Plane SMP Assigned 103 code points | Scripts Common | |
Range U+1F680..U+1F6FF(128 code points) Symbol sets Map symbolsTransport icons Unused 25 reserved code points | ||
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.
Contents
Emoji
The Transport and Map Symbols block contains 92 emoji: U+1F680–U+1F6C5, U+1F6CB–U+1F6D2, U+1F6E0–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6EB–U+1F6EC, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3–U+1F6F6.
The block has 26 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following thirteen base characters: U+1F6CB, U+1F6CD–U+1F6CF, U+1F6E0–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3. All of these base characters default to a text presentation.
Diversity
The Transport and Map Symbols block has six emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF to provide for a range of skin tones using the Fitzpatrick scale:
Additional human emoji can be found is other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs and Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Transport and Map Symbols block: