Fifty-six new emoji characters are in the just released Emoji 5.0 data, including such characters as:
 shushing face |  mage |
 flying saucer |  pie |
 T-Rex |  broccoli* |
The new Emoji 5.0 set is fixed, and available for vendors to begin working on their emoji fonts and code ahead of the release of Unicode 10.0, scheduled for June 2017.
The majority of these new emoji characters are the 34 Smileys & People, with 13 new Food & Drink, followed up by 6 Animals & Nature and a few others.
There are an additional 180 emoji sequences for gender and skin-tone in Smileys & People — such as woman in lotus position: medium skin tone — and new regional flags for England, Scotland, and Wales. This makes a total of 239 new emoji (characters and sequences). For a full list, see Emoji Recently Added.
The emoji charts have been updated to show the new characters and sequences. The draft Emoji 5.0 specification will be finalized in the May UTC meeting, and is still available for comment.
The 239 new emoji are also now available for adoption to help the Unicode Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages.
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