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 addition of new glyphs are discussed and evaluated by considering the relevant block or blocks as a whole.
Each block is generally, but not always, meant to supply glyphs used by one or more specific languages, or in some general application area such as mathematics, surveying, decorative typesetting, social forums, etc.
Design and implementation
[edit]Unicode blocks are identified by unique names, which use only ASCII characters and are usually descriptive of the nature of the symbols, in English; such as "Tibetan" or "Supplemental Arrows-A". (When comparing block names, one is supposed to equate uppercase with lowercase letters, and ignore any whitespace, hyphens, and underbars; so the last name is equivalent to "supplemental_arrows__a" and "SUPPLEMENTALARROWSA".[1]
Blocks are pairwise disjoint; that is, they do not overlap. The starting code point and the size (number of code points) of each block are always multiples of 16; therefore, in the hexadecimal notation, the starting (smallest) point is U+xxx0 and the ending (largest) point is U+yyyF, where xxx and yyy are three or more hexadecimal digits. (These constraints are intended to simplify the display of glyphs in Unicode Consortium documents, as tables with 16 rows labeled with the last hexadecimal digit of the code point.[1]) The size of a block may range from the minimum of 16 to a maximum of 65,536 code points.
Every assigned code point has a glyph property called "Block", whose value is a character string naming the unique block that owns that point.[2] However, a block may also contain unassigned code points, usually reserved for future additions of characters that "logically" should belong to that block. Code points not belonging to any of the named blocks, e.g. in the unassigned planes 4–13, have the value block="No_Block".[1]
Simply belonging to a particular Unicode block does not guarantee the certain particular properties of the characters it is or will be expected to contain. The identity of any character is determined by its properties stated in the Unicode Character Database. For example, the contiguous range of 32 noncharacter code points U+FDD0..U+FDEF share none of the properties common to the other characters in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, that they are certainly not Arabic script characters or "right-to-left noncharacters", and are assigned there as a filler to this block given that it has been agreed that no further Arabic compatibility characters will be encoded. [3]
Other classifications
[edit]Each Unicode point also has a property called "General Category", that attempts to describe the role of the corresponding symbol in the languages or applications for whose sake it was included in the system. Examples of General Categories are "Lu" (meaning upper-case letter), "Nd" (decimal digit), "Pi" (open-quote punctuation), and "Mn" (non-spacing mark, i.e. a diacritic for the preceding glyph). This division is completely independent of code blocks: the code points with a given General Category generally span many blocks, and do not have to be consecutive, not even within each block.[4]
Each code point also has a script property, specifying which writing system it is intended for, or whether it is intended for multiple writing systems. This, also, is independent of block.
In descriptions of the Unicode system, a block may be subdivided into more specific subgroups, such as the "Chess symbols" in the Miscellaneous Symbols block (not to be confused with the separate Chess Symbols block). Those subgroups are not "blocks" in the technical sense used by the Unicode consortium, and are named only for the convenience of users.
