Transport and Map Symbols | |
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Range | U+1F680..U+1F6FF (128 code points) |
Plane | SMP |
Scripts | Common |
Symbol sets | Map symbols Transport icons Emoji |
Assigned | 118 code points |
Unused | 10 reserved code points |
Unicode version history | |
6.0 (2010) | 70 (+70) |
7.0 (2014) | 97 (+27) |
8.0 (2015) | 98 (+1) |
9.0 (2016) | 103 (+5) |
10.0 (2017) | 107 (+4) |
11.0 (2018) | 108 (+1) |
12.0 (2019) | 110 (+2) |
13.0 (2020) | 114 (+4) |
14.0 (2021) | 117 (+3) |
15.0 (2022) | 118 (+1) |
Unicode documentation | |
Code chartโโฃโWeb page | |
Note: [1][2] |
Transport and Map Symbols is a Unicode block containing transportation and map icons, largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' emoji implementations of Shift JIS, and to encode characters in the Wingdings and Wingdings 2 character sets.
Block
Transport and Map Symbols[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
U+1F68x | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F69x | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F6Ax | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F6Bx | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F6Cx | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F6Dx | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F6Ex | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F6Fx | ||||||||||||||||
Notes |
Emoji
The Transport and Map Symbols block contains 105 emoji: U+1F680โU+1F6C5, U+1F6CBโU+1F6D2, U+1F6D5โU+1F6D7, U+1F6DCโU+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6EBโU+1F6EC, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3โU+1F6FC.[3][4]
The block has 46 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following 23 base characters: U+1F687, U+1F68D, U+1F691, U+1F694, U+1F698, U+1F6AD, U+1F6B2, U+1F6B9โU+1F6BA, U+1F6BC, U+1F6CB, U+1F6CDโU+1F6CF, U+1F6E0โU+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3.[5] All of these base characters default to a text presentation.
U+ | 1F687 | 1F68D | 1F691 | 1F694 | 1F698 | 1F6AD | 1F6B2 | 1F6B9 | 1F6BA | 1F6BC | 1F6CB | 1F6CD |
default presentation | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | emoji | text | text |
base code point | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ญ | ๐ฒ | ๐น | ๐บ | ๐ผ | ๐ | ๐ |
base+VS15 (text) | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐ญ๏ธ | ๐ฒ๏ธ | ๐น๏ธ | ๐บ๏ธ | ๐ผ๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ |
base+VS16 (emoji) | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐ญ๏ธ | ๐ฒ๏ธ | ๐น๏ธ | ๐บ๏ธ | ๐ผ๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ |
U+ | 1F6CE | 1F6CF | 1F6E0 | 1F6E1 | 1F6E2 | 1F6E3 | 1F6E4 | 1F6E5 | 1F6E9 | 1F6F0 | 1F6F3 | |
default presentation | text | text | text | text | text | text | text | text | text | text | text | |
base code point | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ก | ๐ข | ๐ฃ | ๐ค | ๐ฅ | ๐ฉ | ๐ฐ | ๐ณ | |
base+VS15 (text) | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐ ๏ธ | ๐ก๏ธ | ๐ข๏ธ | ๐ฃ๏ธ | ๐ค๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฉ๏ธ | ๐ฐ๏ธ | ๐ณ๏ธ | |
base+VS16 (emoji) | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐ ๏ธ | ๐ก๏ธ | ๐ข๏ธ | ๐ฃ๏ธ | ๐ค๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฉ๏ธ | ๐ฐ๏ธ | ๐ณ๏ธ |
Emoji modifiers
The Transport and Map Symbols block has six emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FBโU+1F3FF to provide for a range of human skin color using the Fitzpatrick scale:[4]
U+ | 1F6A3 | 1F6B4 | 1F6B5 | 1F6B6 | 1F6C0 | 1F6CC |
emoji | ๐ฃ | ๐ด | ๐ต | ๐ถ | ๐ | ๐ |
FITZ-1-2 | ๐ฃ๐ป | ๐ด๐ป | ๐ต๐ป | ๐ถ๐ป | ๐๐ป | ๐๐ป |
FITZ-3 | ๐ฃ๐ผ | ๐ด๐ผ | ๐ต๐ผ | ๐ถ๐ผ | ๐๐ผ | ๐๐ผ |
FITZ-4 | ๐ฃ๐ฝ | ๐ด๐ฝ | ๐ต๐ฝ | ๐ถ๐ฝ | ๐๐ฝ | ๐๐ฝ |
FITZ-5 | ๐ฃ๐พ | ๐ด๐พ | ๐ต๐พ | ๐ถ๐พ | ๐๐พ | ๐๐พ |
FITZ-6 | ๐ฃ๐ฟ | ๐ด๐ฟ | ๐ต๐ฟ | ๐ถ๐ฟ | ๐๐ฟ | ๐๐ฟ |
Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Transport and Map Symbols block:
Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
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6.0 | U+1F680..1F6C5[lower-alpha 2] | 70 | L2/06-272 | Stรถtzner, Andreas (2006-07-30), Public Signage (I) | |
L2/06-370 | Stรถtzner, Andreas (2006-11-02), Symbols | ||||
L2/09-025R2 | N3582[lower-alpha 3] | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols | |||
L2/09-026R | N3583 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding | |||
L2/09-027R2 | N3681 | Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data | |||
L2/09-114 | N3607 | Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06 | |||
L2/09-272 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Edberg, Peter (2009-08-06), Emoji: Review of PDAM 8 | ||||
L2/09-412 | N3722 | Suignard, Michel (2009-10-26), "USA T.3, Ireland T15-T17, E10, Germany T24", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003) | |||
L2/10-025 | N3726 | Constable, Peter (2009-10-27), "7, 13", Emoji ad-hoc meeting report 2009-10-27 | |||
N3703 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.9k", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30 | ||||
L2/09-335R | Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "Consensus 121-C8", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes | ||||
L2/10-089 | N3777 | KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08 | |||
L2/10-137 | N3828 | Suignard, Michel (2010-04-22), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003) | |||
L2/10-138 | N3829 | Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), "15", Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report | |||
L2/15-071R | Davis, Mark; Burge, Jeremy (2015-02-03), More Unicode Emoji Glyph changes | ||||
L2/15-141 (pdf, html) | Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2015-03-31), Emoji Glyph and Annotation Recommendations | ||||
L2/15-107 | Moore, Lisa (2015-05-12), "Consensus 143-C20", UTC #143 Minutes, Update chart glyphs and annotations based on L2/15-151 for Unicode 8.0. | ||||
L2/16-361 | Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (2016-11-07), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols | ||||
N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "6.2.3 T5", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
L2/22-275 | Stewart, Sean; Daniel, Jennifer (2022-10-19), Exploring Emoji Directionality [Affects U+1F6B6] | ||||
L2/22-246 | Daniel, Jennifer (2022-10-31), "3. Exploring Emoji Directionality [Affects U+1F6B6]", Emoji Subcommittee Report for UTC #173 (2022Q4) | ||||
L2/23-030R | Stewart, Sean (2023-01-25), Emoji Directionality Recommendation [Affects U+1F6B6] | ||||
L2/23-037R | Daniel, Jennifer (2023-01-25), Recommendations for ZWJ Sequences, Unicode 15.1 [Affects U+1F6B6] | ||||
L2/23-005 | Constable, Peter (2023-02-01), "G.1.1 Emoji 15.1 Recommendations", UTC #174 Minutes | ||||
7.0 | U+1F6C6..1F6CF, 1F6E0..1F6EC, 1F6F0..1F6F3 | 27 | L2/11-052R | Suignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study | |
L2/11-149 | Suignard, Michel (2011-05-09), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols | ||||
L2/11-196 | N4022 | Suignard, Michel (2011-05-21), Revised Wingdings proposal | |||
L2/11-247 | N4115 | Suignard, Michel (2011-06-08), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | |||
L2/11-344 | N4143 | Suignard, Michel (2011-09-28), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | |||
N4103 | "10.2.1 Wingdings/Webdings additions", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
L2/12-130 | N4239 | Suignard, Michel (2012-05-08), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition) | |||
N4363 | Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | ||||
L2/12-368 | N4384 | Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | |||
L2/12-086 | N4223 | Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27 | |||
