Emoticons (Unicode block)

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Emoticons is a Unicode block containing graphic representations of faces, which are often associated with classic emoticons. They exist largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS.

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Block

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Emoji

All of the characters in the Emoticons block are emoji. Each emoticon has two variants:

• U+FE0E (VARIATION SELECTOR-15) selects text presentation (e.g. ? ? ?),
• U+FE0F (VARIATION SELECTOR-16) selects emoji-style (e.g. ? ? ?).

If there is no variation selector appended, the default is the emoji-style. Example:

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Diversity

The Emoticons block has eight 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, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Transport and Map Symbols.

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History

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

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See also

• Some basic smiley faces (?, ?, ?) are in Miscellaneous Symbols block
• Additional smiley faces (e.g. ?, ?, etc) are in Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block
• Some heads and figures (e.g. ?; ?; etc) are in Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs and Transport and Map Symbols blocks
• Some body parts (e.g. ?; ?; etc) are in the Dingbat and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks

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References

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