List of blocks
[edit]Unicode 16.0 defines 338 blocks:[1]
- 164 in plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane (in table below: § BMP)
- 161 in plane 1, the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (§ SMP)
- 7 in plane 2, the Supplementary Ideographic Plane (§ SIP)
- 2 in plane 3, the Tertiary Ideographic Plane (§ TIP)
- 2 in plane 14 (E in hexadecimal), the Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (§ SSP)
- One each in the planes 15 (Fhex) and 16 (10hex), called Supplementary Private Use Area-A and -B (§ PUA-A)
Plane | Block range | Block name | Code points[a] | Assigned characters | Scripts[b][c][d][e][f] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 BMP | U+0000..U+007F | Basic Latin[g] | 128 | 128 | Latin (52 characters), Common (76 characters) |
0 BMP | U+0080..U+00FF | Latin-1 Supplement[h] | 128 | 128 | Latin (64 characters), Common (64 characters) |
0 BMP | U+0100..U+017F | Latin Extended-A | 128 | 128 | Latin |
0 BMP | U+0180..U+024F | Latin Extended-B | 208 | 208 | Latin |
0 BMP | U+0250..U+02AF | IPA Extensions | 96 | 96 | Latin |
0 BMP | U+02B0..U+02FF | Spacing Modifier Letters | 80 | 80 | Bopomofo (2 characters), Latin (14 characters), Common (64 characters) |
0 BMP | U+0300..U+036F | Combining Diacritical Marks | 112 | 112 | Inherited |
0 BMP | U+0370..U+03FF | Greek and Coptic | 144 | 135 | Coptic (14 characters), Greek (117 characters), Common (4 characters) |
0 BMP | U+0400..U+04FF | Cyrillic | 256 | 256 | Cyrillic (254 characters), Inherited (2 characters) |
0 BMP | U+0500..U+052F | Cyrillic Supplement | 48 | 48 | Cyrillic |
0 BMP | U+0530..U+058F | Armenian | 96 | 91 | Armenian |
0 BMP | U+0590..U+05FF | Hebrew | 112 | 88 | Hebrew |
0 BMP | U+0600..U+06FF | Arabic | 256 | 256 | Arabic (238 characters), Common (6 characters), Inherited (12 characters) |
0 BMP | U+0700..U+074F | Syriac | 80 | 77 | Syriac |
0 BMP | U+0750..U+077F | Arabic Supplement | 48 | 48 | Arabic |
0 BMP | U+0780..U+07BF | Thaana | 64 | 50 | Thaana |
0 BMP | U+07C0..U+07FF | NKo | 64 | 62 | N’Ko |
0 BMP | U+0800..U+083F | Samaritan | 64 | 61 | Samaritan |
0 BMP | U+0840..U+085F | Mandaic | 32 | 29 | Mandaic |
0 BMP | U+0860..U+086F | Syriac Supplement | 16 | 11 | Syriac |
0 BMP | U+0870..U+089F | Arabic Extended-B | 48 | 42 | Arabic |
0 BMP | U+08A0..U+08FF | Arabic Extended-A | 96 | 96 | Arabic (95 characters), Common (1 character) |
0 BMP | U+0900..U+097F | Devanagari | 128 | 128 | Devanagari (122 characters), Common (2 characters), Inherited (4 characters) |
0 BMP | U+0980..U+09FF | Bengali | 128 | 96 | Bengali |
0 BMP | U+0A00..U+0A7F | Gurmukhi | 128 | 80 | Gurmukhi |
0 BMP | U+0A80..U+0AFF | Gujarati | 128 | 91 | Gujarati |
0 BMP | U+0B00..U+0B7F | Oriya | 128 | 91 | Oriya |
0 BMP | U+0B80..U+0BFF | Tamil | 128 | 72 | Tamil |
0 BMP | U+0C00..U+0C7F | Telugu | 128 | 100 | Telugu |
