The Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block spans U+1F300–U+1F5FF, 768 codepoints in Plane 1 (Supplementary Multilingual Plane). Every one of them is assigned in Unicode 16.0.

All of its characters have the script value Common: they are shared across writing systems rather than tied to one.

By general category: 763 other symbols (So), 5 modifier symbols (Sk).

The first 529 arrived in Unicode 6.0 (2010); later additions came in 6.1 (4), 7.0 (209), 8.0 (24), 9.0 (2).

637 of its characters are emoji, 559 of them shown as colour emoji by default. See emoji.

559 characters are East Asian Wide or Fullwidth and take two columns in terminals.

Because it lies outside the BMP, every character here takes four bytes in UTF-8 and a surrogate pair in UTF-16.