Dingbats & Emojis Symbols

Ornamental and pictorial characters from the Dingbats block and its neighbours. These render as text rather than as vendor-drawn emoji artwork, so they take the colour and weight of the text around them.

This group holds 77 characters. They are scattered from U+231B to U+1F6BE, 119,716 codepoints apart, because they were added to Unicode at different times and for different reasons. They are drawn from Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (47), Miscellaneous Symbols (17), Dingbats (9), Miscellaneous Technical (2) in the Unicode Standard, which is what decides how each one is encoded and how software sorts and compares it.

Most of the traffic to this group is for ✂, ☎ and ⚠. The phrase people type for the first of those is cut and paste text symbols, which is worth knowing if you are looking for it under another name.

Most of them, 47 of the 77, come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs: the pictographic block most emoji come from. A block is an address rather than a category, and this group is drawn from 4 of them. The rest come from Dingbats, Miscellaneous Symbols and Miscellaneous Technical.

None of these is listed here with a Windows Alt code, so copying is the route in this drawer.

Every character below copies with one click. 9 of them have a guide page as well, with the Windows, Mac and HTML route written out.

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