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.

Block

Transport and Map Symbols[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+1F68x🚀🚁🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚋🚌🚍🚎🚏
U+1F69x🚐🚑🚒🚓🚔🚕🚖🚗🚘🚙🚚🚛🚜🚝🚞🚟
U+1F6Ax🚠🚡🚢🚣🚤🚥🚦🚧🚨🚩🚪🚫🚬🚭🚮🚯
U+1F6Bx🚰🚱🚲🚳🚴🚵🚶🚷🚸🚹🚺🚻🚼🚽🚾🚿
U+1F6Cx🛀🛁🛂🛃🛄🛅🛆🛇🛈🛉🛊🛋🛌🛍🛎🛏
U+1F6Dx🛐🛑🛒🛓🛔🛕🛖🛗🛘🛜🛝🛞🛟
U+1F6Ex🛠🛡🛢🛣🛤🛥🛦🛧🛨🛩🛪🛫🛬
U+1F6Fx🛰🛱🛲🛳🛴🛵🛶🛷🛸🛹🛺🛻🛼
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Transport and Map Symbols block contains 106 emoji: U+1F680–U+1F6C5, U+1F6CB–U+1F6D2, U+1F6D5–U+1F6D8, U+1F6DC–U+1F6E5, U+1F6E9, U+1F6EB–U+1F6EC, U+1F6F0 and U+1F6F3–U+1F6FC.

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.

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

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:

