Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600â€"U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.
Tables
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Definitions
Compact table
Emoji
The Miscellaneous Symbols block contains 80 emoji: U+2600â€"U+2604, U+260E, U+2611, U+2614â€"U+2615, U+2618, U+261D, U+2620, U+2622â€"U+2623, U+2626, U+262A, U+262Eâ€"U+262F, U+2638â€"U+263A, U+2640, U+2642, U+2648â€"U+2653, U+2660, U+2663, U+2665â€"U+2666, U+2668, U+267B, U+267F, U+2692â€"U+2697, U+2699, U+269Bâ€"U+269C, U+26A0â€"U+26A1, U+26AAâ€"U+26AB, U+26B0â€"U+26B1, U+26BDâ€"U+26BE, U+26C4â€"U+26C5, U+26C8, U+26CEâ€"U+26CF, U+26D1, U+26D3â€"U+26D4, U+26E9â€"U+26EA, U+26F0â€"U+26F5, U+26F7â€"U+26FA and U+26FD.
The block has 158 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following 79 base characters: U+2600â€"U+2604, U+260E, U+2611, U+2614â€"U+2615, U+2618, U+261D, U+2620, U+2622â€"U+2623, U+2626, U+262A, U+262Eâ€"U+262F, U+2638â€"U+263A, U+2640, U+2642, U+2648â€"U+2653, U+2660, U+2663, U+2665â€"U+2666, U+2668, U+267B, U+267F, U+2692â€"U+2697, U+2699, U+269Bâ€"U+269C, U+26A0â€"U+26A1, U+26AAâ€"U+26AB, U+26B0â€"U+26B1, U+26BDâ€"U+26BE, U+26C4â€"U+26C5, U+26C8, U+26CF, U+26D1, U+26D3â€"U+26D4, U+26E9â€"U+26EA, U+26F0â€"U+26F5, U+26F7â€"U+26FA and U+26FD.
Diversity
The Miscellaneous Symbols block has two emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FBâ€"U+1F3FF to provide for a range of skin tones using the Fitzpatrick scale:
Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Transport and Map Symbols.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols block:
See also
- Unicode Symbols
- Apple Symbols â€" typeface that supports this character set.
- Astronomical symbols
- Cultural, political, and religious symbols in Unicode
- Wingdings
- Semi graphical characters
References
External links
- Unipad.org Miscellaneous Symbol plane bitmap page
- Symbols used in email subject lines
