Unicode Emoji 11.0 added 157 new emoji in 2018.
The release expanded the emoji repertoire with people, body parts, animals, food, activities, objects, and symbols. Notable additions included red-haired people, curly-haired people, superheroes, softball, mango, and several faces and animals.
Emoji 11.0 was associated with Unicode 11.0, which was released in June 2018. The count of 157 refers to the new emoji in that release, while platform vendors later created their own artwork and distributed support through operating-system updates.
Counts can be confusing because some announcements count individual characters, while others include sequences such as gender or skin-tone variants. Unicode’s emoji release documentation distinguishes the release’s new emoji from the much larger number of possible combinations produced by sequences.