The Unicode Consortium has released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, adding 5,185 new characters, including eight new emoji.
The new emoji include a shovel, a fingerprint, a leafless tree, a radish, a harp, a purple splat, and a flag for the island of Sark. The standout is the 'face with bags under eyes' emoji.
Software makers like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, etc., will need to design iterations and release software updates to incorporate the new emoji.
The 'face with bags under eyes' emoji is expected to be very useful.