There is a new bubble emoji that will go very well with peach

If I were an emoji sommelier, there would be a couple I would definitely recommend after seeing the 37 year old emoji selection completed this year. And that’s a combination of the new “bubble” emoji with the existing “peaches”. The old emojis have just been finalized with version 14.0 of Unicode Standard, but the collection has been public since the beginning of this year.

The reason is simple. Peach has long been a double duty as an internationally recognized symbol for the human butt, turning “butt bubbles” into an elegant euphemism for farts. Of course, for a long time you were able to tell a similar visual story by combining the peach with the burst of emoji (which I now see is technically called “running”). But now you have more options. As if you wanted to symbolize the act of emitting gas in the bathroom or pool, monster.

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The list, which is very well summarized by Emojipedia, also includes new faces like “biting lip” and “healthy face”. Unfortunately, for the English who want to avoid bad luck, there is still no heron emoji to match. New hand gestures include a pair of hands creating the shape of a heart and a hand pointing at the screen. As part of this version, handshakes between hands of different skin tones are now officially supported.

Finally, there are also new gender options for pregnancy, including emojis for “pregnant person” and “pregnant man”. A new “crowned person” joins the existing emoji “prince” and “princess”.

Now that the emoji list is complete, it’s up to the main platform owners to add the designs to their software, which is likely to happen most of next year between January and August, according to Emojipedia. If you are interested in knowing how emojis are made, The VergeJay Peters himself participated in the creation of this year’s “bubble” and “health face” emojis and previously submitted proposals for “yawn face” and “waffle”. You can read all about the process he went through here.