World Emoji Day is held every year on July 17 because that's the day on the 📅 calendar emoji. This year, the Unicode Consortium -- a non-profit devoted to developing, maintaining and promoting software standards and data -- used the day to announce the newest emoji. The upcoming emoji, which include a Sasquatch and an orca, will debut this September as part of Unicode 17.0.
Here are the new emoji you can expect to see later this year.
Trombone
Treasure chest
Distorted face
Hairy creature (Sasquatch)
Fight cloud
Apple core
Orca
Ballet dancers
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