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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).
Unicode 16.0 specifies a total of 3,790 emoji using 1,431 characters spread across 24 blocks, of which 26 are Regional indicator symbols that combine in pairs to form flag emoji, and 12 (#, * and 0–9) are base characters for keycap emoji sequences. [1] [2] [3] 33 of the 192 code points in the Dingbats block are considered emoji
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the ...
A simple smiley. 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.
The emoji presentation sequences refine and colorize the text presentation of the playing card suits. ♠︎♥︎♦︎♣︎ becomes ♠️♥️♦️♣️. This was done by appending the U+FE0F code point to the textual code points shown far above. For example, the black heart suit ♥ becomes the red heart emoji by ♥️.
Emoji became increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after Unicode began encoding emoji into the Unicode Standard. [6] [7] [8] They are now considered to be a large part of popular culture in the West and around the world. [9] [10] In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the Face with Tears of Joy emoji (😂) the word of the year. [11] [12]
Unicode chart single emojis}} provides a list of single Unicode emoji code points. It uses the same style as the Unicode charts but emoji are not contained in a single Unicode block (and there's no Unicode block named "Emoji"). The list only contains singletons: Sequences containing multiple emoji are not shown.
Unicode encodes 3790 emoji, with the continued development thereof conducted by the Consortium as a part of the standard. [4] Moreover, the widespread adoption of Unicode was in large part responsible for the initial popularization of emoji outside of Japan. Unicode is ultimately capable of encoding more than 1.1 million characters.