Emoticons
RangeU+1F600..U+1F64F
(80 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsEmoji
Emoticons
Assigned80 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0 (2010)63 (+63)
6.1 (2012)76 (+13)
7.0 (2014)78 (+2)
8.0 (2015)80 (+2)
Unicode documentation
Code chartโ€ƒโˆฃโ€ƒWeb page
Note: [1][2]

Emoticons is a Unicode block containing emoticons or emoji.[3][4][5] Most of them are intended as representations of faces, although some of them include hand gestures or non-human characters (a horned "imp", monkeys, cartoon cats).

The block was first proposed in 2008, and first implemented in Unicode version 6.0 (2010). The reason for its adoption was largely for compatibility with a de facto standard that had been established by the early 2000s by Japanese telephone carriers, encoded in unused ranges with lead bytes 0xF5 to 0xF9 of the Shift JIS standard.[6] KDDI has gone much further than this, and has introduced hundreds more in the space with lead bytes 0xF3 and 0xF4.[7]

Descriptions

1F600๐Ÿ˜€grinning face
1F601๐Ÿ˜grinning face with smiling eyes
1F602๐Ÿ˜‚face with tears of joy
1F603๐Ÿ˜ƒsmiling face with open mouth (c.f. โ˜บ)
1F604๐Ÿ˜„smiling face with open mouth and smiling eyes
1F605๐Ÿ˜…smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat
1F606๐Ÿ˜†smiling face with open mouth and tightly-closed eyes
1F607๐Ÿ˜‡smiling face with halo
1F608๐Ÿ˜ˆsmiling face with horns (c.f. ๐Ÿ‘ฟ "imp")
1F609๐Ÿ˜‰winking face
1F60A๐Ÿ˜Šsmiling face with smiling eyes
1F60B๐Ÿ˜‹face savouring delicious food
1F60C๐Ÿ˜Œrelieved face
1F60D๐Ÿ˜smiling face with heart-shaped eyes
1F60E๐Ÿ˜Žsmiling face with sunglasses
1F60F๐Ÿ˜smirking face
1F610๐Ÿ˜neutral face (also used for "west wind" ่ฅฟ in some Mahjong annotation)
1F611๐Ÿ˜‘expressionless face
1F612๐Ÿ˜’unamused face
1F613๐Ÿ˜“face with cold sweat
1F614๐Ÿ˜”pensive face
1F615๐Ÿ˜•confused face
1F616๐Ÿ˜–confounded face
1F617๐Ÿ˜—kissing face
1F618๐Ÿ˜˜face throwing a kiss
1F619๐Ÿ˜™kissing face with smiling eyes
1F61A๐Ÿ˜škissing face with closed eyes
1F61B๐Ÿ˜›face with stuck-out tongue
1F61C๐Ÿ˜œface with stuck-out tongue and winking eye
1F61D๐Ÿ˜face with stuck-out tongue and tightly-closed eyes
1F61E๐Ÿ˜ždisappointed face
1F61F๐Ÿ˜Ÿworried face
1F620๐Ÿ˜ angry face
1F621๐Ÿ˜กpouting face
1F622๐Ÿ˜ขcrying face
1F623๐Ÿ˜ฃpersevering face
1F624๐Ÿ˜คUnicode: face with look of triumph, Apple: huffing with anger face
1F625๐Ÿ˜ฅdisappointed but relieved face
1F626๐Ÿ˜ฆfrowning face with open mouth
1F627๐Ÿ˜งanguished face
1F628๐Ÿ˜จfearful face
1F629๐Ÿ˜ฉweary face
1F62A๐Ÿ˜ชsleepy face
1F62B๐Ÿ˜ซtired face
1F62C๐Ÿ˜ฌgrimacing face
1F62D๐Ÿ˜ญloudly crying face
1F62E๐Ÿ˜ฎface with open mouth
1F62F๐Ÿ˜ฏhushed face
1F630๐Ÿ˜ฐface with open mouth and cold sweat
1F631๐Ÿ˜ฑface screaming in fear
1F632๐Ÿ˜ฒastonished face
1F633๐Ÿ˜ณflushed face
1F634๐Ÿ˜ดsleeping face
1F635๐Ÿ˜ตdizzy face
1F636๐Ÿ˜ถface without mouth (c.f. โš‡ "white circle with two dots")
1F637๐Ÿ˜ทface with medical mask
1F638๐Ÿ˜ธgrinning cat face with smiling eyes
1F639๐Ÿ˜นcat face with tears of joy
1F63A๐Ÿ˜บsmiling cat face with open mouth
1F63B๐Ÿ˜ปsmiling cat face with heart-shape eyes
1F63C๐Ÿ˜ผcat face with wry smile
1F63D๐Ÿ˜ฝkissing cat face with closed eyes
1F63E๐Ÿ˜พpouting cat face
1F63F๐Ÿ˜ฟcrying cat face
1F640๐Ÿ™€weary cat face
1F641๐Ÿ™slightly frowning face
1F642๐Ÿ™‚slightly smiling face
1F643๐Ÿ™ƒupside-down face
1F644๐Ÿ™„face with rolling eyes
1F645๐Ÿ™…face with "no good" gesture, with lower arms crossed, derived from the Japanese gesture for "no". Intended as gender-neutral but represented as a woman on most platforms.
1F646๐Ÿ™†face with "ok" gesture, described as a person with arms raised above the head forming a "circle", interpreted as "OK sign" (derived from the Japanese gesture for "OK"). Intended as gender-neutral but represented as a woman on most platforms.
1F647๐Ÿ™‡person bowing (dogeza), depicted as a man on most platforms.
1F648๐Ÿ™ˆsee-no-evil monkey
1F649๐Ÿ™‰hear-no-evil monkey
1F64A๐Ÿ™Šspeak-no-evil monkey
1F64B๐Ÿ™‹happy person raising one hand, a person raising one hand as if to answer a question, intended as gender-neutral but represented as a woman on most platforms.
1F64C๐Ÿ™Œperson raising both hands in celebration, on many platforms depicted as just the raised hands (Apple name: "Hands Raised in Celebration").
1F64D๐Ÿ™person frowning
1F64E๐Ÿ™Žperson with pouting face
1F64F๐Ÿ™person with folded hands (to indicate variously sorrow, regret, pleading, praying, bowing, thanking). In most platforms depicted as just the hand, pressed together but not folded (Apple name: "Hands Pressed Together").

