Xah Unicode Blog

JavaScript spec now uses unicode fully.

• Unicode. Replace omg 😂 by BUTTERFLY 🦋 (2026)

• Unicode: Yinyang, Trigrams ☯ ☷

• Unicode 15 New Characters (2022)
• Unicode 16 New Characters (2024)
• Unicode 17 New Characters (2025)

• Microsoft Windows 11 Emoji (2021)

• Unicode: Misc. Index

• Emoji: Animal 🐰

• Emoji: Things 🔪

• 🆕 Unicode: Basic Multilingual Plane

• Unicode: Code Point (Char ID)
• Unicode: Surrogate Pair

• Unicode: Character Name
• Unicode Character Bad Naming
• Unicode Character Name Change

Unicode as indicator

• 🪟 → Microsoft Windows
• 🐧 → Linux
• 🍎 → Apple computer
• 🐃 → GNU Emacs

• 📺 → Video
• 📜 → computer code script
• 📦 → programing language package

• 👎 → bad, obsolete
• ❌ → bad
• ⭐ → good
• 🆕 → new.
• 🌟 → new

• Unicode Dragon Emoji

• Microsoft Windows 11 Emoji (2021)

• Unicode: Chinese 中文
• Unicode: Japanese の

• Emoji: Sports ⚽
• Unicode: Culture, Religion 💀 ⚕ ☥ ☭
• Emoji: Things 🔪

• Unicode: Slash, Solidus / ⫽ ⫻

• Unicode: Emoji Skin Colors Disease (2015)

• 🄽🄾🅆 🅈🄾🅄 🄲🄰🄽 🅃🅄🅁🄽 🅈🄾🅄🅁 🅃🅈🄿🄸🄽🄶 🄸🄽🅃🄾 🅂🅀🅄🄰🅁🄴 🄱🄾🅇🄴🅂.
• 🅽🅾🆆 🆈🅾🆄 🅲🅰🅽 🆃🆄🆁🅽 🆈🅾🆄🆁 🆃🆈🅿🅸🅽🅶 🅸🅽🆃🅾 🆂🆀🆄🅰🆁🅴 🅱🅾🆇🅴🆂.
• now you can turn your typing into square boxes.

• Unicode: Squared Letters 🄰 🆗

• Unicode: User Interface Icons 🗑
• Emoji: Office Tools ✂
• Emoji: Tech Gadgets 🎧
• Unicode: Clocks ⏰
• Unicode: Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ↵ ⌫
• Unicode: Whitespace Representation ⇥ ▷ ␣ ¶

• Unicode: Old Italic 𐌎

Microsoft Windows 10 Logo 𐌎 in Unicode

this character, represents the Microsoft Windows 10 logo.

• 𐌎 (U+1030E: OLD ITALIC LETTER ESH)

• Unicode: Rune ᚠ

• Unicode: Misc Technical Symbols ⌬ ⎄ ⎅ ⧯
• Unicode: Tacks, Turnstiles ⊣ ⊢ ⊥ ⊤ ⫪ ⫫
• Unicode: Circled Letters Ⓐ Ⓑ Ⓒ

∑:-)

• Lingusitics, Orthography, History.
• Unicode. fascinating.
• Because it is the written symbols of human animals.
• ALL OF IT.
• To understand characters of all unicode, is like a god of records.

• Unicode: Games Emoji 🎲 🎱 🎯
• 🆕 Unicode: Playing Cards ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦
• 🆕 Unicode: Domino 🂓
• 🆕 Unicode: Mahjong Tiles 🀄

• Unicode: Cross ❌ ✝

• Unicode: Ligature fi œ

• Unicode: Look-Alike Math Symbols ∆ ∂ µ

• Unicode: Whitespace Representation ⇥ ▷ ␣ ¶

• these decorative characters are the most beautiful.
• it is rarely known.
• you see them in prints of 90s and before.

