World Emoji Day is held every year on July 17 because that’s the day on the 📅 calendar emoji. This year, the Unicode Consortium — a non-profit devoted to developing, maintaining and promoting software standards and data — used the day to announce the newest emoji. The upcoming emoji, which include a Sasquatch and an orca, will debut this September as part of Unicode 17.0.Â
Here are the new emoji you can expect to see later this year.Â
- Trombone
- Treasure chest
- Distorted face
- Hairy creature (Sasquatch)
- Fight cloud
- Apple core
- Orca
- Ballet dancers
“These new emoji have long-standing symbolic meanings, are visually distinctive and contain multitudes of expression,” the Unicode Consortium wrote online.
According to Unicode, the data files for these emoji will be made available this fall as part of Unicode 17.0. Then, the emoji will likely appear on your device in spring 2026.
Emojipedia, an online encyclopedia of emoji managed by people who research emoji, announced on World Emoji Day that the distorted face emoji won the award for Most Anticipated Emoji 2025.Â
Most of the new emoji were proposed in November 2024. A landslide emoji was also proposed at the time, but it was not approved for the upcoming Unicode 17.0 launch.
In 2024, the Unicode Consortium debuted new emoji in September 2024, including the face with bags under eyes and the splatter emoji. You can find those emoji now on your Android and iPhone devices, as well as across the internet.Â
For more on emoji, here are all the emoji award winners for 2025, the favorite emoji among the CNET staff and how to decipher every emoji.
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