Here are the 67 new emoji that could show up on your phone next year
You'll be able to call someone a liar, shrug, and call in sick to work without typing a single word, if a proposed set of emojis from the international body that governs them gets final approval next year.
The lying face, shruggie, nauseated, and sneezing emoji are among 67 proposed additions, released in an updated list last week, from the nonprofit Unicode Consortium.
The latest list includes a cowboy, a whiskey tumbler, and a wilting rose. But before you start gleefully anticipating your Wild West/"Beauty and the Beast" crossover emoji fanfic opportunities, keep in mind that it can take a long time for an emoji proposal to actually make it on to a phone or computer.
The Unicode Consortium won't consider the current list until May of next year, for release in June. But even if it's approved, that doesn't mean that your Android or iPhone will immediately make the new emoji available.
The Unicode standard simply establishes a baseline so that, among other things, emoji across different platforms can remain compatible with each other. Beyond that, each company comes up with its own design for the emoji, choosing whether or not to support it on their individual platforms.
That can lead to a lot of variation, both visually and time-wise, in the rollout of new emoji.
It took more than a year for Microsoft to start supporting the middle finger emoji after Unicode approved it. And we were not very impressed with how Apple chose to render the taco emoji.
If some of the following proposed emoji sound familiar, that's because 38 members of the Unicode 9 candidate list were released earlier this year. And another list of 15 emoji included in October's proposals started circulating over the summer.
Anyway, here they are. You can view sample images for each emoji at http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-candidates.html, but keep in mind, as we explained, that these don't necessarily illustrate what the emoji would look like on your phone if approved and put into use:
FACE WITH COWBOY HAT
CLOWN FACE
NAUSEATED FACE
ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING
DROOLING FACE
LYING FACE
SNEEZING FACE
PRINCE
MAN IN TUXEDO
MOTHER CHRISTMAS
FACE PALM
SHRUG
PREGNANT WOMAN
SELFIE
MAN DANCING
CALL ME HAND
RAISED BACK OF HAND
LEFT-FACING FIST
RIGHT-FACING FIST
HANDSHAKE
HAND WITH FIRST AND SECOND FINGERS CROSSED
BLACK HEART
EAGLE
DUCK
BAT
SHARK
OWL
FOX FACE
BUTTERFLY
DEER
GORILLA
LIZARD
RHINOCEROS
WILTED FLOWER
CROISSANT
AVOCADO
CUCUMBER
BACON
POTATO
CARROT
BAGUETTE BREAD
GREEN SALAD
SHALLOW PAN OF FOOD
STUFFED FLATBREAD
CLINKING GLASSES
TUMBLER GLASS
SPOON
OCTAGONAL SIGN
SHOPPING TROLLEY
SCOOTER
MOTOR SCOOTER
CANOE
PERSON DOING CARTWHEEL
JUGGLING
WRESTLERS
BOXING GLOVE
MARTIAL ARTS UNIFORM
WATER POLO
HANDBALL
GOAL NET
RIFLE
MODERN PENTATHLON
FENCER
FIRST PLACE MEDAL
SECOND PLACE MEDAL
THIRD PLACE MEDAL
DRUM WITH DRUMSTICKS