Transport and Map Symbols

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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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Transport and Map Symbols
RangeU+1F680..U+1F6FF
(128 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsMap symbols
Transport icons
Emoji
Assigned118 code points
Unused10 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0 (2010)70 (+70)
7.0 (2014)97 (+27)
8.0 (2015)98 (+1)
9.0 (2016)103 (+5)
10.0 (2017)107 (+4)
11.0 (2018)108 (+1)
12.0 (2019)110 (+2)
13.0 (2020)114 (+4)
14.0 (2021)117 (+3)
15.0 (2022)118 (+1)
Unicode documentation
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Note: [1][2]
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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
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ 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.[3][4]

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.[5] 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

The Transport and Map Symbols block has six emoji that represent people or body parts. They can be modified using U+1F3FBU+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

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

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