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Guidelines for Submitting Unicode® Emoji Proposals

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The goal of this page is to outline the process and requirements for submitting a proposal for new emoji; including how to submit a proposal, the selection factors that need to be addressed in each proposal, and guidelines on presenting evidence of frequency. All submissions are reviewed, and a very small percentage advance for encoding. Documents submitted that are not publicly available, are incomplete, or from excluded categories are not eligible for consideration. Note: If your proposal doesn’t meet the emoji criteria, but is a widely used symbol that doesn’t require color, follow the character proposal process outlined here. A Submission consists of a proposal and example images. Please read this entire page and the linked pages before preparing a Submission. Important Legal Notice The Consortium licenses its standards openly and freely under various open-source licenses found here and here. Under these licenses, vendors implement encoded emoji into their products to be used all o

Guidelines for Submitting Unicode® Emoji Proposals Unicode Emoji Tech Site | Site Map | Search Guidelines for Submitting Unicode® Emoji Proposals Last Update: 2026-05-20 Accepting Submissions Beginning 2026-04-02 Currently Accepting Submissions Until 2026-07-31 The goal of this page is to outline the process and requirements for submitting a proposal for new emoji; including how to submit a proposal, the selection factors that need to be addressed in each proposal, and guidelines on presenting evidence of frequency. All submissions are reviewed, and a very small percentage advance for encoding

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