❦ ❡ 🙐 🙑 🙒 🙓 🙔 🙕 🙖 🙗 🙚 🙘 🙛 🙙 🙞 🙜 🙟 🙝 🙠 🙡 🙢 🙣 🙤 🙥 🙦 🙧 🙨 🙩 🙪 🙫 🙬 🙭 🙮 🙯 🙶 🙷 🙸 🙾 🙿 🙼 🙽

• Unicode: Typography Ornaments ☙ ❦ ❧

great varieties of bullets for your mathematical play

• Unicode: Geometric Shapes 🔴 🟥 🔺

• W3C Proposed Icons for Internet before Unicode

unicode globe char as global variable prefix

as coding convention, should we prefix 🌐 to all global variable names?

• https://x.com/xah_lee/status/1928889030256500942
• https://x.com/dcooper8/status/1928896539260227723

• Unicode Character Bad Naming

• Unicode: Slash, Solidus / ⫽ ⫻

• Unicode: Box Art ░ ▒ ▓
• Unicode Art, Geometric Patterns
• Japan Unicode Text Art
• Unicode Text Art
• Unicode Text Font Art
• A Emoji Tale, Good Night Gone Bad
• Unicode Smilies (¬_¬)

• Unicode: Games Emoji 🎲 🎱 🎯

Unicode, Chinese Cultural Symbols

• Unicode emoji for Chinese prosperity symbols.
• still no font for it.
• it was added to unicode 10, year 2017.

• 🉠 → U+1F260: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR FU
• 🉡 → U+1F261: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR LU
• 🉢 → U+1F262: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR SHOU
• 🉣 → U+1F263: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR XI
• 🉤 → U+1F264: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR SHUANGXI
• 🉥 → U+1F265: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR CAI

• every emoji or special characters have a font about a year or two after when the character is added to unicode.
• also there is no font for Chinese Chess (xiangqi) characters. They are added in Unicode 11 (2018)

• 🩠 → U+1FA60: XIANGQI RED GENERAL
• 🩡 → U+1FA61: XIANGQI RED MANDARIN
• 🩢 → U+1FA62: XIANGQI RED ELEPHANT
• 🩣 → U+1FA63: XIANGQI RED HORSE
• 🩤 → U+1FA64: XIANGQI RED CHARIOT
• 🩥 → U+1FA65: XIANGQI RED CANNON
• 🩦 → U+1FA66: XIANGQI RED SOLDIER
• 🩧 → U+1FA67: XIANGQI BLACK GENERAL
• 🩨 → U+1FA68: XIANGQI BLACK MANDARIN
• 🩩 → U+1FA69: XIANGQI BLACK ELEPHANT
• 🩪 → U+1FA6A: XIANGQI BLACK HORSE
• 🩫 → U+1FA6B: XIANGQI BLACK CHARIOT
• 🩬 → U+1FA6C: XIANGQI BLACK CANNON
• 🩭 → U+1FA6D: XIANGQI BLACK SOLDIER

• Unicode: Yinyang, Trigrams ☯ ☷

• Unicode 10 New Characters (2017)
• Unicode 11 New Characters (2018)

• Programing Language: Emoji and Math Symbols in Function Name, Variable, Operator

updated.

• Emoji: Things 🔪
• Emoji: Places 🏨
• Unicode: Music 🎶
• Emoji: Sports ⚽
• Emoji: Office Tools ✂

• Unicode: Culture, Religion 💀 ⚕ ☥ ☭

• Emoji: Car, Train, Boat 🚲 🚑 ✈ ⛵

• Emoji: Astrology 🪐
• Emoji: Weather ☔

• Unicode: Math Symbols ∑ ∫ π² ∞

• Unicode: Pregnant Man Emoji (2021)

updates

• Emoji: Faces 😄
• 🆕 Emoji: Gestures 🤦

• Emoji: Animal 🐰

• Unicode: Money, Currency 💰 $ € £ ¥

• Unicode Character Bad Naming

• Unicode: Math Font ℤ

• Unicode: ASCII Control Characters ␀

• Xah Talk Show 2024-09-03 Ep582, Unicode, Greek mythology, Christianity, Western Civilization, What Do Girls Want

