Gaming Symbols to Copy and Paste

Tap a tile to copy it: game emoji, name ornaments, clan tag brackets, rank tags and 20 name frames.

Gaming Symbols to Copy and Paste

🎮Video gameU+1F3AEReady to copy

156 symbols. Tap one to copy it.

Game emoji 31

Name ornaments 33

Clan tag brackets 18

Rank tags in tiny letters 28

Arrows and shapes 26

Name frames for a nickname 20

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How it works

156 gaming symbols in six groups: game emoji, name ornaments, clan tag brackets, rank tags, shapes and frames. Most were borrowed: ꧁ and ꧂ are Javanese title ornaments. Some apps strip or block these characters, and screen readers may read them badly.

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What counts as a game emoji

CLDR, Unicode's list of search words for emoji, files game under 23 emoji and gamer under one, 👾. For a single game symbol, take the first tile, 🎮. Of the 31 in Game emoji, 13 have a flat form that takes your text colour: choose Text style.

Ornaments and ready-made frames

Name ornaments holds the 33 characters that lists of gamer symbols are built from. Few were drawn for play: Unihan defines 彡 as hair, 亗 as harvest and 乂 as govern. Name frames for a nickname joins them into 20 frames: paste one, then type over the word Name.

Tips
  • In a symbol nickname, each bracket of the 8 wide pairs, such as 【】, takes about two Latin letters.
  • The search box takes one word: clan finds 20 entries, lightning 6, among them ϟ, the Greek numeral for 90.
  • Where display name symbols count against a limit, 𒆜 can cost double: software counting UTF-16 units sees 2.

Questions and answers

What are the symbols in ꧁༺ Name ༻꧂?

Four characters from two scripts. ꧁ and ꧂ are the Javanese left and right rerenggan, ornaments that Javanese writing often sets round a title. ༺ and ༻ are a Tibetan pair that the Unicode names list files under one word: brackets.

Why does my emoji nickname change from screen to screen?

Each device draws emoji with its own emoji font, so 🎮 and 👑 differ from one screen to the next. For a name that stays flat, use a character that is not an emoji: ♛, a chess queen, takes the colour of your text.

Which letters are missing from the tiny rank tags?

Superscript capitals have no X, Y or Z, and small capitals lack only X. C, F and Q arrived in Unicode 14.0 and S in 17.0, so ᴬᶜᴱ, ᴬᶠᴷ and ᴮᴼˢˢ use a small superscript letter, and the tile says so.

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All 156 symbols

Game emoji 31

  • 1st place medal U+1F947. Gold. CLDR lists first and gold. Emoji 3.0.
  • 2nd place medal U+1F948. Silver. CLDR lists second and silver. Emoji 3.0.
  • 3rd place medal U+1F949. Bronze. CLDR lists third and bronze. Emoji 3.0.
  • Alien monster U+1F47E. A monster made of pixels. It is the only emoji that CLDR files under the word gamer. Emoji 0.6.
  • Bomb U+1F4A3. A round bomb with a fuse. CLDR lists boom and comic. Emoji 0.6.
  • Bow and arrow U+1F3F9. The ranged option. CLDR lists archer and archery. Emoji 1.0.
  • Bullseye U+1F3AF. The character is named direct hit in Unicode; CLDR calls the emoji bullseye and lists direct, hit and target. Emoji 0.6.
  • Chequered flag U+1F3C1. The end of the race. CLDR lists finish, racing and win, and game. Emoji 0.6.
  • Chess pawn U+265F U+FE0F. The only chess piece with an emoji form. CLDR lists dupe and expendable for it, which is hard on the pawn. Emoji 11.0.
  • Coin U+1FA99. One gold coin. CLDR lists gold and treasure. Emoji 13.0.
  • Crossed swords U+2694 U+FE0F. Two swords. The Unicode names list says that on a map it marks a battleground. Emoji 1.0.
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Game emoji, continued

