Recently, Unicode announced the new emojis they added this year, one of which caught my attention.
↪︎Look at this face, worn out and disillusioned. I believe it’s a look that many corporate drones have every workday.
The official description by the Unicode Consortium lists it as "face with bags under eyes." Other Keywords include bags, bored, exhausted, eyes, face, fatigued, late, sleepy, tired, weary. In theory, once implemented, just typing these keywords on your phone should bring up this emoji.
Along with this emoji, seven other designs were also added. For more detailed information, you can refer to "Emoji Recently Added, v16.0."
If you're interested in what emojis are currently included in Unicode, you can check out the "Full Emoji List, v16.0."
What is Unicode?
I consider it a remarkable standard.
Excerpted from Wikipedia's definition of Unicode: "Unicode is a unified character encoding scheme that is an industry standard in the field of information technology. It organizes and encodes most of the world's writing systems, allowing computers to process and display text using a universal character set."
Thanks to Unicode, we can now display various languages and scripts normally on different hardware platforms like phones and computers under the same interface.
Some who have used Windows XP (or even earlier systems) might remember that displaying fonts and symbols from other countries wasn't easy within the same system interface. For example, many had to install third-party Japanese input methods like Sakura to display Japanese characters properly; otherwise, we'd see blocks or gibberish. The reason for the gibberish was simply that the system could not understand or know how to display text in languages other than the system language, creating significant barriers to information flow. Since the widespread adoption of Unicode, the problem of language display has been comprehensively improved. Now, even if we encounter text completely different from our system's main language, as long as our system is equipped with Unicode and the foreign text conforms to Unicode standards, it will be displayed correctly.
In summary, Unicode can be said to be a system that benefits all of humanity. The convenience of language conversion today can, in some ways, also be attributed to the widespread adoption of this system.
Because Unicode is so important, any content it releases or adds is also very important. For example, emojis—these icons each have a corresponding number in Unicode. As long as our devices also have these images, and they correspond to the Unicode numbers, we can use these emojis when typing text, and they will be displayed across different devices. These icons transcend language barriers and can cross over various mobile brands and different hardware platforms. They are a powerful and romantic existence.
↪︎In conclusion, welcome to the era where the disillusioned face has received official recognition from Unicode.
