Emoticons is a Unicode block containing emoticons or emoji.[3][4][5] Most of them are intended as representations of faces, although some of them include hand gestures or non-human characters (a horned "imp", monkeys, cartoon cats).
| Emoticons | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1F600..U+1F64F (80 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Emoji Emoticons |
| Assigned | 80 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.0 (2010) | 63 (+63) |
| 6.1 (2012) | 76 (+13) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 78 (+2) |
| 8.0 (2015) | 80 (+2) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
The block was first proposed in 2008, and first implemented in Unicode version 6.0 (2010). The reason for its adoption was largely for compatibility with a de facto standard that had been established by the early 2000s by Japanese telephone carriers, encoded in unused ranges with lead bytes 0xF5 to 0xF9 of the Shift JIS standard.[6] KDDI has gone much further than this, and has introduced hundreds more in the space with lead bytes 0xF3 and 0xF4.[7]
Descriptions
edit| 1F600 | 😀 | grinning face |
| 1F601 | 😁 | grinning face with smiling eyes |
| 1F602 | 😂 | face with tears of joy |
| 1F603 | 😃 | smiling face with open mouth (c.f. ☺) |
| 1F604 | 😄 | smiling face with open mouth and smiling eyes |
| 1F605 | 😅 | smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat |
| 1F606 | 😆 | smiling face with open mouth and tightly-closed eyes |
| 1F607 | 😇 | smiling face with halo |
| 1F608 | 😈 | smiling face with horns (c.f. 👿 "imp") |
| 1F609 | 😉 | winking face |
| 1F60A | 😊 | smiling face with smiling eyes |
| 1F60B | 😋 | face savouring delicious food |
| 1F60C | 😌 | relieved face |
| 1F60D | 😍 | smiling face with heart-shaped eyes |
| 1F60E | 😎 | smiling face with sunglasses |
| 1F60F | 😏 | smirking face |
| 1F610 | 😐 | neutral face (also used for "west wind" 西 in some Mahjong annotation) |
| 1F611 | 😑 | expressionless face |
| 1F612 | 😒 | unamused face |
| 1F613 | 😓 | face with cold sweat |
| 1F614 | 😔 | pensive face |
| 1F615 | 😕 | confused face |
| 1F616 | 😖 | confounded face |
| 1F617 | 😗 | kissing face |
| 1F618 | 😘 | face throwing a kiss |
| 1F619 | 😙 | kissing face with smiling eyes |
| 1F61A | 😚 | kissing face with closed eyes |
| 1F61B | 😛 | face with stuck-out tongue |
| 1F61C | 😜 | face with stuck-out tongue and winking eye |
| 1F61D | 😝 | face with stuck-out tongue and tightly-closed eyes |
| 1F61E | 😞 | disappointed face |
| 1F61F | 😟 | worried face |
| 1F620 | 😠 | angry face |
| 1F621 | 😡 | pouting face |
| 1F622 | 😢 | crying face |
| 1F623 | 😣 | persevering face |
| 1F624 | 😤 | Unicode: face with look of triumph, Apple: huffing with anger face |
| 1F625 | 😥 | disappointed but relieved face |
| 1F626 | 😦 | frowning face with open mouth |
| 1F627 | 😧 | anguished face |
| 1F628 | 😨 | fearful face |
| 1F629 | 😩 | weary face |
| 1F62A | 😪 | sleepy face |
| 1F62B | 😫 | tired face |
| 1F62C | 😬 | grimacing face |
| 1F62D | 😭 | loudly crying face |
| 1F62E | 😮 | face with open mouth |
| 1F62F | 😯 | hushed face |
| 1F630 | 😰 | face with open mouth and cold sweat |
| 1F631 | 😱 | face screaming in fear |
| 1F632 | 😲 | astonished face |
| 1F633 | 😳 | flushed face |
| 1F634 | 😴 | sleeping face |
| 1F635 | 😵 | dizzy face |
| 1F636 | 😶 | face without mouth (c.f. ⚇ "white circle with two dots") |
| 1F637 | 😷 | face with medical mask |
| 1F638 | 😸 | grinning cat face with smiling eyes |
| 1F639 | 😹 | cat face with tears of joy |
