Supplemental Arrows-B is a Unicode block containing miscellaneous arrows, arrow tails, crossing arrows used in knot descriptions, curved arrows, and harpoons.

Supplemental Arrows-B
RangeU+2900..U+297F
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Assigned128 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.2 (2002)128 (+128)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block edit

Supplemental Arrows-B[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+290x
U+291x
U+292x
U+293x ⤿
U+294x
U+295x
U+296x
U+297x ⥿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

Emoji edit

The Supplemental Arrows-B block contains two emoji: U+2934–U+2935.[3][4]

The block has four standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the two emoji, both of which default to a text presentation.[5]

Emoji variation sequences
U+ 2934 2935
base code point
base+VS15 (text) ⤴︎ ⤵︎
base+VS16 (emoji) ⤴️ ⤵️

History edit

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Supplemental Arrows-B block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
3.2 U+2900..297F 128 L2/99-238 Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15
N2094 Addition of thirteen linguistic educational characters, 1999-09-13
L2/99-365 Moore, Lisa (1999-11-23), Comments on JCS Proposals
L2/00-010 N2103 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "8.8", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13--16
L2/00-024 Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised
L2/99-260R Moore, Lisa (2000-02-07), "JCS Proposals", Minutes of the UTC/L2 meeting in Mission Viejo, October 26-28, 1999
L2/00-119[b] N2191R Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode
L2/00-234 N2203 (rtf, txt) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
L2/00-115R2 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M11", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
L2/00-298 N2258 Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2
L2/00-342 N2278 Sato, T. K.; Everson, Michael; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-09-20), Ad hoc Report on Japan feedback N2257 and N2258
L2/01-050 N2253 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.16 JIS X0213 Symbols", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
L2/01-012R Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Motion 86-M19", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001
L2/11-438[c][d] N4182 Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. ^ Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block for additional math-related documents
  3. ^ See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
  4. ^ Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  4. ^ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  5. ^ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.