World Emoji Day falls annually on July 17, the date shown on the calendar emoji. Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" 🤪 and "fist bump" 👊 symbols into your texts -- today is World ...

And new emoji are on the way. A draft list of 164 emoji candidates is set for approval by the Unicode Consortium in September2025, which could bring the total to 3,954 emoji once officially released.