Graphical representation of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows Unicode block
Graphical representation of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows Unicode block

Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows is a Unicode block containing arrows and geometric shapes with various fills, astrological symbols, technical symbols, intonation marks, and others.

Block

Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+2B0x
U+2B1x
U+2B2x
U+2B3x⬿
U+2B4x
U+2B5x
U+2B6x
U+2B7x⭿
U+2B8x
U+2B9x
U+2BAx
U+2BBx⮿
U+2BCx
U+2BDx
U+2BEx
U+2BFx⯿
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block contains seven emoji: U+2B05–U+2B07, U+2B1B–U+2B1C, U+2B50 and U+2B55.

The block has fourteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the seven emoji.

Emoji variation sequences
U+2B052B062B072B1B2B1C2B502B55
default presentationtexttexttextemojiemojiemojiemoji
base code point
base+VS15 (text)⬅︎⬆︎⬇︎⬛︎⬜︎⭐︎⭕︎
base+VS16 (emoji)⬅️⬆️⬇️⬛️⬜️⭐️⭕️

History

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

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
4.0U+2B00..2B0D14"3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5, 1999-07-29
Proposal for a New Work item (NP) to amend the Korean part in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993, 1999-12-07
Annex B, Special characters compatible with KPS 9566-97 (To be extended), 1999-12-07
"3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5 (Cover page and outline of proposal L2/99-380), 1999-12-07
Whistler, Ken (1999-12-09), "2.3", Comments to accompany a U.S. NO vote on JTC1 N5999, SC2 N3393, New Work item proposal (NP) for an amendment of the Korean part of ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993
, )"3", The technical justification of the proposal to amend the Korean character part of ISO/IEC 10646-1 (proposed addition of 79 symbolic characters), 2000-02-10
Karlsson, Kent (2000-03-02), Comments on DPRK New Work Item proposal on Korean characters
Proposal for the Addition of 82 Symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2000-08-10
Everson, Michael (2000-08-30), Comments to Korean proposals (L2/00-284 - 289)
Report of the meeting of the Korean script ad hoc group, 2000-09-21
Proposal to add of 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2001-09-03
Kim, Kyongsok (2001-10-13), ROK's Comments about DPRK's proposal, WG2 N 2374, to add 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
Kim, Kyongsok (2001-10-16), A Report of Korean Script ad hoc group meeting on Oct. 15, 2001
Whistler, Ken (2001-10-30), "f. Miscellaneous symbol additions from DPRK standard", WG2 (Singapore) Resolution Consent Docket for UTC
Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-11-16), Request to Korean ad hoc group to generate mapping tables between ROK and DPRK national standards
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-10-30), "M42.14 item i", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 42
Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
4.1U+2B0E..2B114, )Shaneyfelt, Ted (2003-03-17), Horizontal arrows with tips vertical
U+2B12..2B132Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-10), Proposal -- Symbols used in Dictionaries
Moore, Lisa (2003-10-22), "Consensus 97-C15", UTC #97 Minutes
5.0U+2B14..2B19, 2B20..2B2310Freytag, Asmus; Sargent, Murray; Beeton, Barbara; Carlisle, David (2004-11-15), Progress report on Mathematical Symbols
Freytag, Asmus (2004-11-18), Twenty six mathematical characters
U+2B1A1Sargent, Murray (2005-05-11), Dotted Square
Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "C.18", UTC #103 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.2.6", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
5.1U+2B1B..2B1F, 2B24..2B2F, 2B45..2B46, 2B50..2B5424Freytag, Asmus; Beeton, Barbara; Ion, Patrick; Sargent, Murray; Carlisle, David; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-01-15), 29 Additional Mathematical and Symbol Characters
Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Mathematical Characters and Symbols (C.4)", UTC #110 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
Sunne, Samantha; Riedel, Frederik (2019-07-25), Proposal for Emoji: POLAR BEAR
Sunne, Samantha (2019-07-17), Proposal for Emoji: BLACK CAT
Davis, Mark (2019-07-25), "3. Proposals that depend on color mechanism", ESC Recommendations for 2019Q3 UTC
Moore, Lisa (2019-10-07), "E.1.2", UTC #160 Minutes
U+2B30..2B4421Lazrek, Azzeddine (2005-10-24), Proposals for Unicode Consortium [Arabic mathematical symbols]
Lazrek, Azzeddine (2005-07-10), Arabic Mathematical Diverse Symbols, Additional characters proposed to Unicode
,Lazrek, Azzeddine (2006-03-30), Diverse Arabic Mathematical Symbols
Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "C.16", UTC #107 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "8.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.7", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29
U+2B47..2B4C6Freytag, Asmus; et al. (2007-04-18), Mathematical Arrows in FPDAM3
Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
