Dingbats (Unicode block)

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Dingbats
Range	U+2700..U+27BF (192 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Common
Assigned	192 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Source standards	ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	160 (+160)
3.2 (2002)	174 (+14)
5.2 (2009)	175 (+1)
6.0 (2010)	191 (+16)
7.0 (2014)	192 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

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^{[clarification needed ]} 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",^[3] 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.^{[4] [5]}

The Dingbats block contains 33 emoji.^{[6] [7]} 66 standardized variants are defined to specify emoji-style (like U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (like U+FE0E VS15) for 33 characters.^[8]

Emoji variation sequences

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:^[7]

Human emoji

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.

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Dingbats block:

Version	Final code points[a]	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)
			L2/11-438 [b] [c]	N4182	Edberg, Peter (2011年12月22日), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
			L2/15-050R [d] [c]	Davis, Mark; et al. (2015年01月29日), Additional variation selectors for emoji
			L2/15-301 [e] [c]	Pournader, Roozbeh (2015年11月01日), A proposal for 278 standardized variation sequences for emoji
			L2/19-377R	Daniel, Jennifer (2020年01月14日), Multi-skintone Couples with Heart and Couples Kissing, Emoji ZWJ Sequences for Unicode 14.0 [Affects U+2764]
			L2/20-015R	Moore, Lisa (2020年05月14日), "Consensus 162-C8", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162, Accept 200 provisional emoji candidates
3.2	U+2768..2775	14	L2/00-420	Patel, Sairus (2000年11月21日), Proposal for additional 14 Dingbats
			L2/00-436	Patel, Sairus (2000年12月18日), Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646
			L2/01-087	N2321	Patel, Sairus (2001年01月31日), Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646
			L2/01-012R	Moore, Lisa (2001年05月21日), "Dingbats", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001
			L2/01-344	N2353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001年09月09日), "7.8 Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in 10646", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
5.2	U+2757	1	N3353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007年10月10日), "M51.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007年04月24日/27
			L2/07-259	Suignard, Michel (2007年08月02日), Japanese TV Symbols
			L2/07-391	N3341	Suignard, Michel (2007年09月18日), Japanese TV Symbols
			L2/08-077R2	N3397	Suignard, Michel (2008年03月11日), Japanese TV symbols
			L2/08-128	Iancu, Laurențiu (2008年03月22日), Names and allocation of some Japanese TV symbols from N3397
			L2/08-158	Pentzlin, Karl (2008年04月16日), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
			L2/08-188	N3468	Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2008年04月22日), Collected comments on Japanese TV Symbols (WG2 N3397)
			L2/08-077R3	N3469	Suignard, Michel (2008年04月23日), Japanese TV symbols
			L2/08-215	Pentzlin, Karl (2008年05月07日), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
			L2/08-289	Pentzlin, Karl (2008年08月05日), Proposal to rename and reassign some Japanese TV Symbols from L2/08-077R3
			L2/08-292	Stötzner, Andreas (2008年08月06日), Improvement suggestions for n3469
			L2/08-307	Scherer, Markus (2008年08月08日), Feedback on the Japanese TV Symbols Proposal (L2/08-077R3)
			L2/08-318	N3453 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008年08月13日), "M52.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
			L2/08-161R2	Moore, Lisa (2008年11月05日), "Consensus 115-C17", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 186 Japanese TV symbols for encoding in a future version of the standard.
			L2/09-064	Scherer, Markus (2009年01月29日), Request to change some ARIB/AMD6 character names and a code point
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009年07月08日), "M54.03b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
			L2/11-438 [b] [c]	N4182	Edberg, Peter (2011年12月22日), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
6.0	U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF[c]	14	L2/09-025R2	N3582 [f]	Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009年03月05日), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
			L2/09-026R	N3583	Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009年02月06日), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
			L2/09-027R2	N3681	Scherer, Markus (2009年09月17日), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
			L2/09-114	N3607	Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009年04月06日
			L2/09-412	N3722	Suignard, Michel (2009年10月26日), "Ireland T2", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
			N3703 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010年04月13日), "M55.9h", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009年10月26日/30
			L2/09-335R	Moore, Lisa (2009年11月10日), "Consensus 121-C10", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes
			L2/10-088	N3776	DoCoMo Input on Emoji, 2010年03月08日
			L2/10-089	N3777	KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010年03月08日
			L2/10-137	N3828	Suignard, Michel (2010年04月22日), "JP.G11b, JP.T5, JP.T12", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
			L2/10-132	Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010年04月27日), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
			L2/10-138	N3829	Constable, Peter; et al. (2010年04月27日), "10", Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report
			L2/16-361	Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (2016年11月07日), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols
			L2/22-229R	Leroy, Robin; Davis, Mark (2022年10月28日), Proposed changes to Unicode properties and reports for source code handling, Add to the file emoji-variation-sequences.txt any code points from the following set that are not already in it...[Affects U+2705, 270A, 270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2754, 2755, 2795–2797, 27B0, and 27BF]
			L2/22-241	Constable, Peter (2022年11月09日), "Consensus 173-C29", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 173, Accept the proposals in L2/22-229R
	U+275F..2760	2	L2/09-021	N3565	Proposal to encode two heavy low quotes for German in the UCS Dingbats block, 2009年01月15日
			L2/09-003R	Moore, Lisa (2009年02月12日), "D.7", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009年07月08日), "M54.13b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
7.0	U+2700	1	L2/11-052R	Suignard, Michel (2011年02月15日), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study
			L2/11-149	Suignard, Michel (2011年05月09日), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols
			L2/11-196	N4022	Suignard, Michel (2011年05月21日), Revised Wingdings proposal
			L2/11-247	N4115	Suignard, Michel (2011年06月08日), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
			L2/11-344	N4143	Suignard, Michel (2011年09月28日), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
			N4103	"10.2.1 Wingdings/Webdings additions", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012年01月03日
			L2/12-130	N4239	Suignard, Michel (2012年05月08日), "E4.", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition)
			N4363	Suignard, Michel (2012年10月13日), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
			L2/12-368	N4384	Suignard, Michel (2012年11月06日), 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年12月27日
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ^ a b See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429 ^ a b c d e Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents ^ See also L2/13-207, L2/14-054, L2/14-063, L2/15-051A, L2/15-051B ^ See also L2/15-198 and L2/15-275 ^ Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621

• Ornamental Dingbats, another Unicode block

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