In the

Unicode Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...

standard, a plane is a contiguous group of 65,536 (2¹⁶)

code point A code point, codepoint or code position is a particular position in a Table (database), table, where the position has been assigned a meaning. The table may be one dimensional (a column), two dimensional (like cells in a spreadsheet), three dime ...

s. There are 17 planes, identified by the numbers 0 to 16, which corresponds with the possible values 00–10₁₆ of the first two positions in six position

hexadecimal Hexadecimal (also known as base-16 or simply hex) is a Numeral system#Positional systems in detail, positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen. Unlike the decimal system representing numbers using ten symbo ...

format (U+''hhhhhh''). Plane 0 is the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), which contains most commonly used characters. The higher planes 1 through 16 are called "supplementary planes". The last code point in Unicode is the last code point in plane 16, U+10FFFF. As of Unicode version , five of the planes have assigned code points (characters), and seven are named. The limit of 17 planes is due to

UTF-16 UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding that supports all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode. The encoding is variable-length as code points are encoded with one or two ''code units''. UTF-16 arose from an earli ...

, which can encode 2²⁰ code points (16 planes) as pairs of

words A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no consensus among linguists on its ...

, plus the BMP as a single word.

UTF-8 UTF-8 is a character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from ''Unicode Transformation Format 8-bit''. Almost every webpage is transmitted as UTF-8. UTF-8 supports all 1,112,0 ...

was designed with a much larger limit of 2³¹ (2,147,483,648) code points (32,768 planes), and would still be able to encode 2²¹ (2,097,152) code points (32 planes) even under the current limit of 4

byte The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable un ...

s. The 17 planes can accommodate 1,114,112 code points. Of these, 2,048 are

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(used to make the pairs in UTF-16), 66 are non-characters, and 137,468 are reserved for private use, leaving 974,530 for public assignment. Planes are further subdivided into

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 ...

s, which, unlike planes, do not have a fixed size. The 338 blocks defined in Unicode cover 27% of the possible code point space, and range in size from a minimum of 16 code points (sixteen blocks) to a maximum of 65,536 code points (Supplementary Private Use Area-A and -B, which constitute the entirety of planes 15 and 16). For future usage, ranges of characters have been tentatively mapped out for most known current and ancient writing systems.

Overview

Assigned characters

Basic Multilingual Plane

The first plane, plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), contains characters for almost all modern languages, and a large number of

symbols A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise different concep ...

. A primary objective for the BMP is to support the unification of prior character sets as well as characters for

writing Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of language. A writing system includes a particular set of symbols called a ''script'', as well as the rules by which they encode a particular spoken language. Every written language ...

. Most of the assigned code points in the BMP are used to encode Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ( CJK) characters. The High Surrogate (U+D800–U+DBFF) and Low Surrogate (U+DC00–U+DFFF) codes are reserved for encoding non-BMP characters in UTF-16 by using a ''pair'' of 16-

bit The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented as ...

codes: one High Surrogate and one Low Surrogate. A single surrogate code point will never be assigned a character. 65,520 of the 65,536 code points in this plane have been allocated to a Unicode block, leaving just 16 code points in a single unallocated range (2FE0..2FEF). , the BMP comprises the following 164 blocks: * Alphabetic left-to-right scripts: ** Basic Latin (Lower half of

ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, ''Information technology—8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets—Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987 ...

: ISO/IEC 646:1991-IRV aka

ASCII ASCII ( ), an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 (English language focused) printable character, printable and 33 control character, control c ...

) (0000–007F) **

Latin-1 Supplement The Latin-1 Supplement (also called C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement) is the second Unicode block in the Unicode standard. It encodes the upper range of ISO 8859-1: 80 (U+0080) – FF (U+00FF). C1 Controls (0080–009F) are not graphic. T ...

(Upper half of

) (0080–00FF) **

Latin Extended-A Latin Extended-A is a Unicode block and is the third block of the Unicode standard. It encodes Latin letters from the Latin ISO character sets other than Latin-1 (which is already encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block) and also legacy characte ...

(0100–017F) **

Latin Extended-B Latin Extended-B is the fourth block (0180-024F) of the Unicode Standard. It has been included since version 1.0, where it was only allocated to the code points 0180-01FF and contained 113 characters. During unification with ISO 10646 for version ...

(0180–024F) **

IPA Extensions IPA Extensions is a block (U+0250–U+02AF) of the Unicode standard that contains full size letters used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Both modern and historical characters are included, as well as former and proposed IPA signs ...

(0250–02AF) **

Spacing Modifier Letters Spacing Modifier Letters is a Unicode block containing characters for the IPA, UPA, and other phonetic transcriptions. Included are the IPA tone marks, and modifiers for aspiration and palatalization. The word ''spacing'' indicates that these ...

(02B0–02FF) **

Combining Diacritical Marks Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters. It also contains the character " Combining Grapheme Joiner", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, actua ...

(0300–036F) **

Greek and Coptic Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek. It was originally also used for writing Coptic, using the similar Greek letters in addition to the uniquely Coptic additions. Beginning with version 4.1 of the Un ...

(0370–03FF) **

Cyrillic The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Ea ...

(0400–04FF) ** Cyrillic Supplement (0500–052F) **

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...

