Transport and Map Symbols

Unicode character block
(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 documentationCode chart ∣ Web pageNote: [1][2]
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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[1][2]
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
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

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 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.[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:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
6.0 U+1F680..1F6C5[b] 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[c] 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 [Affects U+1F6B6]
L2/22-246 Daniel, Jennifer (2022-10-31), "3. Exploring Emoji Directionality [Affects U+1F6B6]", Emoji Subcommittee Report for UTC #173 (2022Q4)
L2/23-030R Stewart, Sean (2023-01-25), Emoji Directionality Recommendation [Affects U+1F6B6]
L2/23-037R Daniel, Jennifer (2023-01-25), Recommendations for ZWJ Sequences, Unicode 15.1 [Affects U+1F6B6]
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[d][b] Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji
L2/15-301[e][b] 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[f] 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[g] Ingham-Smith, Kate (2018-11-15), Proposal for New Emoji: Elevator / Stairs
U+1F6FB 1 L2/18-260[g] 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[g] 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[h] Joyce, Christine (2019-03-27), Proposal for Emoji: Tyre
U+1F6DF 1 L2/20-224[h] 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
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. ^ a b c Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  3. ^ Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621
  4. ^ See also L2/13-207, L2/14-054, L2/14-063, L2/15-051A, L2/15-051B
  5. ^ See also L2/15-198 and L2/15-275
  6. ^ See also L2/16-369
  7. ^ a b c See also L2/19-190R, L2/19-122 (Consensus 159-C12)
  8. ^ a b See also L2/20-242R2, L2/20-237 (Consensus 165-C23)

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  4. ^ a b "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  5. ^ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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