The Unicode Consortium has confirmed 37 new emojis will be available on smartphone keyboards in the next update. Emoji 14.0 will be rolled out later this year and will include a pregnant man, a gender neutral pregnant person, multiracial handshakes, a melting face, beans and a biting lip.

       The pregnant man and pregnant person emojis have been in the works since July and have sparked a very mixed reaction.

       One Twitter user said: “I could probably count on one hand the number of people who asked for a pregnant man emoji.”

       However, many criticised the confusion with one saying: “The discourse over the pregnant man emoji is hilarious. A bunch of adult toddlers crying over something that doesn’t affect them at all and probably never will.”

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       Another user praised the emoji saying it is “mainstream recognition that it is not just women that get pregnant”.

       And a third was delighted there was finally an emoji to use when one has eaten too much. He said: “Finally, I can use the pregnant man emoji for when I am super full and bloated.”

       Another echoed: “This is a ‘pregnant man’ emoji... But you know I'm going to be using it as a ‘just ate massive burrito’ emoji.”

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