Data Sources

SymbolBox provides individual Unicode characters, standard emoji, basic short text emoticons and expressions assembled for this catalog. Reference websites’ page designs, code, images and descriptive prose are not included.

Unicode and CLDR

Unicode Character Database and Emoji Test Data supply characters and fully qualified emoji sequences. CLDR names and keywords support search. Country currencies are filtered by their usage periods for the catalog’s reference date. Measurement units include SI notation and commonly used non-SI units.

Unicode Emoji Data · Unicode Character Data · CLDR · Unicode License

Currency and unit references

CLDR currency usage data · BIPM SI base units

Public reference lists

Individual symbols from PiliApp and short basic expressions from SNS Keyboard informed the catalog. Long decorations and complex text artwork were excluded.

Ordering and counts

Recommended order is editorial, rather than a ranking of all visitors’ usage. Most used by me uses successful copies in this browser. A symbol may appear in several categories. The total counts distinct text strings, so it can differ from the sum of category counts. This catalog does not contain every Unicode character or every emoticon.

Language selection

Country-based language selection uses the hosting network’s request metadata. See Cloudflare request metadata.