CJK Compatibility Forms is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...
containing vertical
glyph
A glyph () is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A g ...
variants for east Asian compatibility. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was CNS 11643 Compatibility, in reference to
CNS 11643
The CNS 11643 character set (Chinese National Standard 11643), also officially known as the Chinese Standard Interchange Code or CSIC ( zh, tr=, t=中文標準交換碼), is officially the standard character set of Taiwan (Republic of China). In p ...
.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the CJK Compatibility Forms block:
See also
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CJK Unified Ideographs
The Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts share a common background, collectively known as CJK characters. In the process called Han unification, the common (shared) characters were identified and named CJK Unified Ideographs. As of Unicode ...
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Vertical Forms
Vertical Forms is a Unicode block containing vertical punctuation for compatibility characters with the Chinese Standard GB 18030
GB 18030 is a Chinese government standard, described as ''Information Technology — Chinese coded character ...
References
{{CJK ideographs in Unicode
Unicode blocks