  • Crown U+1F451. For whoever is top of the table. CLDR lists king, queen and win. Emoji 0.6.
  • Dagger U+1F5E1 U+FE0F. A short blade. CLDR lists knife and weapon. Emoji 0.7.
  • Fight cloud U+1FAEF. A scuffle hidden in a dust cloud. New in Emoji 17.0, so a device that has not caught up shows an empty box. Emoji 17.0.
  • Game die U+1F3B2. One six-sided die. CLDR lists dice, die and game. Emoji 0.6.
  • Gem stone U+1F48E. A cut stone. CLDR lists diamond, gem and jewel. Emoji 0.6.
  • Headphone U+1F3A7. The headset, minus the microphone. CLDR lists earbud and sound. Emoji 0.6.
  • High voltage U+26A1. The lightning bolt. CLDR lists lightning, thunderbolt and zap. Emoji 0.6.
  • Hundred points U+1F4AF. Full marks, as a number. CLDR lists perfect and score. Emoji 0.6.
  • Joker U+1F0CF. The wild card. CLDR lists wildcard. Emoji 0.6.
  • Joystick U+1F579 U+FE0F. The stick of an arcade cabinet. CLDR lists game and videogame. Emoji 0.7.
  • Keyboard U+2328 U+FE0F. The other controller. CLDR lists computer and keyboard. Emoji 1.0.
  • Level slider U+1F39A U+FE0F. The only emoji CLDR files under the word level. It is a fader from a mixing desk. Emoji 0.7.
  • Robot U+1F916. A robot face, for a bot or for the player who plays like one. CLDR lists monster. Emoji 1.0.
  • Shield U+1F6E1 U+FE0F. The defensive half of the pair. CLDR files it under weapon all the same. Emoji 0.7.
  • Skull U+1F480. The skull without the bones. It has no text form, so it always arrives in colour. Emoji 0.6.
  • Skull and crossbones U+2620 U+FE0F. The Unicode names list gives it a second name, poison. Emoji 1.0.
  • Sports medal U+1F3C5. A medal with no number on it. The one emoji CLDR files under winner. Emoji 1.0.
  • Treasure chest U+1FA8E. The loot. New in Emoji 17.0, so a device that has not caught up shows an empty box. Emoji 17.0.
  • Trophy U+1F3C6. First prize. CLDR lists champion, victory and win. Emoji 0.6.
  • Video game U+1F3AE. The controller. CLDR files it under controller, game and video. Emoji 0.6.

