Emoticons (Unicode block)
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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).
Emoticons | |
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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] |
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]