Emojis

A new update delivers gender-neutral characters, interracial couples, and disability-focused options.

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Just in case your Kim Kardashian, Versace, Karl Lagerfeld, and Comme des Garçons ones weren’t getting the job done.

The revered Japanese brand joins Karl Lagerfeld and Donatella Versace in adopting the worlds fastest growing language, creating 24 festive PLAY symbols for the holidays.

Plus: a pretzel, a girl chilling in a sauna, and a rockclimber.

Including several pandas, some wearing chains.

Finally, you can message fashion's favorite 'geriatric starlet' to all your family and friends.

Google is challenging Unicode's gender-bias with a proposal for 13 new career-driven female emoji.

The thumbs up, four leaf clovers and cat faces have never looked so chic.

The majority-Muslim nation sees tiny illustrations of same-sex couples as a threat.

Versace gets fluent in the world's fastest growing language with a new app and an exclusive line of T-shirts.

In the first in a series of pieces looking back at the year just gone, we consider what the words, and emojis, that defined 2015 say about us.