(0530–058F) * Semitic abjads and other right-to-left scripts: **

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

(0590–05FF) **

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

(0600–06FF) ** Syriac (0700–074F) ** Arabic Supplement (0750–077F) **

Thaana Thaana, Tãna, Taana or Tāna ( ) is the present writing system of the Maldivian language spoken in the Maldives. Thaana has characteristics of both an abugida (diacritics, vowel-killer strokes) and a true alphabet (all vowels are w ...

(0780–07BF) **

N'Ko NKo (ߒߞߏ), also spelled N'Ko, is an alphabetic script devised by Solomana Kante, Solomana Kanté in 1949, as a modern writing system for the Manding languages of West Africa. The term ''NKo'', which means ''I say'' in all Manding languages, i ...

(07C0–07FF) **

Samaritan Samaritans (; ; ; ), are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Hebrews and Israelites of the ancient Near East. They are indigenous to Samaria, a historical region of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah that ...

(0800–083F) **

Mandaic Mandaic may refer to: * Mandaic language * Mandaic alphabet The Mandaic alphabet is a writing system primarily used to write the Mandaic language. It is thought to have evolved between the second and seventh century CE from either a cursive fo ...

(0840–085F) **

Syriac Supplement Syriac 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 purp ...

(0860–086F) ** Arabic Extended-B (0870–089F) ** Arabic Extended-A (08A0–08FF) * Brahmic scripts: **

Devanagari Devanagari ( ; in script: , , ) is an Indic script used in the Indian subcontinent. It is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental systems: alphabets, writing system), based on the ancient ''Brāhmī script, Brā ...

(0900–097F) ** Bengali (0980–09FF) **

Gurmukhi Gurmukhī ( , Shahmukhi: ) is an abugida developed from the Laṇḍā scripts, standardized and used by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad (1504–1552). Commonly regarded as a Sikh script, Gurmukhi is used in Punjab, India as the official scrip ...

(0A00–0A7F) ** Gujarati (0A80–0AFF) ** Oriya (0B00–0B7F) **

Tamil Tamil may refer to: People, culture and language * Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka ** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...

(0B80–0BFF) ** Telugu (0C00–0C7F) **

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

(0C80–0CFF) **

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

(0D00–0D7F) ** Sinhala (0D80–0DFF) ** Thai (0E00–0E7F) ** Lao (0E80–0EFF) ** Tibetan (0F00–0FFF) **

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

(1000–109F) * Other alphabetic or syllabic left-to-right scripts: ** Georgian (10A0–10FF) **

Hangul Jamo This is the list of Hangul ''jamo'' (Korean alphabet letters which represent consonants and vowels in Korean) including obsolete ones. This list contains Unicode code points. In the lists below, * code points in were added in .

(1100–11FF) ** Ethiopic (1200–137F) ** Ethiopic Supplement (1380–139F) **

Cherokee The Cherokee (; , or ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their homelands, in towns along river valleys of what is now southwestern ...

(13A0–13FF) **

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics is a Unicode block containing syllabic characters for writing Inuktitut, Carrier, Cree (along with several of its dialect-specific characters), Ojibwe, Blackfoot and Canadian Athabascan languages. Additio ...

(1400–167F) **

Ogham Ogham (also ogam and ogom, , Modern Irish: ; , later ) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language ( scholastic ...

(1680–169F) **

Runic Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets, known as runic rows, runic alphabets or futharks (also, see '' futhark'' vs ''runic alphabet''), native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were primarily used to represent a sound value (a ...

(16A0–16FF) *

Philippine The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

scripts: ** Tagalog (1700–171F) ** Hanunoo (1720–173F) ** Buhid (1740–175F) ** Tagbanwa (1760–177F) * Khmer (1780–17FF) * Mongolian (1800–18AF) * Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended (18B0–18FF) * Brahmic scripts: ** Limbu (1900–194F) * Tai scripts: ** Tai Le (1950–197F) ** New Tai Lue (1980–19DF) ** Khmer Symbols (19E0–19FF) ** Buginese (1A00–1A1F) **

Tai Tham Tai Tham script (''Dharma, Tham'' meaning "scripture") is an abugida writing system used mainly for a group of Southwestern Tai languages i.e., Northern Thai language, Northern Thai, Tai Lue language, Tai Lü, Khün language, Khün and Lao langu ...

(1A20–1AAF) *

Combining Diacritical Marks Extended Combining Diacritical Marks Extended is a Unicode block containing diacritical marks used in German dialectology (Teuthonista Teuthonista is a phonetic transcription system used predominantly for the transcription of High German languages, (Hig ...

(1AB0–1AFF) * Indonesian scripts: ** Balinese (1B00–1B7F) ** Sundanese (1B80–1BBF) **

Batak Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian peoples, Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia, who speak Batak languages. The term is used to include the Karo people ( ...

(1BC0–1BFF) * Lepcha (1C00–1C4F) * Ol Chiki (1C50–1C7F) * Other left-to-right alphabetic or syllabic supplements: ** Cyrillic Extended-C (1C80–1C8F) **

Georgian Extended Georgian Extended is a Unicode block containing Georgian ''Mtavruli'' ( ka, მთავრული, "title" or "heading") letters that function as uppercase versions of their ''Mkhedruli'' counterparts in the Georgian block. Unlike all other ...

(1C90–1CBF) * Sundanese Supplement (1CC0–1CCF) * Vedic Extensions (1CD0–1CFF) * Other left-to-right alphabetic supplements: **

Phonetic Extensions Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing phonetic characters used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Old Irish phonetic notation, the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' and American dictionaries, and Americanist and Russianist phonetic notat ...

