Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...
containing arrows and geometric shapes with various fills, astrological symbols, technical symbols, intonation marks, and others.
Block
Emoji
The Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block contains seven
emoji
An emoji ( ; plural emoji or emojis) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversat ...
:
U+2B05–U+2B07, U+2B1B–U+2B1C, U+2B50 and U+2B55.
The block has fourteen
standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the
seven emoji.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block:
See also
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Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode
The Unicode Standard encodes almost all standard characters used in mathematics.
Unicode Technical Report #25 provides comprehensive information about the character repertoire, their properties, and guidelines for implementation.
Mathematical op ...
References
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