Transport and Map Symbols
In today's world, Transport and Map Symbols has become a topic of increasing interest to a wide variety of people. Whether it is a current topic, a public figure or a cultural phenomenon, Transport and Map Symbols has captured the attention of society at large. In this article, we will explore different aspects related to Transport and Map Symbols, from its impact on people's lives to its global implications. Through a deep and thoughtful analysis, we will try to shed light on different perspectives that help us better understand Transport and Map Symbols and its relevance in the contemporary world.
| Transport and Map Symbols | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1F680..U+1F6FF (128 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Map symbols Transport icons Emoji |
| Assigned | 118 code points |
| Unused | 10 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.0 (2010) | 70 (+70) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 97 (+27) |
| 8.0 (2015) | 98 (+1) |
| 9.0 (2016) | 103 (+5) |
| 10.0 (2017) | 107 (+4) |
| 11.0 (2018) | 108 (+1) |
| 12.0 (2019) | 110 (+2) |
| 13.0 (2020) | 114 (+4) |
| 14.0 (2021) | 117 (+3) |
| 15.0 (2022) | 118 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: | |
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
| Transport and Map Symbols Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+1F68x | ||||||||||||||||
| U+1F69x | ||||||||||||||||
| U+1F6Ax | ||||||||||||||||
| U+1F6Bx | ||||||||||||||||
| U+1F6Cx | ||||||||||||||||
| U+1F6Dx | ||||||||||||||||
| U+1F6Ex | ||||||||||||||||
| U+1F6Fx | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
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.
The block has 46 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following 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. All of these base characters default to a text presentation.
| 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:
| 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:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | U+1F680..1F6C5 | 70 | L2/06-272 | Stötzner, Andreas (2006-07-30), Public Signage (I) | |
| L2/06-370 | Stötzner, Andreas (2006-11-02), Symbols | ||||
| L2/09-025R2 | N3582 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols | |||
| L2/09-026R | N3583 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding | |||
| L2/09-027R2 | N3681 | Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data | |||
| L2/09-114 | N3607 | Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06 | |||
| L2/09-272 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Edberg, Peter (2009-08-06), Emoji: Review of PDAM 8 | ||||
| L2/09-412 | N3722 | Suignard, Michel (2009-10-26), "USA T.3, Ireland T15-T17, E10, Germany T24", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003) | |||
| L2/10-025 | N3726 | Constable, Peter (2009-10-27), "7, 13", Emoji ad-hoc meeting report 2009-10-27 | |||
| N3703 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.9k", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30 | ||||
| L2/09-335R | Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "Consensus 121-C8", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes | ||||
| L2/10-089 | N3777 | KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08 | |||
| L2/10-137 | N3828 | Suignard, Michel (2010-04-22), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003) | |||
| L2/10-138 | N3829 | Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), "15", Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report | |||
| L2/15-071R | Davis, 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 | ||||
| L2/15-107 | Moore, Lisa (2015-05-12), "Consensus 143-C20", UTC #143 Minutes, Update chart glyphs and annotations based on L2/15-151 for Unicode 8.0. | ||||
| L2/16-361 | Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (2016-11-07), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "6.2.3 T5", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| L2/22-275 | Stewart, Sean; Daniel, Jennifer (2022-10-19), Exploring Emoji Directionality | ||||
| L2/22-246 | Daniel, Jennifer (2022-10-31), "3. Exploring Emoji Directionality ", Emoji Subcommittee Report for UTC #173 (2022Q4) | ||||
| L2/23-030R | Stewart, Sean (2023-01-25), Emoji Directionality Recommendation | ||||
| L2/23-037R | Daniel, Jennifer (2023-01-25), Recommendations for ZWJ Sequences, Unicode 15.1 | ||||
| L2/23-005 | Constable, Peter (2023-02-01), "G.1.1 Emoji 15.1 Recommendations", UTC #174 Minutes | ||||
