As per Emojipedia, there are in fact just seven new basic emojis: Distorted Face, Fight Cloud, Orca, Hairy Creature (think Bigfoot), Trombone, Landslide, and Treasure Chest. The 163 figure comes from ...

For reference, Unicode 17.0 came out on September 9, introducing well over 160 new characters. The current stable version of Android 16 doesn't support said characters and the emojis that come with it ...

Android 16 QPR3 is set to introduce support for the newly released Unicode 17.0 standard and its emoji. The update includes 163 new characters, featuring additions like a distorted face, fight cloud, ...

Humans have been communicating with pictures since the days of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Today, that tradition lives on in one of the most popular visual languages of the digital age: the emoji.

Gboard, the Google keyboard for Android now allows you to create new emojis in the form of stickers by combining existing ones and generating a new communication language with up to 14,000 options.