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This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...
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.
Emoji Unicode name Codepoints Added in Unicode block Meaning 😀 Grinning Face U+1F600: Emoji 1.0 in 2015 Emoticons: Grinning: 😂 Face with Tears of Joy U+1F602: Emoji 1.0 in 2015 Emoticons see Face with Tears of Joy emoji: 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes U+1F60D: Emoji 1.0 in 2015 Emoticons see Face with Heart Eyes 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.
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 Unicode version 16.0, there are 155,063 characters with code points, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets.This article includes the 1,062 characters in the Multilingual European Character Set 2 subset, and some additional related characters.
Users can create emoji symbols using the "Characters" special input panel from almost any native application by selecting the "Edit" menu and pulling down to "Special Characters", or by the key combination ⌘ Command+⌥ Option+T. The emoji keyboard was first available in Japan with the release of iPhone OS version 2.2 in 2008. [160]
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 .