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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 twelve ( # , * and 0 – 9 ) are base characters for keycap emoji sequences. [1] [2] [3]
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.
Emoji became increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after Unicode began encoding emoji into the Unicode Standard. [7] [8] [9] They are now considered to be a large part of popular culture in the West and around the world. [10] [11] In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the Face with Tears of Joy emoji (😂) the word of the year. [12] [13]
Per the Unicode Standard "the main purpose of such [regional indicator symbol] pairs is to provide unambiguous roundtrip mappings to certain characters used in the emoji core sets" [21] specifically the ten national flags: [22] 🇨🇳, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇮🇹, 🇯🇵, 🇰🇷, 🇷🇺, and 🇺🇸.
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 Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] {{Unicode chart Dingbats}} provides a table listing the characters in the Dingbats block of Unicode. 33 characters in this block are considered emoji ; their cells can be highlighted using an optional parameter.
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1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0 The names from the mouseover text above work if used directly, and usually if condensed to a key word ("grinning" or "unamused" for example). The templates involving the cat have shortcuts like "cat wry", "heart-shaped" is abbreviated to "heart", "open mouth" is usually omitted, closed = "tightly-closed eyes".