(1D00–1D7F) **

Phonetic Extensions Supplement Phonetic Extensions Supplement is a Unicode block containing characters for specialized and deprecated forms of the International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based ...

(1D80–1DBF) ** Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (1DC0–1DFF) **

Latin Extended Additional Latin Extended Additional is a Unicode block. The characters in this block are mostly precomposed combinations of Latin letters with one or more general diacritical marks. Ninety of the characters are used in the Vietnamese alphabet The Vie ...

(1E00–1EFF) ** Greek Extended (1F00–1FFF) *

Symbols A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise different concep ...

: **

General Punctuation General Punctuation is a Unicode block containing punctuation, spacing, and formatting characters for use with all scripts and writing systems. Included are the defined-width spaces, joining formats, directional formats, smart quotes, archaic ...

(2000–206F) **

Superscripts and Subscripts Superscripts and Subscripts is a Unicode block containing superscript and subscript numerals, mathematical operators, and letters used in mathematics and phonetics. The use of subscripts and superscripts in Unicode allows any polynomial, chemic ...

(2070–209F) ** Currency Symbols (20A0–20CF) **

Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols 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 ...

(20D0–20FF) **

Letterlike Symbols Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. In addition to this block, Unicode includes full styled mathematical alphabets, although Unicode does not exp ...

(2100–214F) **

Number Forms Number Forms is a Unicode block containing Unicode compatibility characters that have specific meaning as numbers, but are constructed from other characters. They consist primarily of vulgar fractions and Roman numerals. In addition to the ch ...

(2150–218F) ** Arrows (2190–21FF) **

Mathematical Operators Mathematical Operators is a Unicode block containing characters for mathematical, logical, and set notation. Notably absent are the plus sign (+), greater than sign (>) and less than sign (<), due to them already appearing in the Basic ...

(2200–22FF) **

Miscellaneous Technical Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF. It contains various common symbols which are related to and used in the various technical, programming language, and academic professions. For example: * Symbol ⌂ (HTML ...

(2300–23FF) **

Control Pictures Control Pictures is a Unicode block containing characters for graphically representing the C0 control codes, and other control characters. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Pictures for Control Codes. Block History The following Unicode-rel ...

(2400–243F) **

Optical Character Recognition Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronics, electronic or machine, mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo ...

(2440–245F) **

Enclosed Alphanumerics Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block of Typography, typographical symbols of an alphanumeric within a circle, a bracket or other not-closed enclosure, or ending in a full stop. It is currently fully allocated. Within the Basic Multi ...

(2460–24FF) **

Box Drawing Box Drawing is a Unicode block containing characters for compatibility with legacy graphics standards that contained characters for making bordered charts and tables, i.e. box-drawing characters. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Form and Chart C ...

(2500–257F) **

Block Elements Block Elements is a Unicode block containing square block symbols of various fill and shading. Used along with block elements are box-drawing characters, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters. These can be used for filling regions of t ...

(2580–259F) **

Geometric Shapes A shape is a graphics, graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external Surface (mathematics), surface. It is distinct from other object properties, such as color, Surface texture, texture, or material ...

(25A0–25FF) **

Miscellaneous Symbols Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trig ...

(2600–26FF) ** Dingbats (2700–27BF) **

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A is a Unicode block containing characters for mathematical, logical, and database notation. Character table Compact table History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process ...

(27C0–27EF) **

Supplemental Arrows-A Supplemental Arrows-A is a Unicode block containing various arrow symbols. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Supplemental Arrows-A block: See also ...

(27F0–27FF) **

Braille Patterns The Unicode block Braille Patterns (U+2800..U+28FF) contains all 256 possible patterns of an 8-dot braille cell, thereby including the complete 6-dot cell range.

(2800–28FF) **

Supplemental Arrows-B Supplemental Arrows-B is a Unicode block containing miscellaneous arrows, arrow tails, crossing arrows used in knot descriptions, curved arrows, and harpoons. Block Emoji The Supplemental Arrows-B block contains two emoji: U+2934–U+2935. ...

(2900–297F) **

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B is a Unicode block containing miscellaneous mathematical symbols, including brackets, angles, and circle symbols. Block Some of these symbols are used in Z notation. Specifically * * * * * * The last two ...

(2980–29FF) **

Supplemental Mathematical Operators Supplemental Mathematical Operators 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 d ...

(2A00–2AFF) **

Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows is a Unicode block containing arrows and geometric shapes with various fills, astrological symbols, technical symbols, intonation marks, and others. Block Emoji The Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block co ...

(2B00–2BFF) * Other left-to-right alphabetic scripts or supplements: **

Glagolitic The Glagolitic script ( , , ''glagolitsa'') is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic by Saints Cyril and Methodi ...

(2C00–2C5F) **

Latin Extended-C Latin Extended-C is a Unicode block containing Latin characters for Uighur New Script, the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Shona, Claudian Latin and the Swedish Dialect Alphabet. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the ...

(2C60–2C7F) ** Coptic (2C80–2CFF) **

Georgian Supplement Georgian Supplement is a Unicode block containing characters for the ecclesiastical form of the Georgian script, Nuskhuri ( ka, ნუსხური). To write the full ecclesiastical Khutsuri orthography, the Asomtavruli The Georgian scr ...

(2D00–2D2F) * African scripts: **

Tifinagh Tifinagh ( Tuareg Berber language: ; Neo-Tifinagh: ; Berber Latin alphabet: ; ) is a script used to write the Berber languages. Tifinagh is descended from the ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet. The traditional Tifinagh, sometimes called Tuareg Tifi ...

