Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement

Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
Range	U+1F100..U+1F1FF; (256 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Common
Assigned	200 code points
Unused	56 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)	63 (+63)
6.0 (2010)	169 (+106)
6.1 (2012)	171 (+2)
7.0 (2014)	173 (+2)
9.0 (2016)	191 (+18)
11.0 (2018)	192 (+1)
12.0 (2019)	193 (+1)
13.0 (2020)	200 (+7)
Unicode documentation
	Code chart ∣ Web page
	Note:

This article contains uncommon Unicode characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of the intended characters.

Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement is a

Supplementary Multilingual Plane

.

The block is mostly an extension of the

country flag

support.

Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement^[1]^[2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+1F10x	🄀	🄁	🄂	🄃	🄄	🄅	🄆	🄇	🄈	🄉	🄊	🄋	🄌	🄍	🄎	🄏
U+1F11x	🄐	🄑	🄒	🄓	🄔	🄕	🄖	🄗	🄘	🄙	🄚	🄛	🄜	🄝	🄞	🄟
U+1F12x	🄠	🄡	🄢	🄣	🄤	🄥	🄦	🄧	🄨	🄩	🄪	🄫	🄬	🄭	🄮	🄯
U+1F13x	🄰	🄱	🄲	🄳	🄴	🄵	🄶	🄷	🄸	🄹	🄺	🄻	🄼	🄽	🄾	🄿
U+1F14x	🅀	🅁	🅂	🅃	🅄	🅅	🅆	🅇	🅈	🅉	🅊	🅋	🅌	🅍	🅎	🅏
U+1F15x	🅐	🅑	🅒	🅓	🅔	🅕	🅖	🅗	🅘	🅙	🅚	🅛	🅜	🅝	🅞	🅟
U+1F16x	🅠	🅡	🅢	🅣	🅤	🅥	🅦	🅧	🅨	🅩	🅪	🅫	🅬	🅭	🅮	🅯
U+1F17x	🅰	🅱	🅲	🅳	🅴	🅵	🅶	🅷	🅸	🅹	🅺	🅻	🅼	🅽	🅾	🅿
U+1F18x	🆀	🆁	🆂	🆃	🆄	🆅	🆆	🆇	🆈	🆉	🆊	🆋	🆌	🆍	🆎	🆏
U+1F19x	🆐	🆑	🆒	🆓	🆔	🆕	🆖	🆗	🆘	🆙	🆚	🆛	🆜	🆝	🆞	🆟
U+1F1Ax	🆠	🆡	🆢	🆣	🆤	🆥	🆦	🆧	🆨	🆩	🆪	🆫	🆬	🆭
U+1F1Bx
U+1F1Cx
U+1F1Dx
U+1F1Ex							🇦	🇧	🇨	🇩	🇪	🇫	🇬	🇭	🇮	🇯
U+1F1Fx	🇰	🇱	🇲	🇳	🇴	🇵	🇶	🇷	🇸	🇹	🇺	🇻	🇼	🇽	🇾	🇿
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block contains 41 emoji: U+1F170, U+1F171, U+1F17E, U+1F17F, U+1F18E, U+1F191 – U+1F19A and U+1F1E6 – U+1F1FF.^[3]^[4]

The block has eight standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following four base characters: U+1F170, U+1F171, U+1F17E & U+1F17F.^[5] All of these base characters are defined as defaulting to a text presentation.^[4] Their appearance depends on the program (such as a browser) and the fonts used:

