Transport and Map Symbols
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Transport and Map Symbols | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1F680..U+1F6FF (128 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Map symbols Transport icons Emoji |
| Assigned | 114 code points |
| Unused | 14 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.0 | 70 (+70) |
| 7.0 | 97 (+27) |
| 8.0 | 98 (+1) |
| 9.0 | 103 (+5) |
| 10.0 | 107 (+4) |
| 11.0 | 108 (+1) |
| 12.0 | 110 (+2) |
| 13.0 | 114 (+4) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Transport and Map Symbols is a Unicode block containing transportation and map icons, largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' emoji implementations of Shift JIS, and to encode characters in the Wingdings and Wingdings 2 character sets.
Block
Emoji
The Transport and Map Symbols block contains 105 emoji: U+1F680–U+1F6C5, U+1F6CB–U+1F6D2, U+1F6D5–U+1F6D7, U+1F6DC–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6EB–U+1F6EC, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3–U+1F6FC.[3][4]
The block has 46 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following 23 base characters: U+1F687, U+1F68D, U+1F691, U+1F694, U+1F698, U+1F6AD, U+1F6B2, U+1F6B9–U+1F6BA, U+1F6BC, U+1F6CB, U+1F6CD–U+1F6CF, U+1F6E0–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3.[5] All of these base characters default to a text presentation.
| U+ | 1F687 | 1F68D | 1F691 | 1F694 | 1F698 | 1F6AD | 1F6B2 | 1F6B9 | 1F6BA | 1F6BC | 1F6CB | 1F6CD |
| default presentation | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | text | text |
| base code point | 🚇 | 🚍 | 🚑 | 🚔 | 🚘 | 🚭 | 🚲 | 🚹 | 🚺 | 🚼 | 🛋 | 🛍 |
| base+VS15 (text) | 🚇︎ | 🚍︎ | 🚑︎ | 🚔︎ | 🚘︎ | 🚭︎ | 🚲︎ | 🚹︎ | 🚺︎ | 🚼︎ | 🛋︎ | 🛍︎ |
| base+VS16 (emoji) | 🚇️ | 🚍️ | 🚑️ | 🚔️ | 🚘️ | 🚭️ | 🚲️ | 🚹️ | 🚺️ | 🚼️ | 🛋️ | 🛍️ |
| U+ | 1F6CE | 1F6CF | 1F6E0 | 1F6E1 | 1F6E2 | 1F6E3 | 1F6E4 | 1F6E5 | 1F6E9 | 1F6F0 | 1F6F3 | |
| default presentation | text | text | text | text | text | text | text | text | text | text | text | |
| base code point | 🛎 | 🛏 | 🛠 | 🛡 | 🛢 | 🛣 | 🛤 | 🛥 | 🛩 | 🛰 | 🛳 | |
| base+VS15 (text) | 🛎︎ | 🛏︎ | 🛠︎ | 🛡︎ | 🛢︎ | 🛣︎ | 🛤︎ | 🛥︎ | 🛩︎ | 🛰︎ | 🛳︎ | |
| base+VS16 (emoji) | 🛎️ | 🛏️ | 🛠️ | 🛡️ | 🛢️ | 🛣️ | 🛤️ | 🛥️ | 🛩️ | 🛰️ | 🛳️ | |
Emoji modifiers
The Transport and Map Symbols block has six emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF to provide for a range of human skin color using the Fitzpatrick scale:[4]
| U+ | 1F6A3 | 1F6B4 | 1F6B5 | 1F6B6 | 1F6C0 | 1F6CC |
| emoji | 🚣 | 🚴 | 🚵 | 🚶 | 🛀 | 🛌 |
| FITZ-1-2 | 🚣🏻 | 🚴🏻 | 🚵🏻 | 🚶🏻 | 🛀🏻 | 🛌🏻 |
| FITZ-3 | 🚣🏼 | 🚴🏼 | 🚵🏼 | 🚶🏼 | 🛀🏼 | 🛌🏼 |
| FITZ-4 | 🚣🏽 | 🚴🏽 | 🚵🏽 | 🚶🏽 | 🛀🏽 | 🛌🏽 |
| FITZ-5 | 🚣🏾 | 🚴🏾 | 🚵🏾 | 🚶🏾 | 🛀🏾 | 🛌🏾 |
| FITZ-6 | 🚣🏿 | 🚴🏿 | 🚵🏿 | 🚶🏿 | 🛀🏿 | 🛌🏿 |
Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Transport and Map Symbols block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | U+1F680..1F6C5[lower-alpha 2] | 70 | L2/06-272 | Stötzner, Andreas (2006-07-30), Public Signage (I) | |
| L2/06-370 | Stötzner, Andreas (2006-11-02), 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 | |||
| L2/09-272 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Edberg, Peter (2009-08-06), Emoji: Review of PDAM 8 | ||||
| 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) | |||
| L2/10-025 | N3726 | Constable, Peter (2009-10-27), Emoji ad-hoc meeting report 2009-10-27 | |||
| N3703 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30 | ||||
| L2/09-335R | Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes | ||||
| L2/10-089 | N3777 | KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08 | |||
| 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) | |||
| L2/10-138 | N3829 | Constable, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report | |||
| 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), UTC #143 Minutes, "Update chart glyphs and annotations based on L2/15-151 for Unicode 8.0." | ||||
