Here Are New and Popular Emoji for May and How to Decipher Them

Emojipedia published a guide to interpreting common emoji meanings and context.

It also tracked the most popular emoji in early May, showing how usage trends continue to shift.

Eight Unicode 17.0 emoji have started appearing on Apple and Samsung devices through iOS 26.4 and One UI 8.5.

Nine additional proposed emoji are still awaiting approval before they can reach phones.