(2D30–2D7F) ** Ethiopic Extended (2D80–2DDF) * Other left-to-right alphabetic supplements: ** Cyrillic Extended-A (2DE0–2DFF) ** Supplemental Punctuation (2E00–2E7F) * CJK scripts and symbols: ** CJK Radicals Supplement (2E80–2EFF) **

Kangxi Radicals The ''Kangxi'' radicals (), also known as ''Zihui'' radicals, are a set of 214 radicals that were collated in the 18th-century '' Kangxi Dictionary'' to aid categorization of Chinese characters. They are primarily sorted by stroke count. They ...

(2F00–2FDF) ** Ideographic Description Characters (2FF0–2FFF) **

CJK Symbols and Punctuation CJK Symbols and Punctuation is a Unicode block containing symbols and punctuation used for writing the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. It also contains one Chinese character. Block The block has variation sequences defined for East ...

(3000–303F) **

Hiragana is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", ...

(3040–309F) **

Katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ...

(30A0–30FF) **

Bopomofo Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao ( ; ), or simply Zhuyin, is a Chinese transliteration, transliteration system for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages. It is the principal method of teaching Chinese Mandarin pronunciation in Taiwa ...

(3100–312F) ** Hangul Compatibility Jamo (3130–318F) **

Kanbun ''Kanbun'' ( 'Han Chinese, Han writing') is a system for writing Literary Chinese used in Japan from the Nara period until the 20th century. Much of Japanese literature was written in this style and it was the general writing style for offici ...

(3190–319F) ** Bopomofo Extended (31A0–31BF) **

CJK Strokes Strokes ( zh, t=筆畫, s=笔画, p=bǐhuà) are the smallest structural units making up written Chinese characters. In the act of writing, a stroke is defined as a movement of a writing instrument on a writing material surface, or the trace l ...

(31C0–31EF) **

Katakana Phonetic Extensions Katakana Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing additional small katakana characters for writing the Ainu language, in addition to characters in the Katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system a ...

(31F0–31FF) **

Enclosed CJK Letters and Months Enclosed CJK Letters and Months is a Unicode block containing circled and parenthesized Katakana, Hangul, and CJK ideographs. Also included in the block are miscellaneous glyphs that would more likely fit in CJK Compatibility or Enclosed Alp ...

(3200–32FF) **

CJK Compatibility CJK Compatibility is a Unicode block containing square symbols (both CJK and Latin alphanumeric) encoded for compatibility with East Asian character sets. In Unicode 1.0, it was divided into two blocks, named CJK Squared Words (U+3300–U+337F) ...

(3300–33FF) **

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A __FORCETOC__ CJK Unified Ideographs Extension-A 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 adminis ...

(3400–4DBF) ** Yijing Hexagram Symbols (4DC0–4DFF) **

CJK Unified Ideographs The Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts share a common background, collectively known as CJK characters. During the process called Han unification, the common (shared) characters were identified and named CJK Unified Ideographs. As of Uni ...

(4E00–9FFF) * Yi Syllables (A000–A48F) * Yi Radicals (A490–A4CF) * Lisu (A4D0–A4FF) * African scripts: ** Vai (A500–A63F) * Other left-to-right alphabetic supplements: ** Cyrillic Extended-B (A640–A69F) * African scripts: ** Bamum (A6A0–A6FF) * Other left-to-right alphabetic supplements: ** Modifier Tone Letters (A700–A71F) **

Latin Extended-D Latin Extended-D is a Unicode block containing Latin (script), Latin characters for phonetic, Mayanist, and Medieval transcription and notation systems. 89 of the characters in this block are for medieval characters proposed by the Medieval Unic ...

(A720–A7FF) * Brahmic scripts: **

Syloti Nagri Sylheti Nagri or Sylheti Nāgarī (, , ), known in classical manuscripts as Sylhet Nagri () as well as by #Etymology and names, many other names, is an Indic script. The script was historically used in the regions of Bengal and Assam, that were ...

(A800–A82F) ** Common Indic Number Forms (A830–A83F) ** Phags-pa (A840–A87F) ** Saurashtra (A880–A8DF) ** Devanagari Extended (A8E0–A8FF) ** Kayah Li (A900–A92F) ** Rejang (A930–A95F) * Hangul Jamo Extended-A (A960–A97F) * Brahmic scripts: ** Javanese (A980–A9DF) **

Myanmar Extended-B Myanmar Extended-B is a Unicode block containing Burmese script characters for writing Pali and Tai Laing. History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Myanmar Extended-B ...

(A9E0–A9FF) ** Cham (AA00–AA5F) **

Myanmar Extended-A Myanmar Extended-A is a Unicode block containing Myanmar characters for writing the Khamti Shan and Aiton languages. Block The block has eleven variation sequences defined for standardized variants. They use (VS01) to denote the dotted let ...

(AA60–AA7F) ** Tai Viet (AA80–AADF) ** Meetei Mayek Extensions (AAE0–AAFF) * Ethiopic Extended-A (AB00–AB2F) *

Latin Extended-E Latin Extended-E is a Unicode block containing Latin script characters used in German dialectology (Teuthonista), Anthropos (journal), Anthropos alphabet, Yakut scripts, Sakha and Americanist phonetic notation, Americanist usage. Block Histo ...

