Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs explained

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Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing emoji characters. It extends the set of symbols included in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. It also includes Typikon symbols.

Emoji

The Unicode 14.0 Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block contains 242 emoji,[3] [4] consisting of all the non-Typikon symbols except for the rifle and the pentathlon symbol. The rifle and the pentathlon emoji has been rejected due to its controversy, analogous to the redesign of the pistol emoji.[5]

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Emoji modifiers

The Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block has 45 emoji that represent people or body parts.These are designed to be used with the set of "Emoji modifiers" defined in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. These are modifier characters intended to define the skin colour to be used for the emoji, based on the Fitzpatrick scale:[4]

The following table shows the full combinations of the "human emoji" characters with each of the five modifiers, which should display each character in each of the five skin tones provided a suitable font is installed on the system and the rendering software is capable of handling modifier characters:

Human emoji
U+ 1F90C 1F90F 1F918 1F919 1F91A 1F91B 1F91C 1F91D 1F91E 1F91F 1F926 1F930
emoji
FITZ-1-2 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻
FITZ-3 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼
FITZ-4 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽
FITZ-5 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾
FITZ-6 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿
U+ 1F931 1F932 1F933 1F934 1F935 1F936 1F937 1F938 1F939 1F93D 1F93E 1F977
emoji
FITZ-1-2 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻
FITZ-3 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼
FITZ-4 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽
FITZ-5 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾
FITZ-6 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿
U+ 1F9B5 1F9B6 1F9B8 1F9B9 1F9BB 1F9CD 1F9CE 1F9CF 1F9D1 1F9D2 1F9D3 1F9D4
emoji
FITZ-1-2 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻
FITZ-3 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼
FITZ-4 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽
FITZ-5 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾
FITZ-6 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿
U+ 1F9D5 1F9D6 1F9D7 1F9D8 1F9D9 1F9DA 1F9DB 1F9DC 1F9DD
emoji
FITZ-1-2 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻 🏻
FITZ-3 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼 🏼
FITZ-4 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽 🏽
FITZ-5 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾 🏾
FITZ-6 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿 🏿

Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A and Transport and Map Symbols.

History

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Unicode character database. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
  2. Web site: Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
  3. Web site: UTR #51: Unicode Emoji. 2023-09-05. Unicode Consortium.
  4. Web site: UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51. 2023-02-01. Unicode Consortium.
  5. Web site: There won't be a rifle emoji because Apple wouldn't allow it on iOS. 2016-06-17. The Verge.