Emoji Version 16.0 🫩

8 new emojis.

September 2024: Google previews its designs via its Noto Color Emoji and Noto Emoji font site pages.
October 2024: Samsung will likely debut its support in a One UI update
January / February 2025: WhatsApp will release their Emoji 16.0 for Android devices
Early 2025: Google will begin to progressively support Emoji 16.0 across their different platforms (e.g. Chromebook, YouTube)
March 2025: Google will provide support for Android devices
March / April 2025: Apple will release their Emoji 16.0 support via iOS 18.4
Summer 2025: Facebook, including Messenger (though support for Emoji 15.1 has yet to be provided)
Summer / Fall 2025: Microsoft via a major Windows 11

https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-16-0/

https://emojipedia.org/emoji-16.0

v0.7.0

• Type definitions #20 and more.

Emoji Version 15.1 🐦‍🔥

• #18 https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.1

data-by-group.json structure changes

There's no data content changes, only data structure change to data-by-group.json. See #11 for details. Thanks to @DaveBagler. :)

This is not a major bump because we are not in 1.x land.

Emoji Version 15.0

• #12 adds 15.0 emoji- https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/
• #13 is fixed thanks to @nkalvi

Emoji Version 14.0 🫣

#8.

Emoji Version 13.1

See https://emojipedia.org/emoji-13.1/ and #7.

13.0

See https://emojipedia.org/emoji-13.0/.

v0.1.0

[Breaking]

Rename object keys:

• fitzpatrick_scale -> skin_tone_support
• version -> unicode_version
• fitzpatrick_scale_version -> skin_tone_support_unicode_version

New object keys:

• emoji_version

What are the differences between emoji_version and unicode_version?

Good question. I was just reading up on this... For example, the first Unicode version to support emoji is v6.0, which is Emoji v1.0.

While a new Unicode version would introduce code points for emoji, for example,

• :onion: is Unicode 12.0/Emoji v12.0,

a new Emoji version would introduce emoji sequences utilizing existing code points.

• :person_with_red_hair: is Emoji v12.1 = :person: is Unicode v10.0/Emoji v5.0 + :red_hair:is Unicode 11.0/Emoji v11.0.

That is to say, even though Unicode v11.0 (June 2018) includes all the sequences required to make up :person_with_red_hair:, it was only officially introduced in Emoji v12.1 (Oct 2019).

You can read more to learn the differences on Emojipedia:

• Emoji Version 1.0
• Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji version is now exposed in the unicode data dump downloaded by the scripts, so I'm including them in the output.

v0.0.4

Bump emoji data to Emoji version v12.1. Which includes:

• New emoji (v0.0.3...v0.0.4)
• One name change man_with_chinese_cap -> man_with_skullcap