# Dingbats (Unicode block)

Dingbats is a Unicode block containing dingbats (or typographical ornaments, like the ❦ FLORAL HEART character). Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats; it was the Unicode block to have imported characters from a specific typeface; Unicode later adopted a policy that excluded symbols with "no demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text", and thus no further dingbat typefaces were encoded until Webdings and Wingdings were encoded in Version 7.0. Some ornaments are also an emoji, having optional presentation variants (called variant selectors).
The block, originally named "Zapf Dingbats", was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991, with the release of version 1.0. The block name was changed from "Zapf Dingbats" to "Dingbats" in June 1993, with the release of 1.1.

## Chart

Dingbats Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+270x | ✀ | ✁ | ✂ | ✃ | ✄ | ✅ | ✆ | ✇ | ✈ | ✉ | ✊ | ✋ | ✌ | ✍ | ✎ | ✏ |
| U+271x | ✐ | ✑ | ✒ | ✓ | ✔ | ✕ | ✖ | ✗ | ✘ | ✙ | ✚ | ✛ | ✜ | ✝ | ✞ | ✟ |
| U+272x | ✠ | ✡ | ✢ | ✣ | ✤ | ✥ | ✦ | ✧ | ✨ | ✩ | ✪ | ✫ | ✬ | ✭ | ✮ | ✯ |
| U+273x | ✰ | ✱ | ✲ | ✳ | ✴ | ✵ | ✶ | ✷ | ✸ | ✹ | ✺ | ✻ | ✼ | ✽ | ✾ | ✿ |
| U+274x | ❀ | ❁ | ❂ | ❃ | ❄ | ❅ | ❆ | ❇ | ❈ | ❉ | ❊ | ❋ | ❌ | ❍ | ❎ | ❏ |
| U+275x | ❐ | ❑ | ❒ | ❓ | ❔ | ❕ | ❖ | ❗ | ❘ | ❙ | ❚ | ❛ | ❜ | ❝ | ❞ | ❟ |
| U+276x | ❠ | ❡ | ❢ | ❣ | ❤ | ❥ | ❦ | ❧ | ❨ | ❩ | ❪ | ❫ | ❬ | ❭ | ❮ | ❯ |
| U+277x | ❰ | ❱ | ❲ | ❳ | ❴ | ❵ | ❶ | ❷ | ❸ | ❹ | ❺ | ❻ | ❼ | ❽ | ❾ | ❿ |
| U+278x | ➀ | ➁ | ➂ | ➃ | ➄ | ➅ | ➆ | ➇ | ➈ | ➉ | ➊ | ➋ | ➌ | ➍ | ➎ | ➏ |
| U+279x | ➐ | ➑ | ➒ | ➓ | ➔ | ➕ | ➖ | ➗ | ➘ | ➙ | ➚ | ➛ | ➜ | ➝ | ➞ | ➟ |
| U+27Ax | ➠ | ➡ | ➢ | ➣ | ➤ | ➥ | ➦ | ➧ | ➨ | ➩ | ➪ | ➫ | ➬ | ➭ | ➮ | ➯ |
| U+27Bx | ➰ | ➱ | ➲ | ➳ | ➴ | ➵ | ➶ | ➷ | ➸ | ➹ | ➺ | ➻ | ➼ | ➽ | ➾ | ➿ |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 |||||||||||||||||

