Emoji 3.0
Emoji release 3.0 · Unicode 9.0 · 2016 · 157 emoji
Emoji 3.0 (Unicode 9.0, 2016) brought the black heart, the butterfly, and the biggest laugh of all — the rolling-on-the-floor-laughing face — plus the lying face, cowboy hat, clown and the first real animal wave (gorilla, fox, deer, rhino, bat, owl, lizard). The hands got tone variants too.
The highlights
Meet the component characters every modified emoji is built from: components guide (ZWJ · VS16 · skin tones).
All emoji in this version — 157 🖤
tap any emoji to copy it — tap the name to open its page · added in Unicode 9.0 (2016).