--- description: The organization in charge of approving new emoji has selected 72 that will roll out later this month and enhance your text messages title: Dozens of New Emoji Will Roll Out This Month image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Dozens of New Emoji Will Roll Out This Month  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2016 9:54 PM CUT  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2016 9:54 PM CUT The organization in charge of approving new emojis has [selected 72 new ones](http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-candidates.html#animals%5F&%5Fnature "undefined") that will roll out later this month and undoubtedly enhance your text messages. Some highlights of the emoji additions include an avocado, an arm taking a selfie, a face palm, a pregnant woman, a dancing man and a face with a Pinocchio-esque nose. Another emoji offers a visual depiction of ROFL, meaning “rolling on the floor laughing.” And some of them are sure to come in handy ahead of the Summer Olympic Games—gymnast; fencer; and gold, silver and bronze medals. **Read more:** [Meet the 63-Year-Old in Charge of Approving New Emojis](http://time.com/4244795/emoji-consortium-mark-davis/ "undefined") The Unicode Consortium made a final decision to include these new emoji at a recent meeting. The [complex process for approving new emoji](http://time.com/4244795/emoji-consortium-mark-davis/ "undefined") involves thousand-word proposals and multiple committee votes. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4354417/new-emoji-additions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4354417/new-emoji-additions/"},"headline":"Dozens of New Emoji Will Roll Out This Month","datePublished":"2016-06-01T21:54:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:50:03.056Z","description":"Avocado and selfie emoji are among the additions","url":"https://time.com/4354417/new-emoji-additions/","keywords":["Tech","Smartphones","Web"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4354417/new-emoji-additions/","name":"Dozens of New Emoji Will Roll Out This Month"}}]}] ```