N4353 (pdf, doc) | "M60.05d, M60.05f, M60.05g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 | ||||
L2/15-050R[lower-alpha 4][lower-alpha 2] | Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji | ||||
L2/15-301[lower-alpha 5][lower-alpha 2] | Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-11-01), A proposal for 278 standardized variation sequences for emoji | ||||
L2/16-036 | Davis, Mark (2016-01-24), Nameslist.txt suggestions | ||||
L2/16-228 | Constable, Peter; Safran-Aasen, Judy; Coady, Michele; Bjornstad, Shelley (2016-08-04), Proposed Additions to Emoji_Modifier_Base | ||||
L2/16-203 | Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "B.12.1.3", UTC #148 Minutes | ||||
8.0 | U+1F6D0 | 1 | L2/14-275 | Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141 | |
L2/15-025 | N4654 | Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-30), Future Additions to ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
L2/14-235R3 | Afshar, Shervin; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-11-01), Emoji and Symbol Additions - Religious Symbols and Structures | ||||
L2/15-032R | Davis, Mark (2015-02-23), Recommended Disposition on Feedback for PRI 286 & related Emoji docs | ||||
9.0 | U+1F6D1, 1F6F4..1F6F5 | 3 | L2/14-085 | Parrott, Katrina (2014-04-09), Request Approval to add "Our New iDiversicons: Diverse Emoji Characters" to the next updated Unicode Standard | |
L2/14-154R | Parrott, Katrina; Afshar, Shervin (2014-08-05), Report on Diversity Emoji Use in iDiversicons and Proposal to Add New Emoji from iDiversicons Collection to Unicode | ||||
L2/14-174R | Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-27), Emoji Additions | ||||
L2/14-172R | Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-29), Proposed enhancements for emoji characters: background | ||||
L2/14-275 | Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141 | ||||
L2/14-282 | Parrott, Katrina (2014-10-28), iDiversicons Proposed Emoji Additions Extracted from L2/14-154R | ||||
L2/15-048 | Parrott, Katrina; et al. (2015-01-31), Adding gender counterparts to emoji list? | ||||
L2/15-058 | Afshar, Shervin (2015-02-01), Comparing MSN Messenger Smiley Set to Unicode Emoji | ||||
L2/15-059 | Afshar, Shervin (2015-02-01), Comparing Yahoo Messenger Smiley Set to Unicode Emoji | ||||
L2/15-054R5 | Cummings, Craig (2015-05-08), Emoji Additions: Animals, Compatibility, and More Popular Requests | ||||
U+1F6D2 | 1 | L2/15-195R2 | Emoji Additions Tranche 6: More Popular Requests and Gap Filling, 2015-07-28 | ||
L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "E.1.1", UTC #144 Minutes | ||||
U+1F6F6 | 1 | L2/15-196R4 | Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2015-07-31), Proposal to add more sports-related emoji characters | ||
L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "E.1.2", UTC #144 Minutes | ||||
L2/17-161 | N4794 | Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "Ireland E13 (1F6F6 CANOE)", Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition | |||
10.0 | U+1F6D3..1F6D4 | 2 | L2/15-007 | N4661 | West, Andrew (2015-01-11), Proposal to encode five religious and cultural symbols |
L2/15-017 | Moore, Lisa (2015-02-12), "E3", UTC #142 Minutes | ||||
U+1F6F7 | 1 | L2/16-127 | Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2016-05-25), Proposal for more winter activity emojis | ||
L2/16-369 | N4805 | Edberg, Peter (2016-11-10), Further emoji additions for Unicode 10, consolidated proposal | |||
U+1F6F8[lower-alpha 6] | 1 | L2/16-206 | Baker, Cody (2016-08-02), Flying Saucer Emoji | ||
L2/17-161 | N4794 | Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "Ireland E14 (1F6F8 FLYING SAUCER)", Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition | |||
11.0 | U+1F6F9 | 1 | L2/15-061 | Cummings, Craig (2015-01-31), Emoji Additions: Runner-ups | |
L2/16-378 | Heard, Jaron (2016-11-20), Skateboarder emoji submission | ||||
