Compass Symbol

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-10 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Compass is U+1F9ED, Emoji 11.0, in the group Travel & Places, subgroup place-map, between Map of Japan and Snow-capped mountain. Its CLDR words are compass, direction, magnetic, navigation and orienteering: it is the only emoji under compass and under orienteering, one of two under magnetic (with Magnet) and under navigation (with Lighthouse, U+1F6D9, Emoji 18.0), and one of nine under direction, with the eight arrows. Up arrow, Right arrow, Down arrow and Left arrow are the four emoji under cardinal and the only ones under north, east, south and west; the four diagonal arrows are the four under intercardinal and the only ones under northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest. Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): U+1F9ED is the only character named Compass and none is named for a pair of compasses; U+2197, U+2198, U+2199 and U+2196 are North east arrow, South east arrow, South west arrow and North west arrow; U+2726 and U+2727 are Black and White four pointed star, U+2734 Eight pointed black star, U+2742 Circled open centre eight pointed star and U+269C Fleur-de-lis. U+1F9ED dates from Unicode 11.0 by DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), has no text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt and is 129517 in decimal. The Han definitions are from the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip), field kDefinition. Wikipedia, Compass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass): a device for navigation that shows the cardinal directions; invented for divination as far back as China's Han dynasty and adopted for navigation during the 11th century. Wikipedia, Compass rose (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_rose): a compass rose or compass star displays the cardinal directions and their intermediate points; the fleur-de-lis became the customary north mark. Wikipedia, Cardinal direction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_direction): north (N), east (E), south (S) and west (W). Wikipedia, Compass (drawing tool) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_(drawing_tool)): also known as a pair of compasses, a technical drawing instrument for inscribing circles or arcs. Wikipedia, Code page 437 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437): Alt+24 is the upwards arrow, Alt+25 the downwards, Alt+26 the rightwards and Alt+27 the leftwards. Wikipedia, Alt code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code) and Unicode input (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input): decimal Alt codes reach 65,535 in applications that take Unicode; Alt+X replaces a hexadecimal number with its character. Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) has no compass. The two senses of compass, the compass words, the sayings and the words in other languages are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0): compass (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compass), cardinal point (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cardinal_point), intercardinal (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intercardinal), compass needle (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compass_needle), compass card (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compass_card), magnetic north (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magnetic_north), true north (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/true_north), declination (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/declination), lodestone (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lodestone), lodestar (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lodestar), binnacle (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/binnacle), gyrocompass (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gyrocompass), orienteering (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orienteering), box the compass (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/box_the_compass), pair of compasses (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pair_of_compasses), moral compass (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moral_compass), lose one's bearings (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lose_one's_bearings), on course (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_course), off course (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/off_course), stay the course (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stay_the_course), 指南針 (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/指南針), 羅針盤 (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/羅針盤), brújula (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brújula), boussole (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boussole), Kompass (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kompass), bussola (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bussola), kompas (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kompas). 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