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Miscellaneous Technical

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Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF. It contains various common symbols which are related to and used in the various technical, programming language, and academic professions. For example:

  • Symbol ⌂ (HTML hexadecimal code is ⌂) represents a house or a home.
  • Symbol ⌘ (⌘) is a "place of interest" sign. It may be used to represent the Command key on a Mac keyboard.
  • Symbol ⌚ (⌚) is a watch (or clock).
  • Symbol ⏏ (⏏) is the "Eject" button symbol found on electronic equipment.
  • Symbol ⏚ (⏚) is the "Earth Ground" symbol found on electrical or electronic manual, tag and equipment.
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It also includes most of the uncommon symbols used by the APL programming language.

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Miscellaneous Technical (2300–23FF) in Unicode

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In Unicode, Miscellaneous Technical symbols placed in the hexadecimal range 0x2300–0x23FF, (decimal 8960–9215), as described below.

(2300–233F)

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1.^ Unicode code points U+2329 & U+232A are deprecated.

(2340–237F)

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(2380–23BF)

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(23C0–23FF)

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Miscellaneous Technical[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+230x
U+231x
U+232x
U+233x
U+234x
U+235x
U+236x
U+237x
U+238x
U+239x
U+23Ax
U+23Bx
U+23Cx
U+23Dx
U+23Ex
U+23Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Unicode code points U+2329 and U+232A are deprecated as of Unicode version 5.2
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Emoji

The Miscellaneous Technical block contains eighteen emoji: U+231A–U+231B, U+2328, U+23CF, U+23E9–U+23F3 and U+23F8–U+23FA.[9][10]

All of these characters have standardized variants defined, to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for each character, for a total of 36 variants.[11]

Emoji variation sequences
U+231A231B232823CF23E923EA23EB23EC23ED
default presentationemojiemojitexttextemojiemojiemojiemojitext
base code point
base+VS15 (text)
base+VS16 (emoji)
U+23EE23EF23F023F123F223F323F823F923FA
default presentationtexttextemojitexttextemojitexttexttext
base code point
base+VS15 (text)
base+VS16 (emoji)

History

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

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