Name ornaments 33

  • Chess king U+265A Black chess king. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. The king, flat and in the colour of the text, like the queen.
  • Chess knight U+265E Black chess knight. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. The horse head.
  • Chess queen U+265B Black chess queen. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. Not an emoji: of the chess pieces only the pawn got an emoji form, so this one stays flat and takes the colour of the text.
  • Chess rook U+265C Black chess rook. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. A castle tower in one character.
  • Circled star, APL U+235F APL functional symbol circle star. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 1.1. A symbol made for the APL programming language, now a badge.
  • Circled white star U+272A Circled white star. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. A white star on a black disc.
  • Closing mark U+3006 Ideographic closing mark. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. In a gamer name it is there for its shape, a loop with a slash through it.
  • Crossed strokes U+4E42 CJK unified ideograph-4E42. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. A Chinese character that Unihan defines as "govern, control, manage; nurture". A gamer name uses it for its shape, two crossed blades.
  • Cuneiform sign kaskal U+1219C Cuneiform sign kaskal. Cuneiform block, Unicode 5.0. It sits outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so software that counts a name in UTF-16 units counts this one character as 2. It needs a cuneiform font: expect an empty box on some devices.
  • Dagger mark U+2020 Dagger. General Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. A printer's footnote mark. The Unicode names list also calls it obelisk.
  • Dot radical U+4E36 CJK unified ideograph-4E36. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. A Chinese character that Unihan defines as "dot; Kangxi radical 3". One falling dot: a quiet separator between a tag and a name.
  • Double dagger U+2021 Double dagger. General Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. The footnote mark that follows the dagger. The Unicode names list also calls it diesis.
  • Electric arrow U+2301 Electric arrow. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 3.0. From ISO 2047, where the Unicode names list says it is the symbol for End of Transmission.
  • Georgian letter ghan U+10E6 Georgian letter ghan. Georgian block, Unicode 1.1. A letter of the Georgian alphabet that happens to look like a heart on a stem.
  • Hangzhou numeral four U+3024 Hangzhou numeral four. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. By name and by category a numeral: the four of the Hangzhou digits. It is here as a slim cross.
  • Harvest character U+4E97 CJK unified ideograph-4E97. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. A Chinese character that Unihan defines as "harvest; year; age". Gamer names use it for its look, not its meaning.
  • Heavy ballot X U+2718 Heavy ballot x. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. An X made with two brush strokes.
  • Iteration mark U+3005 Ideographic iteration mark. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. Japanese writes it to repeat the kanji before it: 人々 is hitobito, people. Wikipedia gives its informal name as noma.
  • Javanese left flourish U+A9C1 Javanese left rerenggan. Javanese block, Unicode 5.2. Opens the best-known frame for a gamer name. In Javanese writing a rerenggan is an ornament, often set round a title, so a name between the pair is close to the intended use.
  • Javanese right flourish U+A9C2 Javanese right rerenggan. Javanese block, Unicode 5.2. Closes what the left rerenggan opened.
  • Katakana me U+30E1 Katakana letter me. Katakana block, Unicode 1.1. The Japanese syllable me. A slimmer cross than 乂.
  • Katakana mi U+30DF Katakana letter mi. Katakana block, Unicode 1.1. The Japanese syllable mi: three strokes leaning the other way from 彡. Wikipedia lists ☆ミ as a shooting star too.
  • Katakana shi, the other smile U+30B7 Katakana letter si. Katakana block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode spells it si and gives shi as its other name. The same two eyes and a mouth, tilted the other way.
  • Katakana tsu, the smile U+30C4 Katakana letter tu. Katakana block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode spells it tu and gives tsu as its other name. It reads as a smiling face, and it is the face of the shrug, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
  • Koppa, as lightning U+03DF Greek small letter koppa. Greek and Coptic block, Unicode 3.0. An archaic Greek letter. The Unicode names list says modern Greek keeps it as the number 90. Here it is a lightning bolt that stays the colour of the text.
  • Lightning U+2607 Lightning. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. Lightning by name, and not an emoji, so it never turns yellow.
  • Multiplication sign U+00D7 Multiplication sign. Latin-1 Supplement block, Unicode 1.1. The x that goes on both sides of a name.
  • Shooting star trail U+5F61 CJK unified ideograph-5F61. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. A Chinese character that Unihan defines as "hair; Kangxi radical 59". Set after a star it draws the trail of a shooting star: Wikipedia's list of emoticons records ☆彡 with that meaning.
  • Staff of Hermes U+269A Staff of hermes. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 4.1. The Unicode names list says it signifies commerce and that the glyph shows a heraldic staff with a winged wheel.
  • Thai khomut U+0E5B Thai character khomut. Thai block, Unicode 1.1. The Unicode names list says it marks the end of a chapter or document. A flourish for the end of a name, then.
  • Tibetan left bracket U+0F3A Tibetan mark gug rtags gyon. Tibetan block, Unicode 2.0. A Tibetan punctuation mark. The Unicode names list files it and its partner under one word: brackets.
  • Tibetan right bracket U+0F3B Tibetan mark gug rtags gyas. Tibetan block, Unicode 2.0. The closing half of the Tibetan pair.
  • Zigzag arrow U+21AF Downwards zigzag arrow. Arrows block, Unicode 1.1. The Unicode names list gives it a second name, electrolysis.