(AB30–AB6F) * Cherokee Supplement (AB70–ABBF) * Meetei Mayek (ABC0–ABFF) *

Hangul Syllables Hangul Syllables is a Unicode block containing precomposed Hangul syllable blocks for modern Korean. The syllables Korean language and computers#Hangul in Unicode, can be directly mapped by algorithm to sequences of two or three characters in th ...

(AC00–D7AF) * Hangul Jamo Extended-B (D7B0–D7FF) *

Surrogates ''Surrogates'' is a 2009 American science fiction action film based on the 2005–2006 comic book series ''The Surrogates''. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, it stars Bruce Willis as Tom Greer, an FBI agent who ventures out into the real world to ...

: ** High Surrogates (D800–DB7F) ** High Private Use Surrogates (DB80–DBFF) ** Low Surrogates (DC00–DFFF) *

Private Use Area In Unicode, a Private Use Area (PUA) is a range of code points that, by definition, will not be assigned characters by the standard. Three Private Use Areas are defined: one in the Basic Multilingual Plane (), and one each in, and nearly covering ...

(E000–F8FF) * CJK Compatibility Ideographs (F900–FAFF) *

Alphabetic Presentation Forms Alphabetic Presentation Forms is a Unicode block containing standard ligatures for the Latin, Armenian, and Hebrew scripts. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in ...

(FB00–FB4F) * Arabic Presentation Forms-A (FB50–FDFF) *

Variation Selectors Variation Selectors is a Unicode block containing 16 variation selectors used to specify a Variant form (Unicode), glyph variant for a preceding character. They are currently used to specify standardized variation sequences for mathematical symb ...

(FE00–FE0F) * Vertical Forms (FE10–FE1F) * Combining Half Marks (FE20–FE2F) * CJK Compatibility Forms (FE30–FE4F) * Small Form Variants (FE50–FE6F) * Arabic Presentation Forms-B (FE70–FEFF) *

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms In CJK characters, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) computing, graphic characters are traditionally classed into fullwidth and halfwidth characters. Unlike monospaced fonts, a halfwidth character occupies half the width of a fullwidth characte ...

(FF00–FFEF) * Specials (FFF0–FFFF)

Supplementary Multilingual Plane

Plane 1, the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP), contains historic scripts (except CJK ideographic), and symbols and notation used within certain fields. Scripts include

Linear B Linear B is a syllabary, syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest Attested language, attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examp ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs ( ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined Ideogram, ideographic, logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 1,000 distinct char ...

, and

cuneiform Cuneiform is a Logogram, logo-Syllabary, syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. Cuneiform script ...

scripts. It also includes English reform orthographies like Shavian and Deseret, and some modern scripts like Osage, Warang Citi, Adlam, Wancho and Toto. Symbols and notations include historic and modern

musical notation Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered important for its performance in the context of a given musical tradition. The proce ...

; mathematical alphanumerics; shorthands;

Emoji An emoji ( ; plural emoji or emojis; , ) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of modern emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from type ...

and other pictographic sets; and game symbols for

playing card A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a f ...

mahjong Mahjong (English pronunciation: ; also transliterated as mah jongg, mah-jongg, and mahjongg) is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century. It is played ...

, and

dominoes Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two square ''ends''. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called ''Pip (counting), pips ...

. , the SMP comprises the following 161 blocks: * Archaic Greek and other left-to-right scripts: ** Linear B Syllabary (10000–1007F) ** Linear B Ideograms (10080–100FF) ** Aegean Numbers (10100–1013F) ** Ancient Greek Numbers (10140–1018F) ** Ancient Symbols (10190–101CF) ** Phaistos Disc (101D0–101FF) ** Lycian (10280–1029F) ** Carian (102A0–102DF) **

Coptic Epact Numbers Coptic Epact Numbers is a Unicode block containing Old Coptic number forms. These numbers were used in some regions instead of letters of the Coptic alphabet that were used for encoding numbers, as was common in much of the world at the time, ...

(102E0–102FF) ** Old Italic (10300–1032F) ** Gothic (10330–1034F) ** Old Permic (10350–1037F) **

Ugaritic Ugaritic () is an extinct Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeology, archaeologists in 1928 at Ugarit, including several major literary texts, notably the Baal cycl ...

(10380–1039F) **

Old Persian Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native speakers as (I ...

(103A0–103DF) ** Deseret (10400–1044F) ** Shavian (10450–1047F) **

Osmanya Osmanya (, ), known in Somali as ''Far Soomaali'' (, "Somali writing") and in Arabic as ''al-kitābah al-ʿuthmānīyah'' (; "Osman writing"), is an alphabetic script created to transcribe the Somali language. It was invented by Osman Yusuf Ke ...

(10480–104AF) ** Osage (104B0–104FF) **

Elbasan Elbasan ( , ; sq-definite, Elbasani, ) is the fourth most populous city of Albania and seat of Elbasan County and Elbasan Municipality. It lies to the north of the river Shkumbin between the Skanderbeg Mountains and the Myzeqe Plain in centr ...

(10500–1052F) ** Caucasian Albanian (10530–1056F) ** Vithkuqi (10570–105BF) ** Todhri (105C0–105FF) **

Linear A Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC. Linear A was the primary script used in Minoan palaces, palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization. It evolved into Linear B, ...

(10600–1077F) **

Latin Extended-F Latin Extended-F is a Unicode block containing modifier letters, nearly all IPA and extIPA, for phonetic transcription. The Latin Extended-F and -G blocks contain the first Latin characters defined outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). ...

(10780–107BF) * Right-to-left scripts: **

Cypriot Syllabary The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary (also Classical Cypriot Syllabary) is a syllabary, syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from about the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE, when it was replaced by the Greek alphabet. It has been suggested that t ...

(10800–1083F) **

Imperial Aramaic Imperial Aramaic is a linguistic term, coined by modern Aramaic studies, scholars in order to designate a specific historical Variety (linguistics), variety of Aramaic language. The term is polysemic, with two distinctive meanings, wider (socioli ...

(10840–1085F) ** Palmyrene (10860–1087F) **

Nabataean The Nabataeans or Nabateans (; Nabataean Aramaic: , , vocalized as ) were an ancient Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the southern Levant. Their settlements—most prominently the assumed capital city of Raqmu (present-day Petr ...

(10880–108AF) ** Hatran (108E0–108FF) ** Phoenician (10900–1091F) ** Lydian (10920–1093F) ** Meroitic Hieroglyphs (10980–1099F) ** Meroitic Cursive (109A0–109FF) ** Kharoshthi (10A00–10A5F) **

Old South Arabian Ancient South Arabian (ASA; also known as Old South Arabian, Epigraphic South Arabian, Ṣayhadic, or Yemenite) is a group of four closely related extinct languages ( Sabaean/Sabaic, Qatabanic, Hadramitic, Minaic) spoken in the far southern ...

(10A60–10A7F) ** Old North Arabian (10A80–10A9F) **

Manichaean Manichaeism (; in ; ) is an endangered former major world religion currently only practiced in China around Cao'an,R. van den Broek, Wouter J. Hanegraaff ''Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times''. SUNY Press, 1998 p. 37 found ...

(10AC0–10AFF) **

Avestan Avestan ( ) is the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism. It belongs to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family and was First language, originally spoken during the Avestan period, Old ...

(10B00–10B3F) ** Inscriptional Parthian (10B40–10B5F) **

Inscriptional Pahlavi Inscriptional Pahlavi is the earliest attested form of Pahlavi scripts, and is evident in clay fragments that have been dated to the reign of Mithridates I (''r.'' 171–138 BC). Other early evidence includes the Pahlavi inscriptions of Parth ...

(10B60–10B7F) **

Psalter Pahlavi Psalter Pahlavi is a cursive abjad that was used for writing Middle Persian on paper; it is thus described as one of the Pahlavi scripts. It was written right to left, usually with spaces between words. It takes its name from the Pahlavi Psalt ...

(10B80–10BAF) **

Old Turkic Old Siberian Turkic, generally known as East Old Turkic and often shortened to Old Turkic, was a Siberian Turkic language spoken around East Turkistan and Mongolia. It was first discovered in inscriptions originating from the Second Turkic Kh ...

(10C00–10C4F) ** Old Hungarian (10C80–10CFF) ** Hanifi Rohingya (10D00–10D3F) ** Garay (10D40–10D8F) ** Rumi Numeral Symbols (10E60–10E7F) ** Yezidi (10E80–10EBF) ** Arabic Extended-C (10EC0–10EFF) ** Old Sogdian (10F00–10F2F) ** Sogdian (10F30–10F6F) **

Old Uyghur Old Uyghur () was a Turkic language spoken in Qocho from the 9th–14th centuries as well as in Gansu. History Old Uyghur evolved from Old Turkic, a Siberian Turkic language, after the Uyghur Khaganate broke up and remnants of it migrated ...

(10F70–10FAF) ** Chorasmian (10FB0–10FDF) ** Elymaic (10FE0–10FFF) * Brahmic scripts: **

Brahmi Brahmi ( ; ; ISO: ''Brāhmī'') is a writing system from ancient India. "Until the late nineteenth century, the script of the Aśokan (non-Kharosthi) inscriptions and its immediate derivatives was referred to by various names such as 'lath' or ...

(11000–1107F) **

Kaithi Kaithi (), also called Kayathi (), Kayasthi (), or Kayastani, is a Brahmic script historically used across parts of Northern and Eastern India. It was prevalent in regions corresponding to modern-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand. The s ...

(11080–110CF) ** Sora Sompeng (110D0–110FF) ** Chakma (11100–1114F) ** Mahajani (11150–1117F) ** Sharada (11180–111DF) **

Sinhala Archaic Numbers Sinhala Archaic Numbers 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 documentati ...

(111E0–111FF) **

Khojki Khojkī or Khojā Sindhī ( (Arabic script) खोजकी (Devanagari)), is a script used formerly and almost exclusively by the Khoja community of parts of the Indian subcontinent, including Sindh, Gujarat, and Punjab. However, this script ...

(11200–1124F) ** Multani (11280–112AF) ** Khudawadi (112B0–112FF) ** Grantha (11300–1137F) ** Tulu-Tigalari (11380–113FF) ** Newa (11400–1147F) ** Tirhuta (11480–114DF) ** Siddham (11580–115FF) ** Modi (11600–1165F) ** Mongolian Supplement (11660–1167F) **

Takri The Tākri script (Takri (Chamba district, Chamba): ; Takri (Jammu Division, Jammu/Dogri script, Dogra): ; sometimes called Tankri ) is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic scripts, Brahmic family of scripts. It is derived from the Sharada ...

