The 2020 emoji list adds Asian essentials: bubble tea and selipar jepun


Soon you would be able to skip words when inviting your friends for a bubble tea session. — Emojipedia

Looks like somebody took notice of Malaysia's obsession over bubble tea, as the beverage has made it to this year's new emoji list.

Unicode Consortium has selected 117 emoji characters for Emoji 13.0, which is expected to be available on most platforms by the middle of this year. The new list will introduce 62 new emoji characters and 55 gender and skin-tone variants.

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