Clan tag brackets 18

  • Black lenticular brackets U+3010 U+3011. Left black lenticular bracket, then right black lenticular bracket. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. Solid lens shapes, the heaviest pair here. Japanese calls them sumitsuki kakko, filled brackets. Wide, like the white corner pair.
  • Corner brackets U+300C U+300D. Left corner bracket, then right corner bracket. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. The ordinary Japanese quotation marks, kagikakko: one hook each. Wide, like the white corner pair.
  • Curly bracket ornaments U+2774 U+2775. Medium left curly bracket ornament, then medium right curly bracket ornament. Dingbats block, Unicode 3.2. Braces with some weight to them.
  • Double angle brackets U+300A U+300B. Left double angle bracket, then right double angle bracket. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. Two chevrons a side. Simplified Chinese sets the titles of books and films in them. Wide, like the white corner pair.
  • Heavy angle bracket ornaments U+2770 U+2771. Heavy left-pointing angle bracket ornament, then heavy right-pointing angle bracket ornament. Dingbats block, Unicode 3.2. Wider and blunter than the quotation ornaments.
  • Heavy angle quotation ornaments U+276E U+276F. Heavy left-pointing angle quotation mark ornament, then heavy right-pointing angle quotation mark ornament. Dingbats block, Unicode 3.2. Bold single chevrons. The Dingbats block files them under ornamental brackets.
  • Maths angle brackets U+27E8 U+27E9. Mathematical left angle bracket, then mathematical right angle bracket. Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block, Unicode 3.2. The Unicode names list calls the two halves bra and ket, after the notation of quantum mechanics.
  • Maths double angle brackets U+27EA U+27EB. Mathematical left double angle bracket, then mathematical right double angle bracket. Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block, Unicode 3.2. Two chevrons a side at Latin width.
  • Maths white tortoise shell brackets U+27EC U+27ED. Mathematical left white tortoise shell bracket, then mathematical right white tortoise shell bracket. Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block, Unicode 5.1. The narrow version of the double tortoise shell.
  • Square brackets with quill U+2045 U+2046. Left square bracket with quill, then right square bracket with quill. General Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. Square brackets with a bar through the middle, like the fletching of an arrow.
  • Tortoise shell bracket ornaments U+2772 U+2773. Light left tortoise shell bracket ornament, then light right tortoise shell bracket ornament. Dingbats block, Unicode 3.2. The dingbat take on the tortoise shell.
  • Tortoise shell brackets U+3014 U+3015. Left tortoise shell bracket, then right tortoise shell bracket. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. Square brackets with the corners cut off. Wide, like the white corner pair.
  • White corner brackets U+300E U+300F. Left white corner bracket, then right white corner bracket. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. In Japanese they mark a quote inside a quote, and a book title. Unicode classes both halves as wide (East Asian Width W): in a Chinese or Japanese font each fills a square cell, about the room of two Latin letters.
  • White lenticular brackets U+3016 U+3017. Left white lenticular bracket, then right white lenticular bracket. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. The lens shape in outline. Wide, like the white corner pair.
  • White parentheses U+2985 U+2986. Left white parenthesis, then right white parenthesis. Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block, Unicode 3.2. Round brackets drawn double.
  • White square brackets, narrow U+27E6 U+27E7. Mathematical left white square bracket, then mathematical right white square bracket. Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block, Unicode 3.2. The same double-struck bracket from the maths blocks, at the width of a Latin letter.
  • White square brackets, wide U+301A U+301B. Left white square bracket, then right white square bracket. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. Double-struck square brackets from the CJK block. Wide, like the white corner pair.
  • White tortoise shell brackets U+3018 U+3019. Left white tortoise shell bracket, then right white tortoise shell bracket. CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. The tortoise shell drawn double. Wide, like the white corner pair.

