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2019’s new emojis…
The 2019 new emoji’s include mechanical arms, hearing aids, wheelchairs, and waffles. In a move towards greater inclusion a freshly finalized set of new emojis have emerged, the new emojis addresses people with physical disabilities. mechanical arms and legs, sign language and hearing aids and many more. The Unicode Consortium evidently heeded Apple’s proposal last year to show better representation of people with disabilities, and the new Unicode Emoji 12.0 additions announced today reflect that desire to the fullest.
There’s also greater inclusiveness in terms of skin tones and relationship types, as a bunch of new variants of the “people holding hands” emoji expand the combinations of genders and races.
Besides humans, the new emojis also broaden the range of other animals represented, with otters, orangutans, flamingos, and sloths all making it in. On the food front, there’s now butter, garlic, onion, falafel, waffles, and ice cubes. More ominous additions include razors, axes, and a drop of blood. In total, there are 59 new emoji and 171 new variations on existing ones.
The new emoji additions will take a few months to show up in consumer products. The present announcement is merely to get the documentation in order, and then it will be up to software providers like Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft to design their own takes on each emoji and implement those in their devices.
First look at the new 2019 emoji’s below: