Unicode 11 New Characters (2018)

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 Emoji: Faces 😄]

person

🦸 🦹

body parts

🦵 🦶 🦴 🦷

clothing

🥽 🥼 🥾 🥿

[see Emoji: Clothing 👠]

animals

🦝 🦙 🦛 🦘 🦡 🦢 🦚 🦜 🦞

[see Emoji: Animal 🐰]

insect

🦟 🦠

[see Emoji: Insect 🐞]

food

🥭 🥬 🥯 🥮 🧁 🧂

[see Emoji: Food 🍺]

sports

🧭 🛹 🥏 🥍 🥎

[see Emoji: Sports ⚽]

[see Emoji: Car, Train, Boat 🚲 🚑 ✈ ⛵]

things

🧱 🧳 🧨 🧧 🧿 🧩 🧸 🧮 🧾 🧰 🧲 🧪 🧫 🧯 🧴 🧵 🧶 🧷 🧹 🧺 🧻 🧼 🧽

🧬

[see Emoji: Things 🔪]

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: Games Emoji 🎲 🎱 🎯]

Printer's Symbols

🄯 U+1F12F: COPYLEFT SYMBOL

[see Unicode: Punctuations • ✓ ™]

Reference

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