Chart

Emoticons[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1F60x ๐Ÿ˜€ ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿ˜ƒ ๐Ÿ˜„ ๐Ÿ˜… ๐Ÿ˜† ๐Ÿ˜‡ ๐Ÿ˜ˆ ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿ˜Š ๐Ÿ˜‹ ๐Ÿ˜Œ ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜Ž ๐Ÿ˜
U+1F61x ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜‘ ๐Ÿ˜’ ๐Ÿ˜“ ๐Ÿ˜” ๐Ÿ˜• ๐Ÿ˜– ๐Ÿ˜— ๐Ÿ˜˜ ๐Ÿ˜™ ๐Ÿ˜š ๐Ÿ˜› ๐Ÿ˜œ ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜ž ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ
U+1F62x ๐Ÿ˜  ๐Ÿ˜ก ๐Ÿ˜ข ๐Ÿ˜ฃ ๐Ÿ˜ค ๐Ÿ˜ฅ ๐Ÿ˜ฆ ๐Ÿ˜ง ๐Ÿ˜จ ๐Ÿ˜ฉ ๐Ÿ˜ช ๐Ÿ˜ซ ๐Ÿ˜ฌ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ฎ ๐Ÿ˜ฏ
U+1F63x ๐Ÿ˜ฐ ๐Ÿ˜ฑ ๐Ÿ˜ฒ ๐Ÿ˜ณ ๐Ÿ˜ด ๐Ÿ˜ต ๐Ÿ˜ถ ๐Ÿ˜ท ๐Ÿ˜ธ ๐Ÿ˜น ๐Ÿ˜บ ๐Ÿ˜ป ๐Ÿ˜ผ ๐Ÿ˜ฝ ๐Ÿ˜พ ๐Ÿ˜ฟ
U+1F64x ๐Ÿ™€ ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™ƒ ๐Ÿ™„ ๐Ÿ™… ๐Ÿ™† ๐Ÿ™‡ ๐Ÿ™ˆ ๐Ÿ™‰ ๐Ÿ™Š ๐Ÿ™‹ ๐Ÿ™Œ ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ™Ž ๐Ÿ™
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

Variant forms

Each emoticon has two variants:

  • U+FE0E (VARIATION SELECTOR-15) selects text presentation (e.g. ๐Ÿ˜Š๏ธŽ ๐Ÿ˜๏ธŽ โ˜น๏ธŽ),
  • U+FE0F (VARIATION SELECTOR-16) selects emoji-style (e.g. ๐Ÿ˜Š๏ธ ๐Ÿ˜๏ธ โ˜น๏ธ).

