Hijab, Breastfeeding And Yoga Emojis Coming Soon To Phones Around The World
The consortium that approves emojis has signed off new ones, including a woman wearing a hijab, woma
The consortium that approves emojis has signed off new ones, including a woman wearing a hijab, woman breastfeeding a baby and a person doing yoga.
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The new emojis are likely to arrive on smartphones next year after Unicode, the international consortium that sets their global standards, proposed the 51 icons.
It will take the total number of the cartoon images, which are increasingly being used to replace words in text messages, to 1,724, The Telegraph reported.
Rayouf Alhumedhi, a 15-year-old from Germany, had campaigned for the inclusion of the character wearing a hijab emoji, proposing it to Unicode after realising there was no emoji to represent her.
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¡ª Fusion (@Fusion) 11 November 2016
51 new emojis may be at our fingertips in 2017¨Cincluding a woman in hijab. Meet the girl who made it happen: pic.twitter.com/OQ6mpJa21S
Among the list of introductions are 'person with headscarf', 'breastfeeding', 'bearded person', 'older adult', reflecting the current lack of grandparent icons.
Other emojis that will be released in 2017 by Unicode are a head exploding, a face with open mouth vomiting and a man and woman practising yoga, The Guardian reported.
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The new list, Unicode 10, adds to efforts to make emojis more diverse. Smartphone makers have included a variety of skin tones, hair colours and cultural and religious references in recent years following claims that they reinforce stereotypes.
Google recently called for more emojis that reflect women in the workplace, while Apple added male and female versions of some emojis after complaints that many of the female- focused cartoons featured activities such as cutting hair.
New emojis coming in 2017!
¡ª Wan H (@MohdRizw) 11 November 2016
The moment of silence when the emoji wearing hijab than most muslim women out there. ?#MuslimsLifeMatter pic.twitter.com/Sy7hPieto6
Alhumedhi, whose own proposal was accepted by Unicode, tweeted that she was "so excited" by the news.
The other new emojis proposed include a zombie, a vampire, a person holding their finger to their mouth, and a T-Rex.
New emojis coming!! Icons proposed for 2017 include: Hijabi woman, flying saucer, zebra, zombie, breastfeeding woman and more! pic.twitter.com/XEHOOBTyrg
¡ª AndPlus (@AndPlusLLC) 10 November 2016
