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Dingbats

U+2700 – U+27BF   (9984–10175)

The characters in this range provide Unicode replacements for those in the ITC Zapf Dingbats font.

The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Arev Sans, Arial Unicode MS, Chrysanthi Unicode, CN-Arial, CN-Times, Code2000, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Sans Mono, EversonMono, Free Idg Serif, Free Serif, HAN NOM A, HY Shin Myeongjo Std Acro, Junicode, Kliment Std, Kochi Gothic, Kochi Mincho, Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro, Linux Biolinum O (few), Linux Libertine O (few), Lucida Sans, Microsoft Yi Baiti (few), MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, MS UI Gothic, Nuosu SIL (few), OpenSymbol, Quivira, RomanCyrillic Std, Sazanami Mincho, StarSymbol, STIXGeneral, Sun-ExtA, Symbola and YOzFontN; and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts AppleGothic, AppleMyungjo, #GothicMedium, #GungSeo, Hangang, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro, Hiragino Mincho Pro, Junicode, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, #MyungjoNeue, #PCMyungjo, #PilGi, Seoul, #TaeGraphic and Zapf Dingbats.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf.

Copyright © 1999–2014 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 7.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2014 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2014.

Created 3rd February 1999 – Last updated 28th October 2014