. Next year, you can expect to see the new emoji on smartphones, laptops, and other platforms. That’s because the Unicode Consortium only publishes a final list. It is then up to the OEMs and apps to implement them.