When Mashiyat Rahman, 22, texts her friends about her period, she sends them the "crying" emoji to describe her mood, the "knife" emoji to describe painful cramps and the "sweat" emoji — which ...

FROM a waffle to a drop of blood and inter-racial couples - new emojis are set to be launched in 2019. With 59 distinct new emoji types on their way and around 230 new variants, we take a closer ...

Instead, you just shoot off a blood drop, and the message is clear with one simple finger tap. The emoji is being introduced thanks to U.K.-based Plan International, a girls' rights group ...

The emoji, which is a drop of blood, is one of 230 new emojis revealed by the Unicode Consortium earlier this year, which also include gender-neutral characters. An emoji to represent periods ...

An organization that “advances children’s rights and equality for girls,” Plan International UK, tweeted, “It’s time to celebrate the blood drop emoji’s arrival! A Period Emoji makes ...

As of last week, there are now 3,053 emoji, counting the 230 just approved for this year’s cohort—yes, the icons now get annual releases, like Microsoft Word or tax returns. As a white man ...

A “drop of blood” emoji is also being added, thanks to a campaign by Plan International that requested a symbol that could be used to depict a woman’s period. According to NPR, the ...

The period emoji will make its way to your smartphones this year. A tiny drop of blood has led to a ton of reactions on social media. The red drop, which represents menstruation, will make its way ...

Another new emoji, a drop of blood, follows a campaign by Plan International for an emoji depicting menstruation. Their first submission — blood-stained panties — was rejected. Undeterred ...

Now, you can finally send a period emoji. Unicode – the organisation that manages the distribution of emojis – has confirmed a blood drop-shaped emoji is included in its February 2019 emoji ...