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Basic Multilingual Plane
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Plane (Unicode).
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 primary objective for the BMP is to support the unification of prior character sets as well as characters for writing. Most of the assigned code points in the BMP are used to encode Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters and characters from other East Asian writing systems.