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Unicode chart Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs}} provides a table listing the characters in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block of Unicode. The display can be changed to show only rows containing emoticons using an optional parameter.
These emoticons first arose in Japan, where they are referred to as kaomoji (literally "face characters"). The base form consists of a sequence of an opening round parenthesis, a character for the left eye, a character for the mouth or nose, a character for the right eye and a closing round parenthesis.
Emoticons is a Unicode block containing emoticons or emoji. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Most of them are intended as representations of faces , although some of them include hand gestures or non-human characters (a horned " imp ", monkeys , cartoon cats ).
As of version 16.0 (2024), Unicode defines presentation sequences for 371 characters. [168] However, the Unicode Technical Committee has since determined that unifying colourful emoji characters with textual symbols and dingbats was a "mistake", and resolved to allocate new code points rather than defining new presentation sequences. [169]
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 .
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.
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing meteorological and astronomical symbols, emoji characters [3] largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS, and characters originally from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts found in Microsoft Windows.
The Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block contains seven emoji: U+2B05–U+2B07, U+2B1B–U+2B1C, U+2B50 and U+2B55. [3] [4]The block has fourteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the seven emoji.