| Emoticons | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1F600..U+1F64F (80 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Emoji Emoticons |
| Assigned | 80 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.0 (2010) | 63 (+63) |
| 6.1 (2012) | 76 (+13) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 78 (+2) |
| 8.0 (2015) | 80 (+2) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
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Emoticons is a Unicode block containing emoticons or emoji.[3][4][5] Most of them are intended as representations of faces, although some of them include hand gestures or non-human characters (a horned "imp", monkeys, cartoon cats).
The block was first proposed in 2008, and first implemented in Unicode version 6.0 (2010). The reason for its adoption was largely for compatibility with a de facto standard that had been established by the early 2000s by Japanese telephone carriers, encoded in unused ranges with lead bytes 0xF5 to 0xF9 of the Shift JIS standard.[6] KDDI has gone much further than this, and has introduced hundreds more in the space with lead bytes 0xF3 and 0xF4.[7]
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- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Archived from the original on 2016-06-29. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05. Archived from the original on 2019-05-01. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
- ^ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01. Archived from the original on 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
- ^ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. Archived from the original on 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
- ^ "Original Emoji from DoCoMo". FileFormat.info. Archived from the original on 2023-07-19. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
- ^ "Original Emoji from KDDI". FileFormat.info. Archived from the original on 2023-07-19. Retrieved 2019-09-02.