New Emoji Best Describing 2020 With 'Spiral Eyes' Is Now Official

No matter how your personal life holds up, there is a high chance you have been left dazed at least once, by the events that have unfolded in the year 2020. Now, you have a perfect emoji to describe the feeling.

Courtesy, the Unicode Consortium, which has recently released a new list of emojis which will be ¡°widely available in 2021.¡± One emoji, among the seven new, pretty much sums up how we have all felt this year, dazed and out of control.

New emojis released in Emoji 13.1 (Image: Unicode Consortium)

The emoji in highlight is the one titled ¡°face with spiral eyes¡± and is quickly becoming the fan favourite among the new list. Others on the list include heart on fire, mending heart, woman with beard, person with beard, face exhaling and person in the clouds.

Apart from the seven new emojis, 210 skin tone variants have also been released by the organisation. The new emojis come as Emoji 13.1 update by the Unicode Consortium and will be rolled out to platforms next year. The ¡°minor¡± update aimed to bring new emoji to use before 2022.

It is easy to see how the face with spiral eyes best fits the description of the year so far. If any other emoji comes close, it has to be the face exhaling. We can also expect to see a lot of ¡®face in clouds¡¯ in our future chats.

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Unicode Consortium is known for creating the Unicode Standard, in addition to other standards used in modern computer systems and applications.

In the release bringing the new emojis, the organisation clears that the new emojis will also be available for adoption. For implementers, it states that there are no new atomic characters in the emojis and Instead, each emoji is a sequence of existing characters.