Three New Chinese Emojis Designed by Baidu’s Facemoji Keyboard Team Will be Available in the Emoji Dictionary in 2018
February 08 2018 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Red Envelope, Firecracker and Moon Cake Emojis
Will be Added to Version 11 of the Unicode Standard
The Unicode Consortium has revealed a list of 157 new emojis
that will be added to version 11 of the Unicode Standard in 2018,
including three Chinese cultural hallmarks: a red envelope (hóng
bāo), a firecracker (biān pào) and a moon cake (yuè bĭng). These
three Chinese emojis were designed by Baidu’s Facemoji Keyboard
team and submitted for consideration in January 2017 to the Unicode
Consortium, which is responsible for the development and
maintenance of the Unicode Standard. By being implemented into the
Unicode Standard, these new emojis will become part of the emoji
dictionary shared across almost all smartphones and computer
platforms worldwide.
“We’re excited to see these beloved Chinese cultural symbols
become available and recognized in the emoji dictionary,” said Mr.
Jiang Feng, head of Baidu’s Facemoji Keyboard. “Millions of people
around the world can now share virtual moon cakes with their family
on Mid-Autumn Festival, no matter how far away from home,” he said.
Version 11 of the Unicode Standard will be available to the public
in 2018.
In addition to emojis, Facemoji Keyboard also includes speech
recognition technology for accurate and convenient voice-to-text
input. Facemoji Keyboard features a wide variety of GIFs,
predictive emoji combos, custom themes and more. It currently holds
a rating of 4.7 on Google Play. Download the app for free at:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simejikeyboard.
About Facemoji Keyboard
Facemoji Keyboard is an emoji-centric keyboard app featuring
Baidu’s speech recognition technology. It includes an emoji
prediction feature, a wide variety of stickers and customizable
keyboards, and the ability to turn people’s faces into animated
emoji GIFs. Facemoji Keyboard’s goal is to help people around the
world express themselves in new ways with fun, creative emojis.
About Baidu
Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search
provider. Baidu aims to make a complex world simpler
through technology. Baidu's ADSs trade on the NASDAQ
Global Select Market under the symbol "BIDU". Currently, ten ADSs
represent one Class A ordinary share.
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