Or, what if you just feel like sending your friend a cute little animal holding an umbrella ... with new ones consistently being added. Unlike the emoji library, which has constantly been lauded ...

Seems fitting. The new release also includes 138 gender-neutral forms and 75 variations of the holding hands emoji—made possible through new combinations of skin tone and gender—and more ...

the authors suggest using groupings of emoji (white woman + two hands holding each other + black man emoji) in lieu of the single two-white-people-holding-hands emoji. In this scenario ...

Prior to the emergence of emoji there were emoticons – icons comprised of regular ASCII characters which, since they were limited to punctuation marks, numbers, letters and other keyboard ...

However, if you'd like to switch it up to something else without modding, then we've detailed how to get emoji faces and symbols with Unicode characters below: You have to actually go into the ...