| L2/16-361 | Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (2016-11-07), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| L2/22-275 | Stewart, Sean; Daniel, Jennifer (2022-10-19), Exploring Emoji Directionality [Affects U+1F6B6] | ||||
| L2/22-246 | Daniel, Jennifer (2022-10-31), Emoji Subcommittee Report for UTC #173 (2022Q4) | ||||
| L2/23-030R | Stewart, Sean (2023-01-25), Emoji Directionality Recommendation [Affects U+1F6B6] | ||||
| L2/23-037R | Daniel, Jennifer (2023-01-25), Recommendations for ZWJ Sequences, Unicode 15.1 [Affects U+1F6B6] | ||||
| L2/23-005 | Constable, Peter (2023-02-01), UTC #174 Minutes | ||||
| 7.0 | U+1F6C6..1F6CF, 1F6E0..1F6EC, 1F6F0..1F6F3 | 27 | 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 | |||
| N4353 (pdf, doc) | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 | ||||
| L2/15-050R[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 2] | Davis, Mark (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji | ||||
| L2/15-301[lower-alpha 4][lower-alpha 2] | Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-11-01), A proposal for 278 standardized variation sequences for emoji | ||||
| L2/16-036 | Davis, Mark (2016-01-24), Nameslist.txt suggestions | ||||
| L2/16-228 | Constable, Peter; Safran-Aasen, Judy; Coady, Michele; Bjornstad, Shelley (2016-08-04), Proposed Additions to Emoji_Modifier_Base | ||||
| L2/16-203 | Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), UTC #148 Minutes | ||||
| 8.0 | U+1F6D0 | 1 | L2/14-275 | Edberg, Peter (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141 | |
| L2/15-025 | N4654 | Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-30), Future Additions to ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/14-235R3 | Afshar, Shervin; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-11-01), Emoji and Symbol Additions - Religious Symbols and Structures | ||||
| L2/15-032R | Davis, Mark (2015-02-23), Recommended Disposition on Feedback for PRI 286 & related Emoji docs | ||||
| 9.0 | U+1F6D1, 1F6F4..1F6F5 | 3 | L2/14-085 | Parrott, Katrina (2014-04-09), Request Approval to add "Our New iDiversicons: Diverse Emoji Characters" to the next updated Unicode Standard | |
| L2/14-154R | Parrott, Katrina; Afshar, Shervin (2014-08-05), Report on Diversity Emoji Use in iDiversicons and Proposal to Add New Emoji from iDiversicons Collection to Unicode | ||||
| 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 (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141 | ||||
| L2/14-282 | Parrott, Katrina (2014-10-28), iDiversicons Proposed Emoji Additions Extracted from L2/14-154R | ||||
| L2/15-048 | Parrott, Katrina (2015-01-31), Adding gender counterparts to emoji list? | ||||
| L2/15-058 | Afshar, Shervin (2015-02-01), Comparing MSN Messenger Smiley Set to Unicode Emoji | ||||
| L2/15-059 | Afshar, Shervin (2015-02-01), Comparing Yahoo Messenger Smiley Set to Unicode Emoji | ||||
| L2/15-054R5 | Cummings, Craig (2015-05-08), Emoji Additions: Animals, Compatibility, and More Popular Requests | ||||
| U+1F6D2 | 1 | L2/15-195R2 | Emoji Additions Tranche 6: More Popular Requests and Gap Filling, 2015-07-28 | ||
| L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), UTC #144 Minutes | ||||
| U+1F6F6 | 1 | L2/15-196R4 | Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2015-07-31), Proposal to add more sports-related emoji characters | ||
| L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), UTC #144 Minutes | ||||
| L2/17-161 | N4794 | Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition | |||
| L2/15-017 | Moore, Lisa (2015-02-12), UTC #142 Minutes | ||||
| U+1F6F7 | 1 | L2/16-127 | Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2016-05-25), Proposal for more winter activity emojis | ||
| L2/16-369 | N4805 | Edberg, Peter (2016-11-10), Further emoji additions for Unicode 10, consolidated proposal | |||