0 BMP | U+0C80..U+0CFF | Kannada | 128 | 91 | Kannada |
0 BMP | U+0D00..U+0D7F | Malayalam | 128 | 118 | Malayalam |
0 BMP | U+0D80..U+0DFF | Sinhala | 128 | 91 | Sinhala |
0 BMP | U+0E00..U+0E7F | Thai | 128 | 87 | Thai (86 characters), Common (1 character) |
0 BMP | U+0E80..U+0EFF | Lao | 128 | 83 | Lao |
0 BMP | U+0F00..U+0FFF | Tibetan | 256 | 211 | Tibetan (207 characters), Common (4 characters) |
0 BMP | U+1000..U+109F | Myanmar | 160 | 160 | Myanmar |
0 BMP | U+10A0..U+10FF | Georgian | 96 | 88 | Georgian (87 characters), Common (1 character) |
0 BMP | U+1100..U+11FF | Hangul Jamo | 256 | 256 | Hangul |
0 BMP | U+1200..U+137F | Ethiopic | 384 | 358 | Ethiopic |
0 BMP | U+1380..U+139F | Ethiopic Supplement | 32 | 26 | Ethiopic |
0 BMP | U+13A0..U+13FF | Cherokee | 96 | 92 | Cherokee |
0 BMP | U+1400..U+167F | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics | 640 | 640 | Canadian Aboriginal |
0 BMP | U+1680..U+169F | Ogham | 32 | 29 | Ogham |
0 BMP | U+16A0..U+16FF | Runic | 96 | 89 | Runic (86 characters), Common (3 characters) |
0 BMP | U+1700..U+171F | Tagalog | 32 | 23 | Tagalog |
0 BMP | U+1720..U+173F | Hanunoo | 32 | 23 | Hanunoo (21 characters), Common (2 characters) |
0 BMP | U+1740..U+175F | Buhid | 32 | 20 | Buhid |
0 BMP | U+1760..U+177F | Tagbanwa | 32 | 18 | Tagbanwa |
0 BMP | U+1780..U+17FF | Khmer | 128 | 114 | Khmer |
0 BMP | U+1800..U+18AF | Mongolian | 176 | 158 | Mongolian (155 characters), Common (3 characters) |
0 BMP | U+18B0..U+18FF | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended | 80 | 70 | Canadian Aboriginal |
0 BMP | U+1900..U+194F | Limbu | 80 | 68 | Limbu |
0 BMP | U+1950..U+197F | Tai Le | 48 | 35 | Tai Le |
0 BMP | U+1980..U+19DF | New Tai Lue | 96 | 83 | New Tai Lue |
0 BMP | U+19E0..U+19FF | Khmer Symbols | 32 | 32 | Khmer |
0 BMP | U+1A00..U+1A1F | Buginese | 32 | 30 | Buginese |
0 BMP | U+1A20..U+1AAF | Tai Tham | 144 | 127 | Tai Tham |
0 BMP | U+1AB0..U+1AFF | Combining Diacritical Marks Extended | 80 | 31 | Inherited |
0 BMP | U+1B00..U+1B7F | Balinese | 128 | 127 | Balinese |
0 BMP | U+1B80..U+1BBF | Sundanese | 64 | 64 | Sundanese |
0 BMP | U+1BC0..U+1BFF | Batak | 64 | 56 | Batak |
0 BMP | U+1C00..U+1C4F | Lepcha | 80 | 74 | Lepcha |
0 BMP | U+1C50..U+1C7F | Ol Chiki | 48 | 48 | Ol Chiki |
0 BMP | U+1C80..U+1C8F | Cyrillic Extended-C | 16 | 11 | Cyrillic |
0 BMP | U+1C90..U+1CBF | Georgian Extended | 48 | 46 | Georgian |
0 BMP | U+1CC0..U+1CCF | Sundanese Supplement | 16 | 8 | Sundanese |
0 BMP | U+1CD0..U+1CFF | Vedic Extensions | 48 | 43 | Common (16 characters), Inherited (27 characters) |
0 BMP | U+1D00..U+1D7F | Phonetic Extensions | 128 | 128 | Cyrillic (2 characters), Greek (15 characters), Latin (111 characters) |
0 BMP | U+1D80..U+1DBF | Phonetic Extensions Supplement | 64 | 64 | Greek (1 character), Latin (63 characters) |
0 BMP | U+1DC0..U+1DFF | Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement | 64 | 64 | Inherited |
