Emoji 12.1 release: 168 Emoji added

Emoji 12.1 blog imageEmoji 12.1
<http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/12.1/>, with 168 new emoji, has
been released. There are 138 new gender-neutral forms, so you will soon
be able to text about people without specifying their gender. Thirty new
combinations of people holding hands with various skin -tones were also
added.

The new emoji are listed in Emoji Recently Added v12.1
<https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-12.1/emoji-released.html>, along with
sample images. These images are merely samples: vendors for mobile
phones, PCs, and web platforms will typically design their own fonts for
emoji. In particular, the Emoji Ordering v12.1
<https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-12.1/emoji-ordering.html> chart shows
how the new emoji should be sorted within the order of existing emoji,
with new emoji marked with rounded rectangles. The other Emoji Charts
for Version 12.1 <https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-12.1/index.html> have
been updated to show the emoji.

Initial names and search keywords are available in different languages
in Unicode CLDR 36 <http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-36>,
such as health worker (doctor, nurse, ...
<http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/36/by_type/characters.people_%26_body.html>).
Those will be refined during this quarter.

emoji 12.1 image two

The new Emoji 12.1 <http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/12.1/> data is
available for vendors to use for their emoji fonts and code. These new
emoji should start showing up on mobile phones in this quarter and next
quarter. The new emoji will soon be available for adoption
<http://unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html> to help the
Unicode Consortium’s work to support digitally-disadvantaged languages.

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