Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs

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Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
RangeU+1F900..U+1F9FF
(256 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Common
Symbol setsEmoji
Typikon symbols
Assigned256 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
8.0 (2015)15 (+15)
9.0 (2016)82 (+67)
10.0 (2017)148 (+66)
11.0 (2018)213 (+65)
12.0 (2019)244 (+31)
13.0 (2020)254 (+10)
14.0 (2021)256 (+2)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing emoji characters. It extends the set of symbols included in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. It also includes Typikon symbols.

Contents

Emoji

The Unicode 14.0 Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block contains 242 emoji, [3] [4] consisting of all the non-Typikon symbols except for the rifle and the pentathlon symbol. The rifle and the pentathlon emoji has been rejected due to its controversy, analogous to the redesign of the pistol emoji. [5]

Chart

Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs [1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1F90x
🤀
🤁
🤂
🤃
🤄
🤅
🤆
🤇
🤈
🤉
🤊
🤋
🤌
🤍
🤎
🤏
U+1F91x
🤐
🤑
🤒
🤓
🤔
🤕
🤖
🤗
🤘
🤙
🤚
🤛
🤜
🤝
🤞
🤟
U+1F92x
🤠
🤡
🤢
🤣
🤤
🤥
🤦
🤧
🤨
🤩
🤪
🤫
🤬
🤭
🤮
🤯
U+1F93x
🤰
🤱
🤲
🤳
🤴
🤵
🤶
🤷
🤸
🤹
🤺
🤻
🤼
🤽
🤾
🤿
U+1F94x
🥀
🥁
🥂
🥃
🥄
🥅
🥆
🥇
🥈
🥉
🥊
🥋
🥌
🥍
🥎
🥏
U+1F95x
🥐
🥑
🥒
🥓
🥔
🥕
🥖
🥗
🥘
🥙
🥚
🥛
🥜
🥝
🥞
🥟
U+1F96x
🥠
🥡
🥢
🥣
🥤
🥥
🥦
🥧
🥨
🥩
🥪
🥫
🥬
🥭
🥮
🥯
U+1F97x
🥰
🥱
🥲
🥳
🥴
🥵
🥶
🥷
🥸
🥹
🥺
🥻
🥼
🥽
🥾
🥿
U+1F98x
🦀
🦁
🦂
🦃
🦄
🦅
🦆
🦇
🦈
🦉
🦊
🦋
🦌
🦍
🦎
🦏
U+1F99x
🦐
🦑
🦒
🦓
🦔
🦕
🦖
🦗
🦘
🦙
🦚
🦛
🦜
🦝
🦞
🦟
U+1F9Ax
🦠
🦡
🦢
🦣
🦤
🦥
🦦
🦧
🦨
🦩
🦪
🦫
🦬
🦭
🦮
🦯
U+1F9Bx
🦰
🦱
🦲
🦳
🦴
🦵
🦶
🦷
🦸
🦹
🦺
🦻
🦼
🦽
🦾
🦿
U+1F9Cx
🧀
🧁
🧂
🧃
🧄
🧅
🧆
🧇
🧈
🧉
🧊
🧋
🧌
🧍
🧎
🧏
U+1F9Dx
🧐
🧑
🧒
🧓
🧔
🧕
🧖
🧗
🧘
🧙
🧚
🧛
🧜
🧝
🧞
🧟
U+1F9Ex
🧠
🧡
🧢
🧣
🧤
🧥
🧦
🧧
🧨
🧩
🧪
🧫
🧬
🧭
🧮
🧯
U+1F9Fx
🧰
🧱
🧲
🧳
🧴
🧵
🧶
🧷
🧸
🧹
🧺
🧻
🧼
🧽
🧾
🧿
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 15.1

Emoji modifiers

The Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block has 45 emoji that represent people or body parts. These are designed to be used with the set of "Emoji modifiers" defined in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. These are modifier characters intended to define the skin colour to be used for the emoji, based on the Fitzpatrick scale: [4]

The following table shows the full combinations of the "human emoji" characters with each of the five modifiers, which should display each character in each of the five skin tones provided a suitable font is installed on the system and the rendering software is capable of handling modifier characters:

