For the first time since emoji burst onto screens across the world, the most frequently used have been revealed.

The next emoji update will be two characters short of what was originally planned -- the result of a "late stage" change, according to the organization overseeing the symbols. Now, a new report ...

Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...

When the very first set of emoji was designed by Japanese engineer Shigetaku Kurita in the 1990s, pixel-y dots within a 12-by-12 dot grid were about the entirety of what could be conveyed in emoji ...

If you've been unenthused about the emoji of recent years, you're not alone. A flashlight? A toolbox? A fire extinguisher? A tin can? Who even uses these? The emoji set to appear on your phone next ...

With just two days before World Emoji Day on July 17th, Emojipedia has shared a list of draft characters the Unicode Consortium will consider for final inclusion in Unicode 14.0. The list includes ...

Don't expect to see new flags in your phone's emoji any time soon. The Unicode Consortium has warned it will "no longer accept proposals" for flag emoji, regardless of category. They're more trouble ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized version 15.1 of the Unicode standard this week. Although Unicode is used to display tens of thousands of characters in languages used worldwide, the headlining ...