(11680–116CF) ** Myanmar Extended-C (116D0–116FF) ** Ahom (11700–1174F) **

Dogra __NOTOC__ Dogras, or Dogra people, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic community of Pakistan and India. Dogra, Dogras or Dogri may also refer to: * Dogra dynasty, a Hindu dynasty of Kashmir * Dogri language, a language spoken by Dogras and other ethnic commu ...

(11800–1184F) ** Warang Citi (118A0–118FF) ** Dives Akuru (11900–1195F) ** Nandinagari (119A0–119FF) ** Zanabazar Square (11A00–11A4F) ** Soyombo (11A50–11AAF) * Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A (11AB0–11ABF) * Brahmic scripts: ** Pau Cin Hau (11AC0–11AFF) ** Devanagari Extended-A (11B00–11B5F) ** Sunuwar (11BC0–11BFF) ** Bhaiksuki (11C00–11C6F) ** Marchen (11C70–11CBF) ** Masaram Gondi (11D00–11D5F) ** Gunjala Gondi (11D60–11DAF) ** Makasar (11EE0–11EFF) ** Kawi (11F00–11F5F) * Lisu Supplement (11FB0–11FBF) * Tamil Supplement (11FC0–11FFF) * Cuneiform scripts: **

Cuneiform Cuneiform is a Logogram, logo-Syllabary, syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. Cuneiform script ...

(12000–123FF) ** Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation (12400–1247F) ** Early Dynastic Cuneiform (12480–1254F) *

Cypro-Minoan The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM), more commonly called the Cypro-Minoan Script, is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus and at its trading partners during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age (c. 1550–1050 BC). The term "Cy ...

(12F90–12FFF) * Hieroglyphic scripts: **

Egyptian Hieroglyphs Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs ( ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined Ideogram, ideographic, logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 1,000 distinct char ...

(13000–1342F) **

Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls is a Unicode block containing formatting characters that enable full formatting of quadrats for Egyptian hieroglyphs. The block size was expanded by 32 code points in Unicode version 15.0 (version 14: → ver ...

(13430–1345F) ** Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A (13460–143FF) **

Anatolian Hieroglyphs Anatolian hieroglyphs are an indigenous logographic script native to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs. They were once commonly known as Hittite hieroglyphs, but the language they encode proved to be Luwian language, Luwian, not Hitt ...

(14400–1467F) * Gurung Khema (16100–1613F) * Bamum Supplement (16800–16A3F) * Mro (16A40–16A6F) * Tangsa (16A70–16ACF) * Bassa Vah (16AD0–16AFF) * Pahawh Hmong (16B00–16B8F) * Kirat Rai (16D40–16D7F) * Medefaidrin (16E40–16E9F) *

Miao Miao may refer to: * Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China * Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages * Miao (Unicode ...

(16F00–16F9F) * East Asian scripts: **

Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation is a Unicode block containing symbols and punctuation marks used by ideographic scripts such as Tangut and Nüshu. History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining ...

(16FE0–16FFF) ** Tangut (17000–187FF) ** Tangut Components (18800–18AFF) **

Khitan Small Script The Khitan small script () was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language. It was used during the 10th–12th century by the Khitan people, who had created the Liao Empire in present-day northeastern China. In addition to ...

(18B00–18CFF) ** Tangut Supplement (18D00–18D7F) **

Kana Extended-B Kana Extended-B is a Unicode block containing Taiwanese kana (that is, kana originally created by Japanese linguists to write Taiwanese Hokkien). Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining ...

(1AFF0–1AFFF) **

Kana Supplement Kana Supplement is a Unicode block containing one archaic katakana character and 255 hentaigana (non-standard Hiragana) characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Extended-A block. Block History The following Unicode- ...

(1B000–1B0FF) **

Kana Extended-A Kana Extended-A is a Unicode block containing hentaigana (non-standard hiragana) and historic kana characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Supplement block. Block History The following Unicode-related documents reco ...

(1B100–1B12F) **

Small Kana Extension Small Kana Extension is a Unicode block containing additional small variants for the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries, in addition to those in the Hiragana, Katakana and Katakana Phonetic Extensions blocks. Block Unassigned code points in the U ...

(1B130–1B16F) ** Nushu (1B170–1B2FF) * Notational writing systems: ** Duployan (1BC00–1BC9F) ** Shorthand Format Controls (1BCA0–1BCAF) * Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement (1CC00–1CEBF) *

and numerals: **

Musical notation Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered important for its performance in the context of a given musical tradition. The proce ...

: *** Znamenny Musical Notation (1CF00–1CFCF) *** Byzantine Musical Symbols (1D000–1D0FF) *** Musical Symbols (1D100–1D1FF) *** Ancient Greek Musical Notation (1D200–1D24F) ** Kaktovik Numerals (1D2C0–1D2DF) ** Mayan Numerals (1D2E0–1D2FF) **

Mathematical symbols A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a mathemat ...

: *** Tai Xuan Jing Symbols (1D300–1D35F) *** Counting Rod Numerals (1D360–1D37F) ***

Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block comprising styled forms of Latin alphabet, Latin and Greek alphabet, Greek letters and decimal numerical digit, digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different l ...

(1D400–1D7FF) * Notational writing systems: ** Sutton SignWriting (1D800–1DAAF) * Other left-to-right scripts: **

Latin Extended-G Latin Extended-G is a Unicode block containing additional characters for phonetic transcription. The Latin Extended-F and -G blocks contain the first Latin characters defined outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane In the Unicode standard, a p ...

