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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).
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2. ^ Empty areas indicate code points assigned to non-emoticon characters 3. ^ U+263A and U+263B are inherited from Microsoft code page 437 introduced in 1981, although inspired by older systems
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.
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: 🕴️
The Miscellaneous Symbols block has two emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF to provide for a range of human skin color using the Fitzpatrick scale : [ 7 ]
33 of the 192 code points in the Dingbats block are considered emoji. All of the 80 code points in the Emoticons block are considered emoji. 83 of the 256 code points in the Miscellaneous Symbols block are considered emoji. 637 of the 768 code points in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block are considered emoji. 242 of the 256 code ...
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 format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
The Universal Coded Character Set (UCS, Unicode) is a standard set of characters defined by the international standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) (plus amendments to that standard), which is the basis of many character encodings, improving as characters from previously unrepresented writing systems are added.