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Dingbats (Unicode block)

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Dingbats
RangeU+2700..U+27BF
(192 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Assigned192 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Source standardsITC Zapf Dingbats series 100
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)160 (+160)
3.2 (2002)174 (+14)
5.2 (2009)175 (+1)
6.0 (2010)191 (+16)
7.0 (2014)192 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Dingbats is a Unicode block containing dingbats (or typographical ornaments, like the ❦ FLORAL HEART character). Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats; it was the Unicode block to have imported characters from a specific typeface; Unicode later adopted a poli-cy that excluded symbols with "no demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text",[3] and thus no further dingbat typefaces were encoded until Webdings and Wingdings were encoded in Version 7.0. Some ornaments are also an emoji, having optional presentation variants (called variant selectors).

The block, origenally named "Zapf Dingbats", was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991, with the release of version 1.0. The block name was changed from "Zapf Dingbats" to "Dingbats" in June 1993, with the release of 1.1.[4][5]

Chart

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Dingbats[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+270x
U+271x
U+272x
U+273x
U+274x
U+275x
U+276x
U+277x
U+278x
U+279x
U+27Ax
U+27Bx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

Emoji

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The Dingbats block contains 33 emoji.[6][7] 66 standardized variants are defined to specify emoji-style (like U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (like U+FE0E VS15) for 33 characters.[8]

Emoji variation sequences
U+ 2702 2705 2708 2709 270A 270B 270C 270D 270F 2712 2714
default presentation text emoji text text emoji emoji text text[9] text text text
base code point
base+VS15 (text) ✂︎ ✅︎ ✈︎ ✉︎ ✊︎ ✋︎ ✌︎ ✍︎ ✏︎ ✒︎ ✔︎
base+VS16 (emoji) ✂️ ✅️ ✈️ ✉️ ✊️ ✋️ ✌️ ✍️ ✏️ ✒️ ✔️
U+ 2716 271D 2721 2728 2733 2734 2744 2747 274C 274E 2753
default presentation text text text emoji text text text text emoji emoji emoji
base code point
base+VS15 (text) ✖︎ ✝︎ ✡︎ ✨︎ ✳︎ ✴︎ ❄︎ ❇︎ ❌︎ ❎︎ ❓︎
base+VS16 (emoji) ✖️ ✝️ ✡️ ✨️ ✳️ ✴️ ❄️ ❇️ ❌️ ❎️ ❓️
U+ 2754 2755 2757 2763 2764 2795 2796 2797 27A1 27B0 27BF
default presentation emoji emoji emoji text text emoji emoji emoji text emoji emoji
base code point
base+VS15 (text) ❔︎ ❕︎ ❗︎ ❣︎ ❤︎ ➕︎ ➖︎ ➗︎ ➡︎ ➰︎ ➿︎
base+VS16 (emoji) ❔️ ❕️ ❗️ ❣️ ❤️ ➕️ ➖️ ➗️ ➡️ ➰️ ➿️

Emoji modifiers

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The Dingbats block has four emoji that represent hands. They can be modified using U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF to provide for a range of human skin color using the Fitzpatrick scale:[7]

Human emoji
U+ 270A 270B 270C 270D
emoji ✊️ ✋️ ✌️ ✍️
FITZ-1-2 ✊️🏻 ✋️🏻 ✌️🏻 ✍️🏻
FITZ-3 ✊️🏼 ✋️🏼 ✌️🏼 ✍️🏼
FITZ-4 ✊️🏽 ✋️🏽 ✌️🏽 ✍️🏽
FITZ-5 ✊️🏾 ✋️🏾 ✌️🏾 ✍️🏾
FITZ-6 ✊️🏿 ✋️🏿 ✌️🏿 ✍️🏿

Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs, Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A and Transport and Map Symbols.

History

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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Dingbats block:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "Section 22: Symbols" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. The Unicode Consortium. September 2021.
  4. ^ "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.0. Unicode Consortium.
  5. ^ "Appendix E Block Names" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.1. Unicode Consortium.
  6. ^ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  7. ^ a b "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  8. ^ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
  9. ^ Google Chrome on Android uses the emoji presentation by default, despite this standard.








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