Supplemental Arrows-B

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Short description: Unicode character block
Supplemental Arrows-B
RangeU+2900..U+297F
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Assigned128 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.2128 (+128)
Note: [1][2]

Supplemental Arrows-B is a Unicode block containing miscellaneous arrows, arrow tails, crossing arrows used in knot descriptions, curved arrows, and harpoons.

Block

Supplemental Arrows-B[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+290x
U+291x
U+292x
U+293x ⤿
U+294x
U+295x
U+296x
U+297x ⥿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0

Emoji

The Supplemental Arrows-B block contains two emoji: U+2934–U+2935.[3][4]

The block has four standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the two emoji, both of which default to a text presentation.[5]

Emoji variation sequences
U+ 2934 2935
base code point
base+VS15 (text) ⤴︎ ⤵︎
base+VS16 (emoji) ⤴️ ⤵️

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
3.2 U+2900..297F 128 L2/99-238 Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15 
N2094 Addition of thirteen linguistic educational characters, 1999-09-13 
L2/99-365 Moore, Lisa (1999-11-23), Comments on JCS Proposals 
L2/00-010 N2103 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13--16 
L2/00-024 Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised 
L2/99-260R Moore, Lisa (2000-02-07), Minutes of the UTC/L2 meeting in Mission Viejo, October 26-28, 1999 
L2/00-119[lower-alpha 2] N2191R Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode 
L2/00-234 N2203 (rtf, txt) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 
L2/00-115R2 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 
L2/00-298 N2258 Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2 
L2/01-050 N2253 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 
L2/01-012R Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001 
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4] N4182 Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429) 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block for additional math-related documents
  3. See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
  4. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents

See also

References