Emoticons (Unicode block)
| Emoticons | |
|---|---|
| Range |
U+1F600..U+1F64F (80 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Assigned | 80 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.0 | 63 (+63) |
| 6.1 | 76 (+13) |
| 7.0 | 78 (+2) |
| 8.0 | 80 (+2) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Emoticons is a Unicode block containing graphic representations of faces, which are often associated with classic emoticons. They exist largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS.
All of the characters in the Emoticons block are emoji.[3][4]
| Emoticons[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+1F60x | 😀 | 😁 | 😂 | 😃 | 😄 | 😅 | 😆 | 😇 | 😈 | 😉 | 😊 | 😋 | 😌 | 😍 | 😎 | 😏 |
| U+1F61x | 😐 | 😑 | 😒 | 😓 | 😔 | 😕 | 😖 | 😗 | 😘 | 😙 | 😚 | 😛 | 😜 | 😝 | 😞 | 😟 |
| U+1F62x | 😠 | 😡 | 😢 | 😣 | 😤 | 😥 | 😦 | 😧 | 😨 | 😩 | 😪 | 😫 | 😬 | 😭 | 😮 | 😯 |
| U+1F63x | 😰 | 😱 | 😲 | 😳 | 😴 | 😵 | 😶 | 😷 | 😸 | 😹 | 😺 | 😻 | 😼 | 😽 | 😾 | 😿 |
| U+1F64x | 🙀 | 🙁 | 🙂 | 🙃 | 🙄 | 🙅 | 🙆 | 🙇 | 🙈 | 🙉 | 🙊 | 🙋 | 🙌 | 🙍 | 🙎 | 🙏 |
Notes
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Basic Smiling and frowning faces are defined in the Miscellaneous Symbols block and additional emoticons were later added to the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block in Unicode 8.0.
Diversity
The Emoticons block has eight 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:[4]
| U+ | 1F645 | 1F646 | 1F647 | 1F64B | 1F64C | 1F64D | 1F64E | 1F64F |
| emoji | 🙅 | 🙆 | 🙇 | 🙋 | 🙌 | 🙍 | 🙎 | 🙏 |
| FITZ-1-2 | 🙅🏻 | 🙆🏻 | 🙇🏻 | 🙋🏻 | 🙌🏻 | 🙍🏻 | 🙎🏻 | 🙏🏻 |
| FITZ-3 | 🙅🏼 | 🙆🏼 | 🙇🏼 | 🙋🏼 | 🙌🏼 | 🙍🏼 | 🙎🏼 | 🙏🏼 |
| FITZ-4 | 🙅🏽 | 🙆🏽 | 🙇🏽 | 🙋🏽 | 🙌🏽 | 🙍🏽 | 🙎🏽 | 🙏🏽 |
| FITZ-5 | 🙅🏾 | 🙆🏾 | 🙇🏾 | 🙋🏾 | 🙌🏾 | 🙍🏾 | 🙎🏾 | 🙏🏾 |
| FITZ-6 | 🙅🏿 | 🙆🏿 | 🙇🏿 | 🙋🏿 | 🙌🏿 | 🙍🏿 | 🙎🏿 | 🙏🏿 |
Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Transport and Map Symbols.
References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2016-11-22.
- 1 2 "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2016-11-14.