Human emoji
U+1F90C1F90F1F9181F9191F91A1F91B1F91C1F91D1F91E1F91F1F9261F930
emoji🤌🤏🤘🤙🤚🤛🤜🤝🤞🤟🤦🤰
FITZ-1-2🤌🏻🤏🏻🤘🏻🤙🏻🤚🏻🤛🏻🤜🏻🤝🏻🤞🏻🤟🏻🤦🏻🤰🏻
FITZ-3🤌🏼🤏🏼🤘🏼🤙🏼🤚🏼🤛🏼🤜🏼🤝🏼🤞🏼🤟🏼🤦🏼🤰🏼
FITZ-4🤌🏽🤏🏽🤘🏽🤙🏽🤚🏽🤛🏽🤜🏽🤝🏽🤞🏽🤟🏽🤦🏽🤰🏽
FITZ-5🤌🏾🤏🏾🤘🏾🤙🏾🤚🏾🤛🏾🤜🏾🤝🏾🤞🏾🤟🏾🤦🏾🤰🏾
FITZ-6🤌🏿🤏🏿🤘🏿🤙🏿🤚🏿🤛🏿🤜🏿🤝🏿🤞🏿🤟🏿🤦🏿🤰🏿
U+1F9311F9321F9331F9341F9351F9361F9371F9381F9391F93D1F93E1F977
emoji🤱🤲🤳🤴🤵🤶🤷🤸🤹🤽🤾🥷
FITZ-1-2🤱🏻🤲🏻🤳🏻🤴🏻🤵🏻🤶🏻🤷🏻🤸🏻🤹🏻🤽🏻🤾🏻🥷🏻
FITZ-3🤱🏼🤲🏼🤳🏼🤴🏼🤵🏼🤶🏼🤷🏼🤸🏼🤹🏼🤽🏼🤾🏼🥷🏼
FITZ-4🤱🏽🤲🏽🤳🏽🤴🏽🤵🏽🤶🏽🤷🏽🤸🏽🤹🏽🤽🏽🤾🏽🥷🏽
FITZ-5🤱🏾🤲🏾🤳🏾🤴🏾🤵🏾🤶🏾🤷🏾🤸🏾🤹🏾🤽🏾🤾🏾🥷🏾
FITZ-6🤱🏿🤲🏿🤳🏿🤴🏿🤵🏿🤶🏿🤷🏿🤸🏿🤹🏿🤽🏿🤾🏿🥷🏿
U+1F9B51F9B61F9B81F9B91F9BB1F9CD1F9CE1F9CF1F9D11F9D21F9D31F9D4
emoji🦵🦶🦸🦹🦻🧍🧎🧏🧑🧒🧓🧔
FITZ-1-2🦵🏻🦶🏻🦸🏻🦹🏻🦻🏻🧍🏻🧎🏻🧏🏻🧑🏻🧒🏻🧓🏻🧔🏻
FITZ-3🦵🏼🦶🏼🦸🏼🦹🏼🦻🏼🧍🏼🧎🏼🧏🏼🧑🏼🧒🏼🧓🏼🧔🏼
FITZ-4🦵🏽🦶🏽🦸🏽🦹🏽🦻🏽🧍🏽🧎🏽🧏🏽🧑🏽🧒🏽🧓🏽🧔🏽
FITZ-5🦵🏾🦶🏾🦸🏾🦹🏾🦻🏾🧍🏾🧎🏾🧏🏾🧑🏾🧒🏾🧓🏾🧔🏾
FITZ-6🦵🏿🦶🏿🦸🏿🦹🏿🦻🏿🧍🏿🧎🏿🧏🏿🧑🏿🧒🏿🧓🏿🧔🏿
U+1F9D51F9D61F9D71F9D81F9D91F9DA1F9DB1F9DC1F9DD
emoji🧕🧖🧗🧘🧙🧚🧛🧜🧝
FITZ-1-2🧕🏻🧖🏻🧗🏻🧘🏻🧙🏻🧚🏻🧛🏻🧜🏻🧝🏻
FITZ-3🧕🏼🧖🏼🧗🏼🧘🏼🧙🏼🧚🏼🧛🏼🧜🏼🧝🏼
FITZ-4🧕🏽🧖🏽🧗🏽🧘🏽🧙🏽🧚🏽🧛🏽🧜🏽🧝🏽
FITZ-5🧕🏾🧖🏾🧗🏾🧘🏾🧙🏾🧚🏾🧛🏾🧜🏾🧝🏾
FITZ-6🧕🏿🧖🏿🧗🏿🧘🏿🧙🏿🧚🏿🧛🏿🧜🏿🧝🏿

Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A and Transport and Map Symbols.