| 7.0 | U+1F6C6..1F6CF, 1F6E0..1F6EC, 1F6F0..1F6F3 | 27 | L2/11-052R | Suignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study | |
| L2/11-149 | Suignard, Michel (2011-05-09), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols | ||||
| L2/11-196 | N4022 | Suignard, Michel (2011-05-21), Revised Wingdings proposal | |||
| L2/11-247 | N4115 | Suignard, Michel (2011-06-08), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | |||
| L2/11-344 | N4143 | Suignard, Michel (2011-09-28), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | |||
| N4103 | "10.2.1 Wingdings/Webdings additions", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| L2/12-130 | N4239 | Suignard, Michel (2012-05-08), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition) | |||
| N4363 | Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | ||||
| L2/12-368 | N4384 | Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | |||
| L2/12-086 | N4223 | Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27 | |||
| N4353 (pdf, doc) | "M60.05d, M60.05f, M60.05g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 | ||||
| L2/15-050R | Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji | ||||
| L2/15-301 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-11-01), A proposal for 278 standardized variation sequences for emoji | ||||
| L2/16-036 | Davis, Mark (2016-01-24), Nameslist.txt suggestions | ||||
| L2/16-228 | Constable, Peter; Safran-Aasen, Judy; Coady, Michele; Bjornstad, Shelley (2016-08-04), Proposed Additions to Emoji_Modifier_Base | ||||
| L2/16-203 | Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "B.12.1.3", UTC #148 Minutes | ||||
| 8.0 | U+1F6D0 | 1 | L2/14-275 | Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141 | |
| L2/15-025 | N4654 | Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-30), Future Additions to ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/14-235R3 | Afshar, Shervin; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-11-01), Emoji and Symbol Additions - Religious Symbols and Structures | ||||
| L2/15-032R | Davis, Mark (2015-02-23), Recommended Disposition on Feedback for PRI 286 & related Emoji docs | ||||
| 9.0 | U+1F6D1, 1F6F4..1F6F5 | 3 | L2/14-085 | Parrott, Katrina (2014-04-09), Request Approval to add "Our New iDiversicons: Diverse Emoji Characters" to the next updated Unicode Standard | |
| L2/14-154R | Parrott, Katrina; Afshar, Shervin (2014-08-05), Report on Diversity Emoji Use in iDiversicons and Proposal to Add New Emoji from iDiversicons Collection to Unicode | ||||
| L2/14-174R | Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-27), Emoji Additions | ||||
| L2/14-172R | Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-29), Proposed enhancements for emoji characters: background | ||||
| L2/14-275 | Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141 | ||||
| L2/14-282 | Parrott, Katrina (2014-10-28), iDiversicons Proposed Emoji Additions Extracted from L2/14-154R | ||||
| L2/15-048 | Parrott, Katrina; et al. (2015-01-31), Adding gender counterparts to emoji list? | ||||
| L2/15-058 | Afshar, Shervin (2015-02-01), Comparing MSN Messenger Smiley Set to Unicode Emoji | ||||
| L2/15-059 | Afshar, Shervin (2015-02-01), Comparing Yahoo Messenger Smiley Set to Unicode Emoji | ||||
| L2/15-054R5 | Cummings, Craig (2015-05-08), Emoji Additions: Animals, Compatibility, and More Popular Requests | ||||
| U+1F6D2 | 1 | L2/15-195R2 | Emoji Additions Tranche 6: More Popular Requests and Gap Filling, 2015-07-28 | ||
| L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "E.1.1", UTC #144 Minutes | ||||
| U+1F6F6 | 1 | L2/15-196R4 | Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2015-07-31), Proposal to add more sports-related emoji characters | ||
| L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "E.1.2", UTC #144 Minutes | ||||
| L2/17-161 | N4794 | Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "Ireland E13 (1F6F6 CANOE)", Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition | |||
| 10.0 | U+1F6D3..1F6D4 | 2 | L2/15-007 | N4661 | West, Andrew (2015-01-11), Proposal to encode five religious and cultural symbols |
| L2/15-017 | Moore, Lisa (2015-02-12), "E3", UTC #142 Minutes | ||||
| U+1F6F7 | 1 | L2/16-127 | Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2016-05-25), Proposal for more winter activity emojis | ||
| L2/16-369 | N4805 | Edberg, Peter (2016-11-10), Further emoji additions for Unicode 10, consolidated proposal | |||
