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Dingbats (Unicode block)
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| blockname | Dingbats |
| rangestart | 2700 |
| rangeend | 27BF |
| script1 | Common |
| 1_0_0 | 160 |
| 3_2 | 14 |
| 5_2 | 1 |
| 6_0 | 16 |
| 7_0 | 1 |
| sources | ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100 |
| note |
Dingbats is a Unicode block containing dingbats (or typographical ornaments, like the ❦ FLORAL HEART character). Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats; it was the Unicode block to have imported characters from a specific typeface; Unicode later adopted a policy that excluded symbols with "no demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text", and thus no further dingbat typefaces were encoded until Webdings and Wingdings were encoded in Version 7.0. Some ornaments are also an emoji, having optional presentation variants (called variant selectors).
The block, originally named "Zapf Dingbats", was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991, with the release of version 1.0. The block name was changed from "Zapf Dingbats" to "Dingbats" in June 1993, with the release of 1.1.
Chart
Emoji
The Dingbats block contains 33 emoji. 66 standardized variants are defined to specify emoji-style (like ) or text presentation (like ) for 33 characters.
| base+ (emoji) |
|---|
Skin tones
Emoji modifiers
Main article: Emoji modifiers
The Dingbats block has four emoji that represent hands. They can be modified using U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF to provide for a range of human skin color using the Fitzpatrick scale:
| FITZ-6 | ✊🏿 | ✋🏿 | ✌🏿 | ✍🏿 |
|---|
Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs, Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A and Transport and Map Symbols.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Dingbats block:
| Version | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+2701..2704, 2706..2709, 270C..2727, 2729..274B, 274D, 274F..2752, 2756, 2758..275E, 2761..2767, 2776..2794, 2798..27AF, 27B1..27BE | 160 | ||||
| N4182 | ||||||
| 3.2 | U+2768..2775 | 14 | ||||
| N2321 | ||||||
| doc) | ||||||
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | doc) | |||
| N3341 | ||||||
| N3397 | ||||||
| N3468 | ||||||
| N3469 | ||||||
| doc) | ||||||
| doc) | ||||||
| N4182 | ||||||
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | ||||
| N3583 | ||||||
| N3681 | ||||||
| N3607 | ||||||
| N3722 | ||||||
| doc) | ||||||
| N3776 | ||||||
| N3777 | ||||||
| N3828 | ||||||
| N3829 | ||||||
| U+275F..2760 | 2 | N3565 | ||||
| doc) | ||||||
| 7.0 | U+2700 | 1 | ||||
| N4022 | ||||||
| N4115 | ||||||
| N4143 | ||||||
| N4103 | ||||||
| N4239 | ||||||
| N4363 | ||||||
| N4384 | ||||||
| N4223 | ||||||
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References
References
- "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard.
- "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard.
- (September 2021). "Section 22: Symbols". The Unicode Consortium.
- "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts". [[Unicode Consortium]].
- "Appendix E Block Names". [[Unicode Consortium]].
- (2023-09-05). "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium.
- (2023-02-01). "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium.
- "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
- [[Google Chrome]] on Android uses the emoji presentation by default, despite this standard.
- Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
- See also [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10458-emoji-var.pdf L2/10-458], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11414-emoji-var-seq.pdf L2/11-414], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11415-unified-emoji-ref.pdf L2/11-415], and [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11429-emoji-var-seq-list.pdf L2/11-429]
- Refer to the [[Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs#History. history section]] of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
- See also [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13207-emoji.html L2/13-207], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14054-emoji-style.pdf L2/14-054], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14063-emoji-sheet.pdf L2/14-063], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15051-A-text-vs.txt L2/15-051A], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15051-B-text-style.html L2/15-051B]
- See also [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15198-varseq-text-emoji.pdf L2/15-198] and [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15275-more-var-seqs-for-text-vs-emoji.pdf L2/15-275]
- Japanese translation of N3582 is available as [http://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3621.pdf N3621]
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