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block:

Related Research Articles

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An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation. Emoji exist in various genres, including facial expressions, common objects, places and types of weather, and animals. They are much like emoticons, except emoji are pictures rather than typographic approximations; the term "emoji" in the strict sense refers to such pictures which can be represented as encoded characters, but it is sometimes applied to messaging stickers by extension. Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e + moji; the resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental. The ISO 15924 script code for emoji is Zsye.

Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.

Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.

Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. In addition to this block, Unicode includes full styled mathematical alphabets, although Unicode does not explicitly categorize these characters as being "letterlike."

Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF, which contains various common symbols which are related to and used in the various technical, programming language, and academic professions. For example:

In computing, a Unicode symbol is a Unicode character which is not part of a script used to write a natural language, but is nonetheless available for use as part of a text.

Supplemental Arrows-B is a Unicode block containing miscellaneous arrows, arrow tails, crossing arrows used in knot descriptions, curved arrows, and harpoons.

Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows is a Unicode block containing arrows and geometric shapes with various fills, astrological symbols, technical symbols, intonation marks, and others.

The Latin-1 Supplement is the second Unicode block in the Unicode standard. It encodes the upper range of ISO 8859-1: 80 (U+0080) - FF (U+00FF). C1 Controls (0080–009F) are not graphic. This block ranges from U+0080 to U+00FF, contains 128 characters and includes the C1 controls, Latin-1 punctuation and symbols, 30 pairs of majuscule and minuscule accented Latin characters and 2 mathematical operators.

Unicode contains a number of characters that represent various cultural, political, and religious symbols. Most, but not all, of these symbols are in the Miscellaneous Symbols block.

Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement is a Unicode block consisting of Latin alphabet characters and Arabic numerals enclosed in circles, ovals or boxes, used for a variety of purposes. It is encoded in the range U+1F100–U+1F1FF in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing meteorological and astronomical symbols, emoji characters largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS, and characters originally from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts found in Microsoft Windows.

General Punctuation is a Unicode block containing punctuation, spacing, and formatting characters for use with all scripts and writing systems. Included are the defined-width spaces, joining formats, directional formats, smart quotes, archaic and novel punctuation such as the interrobang, and invisible mathematical operators.

Dingbats is a Unicode block containing dingbats. Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats; it was the Unicode block to have imported characters from a specific typeface; Unicode later adopted a policy that excluded symbols with "no demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text", and thus no further dingbat typefaces were encoded until Webdings and Wingdings were encoded in Version 7.0. Some ornaments are also an emoji, having optional presentation variants.

Arrows is a Unicode block containing line, curve, and semicircle symbols terminating in barbs or arrows.

Enclosed Ideographic Supplement is a Unicode block containing forms of characters and words from Chinese, Japanese and Korean enclosed within or stylised as squares, brackets, or circles. It contains three such characters containing one or more kana, and many containing CJK ideographs. Many of its characters were added for compatibility with the Japanese ARIB STD-B24 standard. Six symbols from Chinese folk religion were added in Unicode version 10.

Emoticons is a Unicode block containing emoticons or emoji. Most of them are intended as representations of faces, although some of them include hand gestures or non-human characters.

Transport and Map Symbols is a Unicode block containing transportation and map icons, largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' emoji implementations of Shift JIS, and to encode characters in the Wingdings and Wingdings 2 character sets.

Variation Selectors is the block name of a Unicode code point block containing 16 variation selectors used to specify a glyph variant for a preceding character. They are currently used to specify standardized variation sequences for mathematical symbols, emoji symbols, 'Phags-pa letters, and CJK unified ideographs corresponding to CJK compatibility ideographs. At present only standardized variation sequences with VS1, VS2, VS3, VS15 and VS16 have been defined; VS15 and VS16 are reserved to request that a character should be displayed as text or as an emoji respectively.

Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A is a Unicode block containing emoji characters. It extends the set of symbols included in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block.

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  4. 1 2 "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  5. ↑ "There won't be a rifle emoji because Apple wouldn't allow it on iOS". The Verge. 2016-06-17.
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