New Emoji Candidates for 2016 Include Bacon, Person Taking a Selfie

— -- The dancing emoji lady in the red dress may finally get a partner.

Thirty-eight emoji are being considered for release next year by the Unicode Consortium, the group overseeing emoji standards across platforms. Among the other candidates on the list are bacon, a pregnant woman, a cowboy, a clown and a person taking a selfie.

The list of emoji making the final cut in this round will likely be released sometime next year. From there, Apple, Google and Microsoft, which oversee the three biggest mobile platforms, are free to put their own design touches on the emoji before deploying them to users.

Check out the full list at Emojipedia, along with mock-ups of how the emoji under consideration may look.

Unicode 8, the most recent approved update announced earlier this summer, has yet to be fully deployed. While the racially diverse emoji in the set have been adopted, many emoji lovers around the world are still missing out on a taco, cheese wedge and unicorn, among others.