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Good news, mermaids and mermen: Your emoji are officially coming this year. Unicode, the organization that standardizes characters across devices, released its final list of 2017 emoji on Monday.

In version 7.0, Unicode also comes with documentation for 250 new emoji characters. Emojipedia has a list of the names chosen for the new emoji, which include “Wind Blowing Face”, “National Park”, ...