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Transport and Map Symbols
Unicode character block

Transport and Map Symbols is a Unicode block containing transportation and map icons, largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' emoji implementations of Shift JIS, and to encode characters in the Wingdings and Wingdings 2 character sets.

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Block

Transport and Map Symbols[1][2]Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1F68x🚀🚁🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚋🚌🚍🚎🚏
U+1F69x🚐🚑🚒🚓🚔🚕🚖🚗🚘🚙🚚🚛🚜🚝🚞🚟
U+1F6Ax🚠🚡🚢🚣🚤🚥🚦🚧🚨🚩🚪🚫🚬🚭🚮🚯
U+1F6Bx🚰🚱🚲🚳🚴🚵🚶🚷🚸🚹🚺🚻🚼🚽🚾🚿
U+1F6Cx🛀🛁🛂🛃🛄🛅🛆🛇🛈🛉🛊🛋🛌🛍🛎🛏
U+1F6Dx🛐🛑🛒🛓🛔🛕🛖🛗🛜🛝🛞🛟
U+1F6Ex🛠🛡🛢🛣🛤🛥🛦🛧🛨🛩🛪🛫🛬
U+1F6Fx🛰🛱🛲🛳🛴🛵🛶🛷🛸🛹🛺🛻🛼
Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Transport and Map Symbols block contains 105 emoji: U+1F680–U+1F6C5, U+1F6CB–U+1F6D2, U+1F6D5–U+1F6D7, U+1F6DC–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6EB–U+1F6EC, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3–U+1F6FC.12

The block has 46 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following 23 base characters: U+1F687, U+1F68D, U+1F691, U+1F694, U+1F698, U+1F6AD, U+1F6B2, U+1F6B9–U+1F6BA, U+1F6BC, U+1F6CB, U+1F6CD–U+1F6CF, U+1F6E0–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3.3 All of these base characters default to a text presentation.

Emoji variation sequences
U+1F6871F68D1F6911F6941F6981F6AD1F6B21F6B91F6BA1F6BC1F6CB1F6CD
default presentationemojiemojiemojiemojiemojiemojiemojiemojiemojiemojitexttext
base code point🚇🚍🚑🚔🚘🚭🚲🚹🚺🚼🛋🛍
base+VS15 (text)🚇︎🚍︎🚑︎🚔︎🚘︎🚭︎🚲︎🚹︎🚺︎🚼︎🛋︎🛍︎
base+VS16 (emoji)🚇️🚍️🚑️🚔️🚘️🚭️🚲️🚹️🚺️🚼️🛋️🛍️
U+1F6CE1F6CF1F6E01F6E11F6E21F6E31F6E41F6E51F6E91F6F01F6F3
default presentationtexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttext
base code point🛎🛏🛠🛡🛢🛣🛤🛥🛩🛰🛳
base+VS15 (text)🛎︎🛏︎🛠︎🛡︎🛢︎🛣︎🛤︎🛥︎🛩︎🛰︎🛳︎
base+VS16 (emoji)🛎️🛏️🛠️🛡️🛢️🛣️🛤️🛥️🛩️🛰️🛳️

Emoji modifiers

Main article: Emoji modifiers

The Transport and Map Symbols block has six emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF to provide for a range of human skin color using the Fitzpatrick scale:4

Human emoji
U+1F6A31F6B41F6B51F6B61F6C01F6CC
emoji🚣🚴🚵🚶🛀🛌
FITZ-1-2🚣🏻🚴🏻🚵🏻🚶🏻🛀🏻🛌🏻
FITZ-3🚣🏼🚴🏼🚵🏼🚶🏼🛀🏼🛌🏼
FITZ-4🚣🏽🚴🏽🚵🏽🚶🏽🛀🏽🛌🏽
FITZ-5🚣🏾🚴🏾🚵🏾🚶🏾🛀🏾🛌🏾
FITZ-6🚣🏿🚴🏿🚵🏿🚶🏿🛀🏿🛌🏿

Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Dingbats, Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs and Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A.

