Plane SMP Symbol sets Emoji Unused 0 reserved code points | Scripts Common Assigned 768 code points | |
Range U+1F300..U+1F5FF
(768 code points) | ||
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.
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Emoji
The block contains 637 emoji: U+1F300–U+1F321, U+1F324–U+1F393, U+1F396–U+1F397, U+1F399–U+1F39B, U+1F39E–U+1F3F0, U+1F3F3–U+1F3F5, U+1F3F7–U+1F4FD, U+1F4FF–U+1F53D, U+1F549–U+1F54E, U+1F550–U+1F567, U+1F56F–U+1F570, U+1F573–U+1F57A, U+1F587, U+1F58A–U+1F58D, U+1F590, U+1F595–U+1F596, U+1F5A4–U+1F5A5, U+1F5A8, U+1F5B1–U+1F5B2, U+1F5BC, U+1F5C2–U+1F5C4, U+1F5D1–U+1F5D3, U+1F5DC–U+1F5DE, U+1F5E1, U+1F5E3, U+1F5E8, U+1F5EF, U+1F5F3 and U+1F5FA–U+1F5FF.
The block has 156 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following 78 base characters: U+1F321, U+1F324–U+1F32C, U+1F336, U+1F37D, U+1F396–U+1F397, U+1F399–U+1F39B, U+1F39E–U+1F39F, U+1F3CB–U+1F3CE, U+1F3D4–U+1F3DF, U+1F3F3, U+1F3F5, U+1F3F7, U+1F43F, U+1F441, U+1F4FD, U+1F549–U+1F54A, U+1F56F–U+1F570, U+1F573–U+1F579, U+1F587, U+1F58A–U+1F58D, U+1F590, U+1F5A5, U+1F5A8, U+1F5B1–U+1F5B2, U+1F5BC, U+1F5C2–U+1F5C4, U+1F5D1–U+1F5D3, U+1F5DC–U+1F5DE, U+1F5E1, U+1F5E3, U+1F5E8, U+1F5EF, U+1F5F3 and U+1F5FA. All of these base characters default to a text presentation.
Emoji modifiers
The Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictoraphs block has 49 emoji that represent people or body parts. For these, a set of "Emoji modifiers" are defined. These are modifier characters intended to define the skin colour to be used for the emoji, based on the Fitzpatrick scale:
U+1F3FB EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-1-2 U+1F3FC EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-3 U+1F3FD EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-4 U+1F3FE EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-5 U+1F3FF EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-6The draft document suggesting the introduction of this system for the representation of "human diversity" was submitted in 2015 by Mark Davis of Google and Peter Edberg of Apple Inc.
Online commentators have criticized the attempts of the Unicode Consortium to reflect postulates of political correctness in the contemporary US American culture wars as an empty gesture at best, and "insulting" (to users of non-Western scripts which have still not been properly implemented) at worst.
Table of emojis with modifiers
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, platforms without emoji modifier support may show as boxes:
Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Transport and Map Symbols.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block: