![]() The bubble tea emoji accepted for inclusion by The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit that sets and maintains standards for keyboards and emoji, is actually a collection of three existing characters linked by what’s known as a zero width joiner (pronounced zwidge), an invisible Unicode character that links other characters into a single image. The new emoji is part of a key step forward in emoji construction, she said, because of the way that it’s constructed. Kumar’s bubble tea emoji grew out of her ongoing research into communication-by-emoji and the Opico emoji-based social media app developed by Khandekar and the rest of Kumar’s research group. The bubble tea emoji was proposed by Assistant Professor Ranjitha Kumar and three colleagues: her former student, Sujay Khandekar (MS CS ‘18 and now a Software Engineer at Samsara, Inc.) University of California, San Diego student Timothy Deng and the artist who put together the bubble tea character, Yiying Lu (she also created Twitter’s now-retired Fail Whale). The bubble tea emoji created by Assistant Professor Ranjitha Kumar and colleagues combines other emojis into a single symbol. Sometime in 2020, along with tiny symbols representing the pickup truck, mouse trap, tamale, and dozens of other things, a new symbol representing a glass of bubble tea will join the growing collection of emojis available for mobile phones and other devices.
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