0 BMP | U+1E00..U+1EFF | Latin Extended Additional | 256 | 256 | Latin |
0 BMP | U+1F00..U+1FFF | Greek Extended | 256 | 233 | Greek |
0 BMP | U+2000..U+206F | General Punctuation | 112 | 111 | Common (109 characters), Inherited (2 characters) |
0 BMP | U+2070..U+209F | Superscripts and Subscripts | 48 | 42 | Latin (15 characters), Common (27 characters) |
0 BMP | U+20A0..U+20CF | Currency Symbols | 48 | 33 | Common |
0 BMP | U+20D0..U+20FF | Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols | 48 | 33 | Inherited |
0 BMP | U+2100..U+214F | Letterlike Symbols | 80 | 80 | Greek (1 character), Latin (4 characters), Common (75 characters) |
0 BMP | U+2150..U+218F | Number Forms | 64 | 60 | Latin (41 characters), Common (19 characters) |
0 BMP | U+2190..U+21FF | Arrows | 112 | 112 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2200..U+22FF | Mathematical Operators | 256 | 256 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2300..U+23FF | Miscellaneous Technical | 256 | 256 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2400..U+243F | Control Pictures | 64 | 42 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2440..U+245F | Optical Character Recognition | 32 | 11 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2460..U+24FF | Enclosed Alphanumerics | 160 | 160 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2500..U+257F | Box Drawing | 128 | 128 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2580..U+259F | Block Elements | 32 | 32 | Common |
0 BMP | U+25A0..U+25FF | Geometric Shapes | 96 | 96 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2600..U+26FF | Miscellaneous Symbols | 256 | 256 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2700..U+27BF | Dingbats | 192 | 192 | Common |
0 BMP | U+27C0..U+27EF | Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A | 48 | 48 | Common |
0 BMP | U+27F0..U+27FF | Supplemental Arrows-A | 16 | 16 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2800..U+28FF | Braille Patterns | 256 | 256 | Braille |
0 BMP | U+2900..U+297F | Supplemental Arrows-B | 128 | 128 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2980..U+29FF | Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B | 128 | 128 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2A00..U+2AFF | Supplemental Mathematical Operators | 256 | 256 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2B00..U+2BFF | Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows | 256 | 253 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2C00..U+2C5F | Glagolitic | 96 | 96 | Glagolitic |
0 BMP | U+2C60..U+2C7F | Latin Extended-C | 32 | 32 | Latin |
0 BMP | U+2C80..U+2CFF | Coptic | 128 | 123 | Coptic |
0 BMP | U+2D00..U+2D2F | Georgian Supplement | 48 | 40 | Georgian |
0 BMP | U+2D30..U+2D7F | Tifinagh | 80 | 59 | Tifinagh |
