Geometric Shapes Extended

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Short description: Unicode character block
Geometric Shapes Extended
RangeU+1F780..U+1F7FF
(128 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsWebdings
Wingdings
Emoji
Assigned101 code points
Unused27 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.085 (+85)
11.089 (+4)
12.0101 (+12)
Note: [1][2]

Geometric Shapes Extended is a Unicode block containing Webdings/Wingdings symbols, mostly different weights of squares, crosses, and saltires, and different weights of variously spoked asterisks, stars, and various color squares and circles for emoji.

The Geometric Shapes Extended block contains thirteen emoji: U+1F7E0–U+1F7EB and U+1F7F0.[3][4]


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
7.0 U+1F780..1F7D4 85 L2/11-052R Suignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study 
L2/11-149 Suignard, Michel (2011-05-09), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols 
L2/11-196 N4022 Suignard, Michel (2011-05-21), Revised Wingdings proposal 
L2/11-247 N4115 Suignard, Michel (2011-06-08), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols 
L2/11-344 N4143 Suignard, Michel (2011-09-28), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols 
N4103 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 
L2/12-130 N4239 Suignard, Michel (2012-05-08), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition) 
N4363 Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols 
L2/12-368 N4384 Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols 
L2/12-086 N4223 Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27 
L2/16-121 Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), UTC #147 Minutes 
L2/16-185 N4719R West, Andrew (2016-07-11), Proposal to encode symbols for Go game notation 
L2/16-216 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals 
L2/16-203 Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), UTC #148 Minutes 
N4873R (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16 
L2/18-143R2 N4960 Davis, Mark (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised) 
L2/18-115 Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), UTC #155 Minutes 
L2/18-191 Buff, Charlotte (2018-05-31), Comments on Emoji 12.0 Candidates 
L2/18-219 West, Andrew (2018-07-11), Feedback on ESC recommendations for draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18143R2) 
L2/18-246 Silva, Eduardo Marín (2018-07-20), Response to Andrew West on feedback on emoji submissions (L2/18-219) 
L2/18-253 Davis, Mark (2018-08-21), Comments on accumulated feedback on Unicode 12.0 draft candidates 
L2/18-183 Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), UTC #156 Minutes 
N5020 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 
14.0 U+1F7F0 1 L2/20-225 Krenek, Christian (2019-12-31), Proposal for Emoji: Equal Sign 
L2/20-237 Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), UTC #165 Minutes 
L2/20-242R2 Daniel, Jennifer (2020-10-07), Recommendations for Emoji, Unicode 14.0 
15.0 U+1F7D9 1 L2/17-237 Behjat, Adib; Behjat, Ayan (2017-07-05), Baha'i 9-Pointed Star Emoji Proposal Submission 
L2/17-287 Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2017-08-08), Recommendations from ESC for 2018, part 2, "One character originally proposed as emoji is considered more appropriate for encoding as a non-emoji symbol by the ESC. As a result, it would go through the normal process for deciding whether to encode a symbol." 
L2/20-095 Behjat, Adib; Kiefte, Joop (2020-03-26), Proposal to add Nine Pointed star 
L2/21-144 Behjat, Adib; Kiefte, Joop (2021-06-29), Proposal to add Nine Pointed star to Unicode 
L2/21-144R Behjat, Adib; Kiefte, Joop (2021-10-01), Proposal to add Nine Pointed star 
L2/21-130 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals 
L2/21-123 Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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