Emoji variation sequences
U+	1F170	1F171	1F17E	1F17F
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 Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
5.2	U+1F100..1F10A, 1F110..1F12D, 1F131, 1F13D, 1F13F, 1F142, 1F146, 1F14A..1F14E, 1F157, 1F15F, 1F179, 1F17B..1F17C, 1F17F, 1F18A..1F18D, 1F190	62		N3353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
			L2/07-259		Suignard, Michel (2007-08-02), Japanese TV Symbols
			L2/07-391	N3341	Suignard, Michel (2007-09-18), Japanese TV Symbols
			L2/08-077R2	N3397	Suignard, Michel (2008-03-11), Japanese TV symbols
			L2/08-128		Iancu, Laurențiu (2008-03-22), Names and allocation of some Japanese TV symbols from N3397
			L2/08-158		Pentzlin, Karl (2008-04-16), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
			L2/08-188	N3468	Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2008-04-22), Collected comments on Japanese TV Symbols (WG2 N3397)
			L2/08-077R3	N3469	Suignard, Michel (2008-04-23), Japanese TV symbols
			L2/08-215		Pentzlin, Karl (2008-05-07), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
			L2/08-289		Pentzlin, Karl (2008-08-05), Proposal to rename and reassign some Japanese TV Symbols from L2/08-077R3
			L2/08-292		Stötzner, Andreas (2008-08-06), Improvement suggestions for n3469
			L2/08-307		Scherer, Markus (2008-08-08), Feedback on the Japanese TV Symbols Proposal (L2/08-077R3)
			L2/08-318	N3453 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
			L2/08-161R2		Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C17", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 186 Japanese TV symbols for encoding in a future version of the standard.
			L2/09-064		Scherer, Markus (2009-01-29), Request to change some ARIB/AMD6 character names and a code point
			L2/09-003R		Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "D.3", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
			L2/09-104		Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Motion 119-M3", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes, Give U+1F110..U+1F129 a casing relationship with the chars U+249C..U+24B5 in Unicode 5.2.
			L2/11-438^[b]^[c]	N4182	Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
			L2/13-058		Moore, Lisa (2013-06-12), "Consensus 135-C10", UTC #135 Minutes, Make the characters in three ranges: 1F130..1F149, 1F150..1F169, and 1F170..1F189 Uppercase=YES by adding to "Other_Uppercase" for Unicode 6.3.
			L2/13-200		Moore, Lisa (2013-11-18), "Consensus 137-C6", UTC #137 Minutes, Change the decorated letters: 1F130..1F149, 1F150..1F169, 1F170..1F189 to be Uppercase and Alphabetic, for Unicode 7.0.
	U+1F12E	1	L2/09-003R		Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "D.5", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
			L2/09-034R	N3579	Pentzlin, Karl (2009-02-27), Proposal to encode a German trademark symbol in the UCS
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
6.0	U+1F130, 1F132..1F13C, 1F13E, 1F140..1F141, 1F143..1F145, 1F147..1F149, 1F14F..1F156, 1F158..1F15E, 1F160..1F169, 1F172..1F178, 1F17A, 1F17D, 1F180..1F189, 1F18F	66	L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
			L2/09-295	N3671	Everson, Michael (2009-09-16), Proposal to encode additional enclosed Latin alphabetic characters
				N3703 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.6", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
			L2/09-335R		Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "Consensus 121-C12", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes
			L2/13-058		Moore, Lisa (2013-06-12), "Consensus 135-C10", UTC #135 Minutes, Make the characters in three ranges: 1F130..1F149, 1F150..1F169, and 1F170..1F189 Uppercase=YES by adding to "Other_Uppercase" for Unicode 6.3.
			L2/13-200		Moore, Lisa (2013-11-18), "Consensus 137-C6", UTC #137 Minutes, Change the decorated letters: 1F130..1F149, 1F150..1F169, 1F170..1F189 to be Uppercase and Alphabetic, for Unicode 7.0.
	U+1F170..1F171, 1F17E, 1F18E, 1F191..1F19A^[c]	14	L2/09-025R2	N3582^[d]	Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
			L2/09-026R	N3583	Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
			L2/09-027R2	N3681	Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
			L2/09-412	N3722	Suignard, Michel (2009-10-26), "Ireland T12, E7, Germany E2", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
			L2/10-132		Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
			L2/13-058		Moore, Lisa (2013-06-12), "Consensus 135-C10", UTC #135 Minutes, Make the characters in three ranges: 1F130..1F149, 1F150..1F169, and 1F170..1F189 Uppercase=YES by adding to "Other_Uppercase" for Unicode 6.3.
			L2/13-200		Moore, Lisa (2013-11-18), "Consensus 137-C6", UTC #137 Minutes, Change the decorated letters: 1F130..1F149, 1F150..1F169, 1F170..1F189 to be Uppercase and Alphabetic, for Unicode 7.0.
			L2/15-050R^[e]^[c]		Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji
			L2/19-082R		Davis, Mark (2019-05-02), QID Emoji Proposal
			L2/19-124		McGowan, Rick (2019-04-28), Comments on Public Review Issues (January 11 - April 28, 2019)
			L2/19-122		Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "Action Item 159-A83", UTC #159 Minutes, Prepare a working draft for a proposed update of UTS #51, based on L2/19-082R for the next UTC meeting.
			L2/19-203R2		Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2019-07-04), "C.2 QID Emoji Tag Sequences", Working Draft for Proposed Update UTS #51, Unicode Emoji
			L2/19-272		McGowan, Rick (2019-07-23), Comments on Public Review Issues (April 28, 2019 - July 23, 2019)
			L2/19-292R4		Davis, Mark (2019-07-25), "9. General Feedback", ESC Recommendations for 2019Q3 UTC
	U+1F1E6..1F1FF^[c]	26	L2/09-007		Lommel, Arle (2008-12-26), Comparison of Emoticons from Major Vendors
			L2/09-025R2	N3582^[d]	Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
			L2/09-026R	N3583	Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
			L2/09-027R2	N3681	Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
			L2/09-114	N3607	Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06