| 1F63A | 😺 | smiling cat face with open mouth |
| 1F63B | 😻 | smiling cat face with heart-shape eyes |
| 1F63C | 😼 | cat face with wry smile |
| 1F63D | 😽 | kissing cat face with closed eyes |
| 1F63E | 😾 | pouting cat face |
| 1F63F | 😿 | crying cat face |
| 1F640 | 🙀 | weary cat face |
| 1F641 | 🙁 | slightly frowning face |
| 1F642 | 🙂 | slightly smiling face |
| 1F643 | 🙃 | upside-down face |
| 1F644 | 🙄 | face with rolling eyes |
| 1F645 | 🙅 | face with "no good" gesture, with lower arms crossed, derived from the Japanese gesture for "no". Intended as gender-neutral but represented as a woman on most platforms. |
| 1F646 | 🙆 | face with "ok" gesture, described as a person with arms raised above the head forming a "circle", interpreted as "OK sign" (derived from the Japanese gesture for "OK"). Intended as gender-neutral but represented as a woman on most platforms. |
| 1F647 | 🙇 | person bowing (dogeza), depicted as a man on most platforms. |
| 1F648 | 🙈 | see-no-evil monkey |
| 1F649 | 🙉 | hear-no-evil monkey |
| 1F64A | 🙊 | speak-no-evil monkey |
| 1F64B | 🙋 | happy person raising one hand, a person raising one hand as if to answer a question, intended as gender-neutral but represented as a woman on most platforms. |
| 1F64C | 🙌 | person raising both hands in celebration, on many platforms depicted as just the raised hands (Apple name: "Hands Raised in Celebration"). |
| 1F64D | 🙍 | person frowning |
| 1F64E | 🙎 | person with pouting face |
| 1F64F | 🙏 | person with folded hands (to indicate variously sorrow, regret, pleading, praying, bowing, thanking). In most platforms depicted as just the hand, pressed together but not folded (Apple name: "Hands Pressed Together"). |
Chart
edit| Emoticons[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+1F60x | 😀 | 😁 | 😂 | 😃 | 😄 | 😅 | 😆 | 😇 | 😈 | 😉 | 😊 | 😋 | 😌 | 😍 | 😎 | 😏 |
| U+1F61x | 😐 | 😑 | 😒 | 😓 | 😔 | 😕 | 😖 | 😗 | 😘 | 😙 | 😚 | 😛 | 😜 | 😝 | 😞 | 😟 |
| U+1F62x | 😠 | 😡 | 😢 | 😣 | 😤 | 😥 | 😦 | 😧 | 😨 | 😩 | 😪 | 😫 | 😬 | 😭 | 😮 | 😯 |
| U+1F63x | 😰 | 😱 | 😲 | 😳 | 😴 | 😵 | 😶 | 😷 | 😸 | 😹 | 😺 | 😻 | 😼 | 😽 | 😾 | 😿 |
| U+1F64x | 🙀 | 🙁 | 🙂 | 🙃 | 🙄 | 🙅 | 🙆 | 🙇 | 🙈 | 🙉 | 🙊 | 🙋 | 🙌 | 🙍 | 🙎 | 🙏 |
Notes
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Variant forms
editEach emoticon has two variants:
- U+FE0E (VARIATION SELECTOR-15) selects text presentation (e.g. 😊︎ 😐︎ ☹︎),
- U+FE0F (VARIATION SELECTOR-16) selects emoji-style (e.g. 😊️ 😐️ ☹️).
If there is no variation selector appended, the default is the emoji-style. Example:
| Unicode code points | Result |
|---|---|
| U+1F610 (NEUTRAL FACE) | 😐 |
| U+1F610 (NEUTRAL FACE), U+FE0E (VARIATION SELECTOR-15) | 😐︎ |
| U+1F610 (NEUTRAL FACE), U+FE0F (VARIATION SELECTOR-16) | 😐️ |
Emoji modifiers
editThe Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block has 54 emoji that represent people or body parts. A set of "Emoji modifiers" are defined for emojis that represent people or body parts. These are modifier characters intended to define the skin colour to be used for the emoji. The draft document suggesting the introduction of this system for the representation of "human diversity" was submitted in 2015 by Mark Davis of Google and Peter Edberg of Apple Inc.[8] Five symbol modifier characters were added with Unicode 8.0 to provide a range of skin tones for human emoji. These modifiers are called EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-1-2, -3, -4, -5, and -6 (U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF): 🏻 🏼 🏽 🏾 🏿. They are based on the Fitzpatrick scale for classifying human skin color.
