The coronavirus pandemic is rattling the world of emoji.

The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit that sets the standard for the popular animated characters each year, said its headline emoji announcement has been pushed back six months because the coronavirus is impacting business.

Typically, new emoji are announced early in the year and added to iPhones and Androids via updates in September. So, the 117 emoji announced in March are still on track.

But the emoji update planned for 2021 is temporarily being shelved until spring 2022.

“Under the current circumstances we’ve heard that our contributors have a lot on their plates at the moment and decided it was in the best interests of our volunteers and the organizations that depend on the standard to push out our release date,” said Mark Davis, president of the Unicode Consortium, in a statement.

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Smartphone users will still receive the Emoji 13.0 release this fall. These new emoji include 62 new characters and 55 new gender and skin tone varieties. Among the notable additions is a smiling face with a single tear, people hugging and the transgender flag.

Developers seeking to submit proposals for Emoji 14.0 have until Sept. 1, 2020, to do so.

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