Good news, mermaids and mermen: Your emoji are officially coming this year. Unicode, the organization that standardizes characters across devices, released its final list of 2017 emoji on Monday.

The focus is very much on New Year's Eve rather than Christmas day ... They'll kick in whenever you use any of the party-themed emoji and when they do, both sender and recipient will get some ...

Updates will start hitting in April and continue through the end of the year, according to Emojipedia. Some of the new emoji coming in 2019. Credit: emojipedia Emoji lovers can look forward to ...

That usually lands in October, so iPhone and iPad users should get the new emoji before the end of 2018. Android release dates are a little less predictable, but before the end of the year is a ...