What is Emoji Sources?

Some emojis are from pictographs, so they have sources. Each source may include other characters in addition to emoji, and Unicode characters can correspond to multiple sources.

Emoji Sources have 5 categories:

• Zapf Dingbats(abbr: z): A common dingbat typeface which designed by the typographer Hermann Zapf in 1978.
• ARIB(abbr: a): Characters that defined by the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses.
• Japanese carriers(abbr: j): The standardized characters which uniformly released by the three major carriers of Japan in 2010 (DoCoMo&SoftBank&KDDI).
• Wingdings & Webdings(abbr: w): A series of dingbat fonts of Microsoft that presents letters as various symbols.
• Other(abbr: x): If emoji does not belong to any of the above categories, then it belongs to 'other'.