0 BMP | U+2D80..U+2DDF | Ethiopic Extended | 96 | 79 | Ethiopic |
0 BMP | U+2DE0..U+2DFF | Cyrillic Extended-A | 32 | 32 | Cyrillic |
0 BMP | U+2E00..U+2E7F | Supplemental Punctuation | 128 | 94 | Common |
0 BMP | U+2E80..U+2EFF | CJK Radicals Supplement | 128 | 115 | Han |
0 BMP | U+2F00..U+2FDF | Kangxi Radicals | 224 | 214 | Han |
0 BMP | U+2FF0..U+2FFF | Ideographic Description Characters | 16 | 16 | Common |
0 BMP | U+3000..U+303F | CJK Symbols and Punctuation | 64 | 64 | Han (15 characters), Hangul (2 characters), Common (43 characters), Inherited (4 characters) |
0 BMP | U+3040..U+309F | Hiragana | 96 | 93 | Hiragana (89 characters), Common (2 characters), Inherited (2 characters) |
0 BMP | U+30A0..U+30FF | Katakana | 96 | 96 | Katakana (93 characters), Common (3 characters) |
0 BMP | U+3100..U+312F | Bopomofo | 48 | 43 | Bopomofo |
0 BMP | U+3130..U+318F | Hangul Compatibility Jamo | 96 | 94 | Hangul |
0 BMP | U+3190..U+319F | Kanbun | 16 | 16 | Common |
0 BMP | U+31A0..U+31BF | Bopomofo Extended | 32 | 32 | Bopomofo |
0 BMP | U+31C0..U+31EF | CJK Strokes | 48 | 39 | Common |
0 BMP | U+31F0..U+31FF | Katakana Phonetic Extensions | 16 | 16 | Katakana |
0 BMP | U+3200..U+32FF | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months | 256 | 255 | Hangul (62 characters), Katakana (47 characters), Common (146 characters) |
0 BMP | U+3300..U+33FF | CJK Compatibility | 256 | 256 | Katakana (88 characters), Common (168 characters) |
0 BMP | U+3400..U+4DBF | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A | 6,592 | 6,592 | Han |
0 BMP | U+4DC0..U+4DFF | Yijing Hexagram Symbols | 64 | 64 | Common |
0 BMP | U+4E00..U+9FFF | CJK Unified Ideographs | 20,992 | 20,992 | Han |
0 BMP | U+A000..U+A48F | Yi Syllables | 1,168 | 1,165 | Yi |
0 BMP | U+A490..U+A4CF | Yi Radicals | 64 | 55 | Yi |
0 BMP | U+A4D0..U+A4FF | Lisu | 48 | 48 | Lisu |
0 BMP | U+A500..U+A63F | Vai | 320 | 300 | Vai |
0 BMP | U+A640..U+A69F | Cyrillic Extended-B | 96 | 96 | Cyrillic |
0 BMP | U+A6A0..U+A6FF | Bamum | 96 | 88 | Bamum |
0 BMP | U+A700..U+A71F | Modifier Tone Letters | 32 | 32 | Common |
0 BMP | U+A720..U+A7FF | Latin Extended-D | 224 | 199 | Latin (194 characters), Common (5 characters) |
0 BMP | U+A800..U+A82F | Syloti Nagri | 48 | 45 | Syloti Nagri |
0 BMP | U+A830..U+A83F | Common Indic Number Forms | 16 | 10 | Common |
0 BMP | U+A840..U+A87F | Phags-pa | 64 | 56 | Phags Pa |
0 BMP | U+A880..U+A8DF | Saurashtra | 96 | 82 | Saurashtra |
0 BMP | U+A8E0..U+A8FF | Devanagari Extended | 32 | 32 | Devanagari |
0 BMP | U+A900..U+A92F | Kayah Li | 48 | 48 | Kayah Li (47 characters), Common (1 character) |
0 BMP | U+A930..U+A95F | Rejang | 48 | 37 | Rejang |
0 BMP | U+A960..U+A97F | Hangul Jamo Extended-A | 32 | 29 | Hangul |
0 BMP | U+A980..U+A9DF | Javanese | 96 | 91 | Javanese (90 characters), Common (1 character) |
0 BMP | U+A9E0..U+A9FF | Myanmar Extended-B | 32 | 31 | Myanmar |