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

Unicode code pointsResult
U+1F610 (NEUTRAL FACE)๐Ÿ˜
U+1F610 (NEUTRAL FACE), U+FE0E (VARIATION SELECTOR-15)๐Ÿ˜๏ธŽ
U+1F610 (NEUTRAL FACE), U+FE0F (VARIATION SELECTOR-16)๐Ÿ˜๏ธ

Emoji modifiers

The Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block has 54 emoji that represent people or body parts. A set of "Emoji modifiers" are defined for emojis that represent people or body parts. These are modifier characters intended to define the skin colour to be used for the emoji. The draft document suggesting the introduction of this system for the representation of "human diversity" was submitted in 2015 by Mark Davis of Google and Peter Edberg of Apple Inc.[8] Five symbol modifier characters were added with Unicode 8.0 to provide a range of skin tones for human emoji. These modifiers are called EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-1-2, -3, -4, -5, and -6 (U+1F3FBโ€“U+1F3FF): ๐Ÿป ๐Ÿผ ๐Ÿฝ ๐Ÿพ ๐Ÿฟ. They are based on the Fitzpatrick scale for classifying human skin color.

Human emoji
U+1F6451F6461F6471F64B1F64C1F64D1F64E1F64F
emoji๐Ÿ™…๐Ÿ™†๐Ÿ™‡๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™Ž๐Ÿ™
FITZ-1-2๐Ÿ™…๐Ÿป๐Ÿ™†๐Ÿป๐Ÿ™‡๐Ÿป๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿป๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป๐Ÿ™Ž๐Ÿป๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป
FITZ-3๐Ÿ™…๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™†๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™‡๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™Ž๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ
FITZ-4๐Ÿ™…๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ™†๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ™‡๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ™Ž๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฝ
FITZ-5๐Ÿ™…๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ™†๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ™‡๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ™Ž๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿพ
FITZ-6๐Ÿ™…๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ™†๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ™‡๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ™Ž๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฟ

Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental 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 Emoticons block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
6.0U+1F601..1F610, 1F612..1F614, 1F616, 1F618, 1F61A, 1F61C..1F61E, 1F620..1F625, 1F628..1F62B, 1F62D, 1F630..1F633, 1F635..1F640, 1F645..1F64F[lower-alpha 2]63L2/09-007Lommel, Arle (2008-12-26), Comparison of Emoticons from Major Vendors
L2/09-025R2N3582[lower-alpha 3]Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
L2/09-026RN3583Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
L2/09-027R2N3681Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/09-114N3607Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06
L2/09-304Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-15), US Position on PDAM 8
L2/09-370N3711Ogata, Katsuhiro; et al. (2009-10-22), A Proposal to Revise a Part of Emoticons in PDAM 8
L2/09-371N3713Pentzlin, Karl (2009-10-22), Comment on "A proposal to Revise a Part of Emoticons in PDAM 8" (Katsuhiro Ogata et al., N3711)
L2/09-412N3722Suignard, Michel (2009-10-26), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
N3703 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.9j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
L2/09-335RMoore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "Consensus 121-C8", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes
L2/10-036N3769Pentzlin, Karl (2010-01-26), Proposal to encode an emoticon Neutral Face
L2/10-061RScherer, Markus; et al. (2010-02-04), "2, 4", Emoji: Review of FPDAM8
L2/10-066N3790-ANSIAnderson, Deborah (2010-02-05), ANSI (U.S.) NB Comments on FPDAM 8
L2/10-015RMoore, Lisa (2010-02-09), "D.1.3", UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes
N3778Ogata, Katsuhiro; Kamichi, Koichi; Moro, Shigeki; Kawabata, Taichi; Naoi, Yasushi (2010-03-03), Updated Proposal to Change Some Glyphs and Names of Emoticons
L2/10-089N3777KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08
L2/10-102N3790Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4123, ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 8, 2010-03-27
L2/10-115N3806Ogata, Katsuhiro; Kamichi, Koichi; Moro, Shigeki; Kawabata, Taichi; Naoi, Yasushi (2010-04-06), Rationale for Proposal of N3778
L2/10-135N3826Everson, Michael (2010-04-22), Emoticons for FDIS 8
L2/10-137N3828Suignard, Michel (2010-04-22), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
L2/10-132Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/10-138N3829Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report
L2/10-108Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C3", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
N3803 (pdf, doc)"M56.01", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24
L2/15-015R2Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-21), Recommended Unicode Glyph / Nameslist changes
L2/15-071RDavis, 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
L2/15-107Moore, Lisa (2015-05-12), "Consensus 143-C20", UTC #143 Minutes, Update chart glyphs and annotations based on L2/15-151 for Unicode 8.0.
L2/15-199Proposed annotation additions for Unicode 9.0, 2015-07-31
L2/16-281Burge, Jeremy; Hunt, Paul (2016-10-17), Emoji Glyph Updates
L2/16-361Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (2016-11-07), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols
6.1U+1F600, 1F611, 1F615, 1F617, 1F619, 1F61B, 1F61F, 1F626..1F627, 1F62C, 1F62E..1F62F, 1F634[lower-alpha 2]13L2/09-007Lommel, Arle (2008-12-26), Comparison of Emoticons from Major Vendors
L2/09-025R2N3582[lower-alpha 3]Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
L2/09-026RN3583Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
L2/09-027R2N3681Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/10-102N3790Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 4123, ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/FPDAM 8, 2010-03-27
L2/10-132Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/10-138N3829Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), "7", Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report
N3803 (pdf, doc)"M56.01", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24
L2/15-015R2Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-21), Recommended Unicode Glyph / Nameslist changes
L2/15-071RDavis, 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
L2/15-107Moore, Lisa (2015-05-12), "Consensus 143-C20", UTC #143 Minutes, Update chart glyphs and annotations based on L2/15-151 for Unicode 8.0.
7.0U+1F641..1F6422L2/10-429Pentzlin, Karl (2010-10-22), Proposal to encode three additional emoticons
L2/11-037N3982Proposal to encode three additional emoticons, 2011-01-03
L2/11-253Whistler, Ken (2011-06-16), "I", WG2 consent docket
N4103"11.6 Three additional emoticons", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
L2/23-034Gawne, Lauren; Daniel, Jennifer (2022-12-16), Head Shaking Horizontally Unicode Emoji Proposal [Affects U+1F642]
L2/23-035Gawne, Lauren; Daniel, Jennifer (2022-12-16), Head Shaking Vertically Unicode Emoji Proposal [Affects U+1F642]
L2/23-037RDaniel, Jennifer (2023-01-25), Recommendations for ZWJ Sequences, Unicode 15.1 [Affects U+1F642]
L2/23-005Constable, Peter (2023-02-01), "G.1.1 Emoji 15.1 Recommendations", UTC #174 Minutes
8.0U+1F643..1F6442L2/14-174RDavis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-27), Emoji Additions
L2/14-172RDavis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-29), Proposed enhancements for emoji characters: background
L2/14-275Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141
L2/14-284R2Edberg, Peter; Davis, Mark (2014-10-28), Emoji-System Compatibility Additions
L2/15-025N4654Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-30), Future Additions to ISO/IEC 10646
L2/15-030Davis, Mark (2015-01-29), Emojipedia top requests
  1. โ†‘ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. 1 2 Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  3. 1 2 Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621

See also

References

  1. โ†‘ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. โ†‘ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. โ†‘ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  4. โ†‘ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  5. โ†‘ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
  6. โ†‘ "Original Emoji from DoCoMo". FileFormat.info.
  7. โ†‘ "Original Emoji from KDDI". FileFormat.info.
  8. โ†‘ "The default representation of these modifier characters when used alone is as a color swatch. Whenever one of these characters immediately follows certain characters (such as WOMAN), then a font should show the sequence as a single glyph corresponding to the image for the person(s) or body part with the specified skin tone" Draft Unicode Technical Report #51 "UNICODE EMOJI" Version 1.0 (draft 10) eds. Mark Davis (Google Inc.), Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.), 2015-05-08.
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