We have Plan International UK, a global children's nonprofit, and the U.K.'s NHS Blood and Transplant organization to thank for the blood emoji. Plan UK had previously attempted to submit a period ...

"Emoji is one way language is growing," she says. "When it stops growing and adapting, that's when a language dies." Growing and adapting doesn't seem like an issue for emojis.

The red drop of blood (left) was designated as an official emoji to symbolize menstruation, among other things, this year. The design at right, submitted in 2017, was not accepted.

It's been a while since the Unicode Emoji Consortium released its sixth set of proposed emojis last June, with a follow up in August (which offered up a drunken face and unhappy poo, oddly enough).

All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.

We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that's sad? There's loaf of bread and a croissant. But where's the sliced bagel? How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy bear, a ...

"Emoji is one way language is growing," she says. "When it stops growing and adapting, that's when a language dies." Growing and adapting doesn't seem like an issue for emojis.

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