L2/16-382 | Bohorad, Nicole; Aschenbach, Sarah; Stenersen, Steve; Freudiger, Mike (2016-12-05), Lacrosse stick and ball emoji submission | ||||
L2/17-257 | Bayer, Devin (2016-12-24), Flying Disc Emoji Proposal | ||||
L2/17-184 | Hernandez, Vickie (2017-06-02), Proposal for "Softball" Emoji | ||||
L2/17-277 | Karadeniz, Tayfun; et al. (2017-07-28), Emoji Sports Proposal for Unicode v11 | ||||
L2/17-393 | Anderson, Deborah (2017-10-22), Feedback from WG2 email discussion list on PDAM 2.2 | ||||
L2/18-027 | Burge, Jeremy; Moore, Lisa (2018-01-15), Response to feedback from WG2 email discussion list on PDAM 2.2 | ||||
12.0 | U+1F6D5 | 1 | L2/17-298 | Dalvi, Girish; Chaturvedi, Mayank (2017-08-07), Proposal for Hindu Temple Emoji | |
L2/17-380R | Emoji Subcommittee Report Q3 2017, 2017-10-23 | ||||
L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C26", UTC #153 Minutes | ||||
L2/18-143R2 | N4960 | Davis, Mark; et al. (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised) | |||
L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 155-C16 and Consensus 155-C18", UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
L2/18-234 | N5008 | Everson, Michael (2018-07-18), Feedback on draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18-143R2) | |||
N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
U+1F6FA | 1 | L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C26", UTC #153 Minutes | ||
L2/18-086 | Pandey, Anshuman (2018-03-10), Proposal to encode the AUTO RICKSHAW emoji | ||||
L2/18-143R2 | N4960 | Davis, Mark; et al. (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised) | |||
L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 155-C16 and 155-C18", UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
L2/18-234 | N5008 | Everson, Michael (2018-07-18), Feedback on draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18-143R2) | |||
L2/18-253 | Davis, Mark (2018-08-21), Comments on accumulated feedback on Unicode 12.0 draft candidates | ||||
N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
13.0 | U+1F6D6 | 1 | L2/19-102 | Sunne, Samantha (February 2019), Proposal for Emoji: HUT | |
L2/19-190R (pdf, aux) | N5056 | Davis, Mark (2019-04-30), Emoji Recommendations 2019Q2 (revised) | |||
L2/19-122 | Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "Consensus 159-C12", UTC #159 Minutes | ||||
U+1F6D7 | 1 | L2/18-329[lower-alpha 7] | Ingham-Smith, Kate (2018-11-15), Proposal for New Emoji: Elevator / Stairs | ||
U+1F6FB | 1 | L2/18-260[lower-alpha 7] | Maggio, Nathan (2018-05-15), Proposal for new emoji PICKUP TRUCK | ||
L2/18-307 | "Provisional Candidate Proposals", ESC Recommendations for 2018Q4 UTC, 2018-09-18 | ||||
L2/18-272 | Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "Consensus 157-C11", UTC #157 Minutes | ||||
U+1F6FC | 1 | L2/19-151[lower-alpha 7] | Vandon, Raphaรซl; Indigo, Twixxi (2019-04-02), Proposal for a Roller Skate emoji | ||
14.0 | U+1F6DD | 1 | L2/20-215 | Krenek, Christian (2020-03-31), Proposal for Emoji: Slide | |
L2/20-237 | Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C23", UTC #165 Minutes | ||||
L2/20-242R2 | Daniel, Jennifer (2020-10-07), Recommendations for Emoji, Unicode 14.0 | ||||
U+1F6DE | 1 | L2/20-216[lower-alpha 8] | Joyce, Christine (2019-03-27), Proposal for Emoji: Tyre | ||
U+1F6DF | 1 | L2/20-224[lower-alpha 8] | Shopsin, Tamara (May 2020), Life Preserver Emoji Proposal for Unicode 14.0 | ||
15.0 | U+1F6DC | 1 | L2/21-191 | Brinkmann, Lena; Chase, Bronwen (2020-07-08), Proposal for Emoji Wireless Connection | |
L2/21-172R | Daniel, Jennifer (2021-10-06), Emoji Subcommittee Report Q4, 2021 | ||||
L2/21-167 | Cummings, Craig (2022-01-27), "Consensus 169-C14", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 169, Accept the repertoire of 21 provisional emoji candidates as documented in L2/21-172R | ||||
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