Huge emoji update for iPhone and Android as 31 NEW icons added – can you guess their meanings?

A PREVIEW of 31 new emojis has been released ahead of World Emoji Day on Sunday.

The new crop of emojis has been tentatively set to hit keyboards this fall.

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The new slate of emojis is being reviewed for Emoji 15.0.

Emojipedia reported that while most designs do eventually make it to the keyboard after being shared with the public, some could be scrapped or altered.

Emoji usage is at an all-time high – an internal study by Emojipedia says that more than 22% of 1.5billion analyzed tweets have at least one emoji in them.

Take a closer look at what is coming to a keyboard near you at the end of this year.

Unlike previous emoji drops, this new batch has few human expressions.

12 new hand emojis – all making the “pushing hand” expression – have been added.

The Verge reported that “leftwards pushing hand” and “rightwards pushing hand” could become the new universal symbol for “high-five” when the two are used together.

The “shaking face” is the only face-based emoji – but it has the potential to become a classic.

Joshua Jones, Emojipedia’s Head of Emoji Design, shared a tweet declaring that the shaking face emoji is a “top contender” for his new personal favorite.

The other new icons run across a smattering of categories including animals, instruments, colored hearts, and foods.

But there is loads of secondary meaning behind some of the new icons.

With the addition of the donkey emoji, both major American political parties are represented in icon form.

The Khanda, an emblem of the Sikh faith, is among the 31 new candidates.

A calendar shared by the official Emojipedia Twitter account says the designs will be finalized in September.

The icons will roll out to Android users over the course of the winter, and make its way to iOS and social media in early 2023.

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This post first appeared on Thesun.co.uk