Tweens, teens and hip parents around the world, rejoice! Unicode, the consortium responsible for ensuring that text in software is consistent across the globe, has released a new version of its standard. Unicode 7.0 adds a total of 2,834 new characters including pictographic symbols, geometric symbols, arrows and Wingdings. Also included among them are 240 brand new emoji for your texting pleasure.
Now, it’s important to note that Unicode sets the standard — it doesn’t create emoji graphics. That’s why you’ll notice that emoji are slightly different when they display on an iPhone or on an Android phone, for example. It’s up to software makers to create the graphics that correspond to each emoji, and smartphone platform makers must now get to work designing these 200+ new emoji before you can enjoy them.
In the meantime, here’s a complete list compiled by The Washington Post of every new emoji you can expect to hit smartphones and tablets in the near future, including instant classics like “dagger knife,” “raised hand with part between middle and ring fingers” and “man in business suit levitating”:
- Slightly frowning face
- Slightly smiling face
- Triangle with rounded corners
- Prohibited sign
- Circled information source
- Boys symbol
- Girls symbol
- Couch and lamp
- Sleeping accommodation
- Shopping bags
- Bellhop bell
- Hammer and wrench
- Shield
- Oil drum
- Motorway
- Railway train
- Motor boat
- Up-pointing military airplane
- Up-pointing airplane
- Up-pointing small airplane
- Small airplane
- Northeast-pointing airplane
- Airplane departure
- Airplane arriving
- Satellite
- Oncoming fire engine
- Diesel locomotive
- Passenger ship
- Thermometer
- Black droplet
- White sun
- = sunny
- White sun with small cloud
- White sun behind cloud
- White sun behind cloud with rain
- Cloud with rain
- Cloud with snow
- Cloud with lightning
- Cloud with tornado
- Fog
- Wind blow
- Hot pepper
- Fork and knife with plate
- Heart with tip on the left
- Bouquet of flowers
- Military medal
- Reminder ribbon
- Musical keyboard with jacks
- Studio microphone
- Level slider
- Control knob
- Beamed ascending musical notes
- Beamed descending musical notes
- Film frames
- Admission tickets
- Sports medal
- Weight lifter
- Golfer
- Racing motorcycle
- Racing car
- Snow capped mountain
- Camping
- Beach with umbrella
- Building construction
- House buildings
- Cityscape
- Derelict house building
- Classical building
- Desert
- Desert island
- National park
- Stadium
- House buildings
- White pennant
- Black pennant
- Waving white flag
- Waving black flag
- Rosette
- Black rosette
- Label
- Chipmunk
- Eye
- Camera with flash
- Film projector
- Portable stereo
- Lower right shadowed white circle
- Upper right shadowed white circle
- Notched right semicircle with three dots
- Symbol for marks chapter
- White Latin cross
- Heavy Latin cross
- Celtic cross
- Om symbol
- Dove of peace
- Right speaker
- Right speaker with one sound wave
- Right speaker with three sound waves
- Bullhorn
- Bullhorn with sound waves
- Ringing bell
- Book
- Candle
- Mantelpiece clock
- Black skull and crossbones
- No piracy
- Hole
- Man in business suit levitating
- Sleuth or spy
- Dark sunglasses
- Spider
- Spider web
- Joystick
- Left hand telephone receiver
- Telephone receiver with page
- Right hand telephone receiver
- White touch-tone telephone
- Black touch-tone telephone
- Telephone on top of modem
- Clamshell mobile phone
- Back of envelope
- Stamped envelope
- Envelope with lightning
- Flying envelope
- Pen over stamped envelope
- Linked paperclips
- Black pushpin
- Lower left pencil
- Lower left ballpoint pen
- Lower left fountain pen
- Lower left paintbrush
- Lower left crayon
- Left writing hand
- Turned okay hand sign
- Raised hand with fingers splayed
- Reversed raised hand with fingers splayed
- Reversed thumbs up sign
- Reversed thumbs down sign
- Reversed victory hand
- Reversed hand with middle finger extended
- Raised hand with part between middle and ring fingers
- White down pointing left hand index
- Sideways white left pointing index
- Sideways white right pointing index
- Sideways black left pointing index
- Sideways black right pointing index
- Black left pointing backhand index
- Black right pointing backhand index
- Sideways white up pointing index
- Sideways white down pointing index
- Sideways black up pointing index
- Sideways black down pointing index
- Black up pointing backhand index
- Black down pointing backhand index
- Desktop computer
- Keyboard and mouse
- Three networked computers
- Printer
- Pocket calculator
- Black hard shell floppy disk
- White hard shell floppy disk
- Soft shell floppy disk
- Tape cartridge
- Wired keyboard
- One button mouse
- Two button mouse
- Three button mouse
- Trackball
- Old personal computer
- Hard disk
- Screen
- Printer icon
- Fax icon
- Optical disc icon
- Document with text
- Document with text and picture
- Document with picture
- Frame with picture
- Frame with tiles
- Frame with an x
- Black folder
- Folder
- Open folder
- Card index dividers
- Card file box
- File cabinet
- Empty note
- Empty note page
- Empty note pad
- Note
- Note page
- Note pad
- Empty document
- Empty page
- Empty pages
- Document
- Page
- Pages
- Wastebasket
- Spiral note pad
- Spiral calendar pad
- Desktop window
- Minimize
- Maximize
- Overlap
- Clockwise right and left semicircle
- Arrows
- Cancellation x
- Increase font size symbol
- Decrease font size symbol
- Compression
- Old key
- Rolled-up newspaper
- Page with circled text
- Stock chart
- Dagger knife
- Lips
- Speaking head in silhouette
- Three rays above
- Three rays below
- Three rays left
- Three rays right
- Left speech bubble
- Right speech bubble
- Two speech bubbles
- Three speech bubbles
- Left thought bubble
- Right thought bubble
- Left anger bubble
- Right anger bubble
- Mood bubble
- Lightning mood bubble
- Lightning mood
- Ballot box with ballot
- Ballot script x
- Ballot box with script x
- Ballot bold script x
- Ballot box with bold script x
- Light check mark
- Ballot box with bold check
- World map
