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Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows

Unicode block

Field	Value
rangestart	2B00
rangeend	2BFF
script1	Common
symbols	Arrows
Filled shapes
Technical
Astrological
Chess
Map symbols
4_0	14
4_1	6
5_0	11
5_1	51
5_2	5
7_0	115
8_0	4
10_0	1
11_0	43
12_0	2
13_0	1
17_0	1
note

Filled shapes Technical Astrological Chess Map symbols

Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows is a Unicode block containing arrows and geometric shapes with various fills, astrological symbols, technical symbols, intonation marks, and others.

Block

Emoji

The Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block contains seven emoji: U+2B05–U+2B07, U+2B1B–U+2B1C, U+2B50 and U+2B55.

The block has fourteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the seven emoji.

base+VS16 (emoji)

History

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

Version	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
4.0	U+2B00..2B0D	14		[N2056](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2056.pdf)
	[N2182](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2182.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2170.doc))
	[N2167](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2167.doc)
	[N2244](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2244.pdf)
	[N2282](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2282.doc)
	[N2374R](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2374r.pdf)
	[N2390](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2390.pdf)
	[N2392](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2392.pdf)
	[N2407](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2407.doc)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2453.doc))
	[N4182](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4182.pdf)
4.1	U+2B0E..2B11	4	[txt](https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03119r-arrows.txt))	[N2629](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2629.pdf)
U+2B12..2B13	2		[N2655](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2655.pdf)
5.0	U+2B14..2B19, 2B20..2B23	10
U+2B1A	1		[N2943](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2943.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2953.doc))
5.1	U+2B1B..2B1F, 2B24..2B2F, 2B45..2B46, 2B50..2B54	24		[N3198R](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3198.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3253.doc))
	[N4182](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4182.pdf)
U+2B30..2B44	21
	[N3086](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3086.doc)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3103.doc))
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3153.doc))
U+2B47..2B4C	6		[N3259](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3259.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3253.doc))
5.2	U+2B55..2B59	5		[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3353.doc))
	[N3341](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3341.pdf)
	[N3397](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3397.pdf)
	[N3468](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3468.pdf)
	[N3469](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3469.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3453.doc))
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3603.doc))
	[N4182](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4182.pdf)
7.0	U+2B4D, 2B60..2B73, 2B76..2B95, 2B98..2BB9, 2BBD..2BC8, 2BCA..2BD1	107
	[N4022](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4022.pdf)
	[N4115](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4115.pdf)
	[N4143](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4143.pdf)
	[N4103](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4103.pdf)
	[N4239](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4239.pdf)
	[N4363](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4363.pdf)
	[N4384](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4384.pdf)
	[N4223](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4223.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4353.doc))
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4553..doc))
	[N4739](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4739-M64-Minutes.zip)
U+2B4E..2B4F, 2B5A..2B5F	8		[N3914](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3914.pdf)
	[N4062](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4062.pdf)
	[N4070](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4070.pdf)
	[N4116](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4116.pdf)
	[N4103](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4103.pdf)
	[N4239](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4239.pdf)
8.0	U+2BEC..2BEF	4		[N4318](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4318.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4403.doc))
10.0	U+2BD2	1
11.0	U+2BBA..2BBC, 2BF9..2BFE	9		[N4783R2](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4783r2-chess-notation.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4953-M66-Minutes.doc))
U+2BD3..2BD6	4
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4873R-M65-Minutes.doc))
U+2BD7..2BDF	9
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4873R-M65-Minutes.doc))
U+2BE0..2BE7	8
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4873R-M65-Minutes.doc))
U+2BE8..2BEB	4
	[N4747](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4747-halfstars.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4873R-M65-Minutes.doc))
U+2BF0..2BF2	3
	[N4801](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4801-eris-sedna.pdf)
U+2BF3..2BF8	6
	[N4811](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4811-fdbk-extra-aspect-sym.pdf)
12.0	U+2BC9	1		[N4863](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4863-17191r-neptune-second-form.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4953-M66-Minutes.doc))
U+2BFF	1		[N4864](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4864-17151r-hell-pause-char.pdf)
	[doc](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4953-M66-Minutes.doc))
13.0	U+2B97	1		[N2056](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2056.pdf)
	[N2182](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2182.pdf)
	[N2244](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2244.pdf)
	[N2282](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2282.doc)
	[N2374R](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2374r.pdf)
	[N2392](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2392.pdf)
	[N5009](https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5009-18184r-symbol-for-type-a-elec.pdf)
17.0	U+2B96	1
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References

"Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard.
"Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard.
(2025-09-04). "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium.
(2025-07-25). "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium.
"UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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

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