0 BMP | U+AA00..U+AA5F | Cham | 96 | 83 | Cham |
0 BMP | U+AA60..U+AA7F | Myanmar Extended-A | 32 | 32 | Myanmar |
0 BMP | U+AA80..U+AADF | Tai Viet | 96 | 72 | Tai Viet |
0 BMP | U+AAE0..U+AAFF | Meetei Mayek Extensions | 32 | 23 | Meetei Mayek |
0 BMP | U+AB00..U+AB2F | Ethiopic Extended-A | 48 | 32 | Ethiopic |
0 BMP | U+AB30..U+AB6F | Latin Extended-E | 64 | 60 | Latin (56 characters), Greek (1 character), Common (3 characters) |
0 BMP | U+AB70..U+ABBF | Cherokee Supplement | 80 | 80 | Cherokee |
0 BMP | U+ABC0..U+ABFF | Meetei Mayek | 64 | 56 | Meetei Mayek |
0 BMP | U+AC00..U+D7AF | Hangul Syllables | 11,184 | 11,172 | Hangul |
0 BMP | U+D7B0..U+D7FF | Hangul Jamo Extended-B | 80 | 72 | Hangul |
0 BMP | U+D800..U+DB7F | High Surrogates | 896 | 0 | Unknown |
0 BMP | U+DB80..U+DBFF | High Private Use Surrogates | 128 | 0 | Unknown |
0 BMP | U+DC00..U+DFFF | Low Surrogates | 1,024 | 0 | Unknown |
0 BMP | U+E000..U+F8FF | Private Use Area | 6,400 | 6,400 | Unknown |
0 BMP | U+F900..U+FAFF | CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 512 | 472 | Han |
0 BMP | U+FB00..U+FB4F | Alphabetic Presentation Forms | 80 | 58 | Armenian (5 characters), Hebrew (46 characters), Latin (7 characters) |
0 BMP | U+FB50..U+FDFF | Arabic Presentation Forms-A | 688 | 631 | Arabic (629 characters), Common (2 characters) |
0 BMP | U+FE00..U+FE0F | Variation Selectors | 16 | 16 | Inherited |
0 BMP | U+FE10..U+FE1F | Vertical Forms | 16 | 10 | Common |
0 BMP | U+FE20..U+FE2F | Combining Half Marks | 16 | 16 | Cyrillic (2 characters), Inherited (14 characters) |
0 BMP | U+FE30..U+FE4F | CJK Compatibility Forms | 32 | 32 | Common |
0 BMP | U+FE50..U+FE6F | Small Form Variants | 32 | 26 | Common |
0 BMP | U+FE70..U+FEFF | Arabic Presentation Forms-B | 144 | 141 | Arabic (140 characters), Common (1 character) |
0 BMP | U+FF00..U+FFEF | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | 240 | 225 | Hangul (52 characters), Katakana (55 characters), Latin (52 characters), Common (66 characters) |
0 BMP | U+FFF0..U+FFFF | Specials | 16 | 5 | Common |
1 SMP | U+10000..U+1007F | Linear B Syllabary | 128 | 88 | Linear B |
1 SMP | U+10080..U+100FF | Linear B Ideograms | 128 | 123 | Linear B |
1 SMP | U+10100..U+1013F | Aegean Numbers | 64 | 57 | Common |
1 SMP | U+10140..U+1018F | Ancient Greek Numbers | 80 | 79 | Greek |
1 SMP | U+10190..U+101CF | Ancient Symbols | 64 | 14 | Greek (1 character), Common (13 characters) |
1 SMP | U+101D0..U+101FF | Phaistos Disc | 48 | 46 | Common (45 characters), Inherited (1 character) |
1 SMP | U+10280..U+1029F | Lycian | 32 | 29 | Lycian |
1 SMP | U+102A0..U+102DF | Carian | 64 | 49 | Carian |
1 SMP | U+102E0..U+102FF | Coptic Epact Numbers | 32 | 28 | Common (27 characters), Inherited (1 character) |
1 SMP | U+10300..U+1032F | Old Italic | 48 | 39 | Old Italic |
1 SMP | U+10330..U+1034F | Gothic | 32 | 27 | Gothic |