## Emoji

The Dingbats block contains 33 emoji. 66 standardized variants are defined to specify emoji-style (like U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (like U+FE0E VS15) for 33 characters.
Emoji variation sequences :
| U+ | 2702 | 2705 | 2708 | 2709 | 270A | 270B | 270C | 270D | 270F | 2712 | 2714 |
| default presentation | text | emoji | text | text | emoji | emoji | text | text | text | text | text |
| base code point | ✂ | ✅ | ✈ | ✉ | ✊ | ✋ | ✌ | ✍ | ✏ | ✒ | ✔ |
| base+VS15 (text) | ✂︎ | ✅︎ | ✈︎ | ✉︎ | ✊︎ | ✋︎ | ✌︎ | ✍︎ | ✏︎ | ✒︎ | ✔︎ |
| base+VS16 (emoji) | ✂️ | ✅️ | ✈️ | ✉️ | ✊️ | ✋️ | ✌️ | ✍️ | ✏️ | ✒️ | ✔️ |
| U+ | 2716 | 271D | 2721 | 2728 | 2733 | 2734 | 2744 | 2747 | 274C | 274E | 2753 |
| default presentation | text | text | text | emoji | text | text | text | text | emoji | emoji | emoji |
| base code point | ✖ | ✝ | ✡ | ✨ | ✳ | ✴ | ❄ | ❇ | ❌ | ❎ | ❓ |
| base+VS15 (text) | ✖︎ | ✝︎ | ✡︎ | ✨︎ | ✳︎ | ✴︎ | ❄︎ | ❇︎ | ❌︎ | ❎︎ | ❓︎ |
| base+VS16 (emoji) | ✖️ | ✝️ | ✡️ | ✨️ | ✳️ | ✴️ | ❄️ | ❇️ | ❌️ | ❎️ | ❓️ |
| U+ | 2754 | 2755 | 2757 | 2763 | 2764 | 2795 | 2796 | 2797 | 27A1 | 27B0 | 27BF |
| default presentation | emoji | emoji | emoji | text | text | emoji | emoji | emoji | text | emoji | emoji |
| base code point | ❔ | ❕ | ❗ | ❣ | ❤ | ➕ | ➖ | ➗ | ➡ | ➰ | ➿ |
| base+VS15 (text) | ❔︎ | ❕︎ | ❗︎ | ❣︎ | ❤︎ | ➕︎ | ➖︎ | ➗︎ | ➡︎ | ➰︎ | ➿︎ |
| base+VS16 (emoji) | ❔️ | ❕️ | ❗️ | ❣️ | ❤️ | ➕️ | ➖️ | ➗️ | ➡️ | ➰️ | ➿️ |

### Emoji modifiers

The Dingbats block has four emoji that represent hands. 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+ | 270A | 270B | 270C | 270D |
| emoji | ✊️ | ✋️ | ✌️ | ✍️ |
| FITZ-1-2 | ✊️🏻 | ✋️🏻 | ✌️🏻 | ✍️🏻 |
| FITZ-3 | ✊️🏼 | ✋️🏼 | ✌️🏼 | ✍️🏼 |
| FITZ-4 | ✊️🏽 | ✋️🏽 | ✌️🏽 | ✍️🏽 |
| FITZ-5 | ✊️🏾 | ✋️🏾 | ✌️🏾 | ✍️🏾 |
| FITZ-6 | ✊️🏿 | ✋️🏿 | ✌️🏿 | ✍️🏿 |
Additional human emoji can be found in other Unicode blocks: Emoticons, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs, Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A and Transport and Map Symbols.