History

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

VersionFinal code points5CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
6.0U+1F680..1F6C5670L2/06-272Stötzner, Andreas (2006-07-30), Public Signage (I)
L2/06-370Stötzner, Andreas (2006-11-02), Symbols
L2/09-025R2N35827Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
L2/09-026RN3583Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
L2/09-027R2N3681Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/09-114N3607Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06
L2/09-272Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Edberg, Peter (2009-08-06), Emoji: Review of PDAM 8
L2/09-412N3722Suignard, Michel (2009-10-26), "USA T.3, Ireland T15-T17, E10, Germany T24", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
L2/10-025N3726Constable, Peter (2009-10-27), "7, 13", Emoji ad-hoc meeting report 2009-10-27
N3703 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.9k", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
L2/09-335RMoore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "Consensus 121-C8", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes
L2/10-089N3777KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08
L2/10-137N3828Suignard, Michel (2010-04-22), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
L2/10-138N3829Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), "15", Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report
L2/15-071RDavis, Mark; Burge, Jeremy (2015-02-03), More Unicode Emoji Glyph changes
L2/15-141 (pdf, html)Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2015-03-31), Emoji Glyph and Annotation Recommendations
L2/15-107Moore, Lisa (2015-05-12), "Consensus 143-C20", UTC #143 Minutes, Update chart glyphs and annotations based on L2/15-151 for Unicode 8.0.
L2/16-361Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (2016-11-07), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols
N5020 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "6.2.3 T5", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
L2/22-275Stewart, Sean; Daniel, Jennifer (2022-10-19), Exploring Emoji Directionality [Affects U+1F6B6]
L2/22-246Daniel, Jennifer (2022-10-31), "3. Exploring Emoji Directionality [Affects U+1F6B6]", Emoji Subcommittee Report for UTC #173 (2022Q4)
L2/23-030RStewart, Sean (2023-01-25), Emoji Directionality Recommendation [Affects U+1F6B6]
L2/23-037RDaniel, Jennifer (2023-01-25), Recommendations for ZWJ Sequences, Unicode 15.1 [Affects U+1F6B6]
L2/23-005Constable, Peter (2023-02-01), "G.1.1 Emoji 15.1 Recommendations", UTC #174 Minutes
7.0U+1F6C6..1F6CF, 1F6E0..1F6EC, 1F6F0..1F6F327L2/11-052RSuignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study
L2/11-149Suignard, Michel (2011-05-09), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols
L2/11-196N4022Suignard, Michel (2011-05-21), Revised Wingdings proposal
L2/11-247N4115Suignard, Michel (2011-06-08), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
L2/11-344N4143Suignard, 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
L2/12-130N4239Suignard, Michel (2012-05-08), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition)
N4363Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
L2/12-368N4384Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
L2/12-086N4223Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27
N4353 (pdf, doc)"M60.05d, M60.05f, M60.05g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
L2/15-050R89Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji
L2/15-3011011Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-11-01), A proposal for 278 standardized variation sequences for emoji
L2/16-036Davis, Mark (2016-01-24), Nameslist.txt suggestions
L2/16-228Constable, Peter; Safran-Aasen, Judy; Coady, Michele; Bjornstad, Shelley (2016-08-04), Proposed Additions to Emoji_Modifier_Base
L2/16-203Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "B.12.1.3", UTC #148 Minutes
8.0U+1F6D01L2/14-275Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141
L2/15-025N4654Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-30), Future Additions to ISO/IEC 10646
L2/14-235R3Afshar, Shervin; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-11-01), Emoji and Symbol Additions - Religious Symbols and Structures
L2/15-032RDavis, Mark (2015-02-23), Recommended Disposition on Feedback for PRI 286 & related Emoji docs
9.0U+1F6D1, 1F6F4..1F6F53L2/14-085Parrott, Katrina (2014-04-09), Request Approval to add "Our New iDiversicons: Diverse Emoji Characters" to the next updated Unicode Standard
L2/14-154RParrott, Katrina; Afshar, Shervin (2014-08-05), Report on Diversity Emoji Use in iDiversicons and Proposal to Add New Emoji from iDiversicons Collection to Unicode
L2/14-174RDavis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-27), Emoji Additions
L2/14-172RDavis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-29), Proposed enhancements for emoji characters: background
L2/14-275Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141
L2/14-282Parrott, Katrina (2014-10-28), iDiversicons Proposed Emoji Additions Extracted from L2/14-154R
L2/15-048Parrott, Katrina; et al. (2015-01-31), Adding gender counterparts to emoji list?
L2/15-058Afshar, Shervin (2015-02-01), Comparing MSN Messenger Smiley Set to Unicode Emoji
L2/15-059Afshar, Shervin (2015-02-01), Comparing Yahoo Messenger Smiley Set to Unicode Emoji
L2/15-054R5Cummings, Craig (2015-05-08), Emoji Additions: Animals, Compatibility, and More Popular Requests
U+1F6D21L2/15-195R2Emoji Additions Tranche 6: More Popular Requests and Gap Filling, 2015-07-28
L2/15-187Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "E.1.1", UTC #144 Minutes
U+1F6F61L2/15-196R4Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2015-07-31), Proposal to add more sports-related emoji characters
L2/15-187Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "E.1.2", UTC #144 Minutes
L2/17-161N4794Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "Ireland E13 (1F6F6 CANOE)", Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition
10.0U+1F6D3..1F6D42L2/15-007N4661West, Andrew (2015-01-11), Proposal to encode five religious and cultural symbols
L2/15-017Moore, Lisa (2015-02-12), "E3", UTC #142 Minutes
U+1F6F71L2/16-127Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2016-05-25), Proposal for more winter activity emojis
L2/16-369N4805Edberg, Peter (2016-11-10), Further emoji additions for Unicode 10, consolidated proposal
U+1F6F8121L2/16-206Baker, Cody (2016-08-02), Flying Saucer Emoji
L2/17-161N4794Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "Ireland E14 (1F6F8 FLYING SAUCER)", Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition
11.0U+1F6F91L2/15-061Cummings, Craig (2015-01-31), Emoji Additions: Runner-ups
L2/16-378Heard, Jaron (2016-11-20), Skateboarder emoji submission
L2/16-382Bohorad, Nicole; Aschenbach, Sarah; Stenersen, Steve; Freudiger, Mike (2016-12-05), Lacrosse stick and ball emoji submission
L2/17-257Bayer, Devin (2016-12-24), Flying Disc Emoji Proposal
L2/17-184Hernandez, Vickie (2017-06-02), Proposal for "Softball" Emoji
L2/17-277Karadeniz, Tayfun; et al. (2017-07-28), Emoji Sports Proposal for Unicode v11
L2/17-393Anderson, Deborah (2017-10-22), Feedback from WG2 email discussion list on PDAM 2.2
L2/18-027Burge, Jeremy; Moore, Lisa (2018-01-15), Response to feedback from WG2 email discussion list on PDAM 2.2
12.0U+1F6D51L2/17-298Dalvi, Girish; Chaturvedi, Mayank (2017-08-07), Proposal for Hindu Temple Emoji
L2/17-380REmoji Subcommittee Report Q3 2017, 2017-10-23
L2/17-362Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C26", UTC #153 Minutes
L2/18-143R2N4960Davis, Mark; et al. (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised)
L2/18-115Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 155-C16 and Consensus 155-C18", UTC #155 Minutes
L2/18-234N5008Everson, Michael (2018-07-18), Feedback on draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18-143R2)
N5020 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
U+1F6FA1L2/17-362Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C26", UTC #153 Minutes
L2/18-086Pandey, Anshuman (2018-03-10), Proposal to encode the AUTO RICKSHAW emoji
L2/18-143R2N4960Davis, Mark; et al. (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised)
L2/18-115Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 155-C16 and 155-C18", UTC #155 Minutes
L2/18-234N5008Everson, Michael (2018-07-18), Feedback on draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18-143R2)
L2/18-253Davis, Mark (2018-08-21), Comments on accumulated feedback on Unicode 12.0 draft candidates
N5020 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
13.0U+1F6D61L2/19-102Sunne, Samantha (February 2019), Proposal for Emoji: HUT
L2/19-190R (pdf, aux)N5056Davis, Mark (2019-04-30), Emoji Recommendations 2019Q2 (revised)
L2/19-122Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "Consensus 159-C12", UTC #159 Minutes
U+1F6D71L2/18-32913Ingham-Smith, Kate (2018-11-15), Proposal for New Emoji: Elevator / Stairs
U+1F6FB1L2/18-26014Maggio, Nathan (2018-05-15), Proposal for new emoji PICKUP TRUCK
L2/18-307"Provisional Candidate Proposals", ESC Recommendations for 2018Q4 UTC, 2018-09-18
L2/18-272Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "Consensus 157-C11", UTC #157 Minutes
U+1F6FC1L2/19-15115Vandon, Raphaël; Indigo, Twixxi (2019-04-02), Proposal for a Roller Skate emoji
14.0U+1F6DD1L2/20-215Krenek, Christian (2020-03-31), Proposal for Emoji: Slide
L2/20-237Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C23", UTC #165 Minutes
L2/20-242R2Daniel, Jennifer (2020-10-07), Recommendations for Emoji, Unicode 14.0
U+1F6DE1L2/20-21616Joyce, Christine (2019-03-27), Proposal for Emoji: Tyre
U+1F6DF1L2/20-22417Shopsin, Tamara (May 2020), Life Preserver Emoji Proposal for Unicode 14.0
15.0U+1F6DC1L2/21-191Brinkmann, Lena; Chase, Bronwen (2020-07-08), Proposal for Emoji Wireless Connection
L2/21-172RDaniel, Jennifer (2021-10-06), Emoji Subcommittee Report Q4, 2021
L2/21-167Cummings, Craig (2022-01-27), "Consensus 169-C14", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 169, Accept the repertoire of 21 provisional emoji candidates as documented in L2/21-172R

References

  1. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/

  2. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt

  3. "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt

  4. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt

  5. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

  6. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents /wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Pictographs#History

  7. Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621 http://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3621.pdf

  8. See also L2/13-207, L2/14-054, L2/14-063, L2/15-051A, L2/15-051B https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13207-emoji.html

  9. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents /wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Pictographs#History

  10. See also L2/15-198 and L2/15-275 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15198-varseq-text-emoji.pdf

  11. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents /wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Pictographs#History

  12. See also L2/16-369 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16369-emoj-consolidated.pdf

  13. See also L2/19-190R, L2/19-122 (Consensus 159-C12) https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19190r-emoji-candidate-recs.pdf

  14. See also L2/19-190R, L2/19-122 (Consensus 159-C12) https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19190r-emoji-candidate-recs.pdf

  15. See also L2/19-190R, L2/19-122 (Consensus 159-C12) https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19190r-emoji-candidate-recs.pdf

  16. See also L2/20-242R2, L2/20-237 (Consensus 165-C23) https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20242r2-emoji-recs-14.pdf

  17. See also L2/20-242R2, L2/20-237 (Consensus 165-C23) https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20242r2-emoji-recs-14.pdf