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Transport and Map Symbols
RangeU+1F680..U+1F6FF
(128 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsMap symbols
Transport icons
Assigned103 code points
Unused25 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0 (2010)70 (+70)
7.0 (2014)97 (+27)
8.0 (2015)98 (+1)
9.0 (2016)103 (+5)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Template:Contains emoticon 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

Transport and Map Symbols[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1F68x
U+1F69x
U+1F6Ax
U+1F6Bx
U+1F6Cx
U+1F6Dx
U+1F6Ex
U+1F6Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Transport and Map Symbols block contains 92 emoji: U+1F680–U+1F6C5, U+1F6CB–U+1F6D2, U+1F6E0–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6EB–U+1F6EC, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3–U+1F6F6.[3][4]

The block has 26 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following thirteen base characters: 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.

Emoji variation sequences
U+ 1F6CB 1F6CD 1F6CE 1F6CF 1F6E0 1F6E1 1F6E2
base code point 🛋 🛍 🛎 🛏 🛠 🛡 🛢
base+VS15 (text) 🛋︎ 🛍︎ 🛎︎ 🛏︎ 🛠︎ 🛡︎ 🛢︎
base+VS16 (emoji) 🛋️ 🛍️ 🛎️ 🛏️ 🛠️ 🛡️ 🛢️
U+ 1F6E3 1F6E4 1F6E5 1F6E9 1F6F0 1F6F3
base code point 🛣 🛤 🛥 🛩 🛰 🛳
base+VS15 (text) 🛣︎ 🛤︎ 🛥︎ 🛩︎ 🛰︎ 🛳︎
base+VS16 (emoji) 🛣️ 🛤️ 🛥️ 🛩️ 🛰️ 🛳️

Diversity

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 skin tones using the Fitzpatrick scale:[4]

Human emoji
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 is other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs and Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs.

History

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

Final code points[a] Count Version L2 ID WG2 ID Document
U+1F680..1F6C5 70 6.0 (to be determined)
U+1F6C6..1F6CA, 1F6CB..1F6CF, 1F6E0, 1F6E1..1F6EC, 1F6F0..1F6F3 27 7.0 L2/11-052R Suignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study
N4239 Suignard, Michel (2011-02-16), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition)
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
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 Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27
U+1F6D0 1 8.0 L2/14-275 Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141
L2/15-025 Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-30), Future Additions to ISO/IEC 10646
L2/14-235R3[b] 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
U+1F6D1, 1F6F4..1F6F5 3 9.0 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; et al. (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; et al. (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
L2/15-054R4 Cummings, Craig (2015-05-08), Emoji Additions: Animals, Compatibility, and More Popular Requests
U+1F6D2 1 9.0 L2/15-195R2 Emoji Additions Tranche 6: More Popular Requests and Gap Filling, 2015-07-28
U+1F6F6 1 9.0 L2/15-196R4 Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2015-07-31), Proposal to add more sports-related emoji characters
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. ^ See also L2/14-172R, L2/14-174R, L2/14-275, and L2/15-025

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. 2016-11-22.
  4. ^ a b "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2016-11-14.
  5. ^ "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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