Rank tags in tiny letters 28

  • ¹ˢᵗ 1st in superscript, digit and small letters
  • ɢᴏᴅ God in small capitals
  • ʙᴏꜱꜱ Boss in small capitals
  • ʜᴇᴀʟᴇʀ Healer in small capitals
  • ʟᴇɢᴇɴᴅ Legend in small capitals
  • ᴀᴄᴇ Ace in small capitals
  • ᴄᴀᴘᴛᴀɪɴ Captain in small capitals
  • ᴋɪɴɢ King in small capitals
  • ᴘʀᴏ Pro in small capitals
  • ᴛᴀɴᴋ Tank in small capitals
  • ᴬᶜᴱ Ace: capital C came in 14.0, so small c
  • ᴬᶠᴷ AFK: capital F came in 14.0, so small f
  • ᴮᴼˢˢ Boss: capital S is new in 17.0, so small s
  • ᴱᶻ EZ: no superscript capital Z, so small z
  • ᴳᴳ GG in superscript capitals
  • ᴳᴼᴰ God in superscript capitals
  • ᴷᴵᴺᴳ King in superscript capitals
  • ᴸᴱᴳᴱᴺᴰ Legend in superscript capitals
  • ᴸⱽᴸ Lvl in superscript capitals
  • ᴹᴬˣ Max: no superscript capital X, so small x
  • ᴹⱽᴾ MVP in superscript capitals
  • ᴺᴼᴼᴮ Noob in superscript capitals
  • ᴼᴾ OP in superscript capitals
  • ᴾᴿᴼ Pro in superscript capitals
  • ᵀᴹ TM as two letters, not the trade mark sign
  • ⱽᴵᴾ VIP in superscript capitals
  • ꞯᴜᴇᴇɴ Queen: the small capital Q is from 11.0
  • ᴍᴀx Max: no small capital X, so a plain x

Arrows and shapes 26

  • 3D arrowhead U+27A2 Three-d top-lighted rightwards arrowhead. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. The arrowhead with a lit top edge.
  • Arrowhead U+27A4 Black rightwards arrowhead. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. A solid arrowhead with a notch, for pointing at a name.
  • Bar segment, empty U+25B1 White parallelogram. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. One empty segment. Three full and two empty reads as three fifths.
  • Bar segment, full U+25B0 Black parallelogram. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. One filled segment of a health or loading bar.
  • Black diamond U+25C6 Black diamond. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. A solid diamond, the usual bullet between a tag and a name.
  • Caps lock arrow U+21EA Upwards white arrow from bar. Arrows block, Unicode 1.1. The Unicode names list gives its other name: caps lock.
  • Corner triangle, lower left U+25E3 Black lower left triangle. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. The ramp back down.
  • Corner triangle, lower right U+25E2 Black lower right triangle. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. A ramp up to the name.
  • Corner triangle, upper left U+25E4 Black upper left triangle. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. The twin of the upper right corner.
  • Corner triangle, upper right U+25E5 Black upper right triangle. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. With its upper left twin it makes a banner corner either side of a name.
  • Crosshair U+2316 Position indicator. Miscellaneous Technical block, Unicode 1.1. Named position indicator; the Unicode names list also calls it true position. It is the nearest thing Unicode has to a crosshair in plain text.
  • Diamond in a diamond U+25C8 White diamond containing black small diamond. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. A diamond with a solid core.
  • Four corners U+26F6 Square four corners. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 5.2. The four corners of a frame with nothing between them, like a viewfinder.
  • Four diamonds U+2756 Black diamond minus white x. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. A diamond cut into four by a white X.
  • Four pointed star, black U+2726 Black four pointed star. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. A spark: the glint on a rare item.
  • Four pointed star, white U+2727 White four pointed star. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. The spark in outline.
  • Hexagon, black U+2B22 Black hexagon. Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, Unicode 5.0. One solid tile of a hex map.
  • Hexagon, white U+2B21 White hexagon. Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, Unicode 5.0. The hex tile in outline.
  • Quadruple arrow up U+27F0 Upwards quadruple arrow. Supplemental Arrows-A block, Unicode 3.2. Four shafts, one head. For when level up is an understatement.
  • Triangle down U+25BC Black down-pointing triangle. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. Down, solid.
  • Triangle left U+25C0 Black left-pointing triangle. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. The reverse button. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
  • Triangle right U+25B6 Black right-pointing triangle. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. The play button. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
  • Triangle up U+25B2 Black up-pointing triangle. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. Up, solid. Not an emoji, so it keeps the colour of the text.
  • Triple chevron left U+2AF7 Triple nested less-than. Supplemental Mathematical Operators block, Unicode 3.2. The mirror of the triple chevron.
  • Triple chevron right U+2AF8 Triple nested greater-than. Supplemental Mathematical Operators block, Unicode 3.2. Three greater-than signs nested into one character, from the maths operators.
  • White diamond U+25C7 White diamond. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. The diamond in outline.

