Unicode Emoji 17.0: All New Emojis Released
Unicode Emoji 17.0 is official. The Unicode Consortium has published the final list of emoji added in this release — and while the headline count is 10 new base characters, the full package includes 163 additions once you count skin-tone, gender, and family variants.
Below is a complete rundown of every new emoji in Unicode 17.0, based on the official Emoji Recently Added chart. Sample designs shown here follow Google’s Noto Color Emoji style, the same reference set Unicode uses in its documentation.
What’s new at a glance
| Emoji | Name | Code | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
Distorted face | U+1FAEA | Smileys & Emotion |
| | Fight cloud | U+1FAEF | Smileys & Emotion |
| | Hairy creature | U+1FAC8 | People & Body |
| 🧑🩰 | Ballet dancer | U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1FA70 | People & Body |
| 👯 | People with bunny ears | U+1F46F | People & Body |
| 🤼 | People wrestling | U+1F93C | People & Body |
| | Orca | U+1FACD | Animals & Nature |
| | Landslide | U+1F6D8 | Travel & Places |
| | Trombone | U+1FA8A | Objects |
| | Treasure chest | U+1FA8E | Objects |
Smileys & Emotion
Distorted face (U+1FAEA)
A puffy, inflated face expressing shock, anxiety, or feeling overwhelmed — like you’ve been holding your breath too long. Keywords include anxiety, panic, shocked, and vulnerable. This one fills a gap for “stressed but still cartoonish” reactions that existing faces don’t quite cover.
Fight cloud (U+1FAEF)
A classic cartoon dust cloud for arguments and scuffles — think comic-strip brawls with stars and swirls flying out. Perfect for debate, disagreement, or playful ruckus without depicting actual violence.
People & Body
Hairy creature (U+1FAC8)
Yes — Bigfoot is now an emoji. Unicode calls it “hairy creature,” but the keywords make the intent clear: bigfoot, sasquatch, yeti, cryptid. A fun addition for folklore fans, camping stories, and Pacific Northwest memes.
🧑🩰 Ballet dancer (U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1FA70)
A person in a ballet pose, built as a ZWJ sequence combining the adult emoji with a new ballet shoe character. Unicode adds 5 skin-tone variants, so dancers of different backgrounds are represented.
👯 People with bunny ears (U+1F46F)
This isn’t a brand-new concept — the playboy-bunny-style party duo has existed for years — but Emoji 17.0 massively expands it with gender and family variants. Unicode counts 157 total additions in People & Body alone for this release, and this emoji family is a big reason why.
🤼 People wrestling (U+1F93C)
Another existing emoji that gains extensive new sequences: gendered forms, skin-tone combinations, and family groupings. Whether you mean Olympic wrestling or a playful tussle, there’s now a combination for it.
Animals & Nature
Orca (U+1FACD)
A killer whale joins the marine emoji set alongside the existing whale and dolphin. Keywords: orca, marine, ocean. Great for wildlife content, aquarium visits, and Pacific Northwest culture — and a nice counterpart to other sea life emoji.
Travel & Places
Landslide (U+1F6D8)
A mountainside with falling rocks and debris. Unicode tags it with avalanche, earthquake, mudslide, and disaster — useful for weather alerts, geology discussions, and climate-related reporting. A serious emoji for real-world events.
Objects
Trombone (U+1FA8A)
A brass slide trombone for jazz, marching bands, and sad womp-womp moments. The keywords even include sad, nodding to the trombone’s comic timing in cartoons and memes.
Treasure chest (U+1FA8E)
An open chest overflowing with gold and jewels. Keywords span loot, prize, wealth, and valuables — ideal for gaming, pirate themes, and celebrating a big win.
How many emoji is that, really?
The 10 characters above are the new “base” additions. Unicode’s full count for v17.0 breaks down like this:
- 2 new Smileys & Emotion characters
- 1 new People & Body base character (hairy creature), plus a ballet dancer sequence
- 1 new Animals & Nature character (orca)
- 1 new Travel & Places character (landslide)
- 2 new Objects characters (trombone, treasure chest)
- 153 additional skin-tone, gender, and family variants across people emoji
Grand total: 163 new emoji sequences in Unicode Emoji 17.0.
When will you see them on your phone?
Unicode defines the characters; Apple, Google, Samsung, and others design their own looks. Google’s Noto Color Emoji already has preview designs (which is why Unicode’s chart shows samples), but iOS and other platforms typically ship new emoji with major OS updates — often in the months following a Unicode release.
We’ll update Emoji Kitchen as platform vendors roll out their Emoji 17.0 designs. In the meantime, you can browse the full specification on the Unicode Emoji 17.0 charts.
Source: Emoji Recently Added, v17.0 — Unicode, Inc.
