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Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others.In its original incarnation, the code points U+0900..U+0954 were a direct copy of the characters A0-F4 from the 1988 ISCII standard.
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
Specials is a short Unicode block of characters allocated at the very end of the Basic Multilingual Plane, at U+FFF0–FFFF, containing these code points: . U+FFF9 INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR, marks start of annotated text
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.
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.
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 ...