Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows is a Unicode block containing arrows and geometric shapes with various fills, astrological symbols, technical symbols, intonation marks, and others.
Block
Emoji The Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block contains seven emoji: U+2B05–U+2B07, U+2B1B–U+2B1C, U+2B50 and U+2B55.
The block has fourteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the seven emoji. Emoji variation sequences U+ 2B05 2B06 2B07 2B1B 2B1C 2B50 2B55 default presentation text text text emoji emoji emoji emoji base code point ⬅ ⬆ ⬇ ⬛ ⬜ ⭐ ⭕ base+VS15 (text) base+VS16 (emoji)
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 4.0 U+2B00..2B0D 14 N2056 N2182 doc) N2167 N2244 N2282 N2374R N2390 N2392 N2407 doc) N4182 4.1 U+2B0E..2B11 4 txt) N2629 U+2B12..2B13 2 N2655 5.0 U+2B14..2B19, 2B20..2B23 10 U+2B1A 1 N2943 doc) 5.1 U+2B1B..2B1F, 2B24..2B2F, 2B45..2B46, 2B50..2B54 24 N3198R doc) N4182 U+2B30..2B44 21 N3086 doc) doc) U+2B47..2B4C 6 N3259 doc) 5.2 U+2B55..2B59 5 doc) N3341 N3397 N3468 N3469 doc) doc) N4182 7.0 U+2B4D, 2B60..2B73, 2B76..2B95, 2B98..2BB9, 2BBD..2BC8, 2BCA..2BD1 107 N4022 N4115 N4143 N4103 N4239 N4363 N4384 N4223 doc) doc) N4739 U+2B4E..2B4F, 2B5A..2B5F 8 N3914 N4062 N4070 N4116 N4103 N4239 8.0 U+2BEC..2BEF 4 N4318 doc) 10.0 U+2BD2 1 11.0 U+2BBA..2BBC, 2BF9..2BFE 9 N4783R2 doc) U+2BD3..2BD6 4 doc) U+2BD7..2BDF 9 doc) U+2BE0..2BE7 8 doc) U+2BE8..2BEB 4 N4747 doc) U+2BF0..2BF2 3 N4801 U+2BF3..2BF8 6 N4811 12.0 U+2BC9 1 N4863 doc) U+2BFF 1 N4864 doc) 13.0 U+2B97 1 N2056 N2182 N2244 N2282 N2374R N2392 N5009 17.0 U+2B96 1
See also Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode
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