| U+1F6F8 | 1 | L2/16-206 | Baker, Cody (2016-08-02), Flying Saucer Emoji | ||
| L2/17-161 | N4794 | Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "Ireland E14 (1F6F8 FLYING SAUCER)", Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition | |||
| 11.0 | U+1F6F9 | 1 | L2/15-061 | Cummings, Craig (2015-01-31), Emoji Additions: Runner-ups | |
| L2/16-378 | Heard, Jaron (2016-11-20), Skateboarder emoji submission | ||||
| L2/16-382 | Bohorad, Nicole; Aschenbach, Sarah; Stenersen, Steve; Freudiger, Mike (2016-12-05), Lacrosse stick and ball emoji submission | ||||
| L2/17-257 | Bayer, Devin (2016-12-24), Flying Disc Emoji Proposal | ||||
| L2/17-184 | Hernandez, Vickie (2017-06-02), Proposal for "Softball" Emoji | ||||
| L2/17-277 | Karadeniz, Tayfun; et al. (2017-07-28), Emoji Sports Proposal for Unicode v11 | ||||
| L2/17-393 | Anderson, Deborah (2017-10-22), Feedback from WG2 email discussion list on PDAM 2.2 | ||||
| L2/18-027 | Burge, Jeremy; Moore, Lisa (2018-01-15), Response to feedback from WG2 email discussion list on PDAM 2.2 | ||||
| 12.0 | U+1F6D5 | 1 | L2/17-298 | Dalvi, Girish; Chaturvedi, Mayank (2017-08-07), Proposal for Hindu Temple Emoji | |
| L2/17-380R | Emoji Subcommittee Report Q3 2017, 2017-10-23 | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C26", UTC #153 Minutes | ||||
| L2/18-143R2 | N4960 | Davis, Mark; et al. (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised) | |||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 155-C16 and Consensus 155-C18", UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| L2/18-234 | N5008 | Everson, Michael (2018-07-18), Feedback on draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18-143R2) | |||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| U+1F6FA | 1 | L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C26", UTC #153 Minutes | ||
| L2/18-086 | Pandey, Anshuman (2018-03-10), Proposal to encode the AUTO RICKSHAW emoji | ||||
| L2/18-143R2 | N4960 | Davis, Mark; et al. (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised) | |||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 155-C16 and 155-C18", UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| L2/18-234 | N5008 | Everson, Michael (2018-07-18), Feedback on draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18-143R2) | |||
| L2/18-253 | Davis, Mark (2018-08-21), Comments on accumulated feedback on Unicode 12.0 draft candidates | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| 13.0 | U+1F6D6 | 1 | L2/19-102 | Sunne, Samantha (February 2019), Proposal for Emoji: HUT | |
| L2/19-190R (pdf, aux) | N5056 | Davis, Mark (2019-04-30), Emoji Recommendations 2019Q2 (revised) | |||
| L2/19-122 | Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "Consensus 159-C12", UTC #159 Minutes | ||||
| U+1F6D7 | 1 | L2/18-329 | Ingham-Smith, Kate (2018-11-15), Proposal for New Emoji: Elevator / Stairs | ||
| U+1F6FB | 1 | L2/18-260 | Maggio, Nathan (2018-05-15), Proposal for new emoji PICKUP TRUCK | ||
| L2/18-307 | "Provisional Candidate Proposals", ESC Recommendations for 2018Q4 UTC, 2018-09-18 | ||||
| L2/18-272 | Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "Consensus 157-C11", UTC #157 Minutes | ||||
| U+1F6FC | 1 | L2/19-151 | Vandon, Raphaël; Indigo, Twixxi (2019-04-02), Proposal for a Roller Skate emoji | ||
| 14.0 | U+1F6DD | 1 | L2/20-215 | Krenek, Christian (2020-03-31), Proposal for Emoji: Slide | |
| L2/20-237 | Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C23", UTC #165 Minutes | ||||
| L2/20-242R2 | Daniel, Jennifer (2020-10-07), Recommendations for Emoji, Unicode 14.0 | ||||
| U+1F6DE | 1 | L2/20-216 | Joyce, Christine (2019-03-27), Proposal for Emoji: Tyre | ||
| U+1F6DF | 1 | L2/20-224 | Shopsin, Tamara (May 2020), Life Preserver Emoji Proposal for Unicode 14.0 | ||
| 15.0 | U+1F6DC | 1 | L2/21-191 | Brinkmann, Lena; Chase, Bronwen (2020-07-08), Proposal for Emoji Wireless Connection | |
| L2/21-172R | Daniel, Jennifer (2021-10-06), Emoji Subcommittee Report Q4, 2021 | ||||
| L2/21-167 | Cummings, Craig (2022-01-27), "Consensus 169-C14", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 169, Accept the repertoire of 21 provisional emoji candidates as documented in L2/21-172R | ||||
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References
- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
- ^ a b "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
- ^ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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