• 🆕 Unicode: Pregnant Man Emoji (2021)

• Unicode: Gun Emoji History (2016 to 2024)
• Unicode: Emoji Became Creepy Yellow Unhuman (2017)
• Unicode: Emoji Meme of Sex, Race, and Culture (2018)
• 🆕 Unicode: Google Creepy Android Emoji Marketing (2012 to 2018)
• 🆕 Unicode: Apple Emoji Marketing (2018)

• Unicode: Brackets, Quotes 「」【】《》

• Unicode: Gun Emoji History (2016 to 2024)

some interesting chars

✠ ⹑ ⹐

• Unicode: Cross ❌ ✝

⸠ ⸡ ¦ |

• Unicode: Slash, Solidus / ⫽ ⫻

lots flags in euro r just 3 strips of colors. Do they not have any imagination. Interesting, Chad and Romania have the same flag.

Romania and Armenia and Colombia all are 3 strips of the same colors yellow blue red.

🇹🇩 Chad 🇷🇴 Romania 🇦🇲 Armenia 🇨🇴 Colombia

• Emoji: Flags 🏁

• Unicode: IPA æ
• Unicode: Ligature fi œ

• Unicode: Byte Order (Endianness)
• Unicode: Variation Selector
• Unicode: Emoji vs Text
• Unicode: Emoji Became Creepy Yellow Unhuman (2017)

• Emoji: Tech Gadgets 🎧

• Unicode: Cyrillic Russian Ж

finally, there is power button symbol in unicode

• ⏻
• ⏼
• ⏽
• ⏾

• Unicode: User Interface Icons 🗑

• Unicode: Chinese 中文

• 🆕 Unicode Art, Geometric Patterns

more update

x ↦ ƒ(x)

• Unicode: Math Symbols π² ∞ ∫

𓁐 𓁑 𓁒 𓁓 𓁔 𓁕 𓁲 𓂑 𓂒 𓋏

• Egyptian Hieroglyph 𓂀

• Apple Unicode Tyrany

• Unicode: Math Font ℤ
• added finite field

• Unicode: Whitespace Representation ⇥ ▷ ␣ ¶

unicode stars. just adopted an asterisk for reference mark. Unicode: Stars 🌟

• Circle and Cross Marks

• Unicode: Devanagari अ
• Unicode: Bengali অ
• Unicode: Tamil அ
• Unicode: Tibetan ࿓
• Unicode: Arabic ش

• Unicode: Ligature fi œ

• Unicode: Logic Symbols ∀ ∃
• Unicode: Tacks, Turnstiles ⊣ ⊢ ⊥ ⊤ ⫪ ⫫
• Unicode: Math Font ℤ

• Unicode: Cuneiform 𒁷

• Unicode: Whitespace Representation ⇥ ▷ ␣ ¶

unicode renamed the character “NON-BREAKING SPACE” to “NO-BREAK SPACE”

• Unicode Character Bad Naming

• Unicode: User Interface Icons 🗑
• Unicode: Misc Technical Symbols ⌬ ⎄ ⎅ ⧯

• ASCII Characters

• 🆕 Unicode: Yinyang, Trigrams ☯ ☷
• Unicode: Culture, Religion 💀 ⚕ ☥ ☭

• 🆕 Unicode: Math Brackets ⦑ ⦒
• Unicode: Brackets, Quotes 「」【】《》
• Unicode: Math Symbols π² ∞ ∫

• Unicode: Punctuations • ✓ ™

• Emoji: Tech Gadgets 🎧

• Unicode: Emoji vs Text

• Emoji: Love 💋
• Emoji: Hand Gestures 👍

• Unicode: Circled Numbers ① ② ③
• 🆕 Unicode: Circled Letters Ⓐ Ⓑ Ⓒ
• Unicode: Squared Letters 🄰 🆗

• Unicode: Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ↵ ⌫

• Emoji: Office Tools ✂

• Unicode: Whitespace Representation ⇥ ▷ ␣ ¶
• Unicode: Geometric Shapes 🔴 🟥 🔺

• Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤
• Unicode: Commonly Used Symbols ✓ © § ❦
• Emoji: Animal 🐰

