Unicode 11.0.0

has been released on June 5!

TL;DR

• Emoji is more crazy now

Topics

• Emoji
• New Characters
• Ideographs
  • Five UNCs
  • kJinmeiyoKanji, kJoyoKanji
  • Equivalent_Unified_Ideograph
  • Beyond... new IDSs?

Emoji

Every “Unicode 11” search result is only about emoji.

Unicode=Emoji? 🤔🤔🤔

New Emoji

• 66 New Emoji Characters
• 161 New Emoji Sequences

Hair Modifier

Directional Sequences

Pirate Flag Sequence

Emoji System is
Being More Complicated
And Crazy!!!

New Characters

COPYLEFT SYMBOL

LEFT HALF BLACK STAR

Xiangqi symbols

Ideographs

Five Characters Are Added

Nihonium

Urgently Needed Characters (UNC)

kJinmeiyoKanji, kJoyoKanji

New Properties of Unihan Database
You can now see if the character is 常用漢字 or 人名用漢字 by checking Unicode database.

Equivalent_Unified_Ideograph

New Property in UCD

Supplies mapping from (obsolete) special ideograph characters to normal ones.

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