Article 5PJB0 There’s a new bubbles emoji that’ll go just great with the peach

There’s a new bubbles emoji that’ll go just great with the peach

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Jon Porter
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If I were an emoji sommelier, there's one pairing I'd definitely be recommending after looking at this year's 37-strong selection of finalized emoji. And that's a combination of the new bubbles" emoji with the existing peach." The former emoji has just been finalized with version 14.0 of the Unicode Standard, but the collection has been public since earlier this year.

The reason is simple. Peach has long pulled double duty as the internationally recognized symbol for the human butt, making butt bubbles" an elegant euphemism for farts. Sure, you've long been able to tell a similar visual story by combining the peach with the gust of wind emoji (which I now see is technically called dashing away"). But now you've got more options. Like...

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