Enclosed Ideographic Supplement 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 ...
containing forms of characters and words from
Chinese, Japanese and Korean enclosed within or stylised as squares, brackets, or circles. It contains three such characters containing one or more
kana
The term may refer to a number of syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Such syllabaries include (1) the original kana, or , which were Chinese characters (kanji) used phonetically to transcribe Japanese, the most p ...
, and many containing
CJK ideographs. Many of its characters were added for compatibility with the Japanese
ARIB STD-B24 standard. Six symbols from
Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion, also known as Chinese popular religion comprehends a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora. Vivienne Wee described it as "an empty bowl, which can variously be filled ...
were added in Unicode version 10.
Block
Emoji
The Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block contains fifteen
emoji:
U+1F201–U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F, U+1F232–U+1F23A and U+1F250–U+1F251.
The block has eight
standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the
following four base characters: U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F and U+1F237.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement 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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Hiragana (Unicode block)
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Katakana (Unicode block)
References
{{CJK ideographs in Unicode
Ideographic Supplement, Enclosed