Name frames for a nickname 20

  • 【ᴛᴀɢ】Name Clan tag in small capitals, then the name
  • ϟ Name ϟ Koppa for lightning, both sides
  • ༺ Name ༻ Tibetan brackets alone
  • ꧁༺ Name ༻꧂ Javanese and Tibetan flourishes, the classic
  • † Name † Daggers, as in the footnote mark
  • Name ▰▰▰▱▱ Health bar after the name, three of five
  • ◤ Name ◥ Banner corners
  • ♛ Name ♛ Chess queens, flat and text coloured
  • ✪ Name ✪ Circled stars
  • ⫷ Name ⫸ Triple chevrons
  • ☆彡 Name ミ☆ A shooting star on each side
  • 乂 Name 乂 Crossed strokes on both sides
  • 亗 Name 亗 The harvest character on both sides
  • ꧁ Name ꧂ Javanese flourishes alone
  • 𒆜 Name 𒆜 Cuneiform kaskal on both sides
  • 🎮 Name 🎮 Emoji nickname: a controller each side
  • 👑 Name 👑 Emoji nickname: crowned twice
  • ⟦Name⟧ ᴾᴿᴼ Narrow white brackets and a pro tag
  • 【Name】ツ Lenticular brackets and the katakana smile
  • 『TAG』Name Clan tag in white corner brackets, then name

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, 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, in sentence case. Emoji 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, main branch). That list files the word game under 23 emoji, from alien monster and volleyball to the chequered flag, the word gamer under the alien monster alone and the word level under the level slider alone; the build stops if that changes. Which characters have an emoji form, and the text-style sequences that keep them plain, come from emoji-data.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt) and emoji-variation-sequences.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt), version 18.0.0. Every character was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): the code points and the character names in the notes come from that file, names in sentence case. Block names come from Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt) and the Unicode version each character arrived in from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), both version 18.0.0. Other names and uses of a character come from the annotations in NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). That is where brackets (the Tibetan pair), tsu and shi, the number 90 of the koppa, End of Transmission, electrolysis, obelisk and diesis, the commerce note of the staff of Hermes, the khomut note, true position, caps lock, bra and ket, battleground and poison come from, and the heading Archaic letters over the koppa. The header of the Phonetic Extensions block in the same file says its letters are non-IPA phonetic extensions, mostly for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, and that general text should use regular letters with markup instead; most of the letters in the rank tags sit in that block. Meanings and Mandarin readings of Chinese characters are the kDefinition and kMandarin fields of Unihan_Readings.txt in Unihan.zip, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). Which characters are wide comes from EastAsianWidth.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/EastAsianWidth.txt), read on 2026-09-19. Which capital letters exist as superscripts (all but X, Y and Z; C, F and Q since Unicode 14.0, S since 17.0) and as small capitals (all but X; Q since 11.0) was worked out from the character names in UnicodeData.txt and the versions in DerivedAge.txt; the build stops if a letter appears or moves. That a rerenggan is an ornamental Javanese mark often used to frame a title is from Wikipedia's article Javanese script (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_script). That the katakana tsu is used as a smiling face and is the face of the shrug is from Wikipedia's article Tsu (kana) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsu_(kana)). That white corner brackets mark a quote inside a quote and a book title, that corner brackets are the single quotation marks called kagikakko and that lenticular brackets are called sumitsuki kakko, filled brackets, is from Wikipedia's article Japanese punctuation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_punctuation); that Simplified Chinese sets titles of books and films in double angle brackets is from Wikipedia's article Chinese punctuation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_punctuation). That the iteration mark repeats the kanji before it, the example hitobito and the name noma are from Wikipedia's article Iteration mark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteration_mark). Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) records the star followed by the hair radical, and the star followed by katakana mi, as a shooting star, and the shrug with the katakana tsu. That a character outside the Basic Multilingual Plane takes two UTF-16 code units is the definition of UTF-16 in the Unicode Standard, chapter 3 (https://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/). Which characters suit a gamer name, the tile names that are not Unicode names, the rank words, and every name frame are this site's own choice and assembly. No game, console, studio or platform is named. Religious marks are left out on purpose, and so is text art of weapons. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work