Miscellaneous Technical


Miscellaneous Technical is 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. For example:
It also includes most of the uncommon symbols used by the APL programming language.

Miscellaneous Technical (2300–23FF) in Unicode

In Unicode, Miscellaneous Technical symbols placed in the hexadecimal range 0x2300–0x23FF,, as described below.

(2300–233F)

(2340–237F)

(2380–23BF)

(23C0–23FF)

Block

Emoji

The Miscellaneous Technical block contains eighteen emoji: U+231A–U+231B, U+2328, U+23CF, U+23E9–U+23F3 and U+23F8–U+23FA.
Fifteen of these characters have standardized variants defined, to specify emoji-style or text presentation for each character, for a total of 30 variants. These fifteen base characters are: U+231A–U+231B, U+2328, U+23CF, U+23E9–U+23EA, U+23ED–U+23EF, U+23F1–U+23F3 and U+23F8–U+23FA.

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Miscellaneous Technical block: