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.
Video Emoticons (Unicode block)
Block
Maps Emoticons (Unicode block)
Emoji
All of the characters in the Emoticons block are emoji.
The block has two standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the base character U+1F610. This base character defaults to an emoji presentation.
Diversity
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:
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:
See also
- Some basic smiley faces (?, ?, ?) are in Miscellaneous Symbols block
- Additional smiley faces (e.g. ?, ?, etc) are in Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block
- Some heads and figures (e.g. ?; ?; etc) are in Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs and Transport and Map Symbols blocks
- Some body parts (e.g. ?; ?; etc) are in the Dingbat and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks
References
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