--- title: 38 New Emojis Could Include: Bacon Selfie Prince Avocado description: Unicode could approve emojis of Prince, selfie, avocado, bacon, potato, shark, owl, black heart, drooling face and pregnant woman canonical: https://time.com/3892233/new-emojis-bacon-selfie/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-21T14:55:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:35.343Z og:title: We're So Close to Getting a Bacon Emoji og:description: And an avocado emoji. A selfie emoji. And a Prince emoji. 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Waxman Staff Writer May 21, 2015 2:55 PM UTC  (L-R) Selfie, bacon, wilted flower, clinking glasses, "call me" hand, man dancing (L-R) Selfie, bacon, wilted flower, clinking glasses, "call me" hand, man dancing Kevin McCauley  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 21, 2015 2:55 PM UTC [_Yahoo! Tech_ reports](https://www.yahoo.com/tech/38-new-emoji-are-set-to-premiere-next-year-see-119470426574.html?soc%5Fsrc=mail&soc%5Ftrk=ma) that Unicode Consortium, the elite Mountain View, Calif. group that develops emojis, could soon approve 38 new ones that would debut in June 2016 as part of the Unicode 9.0 update. The [Unicode 8.0 update](http://time.com/3814055/apple-ios8-new-diverse-emoji/) released earlier this year featured much-anticipated racially diverse emojis. Examples of upcoming emojis reportedly include illustrations of a selfie, an avocado, bacon, a potato, a shark, an owl, a black heart, a drooling face, a pregnant woman and the musician Prince. The complete list of emojis that the consortium may approve in the near future is [on _Yahoo! 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