Transport and Map Symbols

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.

Transport and Map Symbols
RangeU+1F680..U+1F6FF
(128 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsMap symbols
Transport icons
Emoji
Assigned118 code points
Unused10 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 chartโ€ƒโˆฃโ€ƒWeb page
Note: [1][2]

Block

Transport and Map Symbols[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
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+1F680โ€“U+1F6C5, U+1F6CBโ€“U+1F6D2, U+1F6D5โ€“U+1F6D7, U+1F6DCโ€“U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6EBโ€“U+1F6EC, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3โ€“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+1F6B9โ€“U+1F6BA, U+1F6BC, U+1F6CB, U+1F6CDโ€“U+1F6CF, U+1F6E0โ€“U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3.[5] All of these base characters default to a text presentation.

Emoji variation sequences
U+1F6871F68D1F6911F6941F6981F6AD1F6B21F6B91F6BA1F6BC1F6CB1F6CD
default presentationemojiemojiemojiemojiemojiemojiemojiemojiemojiemojitexttext
base code point๐Ÿš‡๐Ÿš๐Ÿš‘๐Ÿš”๐Ÿš˜๐Ÿšญ๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿšน๐Ÿšบ๐Ÿšผ๐Ÿ›‹๐Ÿ›
base+VS15 (text)๐Ÿš‡๏ธŽ๐Ÿš๏ธŽ๐Ÿš‘๏ธŽ๐Ÿš”๏ธŽ๐Ÿš˜๏ธŽ๐Ÿšญ๏ธŽ๐Ÿšฒ๏ธŽ๐Ÿšน๏ธŽ๐Ÿšบ๏ธŽ๐Ÿšผ๏ธŽ๐Ÿ›‹๏ธŽ๐Ÿ›๏ธŽ
base+VS16 (emoji)๐Ÿš‡๏ธ๐Ÿš๏ธ๐Ÿš‘๏ธ๐Ÿš”๏ธ๐Ÿš˜๏ธ๐Ÿšญ๏ธ๐Ÿšฒ๏ธ๐Ÿšน๏ธ๐Ÿšบ๏ธ๐Ÿšผ๏ธ๐Ÿ›‹๏ธ๐Ÿ›๏ธ
U+1F6CE1F6CF1F6E01F6E11F6E21F6E31F6E41F6E51F6E91F6F01F6F3
default presentationtexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttext
base code point๐Ÿ›Ž๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ› ๐Ÿ›ก๐Ÿ›ข๐Ÿ›ฃ๐Ÿ›ค๐Ÿ›ฅ๐Ÿ›ฉ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐Ÿ›ณ
base+VS15 (text)๐Ÿ›Ž๏ธŽ๐Ÿ›๏ธŽ๐Ÿ› ๏ธŽ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธŽ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธŽ๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธŽ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธŽ๐Ÿ›ฅ๏ธŽ๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธŽ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธŽ๐Ÿ›ณ๏ธŽ
base+VS16 (emoji)๐Ÿ›Ž๏ธ๐Ÿ›๏ธ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ๐Ÿ›ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿ›ณ๏ธ

Emoji modifiers

The Transport and Map Symbols block has six emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FBโ€“U+1F3FF to provide for a range of human skin color using the Fitzpatrick scale:[4]

Human emoji
U+1F6A31F6B41F6B51F6B61F6C01F6CC
emoji๐Ÿšฃ๐Ÿšด๐Ÿšต๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿ›€๐Ÿ›Œ
FITZ-1-2๐Ÿšฃ๐Ÿป๐Ÿšด๐Ÿป๐Ÿšต๐Ÿป๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ›€๐Ÿป๐Ÿ›Œ๐Ÿป
FITZ-3๐Ÿšฃ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿšด๐Ÿผ๐Ÿšต๐Ÿผ๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ›€๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ›Œ๐Ÿผ
FITZ-4๐Ÿšฃ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿšด๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿšต๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ›€๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ›Œ๐Ÿฝ
FITZ-5๐Ÿšฃ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿšด๐Ÿพ๐Ÿšต๐Ÿพ๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ›€๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ›Œ๐Ÿพ
FITZ-6๐Ÿšฃ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿšด๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿšต๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ›€๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ›Œ๐Ÿฟ

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:

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. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  5. "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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