| U+ | 1F645 | 1F646 | 1F647 | 1F64B | 1F64C | 1F64D | 1F64E | 1F64F |
| emoji | 🙅 | 🙆 | 🙇 | 🙋 | 🙌 | 🙍 | 🙎 | 🙏 |
| FITZ-1-2 | 🙅🏻 | 🙆🏻 | 🙇🏻 | 🙋🏻 | 🙌🏻 | 🙍🏻 | 🙎🏻 | 🙏🏻 |
| FITZ-3 | 🙅🏼 | 🙆🏼 | 🙇🏼 | 🙋🏼 | 🙌🏼 | 🙍🏼 | 🙎🏼 | 🙏🏼 |
| FITZ-4 | 🙅🏽 | 🙆🏽 | 🙇🏽 | 🙋🏽 | 🙌🏽 | 🙍🏽 | 🙎🏽 | 🙏🏽 |
| FITZ-5 | 🙅🏾 | 🙆🏾 | 🙇🏾 | 🙋🏾 | 🙌🏾 | 🙍🏾 | 🙎🏾 | 🙏🏾 |
| FITZ-6 | 🙅🏿 | 🙆🏿 | 🙇🏿 | 🙋🏿 | 🙌🏿 | 🙍🏿 | 🙎🏿 | 🙏🏿 |
Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs, Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A and Transport and Map Symbols.
History
editThe following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Emoticons block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | U+1F601..1F610, 1F612..1F614, 1F616, 1F618, 1F61A, 1F61C..1F61E, 1F620..1F625, 1F628..1F62B, 1F62D, 1F630..1F633, 1F635..1F640, 1F645..1F64F[b] | 63 | L2/09-007 | Lommel, Arle (2008-12-26), Comparison of Emoticons from Major Vendors | |
| L2/09-025R2 | N3582[c] | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols | |||
| L2/09-026R | N3583 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding | |||
| L2/09-027R2 | N3681 | Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data | |||
| L2/09-114 | N3607 | Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06 | |||
| L2/09-304 | Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-15), US Position on PDAM 8 | ||||
| L2/09-370 | N3711 | Ogata, Katsuhiro; et al. (2009-10-22), A Proposal to Revise a Part of Emoticons in PDAM 8 | |||
| L2/09-371 | N3713 | Pentzlin, Karl (2009-10-22), Comment on "A proposal to Revise a Part of Emoticons in PDAM 8" (Katsuhiro Ogata et al., N3711) | |||
| L2/09-412 | N3722 | Suignard, Michel (2009-10-26), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003) | |||
| N3703 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.9j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30 | ||||
| L2/09-335R | Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "Consensus 121-C8", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes | ||||
| L2/10-036 | N3769 | Pentzlin, Karl (2010-01-26), Proposal to encode an emoticon Neutral Face | |||
| L2/10-061R | Scherer, Markus; et al. (2010-02-04), "2, 4", Emoji: Review of FPDAM8 | ||||
| L2/10-066 | N3790-ANSI | Anderson, Deborah (2010-02-05), ANSI (U.S.) NB Comments on FPDAM 8 | |||
| L2/10-015R | Moore, Lisa (2010-02-09), "D.1.3", UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes | ||||
| N3778 | Ogata, Katsuhiro; Kamichi, Koichi; Moro, Shigeki; Kawabata, Taichi; Naoi, Yasushi (2010-03-03), Updated Proposal to Change Some Glyphs and Names of Emoticons | ||||
| L2/10-089 | N3777 | KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08 | |||
| L2/10-102 | N3790 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4123, ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 8, 2010-03-27 | |||
| L2/10-115 | N3806 | Ogata, Katsuhiro; Kamichi, Koichi; Moro, Shigeki; Kawabata, Taichi; Naoi, Yasushi (2010-04-06), Rationale for Proposal of N3778 | |||
| L2/10-135 | N3826 | Everson, Michael (2010-04-22), Emoticons for FDIS 8 | |||
| L2/10-137 | N3828 | Suignard, Michel (2010-04-22), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003) | |||
| L2/10-132 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data | ||||
| L2/10-138 | N3829 | Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report | |||
| L2/10-108 | Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C3", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes | ||||
| N3803 (pdf, doc) | "M56.01", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24 | ||||
| L2/15-015R2 | Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-21), Recommended Unicode Glyph / Nameslist changes | ||||
| L2/15-071R | Davis, Mark; Burge, Jeremy (2015-02-03), More Unicode Emoji Glyph changes | ||||
| L2/15-141 (pdf, html) | Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2015-03-31), Emoji Glyph and Annotation Recommendations | ||||
| L2/15-107 | Moore, Lisa (2015-05-12), "Consensus 143-C20", UTC #143 Minutes, Update chart glyphs and annotations based on L2/15-151 for Unicode 8.0. | ||||
| L2/15-199 | Proposed annotation additions for Unicode 9.0, 2015-07-31 | ||||
| L2/16-281 | Burge, Jeremy; Hunt, Paul (2016-10-17), Emoji Glyph Updates | ||||
| L2/16-361 | Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (2016-11-07), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols | ||||
| 6.1 | U+1F600, 1F611, 1F615, 1F617, 1F619, 1F61B, 1F61F, 1F626..1F627, 1F62C, 1F62E..1F62F, 1F634[b] | 13 | L2/09-007 | Lommel, Arle (2008-12-26), Comparison of Emoticons from Major Vendors | |
| L2/09-025R2 | N3582[c] | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols | |||