1 SMP | U+10350..U+1037F | Old Permic | 48 | 43 | Old Permic |
1 SMP | U+10380..U+1039F | Ugaritic | 32 | 31 | Ugaritic |
1 SMP | U+103A0..U+103DF | Old Persian | 64 | 50 | Old Persian |
1 SMP | U+10400..U+1044F | Deseret | 80 | 80 | Deseret |
1 SMP | U+10450..U+1047F | Shavian | 48 | 48 | Shavian |
1 SMP | U+10480..U+104AF | Osmanya | 48 | 40 | Osmanya |
1 SMP | U+104B0..U+104FF | Osage | 80 | 72 | Osage |
1 SMP | U+10500..U+1052F | Elbasan | 48 | 40 | Elbasan |
1 SMP | U+10530..U+1056F | Caucasian Albanian | 64 | 53 | Caucasian Albanian |
1 SMP | U+10570..U+105BF | Vithkuqi | 80 | 70 | Vithkuqi |
1 SMP | U+105C0..U+105FF | Todhri | 64 | 52 | Todhri |
1 SMP | U+10600..U+1077F | Linear A | 384 | 341 | Linear A |
1 SMP | U+10780..U+107BF | Latin Extended-F | 64 | 57 | Latin |
1 SMP | U+10800..U+1083F | Cypriot Syllabary | 64 | 55 | Cypriot |
1 SMP | U+10840..U+1085F | Imperial Aramaic | 32 | 31 | Imperial Aramaic |
1 SMP | U+10860..U+1087F | Palmyrene | 32 | 32 | Palmyrene |
1 SMP | U+10880..U+108AF | Nabataean | 48 | 40 | Nabataean |
1 SMP | U+108E0..U+108FF | Hatran | 32 | 26 | Hatran |
1 SMP | U+10900..U+1091F | Phoenician | 32 | 29 | Phoenician |
1 SMP | U+10920..U+1093F | Lydian | 32 | 27 | Lydian |
1 SMP | U+10980..U+1099F | Meroitic Hieroglyphs | 32 | 32 | Meroitic Hieroglyphs |
1 SMP | U+109A0..U+109FF | Meroitic Cursive | 96 | 90 | Meroitic Cursive |
1 SMP | U+10A00..U+10A5F | Kharoshthi | 96 | 68 | Kharoshthi |
1 SMP | U+10A60..U+10A7F | Old South Arabian | 32 | 32 | Old South Arabian |
1 SMP | U+10A80..U+10A9F | Old North Arabian | 32 | 32 | Old North Arabian |
1 SMP | U+10AC0..U+10AFF | Manichaean | 64 | 51 | Manichaean |
1 SMP | U+10B00..U+10B3F | Avestan | 64 | 61 | Avestan |
1 SMP | U+10B40..U+10B5F | Inscriptional Parthian | 32 | 30 | Inscriptional Parthian |
1 SMP | U+10B60..U+10B7F | Inscriptional Pahlavi | 32 | 27 | Inscriptional Pahlavi |
1 SMP | U+10B80..U+10BAF | Psalter Pahlavi | 48 | 29 | Psalter Pahlavi |
1 SMP | U+10C00..U+10C4F | Old Turkic | 80 | 73 | Old Turkic |
1 SMP | U+10C80..U+10CFF | Old Hungarian | 128 | 108 | Old Hungarian |
1 SMP | U+10D00..U+10D3F | Hanifi Rohingya | 64 | 50 | Hanifi Rohingya |
1 SMP | U+10D40..U+10D8F | Garay | 80 | 69 | Garay |
1 SMP | U+10E60..U+10E7F | Rumi Numeral Symbols | 32 | 31 | Arabic |
1 SMP | U+10E80..U+10EBF | Yezidi | 64 | 47 | Yezidi |
1 SMP | U+10EC0..U+10EFF | Arabic Extended-C | 64 | 7 | Arabic |
1 SMP | U+10F00..U+10F2F | Old Sogdian | 48 | 40 | Old Sogdian |
1 SMP | U+10F30..U+10F6F | Sogdian | 64 | 42 | Sogdian |
1 SMP | U+10F70..U+10FAF | Old Uyghur | 64 | 26 | Old Uyghur |
1 SMP | U+10FB0..U+10FDF | Chorasmian | 48 | 28 | Chorasmian |
1 SMP | U+10FE0..U+10FFF | Elymaic | 32 | 23 | Elymaic |
1 SMP | U+11000..U+1107F | Brahmi | 128 | 115 | Brahmi |
1 SMP | U+11080..U+110CF | Kaithi | 80 | 68 | Kaithi |
1 SMP | U+110D0..U+110FF | Sora Sompeng | 48 | 35 | Sora Sompeng |
