Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement is a Unicode block consisting of Latin alphabet characters and Arabic numerals enclosed in circles, ovals or boxes, used for a variety of purposes. It is encoded in the range U+1F100–U+1F1FF in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The block is mostly an extension of the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, containing further enclosed alphanumeric characters which are not included in that block or Enclosed CJK Letters and Months. Most of the characters are single alphanumerics in boxes or circles, or with trailing commas. Two of the symbols are identified as dingbats. A number of multiple-letter enclosed abbreviations are also included, mostly to provide compatibility with Broadcast Markup Language standards (see ARIB STD B24 character set) and Japanese telecommunications networks' emoji sets. The block also includes the regional indicator symbols to be used for emoji country flag support.

Block

Emoji The Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block contains 41 emoji: U+1F170, U+1F171, U+1F17E, U+1F17F, U+1F18E, U+1F191 – U+1F19A and U+1F1E6 – U+1F1FF.

The block has eight standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following four base characters: U+1F170, U+1F171, U+1F17E & U+1F17F. All of these base characters are defined as defaulting to a text presentation. Their appearance depends on the program (such as a browser) and the fonts used:

+ Emoji variation sequences U+ 1F170 1F171 1F17E 1F17F 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 Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block:

Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 5.2 U+1F100..1F10A, 1F110..1F12D, 1F131, 1F13D, 1F13F, 1F142, 1F146, 1F14A..1F14E, 1F157, 1F15F, 1F179, 1F17B..1F17C, 1F17F, 1F18A..1F18D, 1F190 62 doc) N3341 N3397 N3468 N3469 doc) doc) N4182 U+1F12E 1 N3579 doc) 6.0 U+1F130, 1F132..1F13C, 1F13E, 1F140..1F141, 1F143..1F145, 1F147..1F149, 1F14F..1F156, 1F158..1F15E, 1F160..1F169, 1F172..1F178, 1F17A, 1F17D, 1F180..1F189, 1F18F 66 doc) N3671 doc) U+1F170..1F171, 1F17E, 1F18E, 1F191..1F19A 14 N3583 N3681 N3722 U+1F1E6..1F1FF 26 N3583 N3681 N3607 N3636 doc) N3680 N3722 doc) N3727 N3779 N3828 6.1 U+1F16A..1F16B 2 N3860 doc) 7.0 U+1F10B..1F10C 2 N4022 N4115 N4143 N4103 N4239 N4363 N4384 N4223 9.0 U+1F19B..1F1AC 18 N4671 N4739 11.0 U+1F12F 1 N4794 12.0 U+1F16C 1 N4821 13.0 U+1F10D..1F10F, 1F16D..1F16F 6 N4934 doc) U+1F1AD 1 N5027 18.0 U+1F1AE 1

References

See also Enclosed Alphanumerics (Unicode block)