The consortium that approves emojis has signed off new ones
, including a woman wearing a hijab, woman breastfeeding a baby and a person doing yoga.
The new emojis are likely to arrive onsmartphones next year after Unicode, the international consortium that sets their global standards, proposed the 51 icons.
It will take the total number of the cartoon images, which are increasingly being used to replace words in text messages, to 1,724, The Telegraph reported.
Rayouf Alhumedhi, a 15-year-old from Germany, had campaigned for the inclusion of the character wearing a hijab emoji, proposing it to Unicode after realising there was no emoji to represent her.
Among the list of introductions are 'person with headscarf', 'breastfeeding', 'bearded person', 'older adult', reflecting the current lack of grandparent icons.
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