Unicode 11 New Characters

Unicode 11.0 is released on 2018 June 12.

Unicode 11.0 adds 684 characters. (to a total of 137,374 characters.)

The new characters are:

• 618 character in obscure language's writing systems. (to a total of 146 writing systems.)
• 66 new emoji.

The new script (writing system):

• Dogra, used to write historic Dogra in South Asia
• Georgian Mtavruli capital letters, newly added to support modern casing practices
• Gunjala Gondi, used to write the Adilabad dialect of the Gondi language in South Asia
• Hanifi Rohingya, used to write the modern Rohingya language in Southeast Asia
• Makasar, used to write historic Makasar in Indonesia
• Medefaidrin, used for modern liturgical purposes in Africa
• Old Sogdian, used to write historic Sogdian in the third to fifth centuries in Central Asia
• Sogdian, used to write historic languages in the seventh to fourteenth centuries in Central Asia

Other new character are:

• 5 urgently needed CJK unified ideographs
• 66 emoji characters, including 4 new emoji components for hair color.
• Copyleft symbol
• Half stars for rating systems
• Additional astrological symbols
• Xiangyi Chinese chess symbols

Unicode 11 New Emoji Characters

face

[see Unicode Emoji 😄]

person

body parts

clothing

[see Clothing Emoji 👠]

animals

[see Animal Emoji 🐰]

insect

[see Insect Emoji 🐞]

food

[see Food Emoji 🍺]

sports

[see Sports Emoji ⚽]

[see Car, Train, Boat, Emoji 🚀]

things

[see Things Emoji 🔪]

Note: font won't become available until Google, Microsoft, Apple etc release them. Probably around end of 2018.

Geometric Shapes

[see Unicode Geometric Shapes ■]

Chinese Chesse XIANGQI Pieces

[see Unicode Chess ♞ Cards 🂡 Dice 🎲]

Printer's Symbols

[see Unicode Bullet • Check Mark ✓ Dagger †, Trade Mark ™☙]

Reference

https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode11.0.0/

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