It contains a set of 15 emojis that were designed from already existing icons to demonstrate different types of difficult situations and psychological harm.
The brains behind this new idea is Swedish non-profit organization, Bris, which operates a helpline for children and teens.
"Every day we have contact with hundreds of kids through phone, chat and mail conversation … the Abused Emojis app is a symbol for our work to make children talk more freely about their situation," Bris stated on its website.
The Unicode Consortium will be releasing 41 new emojis in June, 38 of which are already chosen, but none of the choices are final.
President and co-founder of Unicode, Mark Davis, told CNN he thinks the new app is a "very worthy cause."
Abused Emojis was launched to the iTunes App Store about a week ago. It has been downloaded more than 10,000 times and is already the third most downloaded app in Sweden, according to CNN.
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