5.2U+2B55..2B595, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
Suignard, Michel (2007-08-02), Japanese TV Symbols
Suignard, Michel (2007-09-18), Japanese TV Symbols
Suignard, Michel (2008-03-11), Japanese TV symbols
Iancu, Laurențiu (2008-03-22), Names and allocation of some Japanese TV symbols from N3397
Pentzlin, Karl (2008-04-16), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2008-04-22), Collected comments on Japanese TV Symbols (WG2 N3397)
Suignard, Michel (2008-04-23), Japanese TV symbols
Pentzlin, Karl (2008-05-07), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
Pentzlin, Karl (2008-08-05), Proposal to rename and reassign some Japanese TV Symbols from L2/08-077R3
Stötzner, Andreas (2008-08-06), Improvement suggestions for n3469
Scherer, Markus (2008-08-08), Feedback on the Japanese TV Symbols Proposal (L2/08-077R3)
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C17", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 186 Japanese TV symbols for encoding in a future version of the standard.
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
7.0U+2B4D, 2B60..2B73, 2B76..2B95, 2B98..2BB9, 2BBD..2BC8, 2BCA..2BD1107Suignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study
Suignard, Michel (2011-05-09), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols
Suignard, Michel (2011-05-21), Revised Wingdings proposal
Suignard, Michel (2011-06-08), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
Suignard, Michel (2011-09-28), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
"10.2.1 Wingdings/Webdings additions", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
Suignard, Michel (2012-05-08), "T3. Placement of Wingdings characters", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition)
Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27
, )"M60.05h", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.01c, M62.01h", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "Consensus 141-C2", UTC #141 Minutes, Create formal aliases of type "correction" for Unicode 8.0 for 2B7A LEFTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW WITH DOUBLE HORIZONTAL STROKE and 2B7C RIGHTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW WITH DOUBLE HORIZONTAL STROKE
"M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
U+2B4E..2B4F, 2B5A..2B5F8Proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology to the UCS, 2010-10-29
Tumasonis, Vladas; Pentzlin, Karl (2011-05-02), Revised proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology
Whistler, Ken; Constable, Peter (2011-05-11), Review of Characters for Lithuanian Dialectology
Constable, Peter; Whistler, Ken (2011-05-13), USNB Comments on N3914 -Characters for Lithuanian Dialectology
Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "Consensus 127-C12", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes, Accept 14 characters for Lithuanian dialectology...
Tumasonis, Vladas; Pentzlin, Karl (2011-05-24), Second revised proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology to the UCS
Pentzlin, Karl (2011-06-09), Report on the ad hoc re "Lithuanian dialectology" (SC2/WG2 N4070) held during the SC2/WG2 meeting at Helsinki
"11.1.3 Lithuanian dialectology", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
Suignard, Michel (2012-05-08), "Germany T1", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition)
8.0U+2BEC..2BEF4Pentzlin, Karl (2012-09-10), Proposal to add four arrows to get a consistent mapping from ISO/IEC 9995-7 symbols to Unicode
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-01-28), "9", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2013-02-04), "E.4", UTC #134 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.3.3 Four new Arrows", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
10.0U+2BD21Shirriff, Ken (2015-02-14), Proposal for addition of Group Mark symbol
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "23. Group Mark", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2015-05-12), "E.2", UTC #143 Minutes
11.0U+2BBA..2BBC, 2BF9..2BFE9Everson, Michael; Wallace, Garth (2017-01-26), Proposal to encode symbols for chess notation
Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "E.2", UTC #150 Minutes
Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "Consensus 152-C2", UTC #152 Minutes, Change the names of U+2BFA..U+2BFD to UNITED PAWNS SYMBOL, SEPARATED PAWNS SYMBOL, DOUBLED PAWNS SYMBOL, PASSED PAWN SYMBOL.
, )"M66.03e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "B. Chess Notation", WG2 Consent Docket
Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C2 and 153-C3", UTC #153 Minutes
Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 155-C12", UTC #155 Minutes, Make U+2BFE REVERSED RIGHT ANGLE have BidiMirroring=YES and a bidi-mirroring pair with U+221F.
U+2BD3..2BD64Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "13. Astrology", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "E.4", UTC #147 Minutes
Faulks, David (2016-08-12), Astrological Plutos