• 🆕 Unicode: Misc Technical Symbols ⌬ ⎄ ⎅ ⧯

• Unicode: Math Symbols π² ∞ ∫
• Unicode: Set Theory Symbols ∈ ⊂ ∪ ∩
• Unicode: Logic Symbols ∀ ∃

• Unicode: Slash, Solidus / ⫽ ⫻

• Unicode: APL Symbols ⍋ ⍟ ⍝

• ⌓ U+2313: SEGMENT

• 🆕 Unicode: Geometry Symbols ∡ ⦜

• Unicode: Stars 🌟
• Unicode: Cross ❌ ✝

• Unicode: Math Font ℤ

• Unicode: Cyrillic Russian Ж

• Unicode: Japanese の
• Unicode: Squared Japanese Characters 🈁

• Unicode: Shavian Alphabet 𐑕
• Unicode: IPA æ

• Emoji: Flags 🏁

• 🆕 Unicode: Variation Selector
• Unicode: Emoji vs Text

🕳 🕲 🔰 🔱 ⚞ ⚟

Unicode Search 🔎 now support minus sign to filter words.

also database updated to unicode 2022.

• Fonts for Unicode 6 Emoticons (2010)
• Unicode 7 New Characters (2014)
• Unicode 8 New Characters (2015)
• Unicode 9 New Characters (2016)
• Unicode 10 New Characters (2017)
• Unicode 11 New Characters (2018)
• Unicode 12 New Characters (2019)
• Unicode 13 New Characters (2020)
• Unicode 14 New Characters (2021)
• Unicode 15 New Characters (2022)

• 2020 https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-13.0/emoji-released.html
• 2021 https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-14.0/emoji-released.html
• 2022 https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-15.0/emoji-released.html

• 2020 https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/
• 2021 https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode14.0.0/
• 2022 https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/

• Unicode: All X in Unicode

how is this emoji face pensive?

• 😔 U+1F614: PENSIVE FACE

• Emoji: Faces 😄

⨐ ⍟ ⍣ ⍢ unicode functions

• ⨐ U+2A10: CIRCULATION FUNCTION
• ⍟ U+235F: APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL CIRCLE STAR
• ⍣ U+2363: APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL STAR DIAERESIS
• ⍢ U+2362: APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL DEL DIAERESIS

• Unicode: Pregnant Man Emoji (2021)

• Download Free Unicode Fonts
• Symbola Font for Unicode No Longer Free (2018)

• 🆕 Unicode: Misc. Index

• Unicode: Box Art ░ ▒ ▓

• How to Type Emoji or Math Symbols

• Unicode: Alchemical Symbols 🜚 🜛
• Emoji: Astrology 🪐

• Unicode: Ligature fi œ

• Unicode: Chinese 中文

• Unicode: Latin é ö ñ æ ß ð
• Unicode: IPA æ
• Unicode: Full-Width Characters
• Unicode: Circled Numbers ① ② ③
• Unicode: Squared Letters 🄰 🆗

• Unicode: Cross ❌ ✝

• Unicode: Latin é ö ñ æ ß ð
• Unicode: IPA æ
• Accent Marks: Trema, Umlaut, Macron, Circumflex (2011)

Xah guide on how to emote unicode

😃😄😅😂🤩🤗
🚀⭐🌟🌠🔥💯👍
😠😮😒😑🤡❌💀👎
💨

♥❤ are problematic

• Unicode: Emoji vs Text

• Ogham

unicode dagger

† ‡ ⸶ ⸷ ⸸ ⹋ 🗡

• Unicode: Reference Marks † ‡ ¶ § ☛ ⁂

loop ⟲ ⟳ ⥀ ⥁ 🗘 ⮔ 🔁 🔂 🔃 🔄 ➰ ➿

• Unicode Search loop
• Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤

⮐ ⮑ ⮒ ⮓

• Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