Geometric Shapes Extended

Summary

Geometric Shapes Extended is a Unicode block containing Webdings/Wingdings symbols, mostly different weights of squares, crosses, and saltires, and different weights of variously spoked asterisks, stars, and various color squares and circles for emoji.

Geometric Shapes Extended
RangeU+1F780..U+1F7FF
(128 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsWebdings
Wingdings
Emoji
Assigned103 code points
Unused25 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)85 (+85)
11.0 (2018)89 (+4)
12.0 (2019)101 (+12)
14.0 (2021)102 (+1)
15.0 (2022)103 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

The Geometric Shapes Extended block contains thirteen emoji: U+1F7E0–U+1F7EB and U+1F7F0.[3][4]

Geometric Shapes Extended[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1F78x 🞀 🞁 🞂 🞃 🞄 🞅 🞆 🞇 🞈 🞉 🞊 🞋 🞌 🞍 🞎 🞏
U+1F79x 🞐 🞑 🞒 🞓 🞔 🞕 🞖 🞗 🞘 🞙 🞚 🞛 🞜 🞝 🞞 🞟
U+1F7Ax 🞠 🞡 🞢 🞣 🞤 🞥 🞦 🞧 🞨 🞩 🞪 🞫 🞬 🞭 🞮 🞯
U+1F7Bx 🞰 🞱 🞲 🞳 🞴 🞵 🞶 🞷 🞸 🞹 🞺 🞻 🞼 🞽 🞾 🞿
U+1F7Cx 🟀 🟁 🟂 🟃 🟄 🟅 🟆 🟇 🟈 🟉 🟊 🟋 🟌 🟍 🟎 🟏
U+1F7Dx 🟐 🟑 🟒 🟓 🟔 🟕 🟖 🟗 🟘 🟙
U+1F7Ex 🟠 🟡 🟢 🟣 🟤 🟥 🟦 🟧 🟨 🟩 🟪 🟫
U+1F7Fx 🟰
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History edit

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
7.0 U+1F780..1F7D4 85 L2/11-052R Suignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study
L2/11-149 Suignard, Michel (2011-05-09), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols
L2/11-196 N4022 Suignard, Michel (2011-05-21), Revised Wingdings proposal
L2/11-247 N4115 Suignard, Michel (2011-06-08), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
L2/11-344 N4143 Suignard, Michel (2011-09-28), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
N4103 "10.2.1 Wingdings/Webdings additions", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
L2/12-130 N4239 Suignard, Michel (2012-05-08), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition)
N4363 Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
L2/12-368 N4384 Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), 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, 2012-12-27
11.0 U+1F7D5..1F7D8 4 L2/16-108 N4719 West, Andrew (2016-04-21), Proposal to encode symbols for Go game notation
L2/16-121 Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "B.11.20.1.1", UTC #147 Minutes
L2/16-185 N4719R West, Andrew (2016-07-11), Proposal to encode symbols for Go game notation
L2/16-216 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "15. Go Notation Symbols", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-203 Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "E.5", UTC #148 Minutes
N4873R (pdf, doc) "10.3.3, M65.08a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16
12.0 U+1F7E0..1F7EB 12 L2/18-141R2 Davis, Mark; et al. (2018-05-01), Emoji Colors (revised)
L2/18-143R2 N4960 Davis, Mark; et al. (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised)
L2/18-115 Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 155-C16 and 155-C18", UTC #155 Minutes
L2/18-191 Buff, Charlotte (2018-05-31), Comments on Emoji 12.0 Candidates
L2/18-219 West, Andrew (2018-07-11), Feedback on ESC recommendations for draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18143R2)
L2/18-234 N5008 Everson, Michael (2018-07-18), Feedback on draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18-143R2)
L2/18-246 Silva, Eduardo Marín (2018-07-20), Response to Andrew West on feedback on emoji submissions (L2/18-219)
L2/18-253 Davis, Mark (2018-08-21), Comments on accumulated feedback on Unicode 12.0 draft candidates
L2/18-183 Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "Consensus 156-C13", UTC #156 Minutes
N5020 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
14.0 U+1F7F0 1 L2/20-225 Krenek, Christian (2019-12-31), Proposal for Emoji: Equal Sign
L2/20-237 Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C23", UTC #165 Minutes
L2/20-242R2 Daniel, Jennifer (2020-10-07), Recommendations for Emoji, Unicode 14.0
15.0 U+1F7D9 1 L2/17-237 Behjat, Adib; Behjat, Ayan (2017-07-05), Baha'i 9-Pointed Star Emoji Proposal Submission
L2/17-287 Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2017-08-08), "Other emoji proposals", Recommendations from ESC for 2018, part 2, One character originally proposed as emoji is considered more appropriate for encoding as a non-emoji symbol by the ESC. As a result, it would go through the normal process for deciding whether to encode a symbol.
L2/20-095 Behjat, Adib; Kiefte, Joop (2020-03-26), Proposal to add Nine Pointed star
L2/21-144 Behjat, Adib; Kiefte, Joop (2021-06-29), Proposal to add Nine Pointed star to Unicode
L2/21-144R Behjat, Adib; Kiefte, Joop (2021-10-01), Proposal to add Nine Pointed star
L2/21-130 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), "21. Nine Pointed Star", Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals
L2/21-123 Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), "Consensus 168-C30", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References edit

  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.