The Unicode Consortium has approved of 69 new emoji. Emoji 5.0 — which is slated to release in June 2017 — includes new smileys, foods, drinks, flags and people.

Yiying Lu's emoji depictions of chopsticks, a fortune cookie, a takeout box, and a dumpling will be available with the next emoji update in June 2017. ( Yiying Lu ) May 22, 2017 ...

Emoji that were previously one specific gender (the dancing woman or the man running) can be joined to a male or female symbol with a ZWJ character to create emoji of either gender.

There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon. Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive ...

New year, new emoji. In 2015, a campaign started by former New York Times journalist Jennifer 8. Lee and Yiying Lu, designer and Creative Director at 500 Startups, sought to get a dumpling emoji ...

In its writeup of the Android N emoji, Emojipedia noted that Unicode is considering implementing a gender selector — much like the skin-tone selector — that would let people choose between ...

Other emoji improvements include a woman as a private investigator, a construction worker, and a single mom. The same goes for new male emoji, like a single-dad one that will come to life in iOS 10.

There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon. Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive ...