Dingbats (Unicode block)

{{Infobox Unicode block

|blockname = Dingbats

|rangestart = 2700

|rangeend = 27BF

|script1 = Common

|1_0_0 = 160

|3_2 = 14

|5_2 = 1

|6_0 = 16

|7_0 = 1

|sources = ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100

|note = {{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/ucd/|title=Unicode character database|work=The Unicode Standard|access-date=2023-07-26}}{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html|title=Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard|work=The Unicode Standard|access-date=2023-07-26}}

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Dingbats is a Unicode block containing dingbats (or typographical ornaments, like the ❦ FLORAL HEART character). Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats; it was the Unicode block to have imported characters from a specific typeface; Unicode later adopted a policy that excluded symbols with "no demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text",{{Cite web | url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode14.0.0/ch22.pdf#G14025 | date=September 2021 | title=Section 22: Symbols | work=The Unicode Standard | publisher=The Unicode Consortium}} and thus no further dingbat typefaces were encoded until Webdings and Wingdings were encoded in Version 7.0. Some ornaments are also an emoji, having optional presentation variants (called variant selectors).

The block, originally named "Zapf Dingbats", was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991, with the release of version 1.0. The block name was changed from "Zapf Dingbats" to "Dingbats" in June 1993, with the release of 1.1.{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/CodeCharts2.pdf |work=The Unicode Standard |version=version 1.0 |title=3.8: Block-by-Block Charts |publisher=Unicode Consortium}}{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.1.0/appE.pdf |work=The Unicode Standard |version=version 1.1 |title=Appendix E Block Names |publisher=Unicode Consortium}}