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 for encoding characters in the Wingdings and Wingdings 2 character sets.
Block
Emoji The Transport and Map Symbols block contains 107 emoji: U+1F680–U+1F6C5, U+1F6CB–U+1F6D2, U+1F6D5–U+1F6D9, 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+ 1F687 1F68D 1F691 1F694 1F698 1F6AD 1F6B2 1F6B9 1F6BA 1F6BC 1F6CB 1F6CD default presentation emoji emoji emoji emoji emoji emoji emoji emoji emoji emoji text text base code point 🚇 🚍 🚑 🚔 🚘 🚭 🚲 🚹 🚺 🚼 🛋 🛍 base+VS15 (text) base+VS16 (emoji) U+ 1F6CE 1F6CF 1F6E0 1F6E1 1F6E2 1F6E3 1F6E4 1F6E5 1F6E9 1F6F0 1F6F3 default presentation text text text text text text text text text text text 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+ 1F6A3 1F6B4 1F6B5 1F6B6 1F6C0 1F6CC 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:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 6.0 U+1F680..1F6C5 70 N3583 N3681 N3607 N3722 N3726 doc) N3777 N3828 N3829 html) doc) 7.0 U+1F6C6..1F6CF, 1F6E0..1F6EC, 1F6F0..1F6F3 27 N4022 N4115 N4143 N4103 N4239 N4363 N4384 N4223 doc) 8.0 U+1F6D0 1 N4654 9.0 U+1F6D1, 1F6F4..1F6F5 3 U+1F6D2 1 U+1F6F6 1 N4794 10.0 U+1F6D3..1F6D4 2 N4661 U+1F6F7 1 N4805 U+1F6F8 1 N4794 11.0 U+1F6F9 1 12.0 U+1F6D5 1 N4960 N5008 doc) U+1F6FA 1 N4960 N5008 doc) 13.0 U+1F6D6 1 aux) N5056 U+1F6D7 1 U+1F6FB 1 U+1F6FC 1 14.0 U+1F6DD 1 U+1F6DE 1 U+1F6DF 1 15.0 U+1F6DC 1 17.0 U+1F6D8 1 18.0 U+1F6D9 1
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