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Unicode: Emoji, Symbols, and more

Symbols and more

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What is Unicode?

is a technology standard for representing characters. It includes over 144,000 symbols from 159 different languages, as well as various symbols, emoji, and a few non-visual characters and formatting codes. The standard is managed by the nonprofit . This chapter focuses less on the technical implementation and more on resources for interesting symbols to use in your projects.

Emoji

Recommended Emoji Libraries

There are various emoji libraries available for use, whether open source or free for non-commercial purposes. Here are our recommendations:

Symbols

Non-visual characters

What is a non-visual character? The idea seems fairly strange, but there are a few special characters which were useful in the earlier days of computing. One of these is the "bell character" which emits the sound of a bell ๐Ÿ”” rather than printing a character to the screen.

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Unicode
Unicode Consortium
๐Ÿ“™ Emojipedia โ€” ๐Ÿ˜ƒ Home of Emoji Meanings ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘Œ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ˜
Emojipedia guide to Emoji
Full Emoji List, v14.0
Full Emoji List from the Unicode Consortium
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TwemojiTwitterOSS
Twemoji
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OpenMojiOpenMoji
OpenMoji
Google FontsGoogle Fonts
Noto Emoji
Sensa Emoji ยท Free, vector, and open-source emoji setsensa_design
Sensa's free emoji set
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Unicode Character TableUnicode Table
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Bell characterWikipedia
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