CJK Compatibility Ideographs 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 ad ...
containing Han characters used only for
roundtrip compatibility mapping with planes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 15 of
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 ...
-1992.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs 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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CJK Compatibility Ideographs
CJK Compatibility Ideographs is a Unicode block created to contain Han characters that were encoded in multiple locations in other established character encodings, in addition to their CJK Unified Ideographs assignments, in order to retain roun ...
References
{{CJK ideographs in Unicode
Unicode blocks