{"id":18721,"date":"2025-07-18T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18721\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:44:08","slug":"unicodes-new-emoji-refuses-to-put-respect-on-bigfoots-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18721\/","title":{"rendered":"Unicode’s new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot’s name"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Unicode Consortium has announced<\/a> that it’s adding what’s essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as “Hairy Creature” alongside a selection of other fun new emoji options in Unicode 17.0.<\/p>\n

It might seem strange that a consortium of companies<\/a> as powerful as Apple, Google and Microsoft would practically subtweet one of North America’s most famous semi-mythological creatures. But the global nature of Unicode makes avoiding region-specific nomenclature preferable whenever possible. To me, that’s Bigfoot, plain and simple, but elsewhere in the world it might scan as a yowie<\/a>, yeti, nuk-luk, hibagon, orang pendekor or an almas.<\/p>\n

Besides “Hairy Creature,” here’s some of the other new emoji getting added with Unicode 17.0:<\/p>\n

Trombone<\/p>\n

Treasure Chest<\/p>\n

Distorted Face<\/p>\n

Fight Cloud<\/p>\n

Apple Core<\/p>\n

Orca<\/p>\n

Ballet Dancers<\/p>\n

Unicode 17.0 is slated to be released<\/a> on September 9, 2025, but these new emoji likely won’t be added to Android and iOS until a bit after the standard is updated. You’ll just have to make do with what you can create with Genmoji<\/a> or Emoji Kitchen<\/a> while you wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Unicode Consortium has announced that it’s adding what’s essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[17257,17255,518,3,74,17256],"class_list":["post-18721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bigfoot","tag-emoji","tag-gear","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-unicode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}