New Apple emoji include headscarf woman, breastfeeding mom, zombie, and more

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New emjoi for the headscarf woman and breast-feeding mom.

Happy World Emjoi Day, 24 hours in which we realized that there still isn't an emoji for every mood, activity, job, and clothing style.

The good news is that the emoji-creation industry is always racing to catch up with real-world social mores. Now, we have the promise of "woman with headscarf" and "breastfeeding."

Of the two, the Headscarf Woman, who seems to be staring into your soul, is the most emotive, while Breastfeeding Mom is, as she should be, consumed with her task and  stares down lovingly at her cap-wearing, breastfeeding baby.

Apple announced the upcoming availability of these and other new emoji for your messaging needs on Monday, as part of the World Emoji Day celebration.

Sandwich emoji

There's new food emjoi for sandwiches and coconut. We haven't seen the coconut one, but Sandwich appears to be made of of white bread, lettuce, tomato, and...spam?

New animals like zebras and, for all you Jurassic Park fans, there's the long-extinct T-Rex Dinosaur emoji. He looks like a not-too-distant relative of Toy Story's Rex.

Zebra emoji

T-Rex emoji

Apple is also opening up the fantasy world of emoji, introducing Zombie and Elf emojis. The Elf could be Princes Zelda's (of Legend of Zelda) cousin.

Zombie emoji

Elf emoji

There are also a few new plays on the traditional yellow smiley-face emoji, including a rather stunning mind-blown face and what may be the most disgusting emoji: vomit face.

Vomit emoji

Mind blown emoji

Apple also, for the first time, revealed the five most popular emoji on iOS. Not surprisingly, it's

Thumbs Up

Smile

Laugh 

LOL

Wink-Kiss

Heart

Apple says the new emoji will arrive later this year. We suspect they may come along with iOS11, which is set to launch in the fall, right around the same time we should get a new iPhone 8. The company doesn't share how they came up with all these new emoji characters, but all are approved by the emoji governing body, the Unicode Consortium, which means they can all be added to the iOS keyboard.

Hey, bearded  guy.

Just think of all the fun you'll have with a new OS, new phone and a bearded guy emoji (or maybe a zombie and zebra) to help you craft the perfect text message.