Emoticons (Unicode block)

Emoticons
Range U+1F600..U+1F64F
(80 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Common
Assigned 80 code points
Unused 0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0 63 (+63)
6.1 76 (+13)
7.0 78 (+2)
8.0 80 (+2)
Note: [1][2]

Emoticons is a Unicode block containing graphic representations of faces, which are often associated with classic emoticons. They exist largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS.

Block

Emoticons[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1F60x 😀 😁 😂 😃 😄 😅 😆 😇 😈 😉 😊 😋 😌 😍 😎 😏
U+1F61x 😐 😑 😒 😓 😔 😕 😖 😗 😘 😙 😚 😛 😜 😝 😞 😟
U+1F62x 😠 😡 😢 😣 😤 😥 😦 😧 😨 😩 😪 😫 😬 😭 😮 😯
U+1F63x 😰 😱 😲 😳 😴 😵 😶 😷 😸 😹 😺 😻 😼 😽 😾 😿
U+1F64x 🙀 🙁 🙂 🙃 🙄 🙅 🙆 🙇 🙈 🙉 🙊 🙋 🙌 🙍 🙎 🙏
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0

Emoji

All of the characters in the Emoticons block are emoji.[3][4][5] Each 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 pointsResult
U+1F610 (NEUTRAL FACE)😐
U+1F610 (NEUTRAL FACE), U+FE0E (VARIATION SELECTOR-15)😐︎
U+1F610 (NEUTRAL FACE), U+FE0F (VARIATION SELECTOR-16)😐️

Skin tones

The Emoticons block has eight emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF to provide for a range of skin tones using the Fitzpatrick scale:[4]

Human emoji
U+1F6451F6461F6471F64B1F64C1F64D1F64E1F64F
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 and Transport and Map Symbols.

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
6.0U+1F601..1F610, 1F612..1F614, 1F616, 1F618, 1F61A, 1F61C..1F61E, 1F620..1F625, 1F628..1F62B, 1F62D, 1F630..1F633, 1F635..1F640, 1F645..1F64F[lower-alpha 2]63L2/09-007Lommel, Arle (2008-12-26), Comparison of Emoticons from Major Vendors
L2/09-025R2N3582[lower-alpha 3]Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
L2/09-026RN3583Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
L2/09-027R2N3681Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/09-114N3607Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06
L2/09-304Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-15), US Position on PDAM 8
L2/09-370N3711Ogata, Katsuhiro; et al. (2009-10-22), A Proposal to Revise a Part of Emoticons in PDAM 8
L2/09-371N3713Pentzlin, Karl (2009-10-22), Comment on "A proposal to Revise a Part of Emoticons in PDAM 8" (Katsuhiro Ogata et al., N3711)
L2/09-412N3722Suignard, Michel (2009-11-02), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
L2/10-036N3769Pentzlin, Karl (2010-01-26), Proposal to encode an emoticon Neutral Face
L2/10-061RScherer, Markus; et al. (2010-02-04), "2, 4", Emoji: Review of FPDAM8
L2/10-015RMoore, Lisa (2010-02-09), "D.1.3", UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes
N3778Ogata, Katsuhiro; Kamichi, Koichi; Moro, Shigeki; Kawabata, Taichi; Naoi, Yasushi (2010-03-03), Updated Proposal to Change Some Glyphs and Names of Emoticons
L2/10-089N3777KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08
L2/10-102N3790Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4123, ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 8, 2010-03-27
L2/10-066N3790-ANSIAnderson, Deborah (2010-03-29), Comments on PDAM 8
L2/10-115N3806Ogata, Katsuhiro; Kamichi, Koichi; Moro, Shigeki; Kawabata, Taichi; Naoi, Yasushi (2010-04-06), Rationale for Proposal of N3778
L2/10-135N3826Everson, Michael (2010-04-22), Emoticons for FDIS 8
L2/10-137N3828Suignard, Michel (2010-04-22), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
L2/10-132Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/10-138N3829Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report
L2/10-148N3804Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-27), "M56.01", Resolutions of WG 2 meeting 56
L2/15-015R2Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-21), Recommended Unicode Glyph / Nameslist changes
L2/15-071RDavis, Mark; Burge, Jeremy (2015-02-03), More Unicode Emoji Glyph changes
L2/15-141, htmlDavis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2015-03-31), Emoji Glyph and Annotation Recommendations
L2/15-199Proposed annotation additions for Unicode 9.0, 2015-07-31
L2/16-281Burge, Jeremy; Hunt, Paul (2016-10-17), Emoji Glyph Updates
L2/16-361Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (2016-11-07), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols
6.1U+1F600, 1F611, 1F615, 1F617, 1F619, 1F61B, 1F61F, 1F626..1F627, 1F62C, 1F62E..1F62F, 1F634[lower-alpha 2]13L2/09-007Lommel, Arle (2008-12-26), Comparison of Emoticons from Major Vendors
L2/09-025R2N3582[lower-alpha 3]Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
L2/09-026RN3583Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
L2/09-027R2N3681Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/10-102N3790Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4123, ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 8, 2010-03-27
L2/10-132Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/10-138N3829Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), "7", Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report
L2/10-148N3804Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-27), "M56.01", Resolutions of WG 2 meeting 56
L2/15-015R2Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-21), Recommended Unicode Glyph / Nameslist changes
L2/15-071RDavis, Mark; Burge, Jeremy (2015-02-03), More Unicode Emoji Glyph changes
L2/15-141, htmlDavis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2015-03-31), Emoji Glyph and Annotation Recommendations
7.0U+1F641..1F6422L2/10-429Pentzlin, Karl (2010-10-22), Proposal to encode three additional emoticons
L2/11-037N3982Proposal to encode three additional emoticons, 2011-01-03
L2/11-253Whistler, Ken (2011-06-16), "I", WG2 consent docket
8.0U+1F643..1F6442L2/14-174RDavis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-27), Emoji Additions
L2/14-172RDavis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-29), Proposed enhancements for emoji characters: background
L2/14-275Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141
L2/14-284R2Edberg, Peter; Davis, Mark (2014-10-28), Emoji-System Compatibility Additions
L2/15-025Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-30), Future Additions to ISO/IEC 10646
L2/15-030Davis, Mark (2015-01-29), Emojipedia top requests
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. 1 2 Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  3. 1 2 Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2018-05-21.
  4. 1 2 "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2018-05-22.
  5. ↑ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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