The "raised hand" can be paired with other face emoji for further emphasis. Last year, I didn’t even know existed, and now it is a staple.

Two activists want the Unicode Consortium to add the American Sign Language handshape for "I love you" to Unicode 9.

Emoji 11.0 fills in some gaps all over the place: there are new smiley faces, a bunch of animals, science emojis, superheroes, and more hairstyles. Google also made some revisions to existing emoji.

The draft collection includes such Emoji as Melting Face, Palm Up Hand with a variety of skin tones, Rightwards and Leftwards Hand with a variety of skin tones, Pregnant Man, Troll, Jar, Wheel, ...

At least 230 new emoji, when different skin tones and genders are included, are due to be released this year. That’s a leap on 2018 when only 157 emoji were added to the Unicode Standard – the ...

During roughly 13 minutes of public comment at a City Council meeting August 6, seven Manhattan Beach residents vocalized concerns about what has become colloquially known as “The Emoji House ...