51 new emojis are arriving next year

The new emojis include a giraffe, flying saucer and a zombie

Published 15th Nov 2016

51 new emojis look set to arrive on your keyboard in 2017. Yes, The Unicode Consortium aka the people responsible for our beloved emojis have announced they’ve approved 51 brand new emojis for release next year.

The new emojis include a giraffe, flying saucer, zombie, fairy, vampire, hedgehog and woman in a hijab.

Plus the food and drink additions are on point, with emojis arriving for coconut, broccoli, pie, sandwich and pretezel.

Also on the list, a face with open mouth vomiting, a grinning face with star eyes, and a sled, just in time for Christmas.

See the full list of new emojis here.