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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.
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]
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 ...
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.
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. Emoji with a default presentation of "text" are followed by U+FE0F VS16 to indicate an "emoji" presentation.
These were defined by October 2010 as part of the Unicode 6.0 support for emoji, as an alternative to encoding separate characters for each country flag. Although they can be displayed as Roman letters, it is intended that implementations may choose to display them in other ways, such as by using national flags .
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 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".