| U+1F6F8[lower-alpha 5] | 1 | L2/16-206 | Baker, Cody (2016-08-02), Flying Saucer Emoji | ||
| L2/17-161 | N4794 | Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition | |||
| 11.0 | U+1F6F9 | 1 | L2/15-061 | Cummings, Craig (2015-01-31), Emoji Additions: Runner-ups | |
| L2/16-378 | Heard, Jaron (2016-11-20), Skateboarder emoji submission | ||||
| L2/16-382 | Bohorad, Nicole; Aschenbach, Sarah; Stenersen, Steve; Freudiger, Mike (2016-12-05), Lacrosse stick and ball emoji submission | ||||
| L2/17-257 | Bayer, Devin (2016-12-24), Flying Disc Emoji Proposal | ||||
| L2/17-184 | Hernandez, Vickie (2017-06-02), Proposal for "Softball" Emoji | ||||
| L2/17-277 | Karadeniz, Tayfun (2017-07-28), Emoji Sports Proposal for Unicode v11 | ||||
| L2/17-393 | Anderson, Deborah (2017-10-22), Feedback from WG2 email discussion list on PDAM 2.2 | ||||
| L2/18-027 | Burge, Jeremy; Moore, Lisa (2018-01-15), Response to feedback from WG2 email discussion list on PDAM 2.2 | ||||
| 12.0 | U+1F6D5 | 1 | L2/17-298 | Dalvi, Girish; Chaturvedi, Mayank (2017-08-07), Proposal for Hindu Temple Emoji | |
| L2/17-380R | Emoji Subcommittee Report Q3 2017, 2017-10-23 | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), UTC #153 Minutes | ||||
| L2/18-143R2 | N4960 | Davis, Mark (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised) | |||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| U+1F6FA | 1 | L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), UTC #153 Minutes | ||
| L2/18-086 | Pandey, Anshuman (2018-03-10), Proposal to encode the AUTO RICKSHAW emoji | ||||
| L2/18-143R2 | N4960 | Davis, Mark (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised) | |||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| L2/18-234 | N5008 | Everson, Michael (2018-07-18), Feedback on draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18-143R2) | |||
| L2/18-253 | Davis, Mark (2018-08-21), Comments on accumulated feedback on Unicode 12.0 draft candidates | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| 13.0 | U+1F6D6 | 1 | L2/19-102 | Sunne, Samantha (February 2019), Proposal for Emoji: HUT | |
| L2/19-190R (pdf, aux) | N5056 | Davis, Mark (2019-04-30), Emoji Recommendations 2019Q2 (revised) | |||
| L2/19-122 | Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), UTC #159 Minutes | ||||
| U+1F6D7 | 1 | L2/18-329[lower-alpha 6] | Ingham-Smith, Kate (2018-11-15), Proposal for New Emoji: Elevator / Stairs | ||
| U+1F6FB | 1 | L2/18-260[lower-alpha 6] | Maggio, Nathan (2018-05-15), Proposal for new emoji PICKUP TRUCK | ||
| L2/18-307 | ESC Recommendations for 2018Q4 UTC, 2018-09-18 | ||||
| L2/18-272 | Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), UTC #157 Minutes | ||||
| U+1F6FC | 1 | L2/19-151[lower-alpha 6] | Vandon, Raphaël; Indigo, Twixxi (2019-04-02), Proposal for a Roller Skate emoji | ||
| 14.0 | U+1F6DD | 1 | L2/20-215 | Krenek, Christian (2020-03-31), Proposal for Emoji: Slide | |
| 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 | ||||
| U+1F6DE | 1 | L2/20-216[lower-alpha 7] | Joyce, Christine (2019-03-27), Proposal for Emoji: Tyre | ||
| U+1F6DF | 1 | L2/20-224[lower-alpha 7] | Shopsin, Tamara (May 2020), Life Preserver Emoji Proposal for Unicode 14.0 | ||
| 15.0 | U+1F6DC | 1 | L2/21-191 | Brinkmann, Lena; Chase, Bronwen (2020-07-08), Proposal for Emoji Wireless Connection | |
| L2/21-172R | Daniel, Jennifer (2021-10-06), Emoji Subcommittee Report Q4, 2021 | ||||
| L2/21-167 | Cummings, Craig (2022-01-27), Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 169, "Accept the repertoire of 21 provisional emoji candidates as documented in L2/21-172R" | ||||
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References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt.
- ↑ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt.
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