Emoji Versions
Unicode emoji release history.
- Emoji 17.0 15 August 2025
Emoji 17.0 added new emoji including distorted face, fight cloud, hairy creature, ballet dancer, orca, landslide, trombone and treasure chest, plus expanded skin tone variants. 8 emoji added.
- Emoji 16.0 25 August 2024
Emoji 16.0 added a small set of new emoji, including face with bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, splatter and the Sark flag. 8 emoji added.
- Emoji 15.1 28 August 2023
Emoji 15.1 was a sequence-focused update, adding direction-facing people, gender-neutral family sequences, phoenix, lime, brown mushroom, broken chain and head shaking emoji. 28 emoji added.
- Emoji 15.0 16 August 2022
Emoji 15.0 added new emoji including hearts, animals, plants, objects, food, music symbols, shaking face, pushing hands and black bird. 21 emoji added.
- Emoji 14.0 26 August 2021
Emoji 14.0 added new emoji, including new faces, hand gestures, objects, symbols and mixed skin tone handshake variants. 37 emoji added.
- Emoji 13.1 15 September 2020
Emoji 13.1 was a sequence-only update, adding a small set of new ZWJ emoji sequences and additional skin tone variant coverage. 7 emoji added.
- Emoji 13.0 28 January 2020
Emoji 13.0 was a sequence-focused release in this database, adding new emoji sequences and additional skin tone variant coverage. 11 emoji added.
- Emoji 12.1 21 October 2019
Emoji 12.1 was a sequence-focused update aligned with Unicode 12.1, adding more gender-inclusive and skin tone sequence support. 23 emoji added.
- Emoji 12.0 5 February 2019
Emoji 12.0 added a large set of new emoji, including accessibility, animals, food, clothing, symbols and people. 14 emoji added.
- Emoji 11.0 7 February 2018
Emoji 11.0 resumed emoji releases after Emoji 5.0 and aligned emoji version numbering with Unicode version numbering. 331 emoji added.
- Emoji 5.0 31 July 2017
Emoji 5.0 added another group of standalone emoji, including new faces, fantasy people, clothing, food, animals and symbols. 56 emoji added.
- Emoji 4.0 28 November 2016
Emoji 4.0 was a small update in this database, adding a few standalone emoji after the larger Emoji 3.0 release. 3 emoji added.
- Emoji 3.0 3 June 2016
Emoji 3.0 added a set of new standalone emoji, including faces, gestures, people, food, animals, sports and symbols. 72 emoji added.
- Emoji 2.0 12 November 2015
Emoji 2.0 expanded emoji data with explicit skin tone variant sequences and early ZWJ family, couple and kiss emoji sequences. 23 emoji added.
- Emoji 1.0 5 August 2015
Emoji 1.0 was the first official Unicode emoji release, defining the initial core emoji set, keycap sequences we still use today, and early skin tone modifier characters. 1276 emoji added.