Transport and Map Symbols explained

Rangestart:1F680
Rangeend:1F6FF
Script1:Common
Symbols:Map symbols
Transport icons
Emoji
6 0:70
7 0:27
8 0:1
9 0:5
10 0:4
11 0:1
12 0:2
13 0:4
14 0:3
15 0:1
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

Emoji

The Transport and Map Symbols block contains 105 emoji:U+1F680–U+1F6C5, U+1F6CB–U+1F6D2, U+1F6D5–U+1F6D7, U+1F6DC–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6EB–U+1F6EC, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3–U+1F6FC.[3] [4]

The block has 46 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for thefollowing 23 base characters: U+1F687, U+1F68D, U+1F691, U+1F694, U+1F698, U+1F6AD, U+1F6B2, U+1F6B9–U+1F6BA, U+1F6BC, U+1F6CB, U+1F6CD–U+1F6CF, U+1F6E0–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3.[5] All of these base characters default to a text presentation.

Emoji variation sequences
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
base+VS15 (text)
base+VS16 (emoji)
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
base+VS15 (text)
base+VS16 (emoji)

Emoji modifiers

The Transport and Map Symbols block has six emoji that represent people or body parts.They can be modified using U+1F3FB - U+1F3FF to provide for a range of human skin color using the Fitzpatrick scale:[4]

Human emoji
U+ 1F6A3 1F6B4 1F6B5 1F6B6 1F6C0 1F6CC
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, 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:

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: UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences . The Unicode Consortium.