Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600-U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.
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Emoji
The Miscellaneous Symbols block contains 80 emoji: U+2600-U+2604, U+260E, U+2611, U+2614-U+2615, U+2618, U+261D, U+2620, U+2622-U+2623, U+2626, U+262A, U+262E-U+262F, U+2638-U+263A, U+2640, U+2642, U+2648-U+2653, U+2660, U+2663, U+2665-U+2666, U+2668, U+267B, U+267F, U+2692-U+2697, U+2699, U+269B-U+269C, U+26A0-U+26A1, U+26AA-U+26AB, U+26B0-U+26B1, U+26BD-U+26BE, U+26C4-U+26C5, U+26C8, U+26CE-U+26CF, U+26D1, U+26D3-U+26D4, U+26E9-U+26EA, U+26F0-U+26F5, U+26F7-U+26FA and U+26FD.
The block has 158 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following 79 base characters: U+2600-U+2604, U+260E, U+2611, U+2614-U+2615, U+2618, U+261D, U+2620, U+2622-U+2623, U+2626, U+262A, U+262E-U+262F, U+2638-U+263A, U+2640, U+2642, U+2648-U+2653, U+2660, U+2663, U+2665-U+2666, U+2668, U+267B, U+267F, U+2692-U+2697, U+2699, U+269B-U+269C, U+26A0-U+26A1, U+26AA-U+26AB, U+26B0-U+26B1, U+26BD-U+26BE, U+26C4-U+26C5, U+26C8, U+26CF, U+26D1, U+26D3-U+26D4, U+26E9-U+26EA, U+26F0-U+26F5, U+26F7-U+26FA and U+26FD.
Diversity
The Miscellaneous Symbols block has two emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FB-U+1F3FF to provide for a range of skin tones using the Fitzpatrick scale:
Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Transport and Map Symbols.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols block:
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