Dingbats is a Unicode block containing dingbats (or typographical ornaments, like the ❦ FLORAL HEART character). Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats; it was the Unicode block to have imported characters from a specific typeface; Unicode later adopted a policy that excluded symbols with "no demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text", and thus no further dingbat typefaces were encoded until Webdings and Wingdings were encoded in Version 7.0. Some ornaments are also an emoji, having optional presentation variants (called variant selectors).
The block, originally named "Zapf Dingbats", was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991, with the release of version 1.0. The block name was changed from "Zapf Dingbats" to "Dingbats" in June 1993, with the release of 1.1.
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Emoji The Dingbats block contains 33 emoji. 66 standardized variants are defined to specify emoji-style (like ) or text presentation (like ) for 33 characters.
Emoji variation sequences default presentation text emoji text text emoji emoji text textGoogle Chrome on Android uses the emoji presentation by default, despite this standard. text text text base code point ✂ ✅ ✈ ✉ ✊ ✋ ✌ ✍ ✏ ✒ ✔ base+ (text) base+ (emoji) default presentation text text text emoji text text text text emoji emoji emoji base code point ✖ ✝ ✡ ✨ ✳ ✴ ❄ ❇ ❌ ❎ ❓ base+ (text) base+ (emoji) default presentation emoji emoji emoji text text emoji emoji emoji text emoji emoji base code point ❔ ❕ ❗ ❣ ❤ ➕ ➖ ➗ ➡ ➰ ➿ base+ (text) base+ (emoji)
Emoji modifiers
The Dingbats block has four emoji that represent hands. They can be modified using U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF to provide for a range of human skin color using the Fitzpatrick scale: Human emoji U+ emoji ✊ ✋ ✌️ ✍️ FITZ-1-2 ✊🏻 ✋🏻 ✌🏻 ✍🏻 FITZ-3 ✊🏼 ✋🏼 ✌🏼 ✍🏼 FITZ-4 ✊🏽 ✋🏽 ✌🏽 ✍🏽 FITZ-5 ✊🏾 ✋🏾 ✌🏾 ✍🏾 FITZ-6 ✊🏿 ✋🏿 ✌🏿 ✍🏿
Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs, Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A and Transport and Map Symbols.
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Dingbats block:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 1.0.0 U+2701..2704, 2706..2709, 270C..2727, 2729..274B, 274D, 274F..2752, 2756, 2758..275E, 2761..2767, 2776..2794, 2798..27AF, 27B1..27BE 160 (to be determined) N4182 3.2 U+2768..2775 14 N2321 doc) 5.2 U+2757 1 doc) N3341 N3397 N3468 N3469 doc) doc) N4182 6.0 U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF 14 N3583 N3681 N3607 N3722 doc) N3776 N3777 N3828 N3829 U+275F..2760 2 N3565 doc) 7.0 U+2700 1 N4022 N4115 N4143 N4103 N4239 N4363 N4384 N4223
See also Ornamental Dingbats, another Unicode block References