Miscellaneous Technical (Unicode)
| Miscellaneous Technical | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+2300..U+23FF (256 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Technical APL symbols Dentistry notation |
| Assigned | 255 code points |
| Unused | 1 reserved code points 2 deprecated |
| Source standards | ISO 2047, ISO 9995-7 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 | 45 (+45) |
| 1.0.1 | 43 (-2) |
| 1.1 | 122 (+79) |
| 3.0 | 154 (+32) |
| 3.2 | 207 (+53) |
| 4.0 | 209 (+2) |
| 4.1 | 220 (+11) |
| 5.0 | 232 (+12) |
| 5.2 | 233 (+1) |
| 6.0 | 244 (+11) |
| 7.0 | 251 (+7) |
| 9.0 | 255 (+4) |
| Note: Two characters were removed from the Miscellaneous Technical block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646. | |
Miscellaneous Technical is the name of 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.
It also includes most of the uncommon symbols used by the APL programming language.
In Unicode, Miscellaneous Technical symbols placed in the hexadecimal range 0x2300–0x23FF, (decimal 8960–9215), as described below.
The Miscellaneous Technical block contains eighteen emoji: U+231A–U+231B, U+2328, U+23CF, U+23E9–U+23F3 and U+23F8–U+23FA.
The block has 24 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following twelve base characters: U+231A–U+231B, U+2328, U+23CF, U+23ED–U+23EF, U+23F1–U+23F2 and U+23F8–U+23FA.
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