Emoji 4.0
Emoji release 4.0 · Unicode 9.0 · 2016 · 598 emoji
Emoji 4.0 (Unicode 9.0, 2016) is the gender-diversity release: blond hair, frowning, pouting, gesturing and the full family of professions gained man and woman variants, all with skin tones. It set the ZWJ pattern that every later people emoji follows — one base person, endless combinations.
The highlights
Meet the component characters every modified emoji is built from: components guide (ZWJ · VS16 · skin tones).
All emoji in this version — 598 🚵🏻♂️
tap any emoji to copy it — tap the name to open its page · added in Unicode 9.0 (2016).