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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 12 (#, * and 0–9) are base characters for keycap emoji sequences.

33 of the 192 code points in the Dingbats block are considered emoji. All of the 80 code points in the Emoticons block are considered emoji. 83 of the 256 code points in the Miscellaneous Symbols block are considered emoji. 637 of the 768 code points in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block are considered emoji. 242 of the 256 code points in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block are considered emoji. All of the 114 code points in the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block are considered emoji. 105 of the 118 code points in the Transport and Map Symbols block are considered emoji.

Unicode single emojis

Additional emoji can be found in the following Unicode blocks: Arrows (8 code points considered emoji), Basic Latin (12), CJK Symbols and Punctuation (2), Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (41), Enclosed Alphanumerics (1), Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (2), Enclosed Ideographic Supplement (15), General Punctuation (2), Geometric Shapes (8), Geometric Shapes Extended (13), Latin-1 Supplement (2), Letterlike Symbols (2), Mahjong Tiles (1), Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (7), Miscellaneous Technical (18), Playing Cards (1), and Supplemental Arrows-B (2).

Description and associated meaning

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Faces

Notable emojis with faces include:

Food

Notable food-based emojis include:

Miscellaneous

Additions

Some vendors, most notably Microsoft, Samsung and HTC, add emoji presentation to some other existing Unicode characters or coin their own ZWJ sequences.

Microsoft displayed all Mahjong tiles (U+1F000‥2B, not just U+1F004 🀄 MAHJONG TILE RED DRAGON) and alternative card suits (U+2661 ♡ WHITE HEART SUIT, U+2662 ♢ WHITE DIAMOND SUIT, U+2664 ♤ WHITE SPADE SUIT, U+2667 ♧ WHITE CLUB SUIT) as emoji. They also supported additional pencils (U+270E ✎ LOWER RIGHT PENCIL, U+2710 ✐ UPPER RIGHT PENCIL) and a heart-shaped bullet (U+2765 ❥ ROTATED HEAVY BLACK HEART BULLET).

While only U+261D ☝ WHITE UP POINTING INDEX is officially an emoji, Microsoft and Samsung add the other three directions as well (U+261C ☜ WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX, U+261E ☞ WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX, U+261F ☟ WHITE DOWN POINTING INDEX). Microsoft no longer supports these emojis now.

Both vendors pair the standard checked ballot box emoji U+2611 ☑ BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK with its crossed variant U+2612 ☒ BALLOT BOX WITH X, but only Samsung also has the empty ballot box U+2610 ☐ BALLOT BOX.

Samsung almost completely covers the rest of the Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600‥FF) as emoji, which includes Chess pieces, game die faces, some traffic sign as well as genealogical and astronomical symbols for instance.

HTC supports most additional pictographs from the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (U+1F300‥5FF) and Transport and Map Symbols (U+1F680‥FF) blocks. Some of them are also shown as emoji on Samsung devices.

The open source projects Emojidex and Emojitwo are trying to cover all of these extensions established by major vendors.

See also

• Dingbats (Unicode block)
• Emoticons (Unicode block)
• Miscellaneous Symbols
• Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
• Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
• Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A
• Transport and Map Symbols

References

1. "Emoji Counts". Retrieved 2024-11-25.
2. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2024-05-01.
3. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2024-08-15.

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Unicode background	Single emojis in Unicode Blocks Dingbats Emoticons Miscellaneous Symbols Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs Transport and Map Symbols Regional indicator symbol Implementation Unicode Consortium
Related people	Harvey Ball Jeremy Burge Mark Davis Michael Everson Shigetaka Kurita Josh Gare
Typefaces	Apple Color Blob Noto Segoe UI
Notable emoji	Eggplant (🍆) Face with Heart Eyes (😍) Face with Tears of Joy (😂) Man in Business Suit Levitating (🕴) Peach (🍑) Person with Headscarf (🧕) Pineapple (🍍) Poop (💩) Pistol (🔫) Hearts in Unicode
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