Unicode’s list of “approximately 250” new emoji, which are highlighted in yellow in the new unicode charts released today, include lots of useful (and diverting!) symbols. There’s a hot pepper, a chipmunk, an admission ticket, a hand with a raised middle finder … a fax. But they don’t introduce the racial and cultural diversity many had asked for, with the possible exception of a few new religious icons: several variations on the cross and a symbol for “om.”

Of course, as Unicode has had to explain many times over, it just standardizes the basic body of text across platforms — it doesn’t chose how they look on your computer or phone. That’s up to developers like Apple, who decide how to render Unicode characters … as well as which characters to render, at all. Just because the middle finger shows up in the Unicode charts, for instance, doesn’t mean it’ll be coming to an iPhone near you. And just because Unicode didn’t forcibly introduce diversity into this new version doesn’t mean that Apple couldn’t make that change independently. (In fact, the company indicated in March that it plans to do so.)

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You can see Unicode’s basic black-and-white renderings of the new emoji on its charts for emoticons, transport and map symbols and miscellaneous symbols and pictographs. While the organization hasn’t compiled a single list of new emoji — and told The Post in an email that they didn’t “know anything about Emojipedia,” the emoji Web site circulating such a list — they did say the new characters were indicated on Unicode’s charts in yellow, and that there were “approximately 250” in total.

These are, in no particular order, all the new emoji we counted on those charts.