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It’s World Emoji Day.

Google is celebrating July 17th by revealing its take on the new Unicode 16.0 emoji.

Google says the emoji will appear on Android phones “by March 2025” and in “your favorite Google products in early 2025.” Hopefully, Apple will add support at around the same time.

If you’ve wondered how emoji are made, I wrote about submitting proposals for the yawning face and waffle emoji.

A photo of seven new emoji set to come to Google products in 2025.
I adore “face with bags under eyes.”
Image: Google
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