| L2/09-026R | N3583 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding | |||
| L2/09-027R2 | N3681 | Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data | |||
| L2/10-102 | N3790 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4123, ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 8, 2010-03-27 | |||
| L2/10-132 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data | ||||
| L2/10-138 | N3829 | Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), "7", Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report | |||
| N3803 (pdf, doc) | "M56.01", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24 | ||||
| L2/15-015R2 | Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-21), Recommended Unicode Glyph / Nameslist changes | ||||
| L2/15-071R | Davis, Mark; Burge, Jeremy (2015-02-03), More Unicode Emoji Glyph changes | ||||
| L2/15-141 (pdf, html) | Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2015-03-31), Emoji Glyph and Annotation Recommendations | ||||
| L2/15-107 | Moore, Lisa (2015-05-12), "Consensus 143-C20", UTC #143 Minutes, Update chart glyphs and annotations based on L2/15-151 for Unicode 8.0. | ||||
| 7.0 | U+1F641..1F642 | 2 | L2/10-429 | Pentzlin, Karl (2010-10-22), Proposal to encode three additional emoticons | |
| L2/11-037 | N3982 | Proposal to encode three additional emoticons, 2011-01-03 | |||
| L2/11-253 | Whistler, Ken (2011-06-16), "I", WG2 consent docket | ||||
| N4103 | "11.6 Three additional emoticons", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| L2/23-034 | Gawne, Lauren; Daniel, Jennifer (2022-12-16), Head Shaking Horizontally Unicode Emoji Proposal [Affects U+1F642] | ||||
| L2/23-035 | Gawne, Lauren; Daniel, Jennifer (2022-12-16), Head Shaking Vertically Unicode Emoji Proposal [Affects U+1F642] | ||||
| L2/23-037R | Daniel, Jennifer (2023-01-25), Recommendations for ZWJ Sequences, Unicode 15.1 [Affects U+1F642] | ||||
| L2/23-005 | Constable, Peter (2023-02-01), "G.1.1 Emoji 15.1 Recommendations", UTC #174 Minutes | ||||
| 8.0 | U+1F643..1F644 | 2 | L2/14-174R | Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-27), Emoji Additions | |
| L2/14-172R | Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-29), Proposed enhancements for emoji characters: background | ||||
| L2/14-275 | Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141 | ||||
| L2/14-284R2 | Edberg, Peter; Davis, Mark (2014-10-28), Emoji-System Compatibility Additions | ||||
| L2/15-025 | N4654 | Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-30), Future Additions to ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/15-030 | Davis, Mark (2015-01-29), Emojipedia top requests | ||||
See also
edit- Some basic smiley faces (☹, ☺, ☻) are in Miscellaneous Symbols block
- Some body parts (e.g. ✌️; ⛹; etc) are in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbat blocks
- Some heads and figures (e.g. 👦; 🛀; etc) are in Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs and Transport and Map Symbols blocks
- Additional smiley faces (e.g. 🤐, 🤑, etc) are in Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block
References
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Archived from the original on 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Archived from the original on 2016-06-29. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05. Archived from the original on 2019-05-01. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
- ^ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01. Archived from the original on 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
- ^ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. Archived from the original on 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
- ^ "Original Emoji from DoCoMo". FileFormat.info. Archived from the original on 2023-07-19. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
- ^ "Original Emoji from KDDI". FileFormat.info. Archived from the original on 2023-07-19. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
- ^ "The default representation of these modifier characters when used alone is as a color swatch. Whenever one of these characters immediately follows certain characters (such as WOMAN), then a font should show the sequence as a single glyph corresponding to the image for the person(s) or body part with the specified skin tone" Draft Unicode Technical Report #51 "UNICODE EMOJI" Archived 2022-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Version 1.0 (draft 10) eds. Mark Davis (Google Inc.), Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.), 2015-05-08.