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Dingbats block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 1.0.0 | U+2701..2704, 2706..2709, 270C..2727, 2729..274B, 274D, 274F..2752, 2756, 2758..275E, 2761..2767, 2776..2794, 2798..27AF, 27B1..27BE | 160 | | | (to be determined) |
| 1.0.0 | U+2701..2704, 2706..2709, 270C..2727, 2729..274B, 274D, 274F..2752, 2756, 2758..275E, 2761..2767, 2776..2794, 2798..27AF, 27B1..27BE | 160 | L2/11-438 | N4182 | Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429) |
| 1.0.0 | U+2701..2704, 2706..2709, 270C..2727, 2729..274B, 274D, 274F..2752, 2756, 2758..275E, 2761..2767, 2776..2794, 2798..27AF, 27B1..27BE | 160 | L2/15-050R | | Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji |
| 1.0.0 | U+2701..2704, 2706..2709, 270C..2727, 2729..274B, 274D, 274F..2752, 2756, 2758..275E, 2761..2767, 2776..2794, 2798..27AF, 27B1..27BE | 160 | L2/15-301 | | Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-11-01), A proposal for 278 standardized variation sequences for emoji |
| 1.0.0 | U+2701..2704, 2706..2709, 270C..2727, 2729..274B, 274D, 274F..2752, 2756, 2758..275E, 2761..2767, 2776..2794, 2798..27AF, 27B1..27BE | 160 | L2/19-377R | | Daniel, Jennifer (2020-01-14), Multi-skintone Couples with Heart and Couples Kissing, Emoji ZWJ Sequences for Unicode 14.0 [Affects U+2764] |
| 1.0.0 | U+2701..2704, 2706..2709, 270C..2727, 2729..274B, 274D, 274F..2752, 2756, 2758..275E, 2761..2767, 2776..2794, 2798..27AF, 27B1..27BE | 160 | L2/20-015R | | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "Consensus 162-C8", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162, Accept 200 provisional emoji candidates |
| 3.2 | U+2768..2775 | 14 | L2/00-420 | | Patel, Sairus (2000-11-21), Proposal for additional 14 Dingbats |
| 3.2 | U+2768..2775 | 14 | L2/00-436 | | Patel, Sairus (2000-12-18), Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646 |
| 3.2 | U+2768..2775 | 14 | L2/01-087 | N2321 | Patel, Sairus (2001-01-31), Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646 |
| 3.2 | U+2768..2775 | 14 | L2/01-012R | | Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Dingbats", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001 |
| 3.2 | U+2768..2775 | 14 | L2/01-344 | N2353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.8 Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in 10646", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001 |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | | N3353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/07-259 | | Suignard, Michel (2007-08-02), Japanese TV Symbols |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/07-391 | N3341 | Suignard, Michel (2007-09-18), Japanese TV Symbols |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/08-077R2 | N3397 | Suignard, Michel (2008-03-11), Japanese TV symbols |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/08-128 | | Iancu, Laurențiu (2008-03-22), Names and allocation of some Japanese TV symbols from N3397 |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/08-158 | | Pentzlin, Karl (2008-04-16), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols" |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/08-188 | N3468 | Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2008-04-22), Collected comments on Japanese TV Symbols (WG2 N3397) |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/08-077R3 | N3469 | Suignard, Michel (2008-04-23), Japanese TV symbols |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/08-215 | | Pentzlin, Karl (2008-05-07), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols" |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/08-289 | | Pentzlin, Karl (2008-08-05), Proposal to rename and reassign some Japanese TV Symbols from L2/08-077R3 |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/08-292 | | Stötzner, Andreas (2008-08-06), Improvement suggestions for n3469 |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/08-307 | | Scherer, Markus (2008-08-08), Feedback on the Japanese TV Symbols Proposal (L2/08-077R3) |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/08-161R2 | | 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. |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/09-064 | | Scherer, Markus (2009-01-29), Request to change some ARIB/AMD6 character names and a code point |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/09-234 | N3603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 |
| 5.2 | U+2757 | 1 | L2/11-438 | N4182 | Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429) |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/09-025R2 | N3582 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/09-026R | N3583 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/09-027R2 | N3681 | Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/09-114 | N3607 | Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06 |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/09-412 | N3722 | Suignard, Michel (2009-10-26), "Ireland T2", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003) |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | | N3703 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.9h", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30 |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/09-335R | | Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "Consensus 121-C10", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/10-088 | N3776 | DoCoMo Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08 |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/10-089 | N3777 | KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08 |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/10-137 | N3828 | Suignard, Michel (2010-04-22), "JP.G11b, JP.T5, JP.T12", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003) |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/10-132 | | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/10-138 | N3829 | Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), "10", Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/16-361 | | Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (2016-11-07), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/22-229R | | Leroy, Robin; Davis, Mark (2022-10-28), Proposed changes to Unicode properties and reports for source code handling, Add to the file emoji-variation-sequences.txt any code points from the following set that are not already in it...[Affects U+2705, 270A, 270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2754, 2755, 2795–2797, 27B0, and 27BF] |
| 6.0 | U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF | 14 | L2/22-241 | | Constable, Peter (2022-11-09), "Consensus 173-C29", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 173, Accept the proposals in L2/22-229R |
| 6.0 | U+275F..2760 | 2 | L2/09-021 | N3565 | Proposal to encode two heavy low quotes for German in the UCS Dingbats block, 2009-01-15 |
| 6.0 | U+275F..2760 | 2 | L2/09-003R | | Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "D.7", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes |
| 6.0 | U+275F..2760 | 2 | L2/09-234 | N3603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.13b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 |
| 7.0 | U+2700 | 1 | L2/11-052R | | Suignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study |
| 7.0 | U+2700 | 1 | L2/11-149 | | Suignard, Michel (2011-05-09), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols |
| 7.0 | U+2700 | 1 | L2/11-196 | N4022 | Suignard, Michel (2011-05-21), Revised Wingdings proposal |
| 7.0 | U+2700 | 1 | L2/11-247 | N4115 | Suignard, Michel (2011-06-08), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols |
| 7.0 | U+2700 | 1 | L2/11-344 | N4143 | Suignard, Michel (2011-09-28), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols |
| 7.0 | U+2700 | 1 | | N4103 | "10.2.1 Wingdings/Webdings additions", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 |
| 7.0 | U+2700 | 1 | L2/12-130 | N4239 | Suignard, Michel (2012-05-08), "E4.", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition) |
| 7.0 | U+2700 | 1 | | N4363 | Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols |
| 7.0 | U+2700 | 1 | L2/12-368 | N4384 | Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols |
| 7.0 | U+2700 | 1 | L2/12-086 | N4223 | Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27 |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names 1 2 See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429 1 2 3 4 5 Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents ↑ See also L2/13-207, L2/14-054, L2/14-063, L2/15-051A, L2/15-051B ↑ See also L2/15-198 and L2/15-275 ↑ Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621 ||||||