, )"M65.04a, M65.08c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16
Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "Consensus 149-C5", UTC #149 Minutes
U+2BD7..2BDF9Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "13.c", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals
Faulks, David (2016-05-28), Additional Symbols for Astrology
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "16.a", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "E.2", UTC #148 Minutes
, )"M65.08d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16
Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "Consensus 149-C5", UTC #149 Minutes
U+2BE0..2BE78Faulks, David (2016-03-06), Extra Symbols from Uranian Astrology
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "13.b", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "E.3", UTC #147 Minutes
, )"M65.04a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16
U+2BE8..2BEB4West, Andrew (2016-07-11), Proposal to encode four half star symbols
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "14. Half star symbols", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals
Shirriff, Ken (2016-08-04), Proposal for addition of half stars
Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "E.6.1", UTC #148 Minutes
Shirriff, Ken; West, Andrew (2016-09-12), Final proposal to encode four half star symbols
, )"M65.08e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16
Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "Consensus 149-C6", UTC #149 Minutes
U+2BF0..2BF23Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "16.b", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-11-07), "12B", Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals
Faulks, David (2016-11-11), Eris and Sedna Symbols
Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "E.9", UTC #149 Minutes
Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "Consensus 150-C17", UTC #150 Minutes, Change the codepoints of ERIS FORM 1, ERIS FORM 2, and SEDNA as follows: U+2BBA..U+2BBC to U+2BF0..U+2FF2
U+2BF3..2BF86Faulks, David (2016-06-09), Extra Aspect Symbols for Astrology
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-11-07), "12A", Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "E.10", UTC #149 Minutes
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "18. Astrological symbols", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "E.4 Feedback on Extra Aspect Symbols for Astrology", UTC #150 Minutes
Suignard, Michel (2017-01-24), Feedback on Extra Aspect Symbols for Astrology
12.0U+2BC91Silva, Eduardo Marín (2017-02-08), Proposal to encode NEPTUNE FORM TWO (revised)
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-07-28), "23. Neptune", Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "E.4", UTC #152 Minutes
, )"M66.16b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
U+2BFF1Spix, Marius (2017-08-05), Character submission: Hellschreiber pause symbol (revised)
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-07-28), "22. Hell pause character", Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "E.7", UTC #152 Minutes
, )"M66.16c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
13.0U+2B971Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5, 1999-07-29
Proposal for a New Work item (NP) to amend the Korean part in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993, 1999-12-07
Annex B, Special characters compatible with KPS 9566-97 (To be extended), 1999-12-07
Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5 (Cover page and outline of proposal L2/99-380), 1999-12-07
Proposal for the Addition of 82 Symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2000-08-10
Report of the meeting of the Korean script ad hoc group, 2000-09-21
Proposal to add of 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2001-09-03
Kim, Kyongsok (2001-10-16), A Report of Korean Script ad hoc group meeting on Oct. 15, 2001
Silva, Eduardo Marín (2018-01-03), "Enclosed postal mark symbol", Proposal to reconsider compatibility symbols and punctuation used in the DPRK
Silva, Eduardo Marín (2018-01-08), Update on enclosed postal mark
Moore, Lisa (2018-03-19), "E.4", UTC #154 Minutes
Silva, Eduardo Marín (2018-02-01), Proposal to encode the POSTAL MARK ENCLOSED IN DOWN POINTING TRIANGLE
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "28", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "E.2", UTC #155 Minutes
Silva, Eduardo Marín (2018-11-05), Proposal to encode: SYMBOL FOR TYPE A ELECTRONICS (replaces L2/18-058)
Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2018-07-20), "21", Recommendations to UTC # 156 July 2018 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "E.2", UTC #156 Minutes
17.0U+2B961Bala, Gavin Jared; Miller, Kirk (2023-11-17), Unicode request for one chess symbol
Anderson, Deborah; Goregaokar, Manish; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2024-01-22), "11. One Chess Symbol", Recommendations to UTC #178 January 2024 on Script Proposals
Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), "Consensus 178-C33", UTC #178 Minutes

See also