Emoji candidates for 2016 include shrug, selfie, and face palm

[Tumblr glass] + [bacon] = [man dancing]. [Tumblr glass] + [stuffed flatbread] = [shrug].

Every year the emoji language constantly grows, making increasingly easy to have conversations without ever using text. This week, the Unicode Consortium announced its annual list of potential new emoji to be added next edition of Unicode (9.0). For 2016, there are currently 67 candidates (a few of our favorites are pictured). 

As with any new batch of emoji, the best ones are always in the food and drink categories. Finally, we could have a tumbler filled with whiskey, an avocado, a baguette, and a croissant. There are also new animals being considered, such as a bat, deer, duck, and shark. (Still waiting for a dinosaur.)

There are some weird emojis in the face and people categories, though, such as “selfie,” “clown face,” and “lying face” (picture Pinocchio). There’s also a pregnant woman, a person doing a “face palm,” a person imitating the shrug emoticon, and a dancing man (who pairs with the dancing woman emoji). There's even a wilting flower that is oddly reminiscent of the rose from Beauty and the Beast.

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