They are trying to expand people’s digital (larger) footprint.
The Unicode Consortium is celebrating the New Year with a proposed treasure trove of new emoji for 2025, including a replica of Bigfoot. There are supposed sightings of Sasquatch.
will reportedly total 164 new digital hieroglyphsReleased as part of Emoji 17.0 and Unicode 17.0 beta with nine brand new characters.
It also features a bug-eyed distorted face symbol, an arabesque performing ballet dancer, an apple core, an orca, a trombone, a landslide, a treasure chest, and a “fight cloud” emoji that appears in comic books and cartoons. Is popular.
Although the new releases still need to be greenlit, they have already made a splash among X users, who have named their favorites online.
“Sasquatch is fire,” one commenter shoutedWhereas Another wrote, “Oh, distorted face will be my most used emoji for sho [sic],
Unicode announced that the remaining emoji under consideration for Emoji 17.0 include various skin tone sequences for both proposed and existing emoji.
Emoji-fans will need to be patient as the new batch won’t be revealed until September 2025 and may see some modifications before its debut.
“We’ll have to wait a while before it’s officially recommended,” Unicode warns on its site. “Many further considerations will be made by Unicode regarding these draft emoji candidates between now and September 2025.”
“This means that some of these proposed emojis may not be brought forward for final approval,” he said.
Once launched, the cartoon collection will be available for use and manipulation by Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and countless other platforms.