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 pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
6.0U+1F680..1F6C570Stötzner, Andreas (2006-07-30), Public Signage (I)
Stötzner, Andreas (2006-11-02), Symbols
Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06
Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Edberg, Peter (2009-08-06), Emoji: Review of PDAM 8
Suignard, 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)
Constable, Peter (2009-10-27), "7, 13", Emoji ad-hoc meeting report 2009-10-27
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.9k", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "Consensus 121-C8", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes
KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08
Suignard, Michel (2010-04-22), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), "15", Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report
Davis, Mark; Burge, Jeremy (2015-02-03), More Unicode Emoji Glyph changes
, )Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2015-03-31), Emoji Glyph and Annotation Recommendations
Moore, Lisa (2015-05-12), "Consensus 143-C20", UTC #143 Minutes, Update chart glyphs and annotations based on L2/15-151 for Unicode 8.0.
Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (2016-11-07), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "6.2.3 T5", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
Stewart, Sean; Daniel, Jennifer (2022-10-19), Exploring Emoji Directionality [Affects U+1F6B6]
Daniel, Jennifer (2022-10-31), "3. Exploring Emoji Directionality [Affects U+1F6B6]", Emoji Subcommittee Report for UTC #173 (2022Q4)
Stewart, Sean (2023-01-25), Emoji Directionality Recommendation [Affects U+1F6B6]
Daniel, Jennifer (2023-01-25), Recommendations for ZWJ Sequences, Unicode 15.1 [Affects U+1F6B6]
Constable, Peter (2023-02-01), "G.1.1 Emoji 15.1 Recommendations", UTC #174 Minutes
7.0U+1F6C6..1F6CF, 1F6E0..1F6EC, 1F6F0..1F6F327Suignard, 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), 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
, )"M60.05d, M60.05f, M60.05g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji
Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-11-01), A proposal for 278 standardized variation sequences for emoji
Davis, Mark (2016-01-24), Nameslist.txt suggestions
Constable, Peter; Safran-Aasen, Judy; Coady, Michele; Bjornstad, Shelley (2016-08-04), Proposed Additions to Emoji_Modifier_Base
Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "B.12.1.3", UTC #148 Minutes
8.0U+1F6D01Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141
Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-30), Future Additions to ISO/IEC 10646
Afshar, Shervin; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-11-01), Emoji and Symbol Additions - Religious Symbols and Structures
Davis, Mark (2015-02-23), Recommended Disposition on Feedback for PRI 286 & related Emoji docs
9.0U+1F6D1, 1F6F4..1F6F53Parrott, Katrina (2014-04-09), Request Approval to add "Our New iDiversicons: Diverse Emoji Characters" to the next updated Unicode Standard
Parrott, Katrina; Afshar, Shervin (2014-08-05), Report on Diversity Emoji Use in iDiversicons and Proposal to Add New Emoji from iDiversicons Collection to Unicode
Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-27), Emoji Additions
Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2014-08-29), Proposed enhancements for emoji characters: background
Edberg, Peter; et al. (2014-10-23), Emoji ad-hoc committee recommendations to UTC #141
Parrott, Katrina (2014-10-28), iDiversicons Proposed Emoji Additions Extracted from L2/14-154R
Parrott, Katrina; et al. (2015-01-31), Adding gender counterparts to emoji list?
Afshar, Shervin (2015-02-01), Comparing MSN Messenger Smiley Set to Unicode Emoji
Afshar, Shervin (2015-02-01), Comparing Yahoo Messenger Smiley Set to Unicode Emoji
Cummings, Craig (2015-05-08), Emoji Additions: Animals, Compatibility, and More Popular Requests
U+1F6D21Emoji Additions Tranche 6: More Popular Requests and Gap Filling, 2015-07-28
Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "E.1.1", UTC #144 Minutes
U+1F6F61Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2015-07-31), Proposal to add more sports-related emoji characters
Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "E.1.2", UTC #144 Minutes
Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "Ireland E13 (1F6F6 CANOE)", Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition
10.0U+1F6D3..1F6D42West, Andrew (2015-01-11), Proposal to encode five religious and cultural symbols
Moore, Lisa (2015-02-12), "E3", UTC #142 Minutes
U+1F6F71Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2016-05-25), Proposal for more winter activity emojis
Edberg, Peter (2016-11-10), Further emoji additions for Unicode 10, consolidated proposal
U+1F6F81Baker, Cody (2016-08-02), Flying Saucer Emoji
Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "Ireland E14 (1F6F8 FLYING SAUCER)", Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition
11.0U+1F6F91Cummings, Craig (2015-01-31), Emoji Additions: Runner-ups
Heard, Jaron (2016-11-20), Skateboarder emoji submission
Bohorad, Nicole; Aschenbach, Sarah; Stenersen, Steve; Freudiger, Mike (2016-12-05), Lacrosse stick and ball emoji submission
Bayer, Devin (2016-12-24), Flying Disc Emoji Proposal
Hernandez, Vickie (2017-06-02), Proposal for "Softball" Emoji
Karadeniz, Tayfun; et al. (2017-07-28), Emoji Sports Proposal for Unicode v11
Anderson, Deborah (2017-10-22), Feedback from WG2 email discussion list on PDAM 2.2
Burge, Jeremy; Moore, Lisa (2018-01-15), Response to feedback from WG2 email discussion list on PDAM 2.2
12.0U+1F6D51Dalvi, Girish; Chaturvedi, Mayank (2017-08-07), Proposal for Hindu Temple Emoji
Emoji Subcommittee Report Q3 2017, 2017-10-23
Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C26", UTC #153 Minutes
Davis, Mark; et al. (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised)
Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 155-C16 and Consensus 155-C18", UTC #155 Minutes
Everson, Michael (2018-07-18), Feedback on draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18-143R2)
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
U+1F6FA1Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C26", UTC #153 Minutes
Pandey, Anshuman (2018-03-10), Proposal to encode the AUTO RICKSHAW emoji
Davis, Mark; et al. (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised)
Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 155-C16 and 155-C18", UTC #155 Minutes
Everson, Michael (2018-07-18), Feedback on draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18-143R2)
Davis, Mark (2018-08-21), Comments on accumulated feedback on Unicode 12.0 draft candidates
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
13.0U+1F6D61Sunne, Samantha (February 2019), Proposal for Emoji: HUT
, )Davis, Mark (2019-04-30), Emoji Recommendations 2019Q2 (revised)
Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "Consensus 159-C12", UTC #159 Minutes
U+1F6D71Ingham-Smith, Kate (2018-11-15), Proposal for New Emoji: Elevator / Stairs
U+1F6FB1Maggio, Nathan (2018-05-15), Proposal for new emoji PICKUP TRUCK
"Provisional Candidate Proposals", ESC Recommendations for 2018Q4 UTC, 2018-09-18
Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "Consensus 157-C11", UTC #157 Minutes
U+1F6FC1Vandon, Raphaël; Indigo, Twixxi (2019-04-02), Proposal for a Roller Skate emoji
14.0U+1F6DD1Krenek, Christian (2020-03-31), Proposal for Emoji: Slide
Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C23", UTC #165 Minutes
Daniel, Jennifer (2020-10-07), Recommendations for Emoji, Unicode 14.0
U+1F6DE1Joyce, Christine (2019-03-27), Proposal for Emoji: Tyre
U+1F6DF1Shopsin, Tamara (May 2020), Life Preserver Emoji Proposal for Unicode 14.0
15.0U+1F6DC1Brinkmann, Lena; Chase, Bronwen (2020-07-08), Proposal for Emoji Wireless Connection
Daniel, Jennifer (2021-10-06), Emoji Subcommittee Report Q4, 2021
Cummings, 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
17.0U+1F6D81Daniel, Jennifer (2024-07-02), Falling Debris Emoji
Daniel, Jennifer (2024-11-06), Emoji Standard & Research Working Group Report for UTC #181 (2024Q4)
Constable, Peter (2024-11-12), "Consensus 181-C5", UTC #181 Minutes, Accept 8 new emoji characters