Other great additions:

- Left and Right parenthesis with middle ring [1]

- A wiggly exclamation mark expressing mirth or laughter [1] (edit: and something I completely missed: the inverted version can express sarcasm)

- Cuneiform numerals, including lots of arranged dots that might be useful in other contexts [2]

- New variations of "measured angle" and "sector" [3]

- A transparent cube and a white cube [4]

Also a couple new combining marks

And for anyone who wants to see what the reference images for the new emojis look like:

Lighthouse: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-18.0/U180-1F680.p...

Other new Emojis: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-18.0/U180-1FA70.p...

1: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-18.0/U180-2E00.pd...

2: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-18.0/U180-12550.p...

3: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-18.0/U180-1CEC0.p...

4: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-18.0/U180-1F780.p...

Sadly it looks like it will be a dead monarch butterfly

https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

Does anyone know why a monarch butterfly was added, when there is already a butterfly emoji?

I need a table emoji because then I could combine it with a horse emoji. This would be "Pferd Tisch" (Horse Table) in German which sounds similar to "Fertig" which translates to "done". Yes I want it only for that dumb joke.

I would be more interested if they are ever going to cancel HAN unification. Looking at their "Factors for Exclusion" list it could be summarized by "we made some mistakes in past but are sticking to it" :D

Still no seahorse