			L2/09-153	N3636	Constable, Peter (2009-04-22), "17", Emoji ad-hoc meeting report
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
			L2/09-318	N3680	Everson, Michael; et al. (2009-09-18), Proposal to encode Symbols for ISO 3166 Two-letter Codes in the UCS
			L2/09-412	N3722	Suignard, Michel (2009-10-26), "Germany T23", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
				N3703 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
			L2/09-379	N3727	Everson, Michael; Whistler, Ken (2009-11-01), Proposal to Encode Regional Indicator Symbols in the UCS
			L2/09-335R		Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "Consensus 121-C11", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes
			L2/10-061R		Scherer, Markus; et al. (2010-02-04), "1", Emoji: Review of FPDAM8
			L2/10-066	N3790-ANSI	Anderson, Deborah (2010-02-05), "T.5", ANSI (U.S.) NB Comments on FPDAM 8
				N3779	Proposal on use of ZERO WIDTH JOINER (ZWJ) between two Regional Indicator Symbols, 2010-03-03
			L2/10-137	N3828	Suignard, Michel (2010-04-22), "JP.T6, USA T.5", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
			L2/10-132		Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
			L2/11-414		Edberg, Peter; et al. (2011-10-30), "C.3", Emoji Variation Sequences
			L2/12-284R3		Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Heninger, Andy (2012-08-02), Segmentation of Regional Indicator Symbols
			L2/15-145R		Edberg, Peter (2015-05-07), Proposal for additional regional indicator symbols
6.1	U+1F16A..1F16B	2	L2/09-035		Blaise, Alexander (2009-01-25), Proposal to encode a modifier letter "C" for Canadian legal use in the UCS
			L2/09-003R		Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "B.15.13", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
			L2/10-108		Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "C.22", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
			L2/10-079R	N3860	Pentzlin, Karl (2010-06-11), Proposal to encode two Letterlike Symbols for Canadian legal use in the UCS
				N3903 (pdf, doc)	"M57.02d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
7.0	U+1F10B..1F10C	2	L2/11-052R		Suignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study
			L2/11-149		Suignard, Michel (2011-05-09), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols
			L2/11-196	N4022	Suignard, Michel (2011-05-21), Revised Wingdings proposal
			L2/11-247	N4115	Suignard, Michel (2011-06-08), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
			L2/11-344	N4143	Suignard, Michel (2011-09-28), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
				N4103	"10.2.1 Wingdings/Webdings additions", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
			L2/12-130	N4239	Suignard, Michel (2012-05-08), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition)
				N4363	Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
			L2/12-368	N4384	Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
			L2/12-086	N4223	Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27
9.0	U+1F19B..1F1AC	18	L2/15-238	N4671	Proposal to include additional Japanese TV symbols to ISO/IEC 10646, 2015-07-23
			L2/15-312		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2015-11-01), "10. Japanese TV symbols", Recommendations to UTC #145 November 2015 on Script Proposals
			L2/15-254		Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C30", UTC #145 Minutes, Accept U+1F23B plus the list of 18 ARIB symbols based on the consent docket L2/15-270, for encoding in Unicode 9.0.
				N4739	"M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
11.0	U+1F12F	1	L2/16-059R		Faulks, David (2016-02-23), Proposal to add the Copyleft Symbol to Unicode
			L2/16-156		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "14. Copyleft Symbol", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals
			L2/16-121		Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "E.2", UTC #147 Minutes
			L2/16-203		Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "B.11.5.1.1", UTC #148 Minutes
			L2/17-161	N4794	Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "USA TE.1. Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement", Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition
12.0	U+1F16C	1	L2/17-066R	N4821	Silva, Eduardo Marín (2017-03-01), Proposal to encode the Marca Registrada sign
			L2/17-153		Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "17. MR Sign", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
			L2/17-103		Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "E.3", UTC #151 Minutes
13.0	U+1F10D..1F10F, 1F16D..1F16F	6	L2/16-283		Park, Jane (2016-10-18), A proposal to encode Creative Commons license and public domain icons in UCS
			L2/17-242R3	N4934	Proposal to add CC license symbols to the UCS, 2018-02-28
			L2/18-115		Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 155-C13", UTC #155 Minutes, Change U+2B74 CIRCLED COUNTERCLOCKWISE ARROW to U+1F10E and change U+2B75 CIRCLED DOLLAR SIGN WITH OVERLAID BACKSLASH to U+1F10F.
			L2/18-180		Silva, Eduardo Marín (2018-05-10), Feedback on the name and disunification of Creative Commons characters
			L2/18-183		Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "Consensus 156-C22", UTC #156 Minutes, Change the name of U+1F10E to CIRCLED ANTICLOCKWISE ARROW
				N5020 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.7", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
	U+1F1AD	1	L2/18-339R	N5027	Shirriff, Ken (2019-01-28), Proposal for addition of mask work symbol
			L2/19-047		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-01-13), "25", Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals
			L2/19-008		Moore, Lisa (2019-02-08), "E.5", UTC #158 Minutes
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ^ See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429 ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents ^ ^a ^b Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621 ^ See also L2/13-207, L2/14-054, L2/14-063, L2/15-051A, L2/15-051B

References

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

Emoji

History

References

See also