In the BMP and SMP planes of Unicode there are blocks that include "Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs". In blocks that start with the hexadecimal numbers 2600, 2700, 1F300, 1F680, 1F780, and 1F900 there are altogether over 1600 "pictographs". We have grouped these into the categories listed in the Table.
| Serial No. | Category Name | Symbols |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animal-birds | 22 |
| 2 | Animal-insects | 13 |
| 3 | Animal-mammal | 64 |
| 4 | Animal-marine | 17 |
| 5 | Animal-other | 3 |
| 6 | Animal-reptiles | 7 |
| 7 | Arrow-box | 8 |
| 8 | Body-parts | 17 |
| 9 | Book-paper | 17 |
| 10 | Building | 25 |
| 11 | Clothing | 40 |
| 12 | Computer | 30 |
| 13 | Dishware | 8 |
| 14 | Drink | 20 |
| 15 | Entertainment | 23 |
| 16 | Food | 34 |
| 17 | Food-asian | 17 |
| 18 | Food-sweet | 14 |
| 19 | Fruit | 20 |
| 20 | Game | 35 |
| 21 | Geography | 16 |
| 22 | Geometric | 24 |
| 23 | Hand | 45 |
| 24 | Heart | 21 |
| 25 | Household | 27 |
| 26 | Lock | 6 |
| 27 | 16 | |
| 28 | Medal | 6 |
| 29 | Medical | 7 |
| 30 | Money | 13 |
| 31 | Music | 13 |
| 32 | Music-instrument | 12 |
| 33 | Office | 54 |
| 34 | People | 37 |
| 35 | Phone | 14 |
| 36 | Plant-flower | 13 |
| 37 | Plant-other | 16 |
| 38 | Religious | 28 |
| 39 | Science | 9 |
| 40 | Sky-weather | 51 |
| 41 | Sound | 11 |
| 42 | Sport | 28 |
| 43 | Sport-person | 15 |
| 44 | Symbols | 68 |
| 45 | Time | 25 |
| 46 | Tool | 23 |
| 47 | Transport-air | 10 |
| 48 | Transport-ground | 54 |
| 49 | Transport-sea | 9 |
| 50 | Transport-sign | 12 |
| 51 | Vegetable | 17 |
| 52 | Video | 9 |
| 53 | Warning | 12 |
| 54 | Writing | 8 |
| 55 | Zodiac | 12 |