Unicode 16.0 adds 5185 characters, for a total of 154,998 characters. The new additions include seven new scripts:

• Garay is a modern-use script from West Africa.
• Gurung Khema, Kirat Rai, Ol Onal and Sunuwar are four modern-use scripts from Northeast India and Nepal.
• Todhri is an historic script used for Albanian.
• Tulu-Tigalari is an historic script from Southwest India.

Other character additions include seven new emoji characters plus 3,995 additional Egyptian Hieroglyphs and over 700 symbols from legacy computing environments.

In addition to new characters, new “Moji Jōhō Kiban” (文字情報基盤) Japanese source references have been added for over 36,000 CJK unified ideographs. These are reflected in the code charts for virtually all CJK unified ideograph blocks by additional representative glyphs in the “J” column.

Supersedes: Unicode 15.1.0