Unicode 18.0 Emojis

Draft standard with new emoji candidates including cracking face, thumb gestures, monarch butterfly, pickle, lighthouse, meteor, eraser, and net with handle.

📅 September 1, 2026
19 Total Emojis
9 Base Emojis
10 Skin Tone Variants
8 Groups
Showing 19 emojis (including skin tone variants)
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Face Sick (1)

Animal Bug (1)

Food Vegetable (1)

Place Building (1)

Sky And Weather (1)

Office (1)

About Unicode 18.0

Draft standard with new emoji candidates including cracking face, thumb gestures, monarch butterfly, pickle, lighthouse, meteor, eraser, and net with handle. Unicode 18.0 was released on September 1, 2026 by the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization responsible for maintaining the universal character encoding standard.

This version includes 9 new base emoji characters and 10 skin tone variants, totaling 19 new emoji sequences. Every emoji listed on this page is available on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and all modern web browsers.

Click any emoji to copy it to your clipboard instantly, or tap its name to visit the full detail page with meanings, shortcodes for Slack and Discord, HTML entities, Unicode codepoints, and platform-by-platform visual comparisons.