Miscellaneous Technical

Miscellaneous Technical

Unicode character block


Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF, which 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.

Miscellaneous Technical (2300–23FF) in Unicode

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)

More information 23A0, 23B0 ...

(23C0–23FF)

More information 23C0, 23D0 ...

Block

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 15.1
2.^ Unicode code points U+2329 and U+232A are deprecated as of Unicode version 5.2

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

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

More information Version, Final code points ...

See also


References

  1. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. Chan, Jonathan (6 April 2023). "update: U+237C ⍼ ⍼". Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  3. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  4. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  5. Substituted for the underscore in viewdata/teletext displays.[5]
  6. Chan, Jonathan (9 April 2022). "U+237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW". Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  7. List, Jenny (24 April 2022). "Can You Identify This Mystery Unicode Glyph?". Hackaday. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  8. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  9. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.

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