NEW YORK – Apple has announced that hundreds of brand new emoji are coming to the iPhone, including a hijabi emoji that was first suggested by a young Muslim girl who proposed the idea earlier this year.

“The new emoji are designed to reveal every detail and adapted from approved characters in Unicode 10,” the company said, The Independent reported on Saturday, October 7.

“iOS 11.1 will also include characters announced on World Emoji Day like Woman with Headscarf, Bearded Person, Breastfeeding, Zombie, Person in Lotus Position and new food items such as Sandwich and Coconut.

The company revealed many of the new additions earlier this year, including emoji depicting a woman in a headscarf and gender-neutral characters.

Apple will roll out the hijab emojis as part of the upcoming iOS 11.1 update. It hasn’t got an official release date yet, but the developer and public beta preview will be available to download next week.

“Also included in the update is the Love-You Gesture, designed after the ‘I love you’ hand sign in American Sign Language.”

Rayouf Alhumedhi, a Saudi teenager, persuaded the group that develops emoji to create one that looked like her and “millions of women from different races” around the world.

She said it was “baffling” an appropriate image did not exist already and wrote to the Unicode consortium with her suggestion.

Alhumedhi proposed the idea last year to The Unicode Consortium, the non-profit corporation that reviews and develops new emojis.

Apple announced it had accepted the design earlier this summer.