New emoji revealed: breastfeeding, vomiting, and naked sauna users

The emoji lexicon is one that continues to grow month after month, year after year. Once little more than a collection of smiley faces and a few symbols, there are now emoji representing just about everything imaginable -- and they're even considered works of art.

At the moment, Unicode is considering which of a number of proposed new emoji should be added to the collection in 2017. Included in the list of proposals are a swearing face, a vomiting face, an exploding head, emo hair, a breastfeeding mother, a hajib wearer and a couple of naked sauna users.

The addition of the hajib-wearing woman has been widely welcomed by Twitter users, as was the inclusion of breastfeeding. Considering the problems Facebook users have experienced when it comes to posting pictures of breastfeeding, it will be interesting to see how the emoji is received in the wider world when it makes a proper appearance next year.

Other emoji due to be added to Unicode 10.0 in the middle of 2017 include a zombie, an exploding head, a flying saucer and a number of animals including a hedgehog.