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Emojipedia now documents at the last released set of SoftBank emojis, but there were many minor updates or vendor differences before their switch to Android and Apple emojis in 2016.

Sources

• http://broadband.mb.softbank.jp/mb/service/3G/mail/pictogram/convert.pdf
• https://www.softbank.jp/mobile/service/mail/smartphone/pictgram/
• still image: http://creation.mb.softbank.jp/mc/tech/tech_pic/img/E{3 uppercase hexadecimal digits}_20.gif, animated: http://creation.mb.softbank.jp/mc/tech/tech_pic/img/E{3 uppercase hexadecimal digits}_20_ani.gif
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• http://cgi.wap2.jp/emoji/softbank/
• Google’s compatibility emojis http://mail.google.com/mail/e/softbank_ne_jp/{3 uppercase hexdigits, E4U code}, where emojis not avialble from Softbank a re represented by graphics from other vendors
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Encoding

SoftBank emojis were traditionally organized in 6 JIS(?) tables labeled G (U+E0xy), E (U+E1xy), F (U+E2xy), O (U+E3xy), P (U+E4xy), Q (U+E5xy). Their cells occupied by emojis, xy, run from hexadecimal 21 through 7A (max). The JIS escape code sequence has the uppercase letter followed by the printable ASCII character for the respective 2-digit position U+00xy. Shift-JIS codes run from hexadecimal F741 (E-21) through FBDE (Q-5E). Unicode PUA code points used are U+E001..U+E53E, i.e. offset by -0x20.

Compatibility listings

http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/s/campaign/pictogram/{provider}/image/{category}/E{3 uppercase hexadecimal digits}_20.gif, provider: {au|docomo}, category: {kaomoji|event|tool|kimochi[12]|sports_game|shumi|tatemono_chizu|tenki|tabemono_nomimono|jinbutsu_chara|sizen|norimono|kigou[12]|doubutsu|fashion_beauty|kokki}. Some (animated?) emoji are in a subfolder with the same name as the file name without extension.

• KDDI au compatibility emoji http://mb.softbank.jp:80/mb/s/campaign/pictogram/au/top.xhtml (Openwave XHTML Basic)
  • Kaomoji (Faces):
    
  • Events:
    
  • Tools:
    
  • Kimochi 1:
    ![au E41D]
    Kimochi 2:
    
  • Sports / Games:
    
  • Shumi (Hobby):
    
  • Tatemono / Chizu (Buildings / Map):
    
  • Tenki (Weather):
    
  • Tabemono / Nomimono (Food / Drinks):
    
  • Jinbutsu / Chara (People / Characters):
    
  • Sizen (Nature):
  • Norimono (Vehicles):
    
  • Kigou 1 (Symbols 1):
    ![au E218]
    Kigou 2 (Symbols 2):
    
  • Doubutsu (Animals):
    
  • Fashion / Beauty:
    
  • Kokki (National Flags)
    
• NTT Docomo i-mode compatibility emoji http://mb.softbank.jp:80/mb/s/campaign/pictogram/docomo/top.xhtml (i-mode C-HTML)
  • Kaomoji (Faces):
    
  • Events:
    
  • Tools:
    
  • Kimochi 1:
    ![docomo E41D]
    Kimochi 2:
    
  • Sports / Games:
    
  • Shumi (Hobby):
    
  • Tatemono / Chizu (Buildings / Map):
    
  • Tenki (Weather):
    
  • Tabemono / Nomimono (Food / Drinks):
    
  • Jinbutsu / Chara (People / Characters):
    
  • Sizen (Nature):
    
  • Norimono (Vehicles):
    
  • Kigou 1 (Symbols 1):
    ![docomo E218]
    Kigou 2 (Symbols 2):
    
  • Doubutsu (Animals):
    
  • Fashion / Beauty:
    
  • Kokki (National Flags):
    

Evolution

• Softbank updated some emoji graphics in mid-2008.

epad

• Source: J-Phone epad archive
• Original folder name: j
• 15×15
• 480 graphics
• File names: single letter E..Q followed by two hexadecimal digits 21..7F
• Date: 2002

png

• converted from original GIF files above

j

• Source: Mobile emoticon support BBS (SmallPICT)
• GIF
• 15×15
• 480 graphics
• File names: 4 hexadecimal digits 4F21..5159 (the final two digits seem to somewhat correspond with JIS codes above)

The files in epad and j may be the same except for their file names. This has not yet been checked sufficently.

PicCharacter

• Source: J-SKY editor (editor_inst.exe/editor_inst/Programs/PicCharacter/)
• GIF
• 16×16 or smaller
• 267 graphics plus 1 empty template
• File names: 3 decimal digits with leading zeros 001..267

RareSets

• Source: Extracted from Device User Guide PDFs
• 902SH https://cdn.softbank.jp/en/mobile/set/data/support/users-guide/shared/vf902sh/902sh-e-manual.pdf
• 702MO http://broadband.mb.softbank.jp/mb/japanese/mysoftbank/crm/online_manual/pdf/702mo/702mo.pdf
• 931SC https://cdn.softbank.jp/mobile/set/data/support/product/931sc/download/pdf/931sc_en_userguide_r4.pdf
• Not much known about these… They don’t follow the normal generation of designs.
• Missing color including the animated frames.

tech

• Source: http://creation.mb.softbank.jp/mc/tech/tech_pic/img/
• GIF
• 20×20
• 471 graphics, 59 of them animated
• File names: include 3 uppercase hexadecimal digits {xyz}, possibly relating to Unicode PUA codes
  • still image: E{xyz}_20.gif
  • animated: E{xyz}_20_ani.gif
    • E101..8
    • E10D..F
    • E113, 5, 7, B, D
    • E12B
    • E130
    • E201, 6
    • E219
    • E30C
    • E310..3, 7, E..F
    • E320, 5..9, E
    • E335..7
    • E34B
    • E409, D
    • E412, 7, C, E..F
    • E422..3, 8..9, D
    • E433, 7, E
    • E440, 2, 7, B
    • E51F
  • missing: E254..A, E538..E
    • E254_20.gif
    • E255_20.gif
    • E256_20.gif
    • E257_20.gif
    • E258_20.gif
    • E259_20.gif
    • E25A_20.gif
    • E538_20.gif
    • E539_20.gif
    • E53A_20.gif
    • E53B_20.gif
    • E53C_20.gif
    • E53D_20.gif
    • E53E_20.gif