Craving Chinese takeout? There's now an emoji for that

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The days of typing “Chinese takeout” in response to questions about your dinner choice has come to an end.

A list of over 40 emojis with variations including a Chinese takeout box and a dumpling will be added to iPhone and iPad's new beta version of 11.1 operating system, Apple announced on Friday.

The long-waited takeout box and dumpling have been added to iOS 11.1 beta version. /Apple

The company previewed the candidates on World Emoji Day on July 17. Many of the suggested emojis are making their way to the new system.

Besides more food, the emojis include more emotive smiley faces, gender-neutral characters, animals, clothing items, mythical creatures and more. The list of symbols were approved by Unicode 10.0 which added 56 new emojis including the ones on the Android system.

The smiley faces collection will be completed with the puking and the mind-blown faces. The human section is becoming more diverse with the inclusion of a bearded person, a breastfeeding woman, a woman in a headscarf, and gender-neutral figures.

More smiley faces and human figures will be added to iOS 11.1 beta. /Apple

Animals including a cricket, dinosaur, hedgehog and a giraffe are joining the list, as well as more clothing items for fall and winter seasons.

Some new animals and clothing options emojis /Apple

Some mythical creatures with variations of skin tones and hair colors will also be added to the new system, just in time for Halloween.

A dark-skinned mermaid joins the list of mythical creature emojis. / Apple

An orange heart is also joining to complete the spectrum of hearts for people to show their supports for the LGBT community or simply share rainbow-colored hearts.

Orange is the latest color added to the collection of colored hearts. / Apple

Information of when Apple will release iOS 11.1 or versions of macOS and watchOS containing the new emoji has not been shared.

The emojis will be available in the beta version of iOS 11.1 next week.