World Emoji Day, celebrating technology users’ favorite emoticons, is Saturday. Jeremy Burge, the founder of the icon reference site Emojipedia, created the holiday in 2014.

And I couldn't find a hijab emoji. So, I went around it by adding a turban emoji and, you know, the normal girl emoji, with an arrow in-between [👳🏽‍♀️ 🔀 👩🏽], to somehow create ...

And changing that isn’t easy, as Rayouf Alhumedhi knows well. At age 15, she campaigned to add an emoji depicting a woman wearing a hijab, the head covering donned by many Muslim women.

At age 15, she campaigned to add an emoji depicting a woman wearing a hijab, the head covering donned by many Muslim women. "If there are four emojis to represent four different stages of a mailbox.

Jennifer 8. Lee, producer of the new doc “The Emoji Story” and vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, writes about the mission to diversify emoji.

KELLY: Yeah, the hijab emoji was the initiative of a 15-year-old Saudi teenager, Rayouf Alhumedhi. She told the BBC in 2016 why it was so important to her. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

KELLY: Yeah, the hijab emoji was the initiative of a 15-year-old Saudi teenager, Rayouf Alhumedhi. She told the BBC in 2016 why it was so important to her. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

The taco, burrito, and mosque emoji all debuted in 2014. Emoji with black or brown skin followed the next year. Two years ago, Ford pitched the Unicode Consortium on a pickup-truck emoji.

Of the new additions to the emoji appearing on screens later this year, 23 came from Lee's group, including the sari, the sloth, the stethoscope, and 71 combinations of skin tones for the 👫 emoji.

Picture Character, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a documentary about the origins, rise, and future of the emoji. It follows the journey of the hijab, mate, and period blood ...

But unlike implementing, say, a woman wearing a hijab, creating an icon for the span of interracial relationships isn't just one new emoji. It could be thousands.

Rayouf Alhumedhi, a 16-year-old Saudi national, is behind a mini revolution in the emoji world. Last year, she submitted a proposal for a hijab emoji, in order to represent women who wear the ...