(1DF00–1DFFF) ** Glagolitic Supplement (1E000–1E02F) ** Cyrillic Extended-D (1E030–1E08F) * Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong (1E100–1E14F) * Toto (1E290–1E2BF) * Wancho (1E2C0–1E2FF) * Nag Mundari (1E4D0–1E4FF) * Ol Onal (1E5D0–1E5FF) * African scripts: ** Ethiopic Extended-B (1E7E0–1E7FF) ** Mende Kikakui (1E800–1E8DF) ** Adlam (1E900–1E95F) *

and numerals: ** Indic Siyaq Numbers (1EC70–1ECBF) ** Ottoman Siyaq Numbers (1ED00–1ED4F) ** Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols (1EE00–1EEFF) ** Game tiles and cards: *** Mahjong Tiles (1F000–1F02F) *** Domino Tiles (1F030–1F09F) ***

Playing Cards A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a Pap ...

(1F0A0–1F0FF) **

Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement is a Unicode block consisting of Latin alphabet characters and Arabic numerals enclosed in circles, ovals or boxes, used for a variety of purposes. It is encoded in the range U+1F100–U+1F1FF in the Supple ...

(1F100–1F1FF) **

Enclosed Ideographic Supplement Enclosed Ideographic Supplement is a Unicode block 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 ...

(1F200–1F2FF) **

Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing meteorological and astronomical symbols, emoji characters largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS, and characters originally from ...

(1F300–1F5FF) **

Emoticons An emoticon (, , rarely , ), short for emotion icon, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needin ...

(1F600–1F64F) ** Ornamental Dingbats (1F650–1F67F) **

Transport and Map Symbols Transport and Map Symbols is a Unicode block containing transportation and map icons, largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' emoji implementations of Shift JIS, and to encode characters in the Wingdings and Wingdings 2 char ...

(1F680–1F6FF) **

Alchemical Symbols Alchemical symbols were used to denote chemical elements and compounds, as well as alchemy, alchemical apparatus and processes, until the 18th century. Although notation was partly standardized, style and symbol varied between alchemists. Lüdy ...

(1F700–1F77F) **

Geometric Shapes Extended Geometric Shapes Extended is a Unicode block containing Webdings/ Wingdings symbols, mostly different weights of squares, crosses, and saltires, and different weights of variously spoked asterisks, stars, and various color squares and circles fo ...

(1F780–1F7FF) **

Supplemental Arrows-C Supplemental Arrows-C 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 ...

(1F800–1F8FF) **

Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing emoji characters. It extends the set of symbols included in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. It also includes Typikon symbols. Emoji The Unicode 14.0 Supplemental ...

(1F900–1F9FF) **

Chess Symbols Chess Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for fairy chess and related notations beyond the basic Western chess symbols (U+2654 to U+265F) in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, as well as symbols representing game pieces for xiangqi ...

(1FA00–1FA6F) **

Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A is a Unicode block containing emoji characters. It extends the set of symbols included in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block. All of the characters in the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block a ...

(1FA70–1FAFF) **

Symbols for Legacy Computing Symbols for Legacy Computing is a Unicode block containing graphic characters that were used for various home computers from the 1970s and 1980s and in teletext broadcasting standards. It includes characters from the Amstrad CPC, MSX, Mattel Aqua ...

(1FB00–1FBFF)

Supplementary Ideographic Plane

Plane 2, the Supplementary Ideographic Plane (SIP), is used for CJK Ideographs, mostly

, that were not included in earlier character encoding standards. , the SIP comprises the following seven blocks: *

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B is a Unicode block containing rare and historic CJK ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese submitted to the Ideographic Research Group between 1998 and 2000, plus seven gongche characters for ...

(20000–2A6DF) * CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C (2A700–2B73F) * CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D (2B740–2B81F) * CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E (2B820–2CEAF) *

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F __FORCETOC__ CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F is a Unicode block containing rare and historic CJK ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, as well as more than a thousand Sawndip characters for writing the Zhuang language, which ...

(2CEB0–2EBEF) * CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I (2EBF0–2EE5F) * CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement (2F800–2FA1F)

Tertiary Ideographic Plane

Plane 3 is the Tertiary Ideographic Plane (TIP). CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G was added to the TIP in Unicode 13.0, released in March 2020. It also is tentatively allocated for

Oracle Bone script Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC. Inscriptions were made by carving characters into oracle bones, usually either the shoulder bones of oxen or the plastrons of turtl ...

and

Small Seal Script The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese. It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC), and was then promulgated across China in order to replace script varieties used i ...

. , the TIP comprises the following two blocks: * CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G (30000–3134F) * CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H (31350–323AF)

Unassigned planes

Planes 4 to 13 (planes to in

): No characters have yet been assigned, or proposed for assignment, to Planes 4 through 13.

Supplementary Special-purpose Plane

Plane 14 ( in

) is designated as the Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (SSP). It comprises the following two blocks, : * Tags (E0000–E007F) *

Variation Selectors Supplement Variation Selectors Supplement is a Unicode block containing additional variation selectors beyond those found in the Variation Selectors block. These combining characters are named ''variation selector-17'' (for U+E0100) through to ''variation ...

(E0100–E01EF) – used to indicate alternate glyphs for characters.

Private Use Area Planes

The two planes 15 and 16 (planes and in

) each contain a "

". They contain blocks named Supplementary Private Use Area-A (PUA-A) and -B (PUA-B). The Private Use Areas are available for use by parties outside ISO and Unicode (private use character encoding).

References

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