Unicode 10 New Characters (2017)
Unicode 10.0 is released on 2017 June 20.
Unicode 10.0 adds 8,518 characters, for a total of 136,690 characters. These additions include 4 new scripts, for a total of 139 scripts, as well as 56 new emoji characters.
The new scripts and characters in Version 10.0 add support for lesser-used languages and unique written requirements worldwide.
| Script | Number of Characters | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Masaram Gondi | 75 | Used to write Gondi in Central and Southeast India. Gondi writing |
| Nüshu | 396 | 女书. Used by women in China to write poetry and other discourses until the late twentieth century Nüshu script |
| Soyombo | 80 | Used in historic Buddhist texts to write Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mongolian Soyombo alphabet |
| Zanabazar Square | 72 | Used in historic Buddhist texts to write Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mongolian Zanabazar Square alphabet |
| Syriac letters | ? | Used for writing Suriyani Malayalam, also known as Garshuni and as Syriac Malayalam Syriac alphabet |
| Gujarati signs | 132 | Used for the transliteration of the Arabic script into Gujarati by Ismaili Khoja communities Gujarati alphabet |
| Hentaigana | 285 | Hentaigana (変体仮名) characters used in Japan (historic variants of Hiragana characters) Hentaigana |
| CJK Extension | 7,473 | Chinese characters |
| emoji | 56 | emoji |
- Bitcoin sign ₿
- A set of Typicon marks and symbols
Unicode 10 New Emoji
Note: font won't become available until Google, Microsoft, Apple etc release them. Probably around end of 2017.
Here is a image rendering.
Here is the actual characters:
Faces
🤩 🤨 🤯 🤪 🤬 🤮 🤫 🤭 🧐
Person
🧒 🧑 🧓 🧕 🧔
Fantasy Creatures
🧙 🧚 🧛 🧝 🧜 🧞 🧟
Person with Situation
🤱 🧖 🧗 🧘
Hand Gesture
🤟 🤲
Clothing
🧣 🧤 🧥 🧦 🧢
Animals
🦓 🦒 🦔 🦕 🦖 🦗
Food
🥩 🥪 🥥 🥦 🥣 🥫 🥟 🥠 🥧 🥨 🥤 🥢 🥡
Things
🛸 🛷 🥌
Misc
🧠 🧡
〔see Emoji: Faces 😄〕
New Chinese Cultural Symbols
- 🉠 → U+1F260: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR FU
- 🉡 → U+1F261: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR LU
- 🉢 → U+1F262: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR SHOU
- 🉣 → U+1F263: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR XI
- 🉤 → U+1F264: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR SHUANGXI
- 🉥 → U+1F265: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR CAI
Rendering
Reference
Unicode Versions
- Fonts for Unicode 6 Emoticons (2010)
- Unicode 7 New Characters (2014)
- Unicode 8 New Characters (2015)
- Unicode 9 New Characters (2016)
- Unicode 10 New Characters (2017)
- Unicode 11 New Characters (2018)
- Unicode 12 New Characters (2019)
- Unicode 13 New Characters (2020)
- Unicode 14 New Characters (2021)
- Unicode 15 New Characters (2022)
- Unicode 16 New Characters (2024)
- Unicode 17 New Characters (2025)