Editing Emoticon (section)

==Unicode==
{{Main|Emoticons (Unicode block)}}

A different, but related, use of the term "emoticon" is found in the [[Unicode Standard]], referring to a subset of [[emoji]] that display facial expressions.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/06/difference-between-emoji-and-emoticons-explained |title=Don't know the difference between emoji and emoticons? Let me explain |first=Alex |last=Hern |date=February 6, 2015 |work=[[The Guardian]] |quote=To complicate matters, some emoji are also emoticons [...] the emoji which depict emotive faces are separated out as "emoticons".}}</ref> The standard explains this usage with reference to existing systems, which provided functionality for substituting certain textual emoticons with images or emoji of the expressions in question.<ref>{{citation|mode=cs1 |url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch22.pdf |section=22.9 Miscellaneous Symbols (§ Emoticons: U+1F600–U+1F64F) |title=The Unicode Standard: Core Specification |version=Version 13.0 |page=866 |institution=[[Unicode Consortium]] |date=2020}}</ref>

Some smiley faces were present in Unicode since [[Unicode 1.1|1.1]], including a white [[frowning]] face, a white [[smiling]] face and a black smiling face ("black" refers to a glyph which is filled, "white" refers to a glyph which is unfilled).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://emojipedia.org/glossary/#white|title=📖 Emoji Glossary |publisher=emojipedia.org |access-date=November 25, 2017}}</ref>

{{Unicode chart Miscellaneous Symbols|emoticons}}

The [[Emoticons (Unicode block)|Emoticons]] block was introduced in [[Unicode]] Standard [[Unicode 6.0|version 6.0]] (published in October 2010) and extended by [[Unicode 7.0|7.0]]. It covers Unicode range from U+1F600 to U+1F64F fully.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F600.pdf |title=Emoticons |website=The Unicode Consortium}}</ref>
{{Unicode chart Emoticons}}

After that block had been filled, [[Unicode 8.0]] (2015), [[Unicode 9.0|9.0]] (2016) and [[Unicode 10.0|10.0]] (2017) added additional emoticons in the range from U+1F910 to U+1F9FF. Currently, U+1F90C{{snd}}U+1F90F, U+1F93F, U+1F94D{{snd}}U+1F94F, U+1F96C{{snd}}U+1F97F, U+1F998{{snd}}U+1F9CF (excluding U+1F9C0 which contains the [[cheese|🧀]] emoji) and U+1F9E7{{snd}}U+1F9FF do not contain any emoticons since Unicode 10.0.

{{Unicode chart Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs|Emoticon}}

For historic and compatibility reasons, some other heads and figures, which mostly represent different aspects like genders, activities, and professions instead of emotions, are also found in [[Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs#Table of emojis with modifiers|Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs]] (especially U+1F466{{snd}}U+1F487) and [[Transport and Map Symbols#Diversity|Transport and Map Symbols]]. Body parts, mostly hands, are also encoded in the [[Dingbat#Skin tones|Dingbat]] and [[Miscellaneous Symbols#Diversity|Miscellaneous Symbols]] blocks.