The Selfie and Face Palm emoji might be coming to your smartphone

The term ‘selfie’ just won’t go away. It recently became the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year, received a dedicated section called ‘Sharing Selfies’ within Apple’s App Store, and was greeted with a Selfie Alarm feature on the Samsung Galaxy Camera 2.

According to the latest candidate list for Unicode, the selfie might become a staple on your smartphone. In total, 38 new emoji characters have been accepted for consideration in 2016, including the selfie, a piece of bacon, the face palm, the shrug, a fingers crossed hand, a fist pump, a clown face, and a pregnant woman.

Some of the other notable inclusions include Man In Tuxedo, Dancer, Mother Christmas, Face With Cowboy Hat, Wilted Flower, Call Me Hand, Croissant, Avocado and Cucumber.

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While there is still a ways to go before these gain the necessary approvals, but the a set of mockups have been sketched up to give an example of what they might end up looking like.

[source] Emojipedia [/source][via] TechCrunch [/via]

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