1 SMP | U+11100..U+1114F | Chakma | 80 | 71 | Chakma |
1 SMP | U+11150..U+1117F | Mahajani | 48 | 39 | Mahajani |
1 SMP | U+11180..U+111DF | Sharada | 96 | 96 | Sharada |
1 SMP | U+111E0..U+111FF | Sinhala Archaic Numbers | 32 | 20 | Sinhala |
1 SMP | U+11200..U+1124F | Khojki | 80 | 65 | Khojki |
1 SMP | U+11280..U+112AF | Multani | 48 | 38 | Multani |
1 SMP | U+112B0..U+112FF | Khudawadi | 80 | 69 | Khudawadi |
1 SMP | U+11300..U+1137F | Grantha | 128 | 86 | Grantha (85 characters), Inherited (1 character) |
1 SMP | U+11380..U+113FF | Tulu-Tigalari | 128 | 80 | Tulu Tigalari |
1 SMP | U+11400..U+1147F | Newa | 128 | 97 | Newa |
1 SMP | U+11480..U+114DF | Tirhuta | 96 | 82 | Tirhuta |
1 SMP | U+11580..U+115FF | Siddham | 128 | 92 | Siddham |
1 SMP | U+11600..U+1165F | Modi | 96 | 79 | Modi |
1 SMP | U+11660..U+1167F | Mongolian Supplement | 32 | 13 | Mongolian |
1 SMP | U+11680..U+116CF | Takri | 80 | 68 | Takri |
1 SMP | U+116D0..U+116FF | Myanmar Extended-C | 48 | 20 | Myanmar |
1 SMP | U+11700..U+1174F | Ahom | 80 | 65 | Ahom |
1 SMP | U+11800..U+1184F | Dogra | 80 | 60 | Dogra |
1 SMP | U+118A0..U+118FF | Warang Citi | 96 | 84 | Warang Citi |
1 SMP | U+11900..U+1195F | Dives Akuru | 96 | 72 | Dives Akuru |
1 SMP | U+119A0..U+119FF | Nandinagari | 96 | 65 | Nandinagari |
1 SMP | U+11A00..U+11A4F | Zanabazar Square | 80 | 72 | Zanabazar Square |
1 SMP | U+11A50..U+11AAF | Soyombo | 96 | 83 | Soyombo |
1 SMP | U+11AB0..U+11ABF | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A | 16 | 16 | Canadian Aboriginal |
1 SMP | U+11AC0..U+11AFF | Pau Cin Hau | 64 | 57 | Pau Cin Hau |
1 SMP | U+11B00..U+11B5F | Devanagari Extended-A | 96 | 10 | Devanagari |
1 SMP | U+11BC0..U+11BFF | Sunuwar | 64 | 44 | Sunuwar |
1 SMP | U+11C00..U+11C6F | Bhaiksuki | 112 | 97 | Bhaiksuki |
1 SMP | U+11C70..U+11CBF | Marchen | 80 | 68 | Marchen |
1 SMP | U+11D00..U+11D5F | Masaram Gondi | 96 | 75 | Masaram Gondi |
1 SMP | U+11D60..U+11DAF | Gunjala Gondi | 80 | 63 | Gunjala Gondi |
1 SMP | U+11EE0..U+11EFF | Makasar | 32 | 25 | Makasar |
1 SMP | U+11F00..U+11F5F | Kawi | 96 | 87 | Kawi |
1 SMP | U+11FB0..U+11FBF | Lisu Supplement | 16 | 1 | Lisu |
1 SMP | U+11FC0..U+11FFF | Tamil Supplement | 64 | 51 | Tamil |
1 SMP | U+12000..U+123FF | Cuneiform | 1,024 | 922 | Cuneiform |
1 SMP | U+12400..U+1247F | Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation | 128 | 116 | Cuneiform |
1 SMP | U+12480..U+1254F | Early Dynastic Cuneiform | 208 | 196 | Cuneiform |
1 SMP | U+12F90..U+12FFF | Cypro-Minoan | 112 | 99 | Cypro Minoan |
1 SMP | U+13000..U+1342F | Egyptian Hieroglyphs | 1,072 | 1,072 | Egyptian Hieroglyphs |
1 SMP | U+13430..U+1345F | Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls | 48 | 38 | Egyptian Hieroglyphs |
1 SMP | U+13460..U+143FF | Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A | 4,000 | 3,995 | Egyptian Hieroglyphs |
1 SMP | U+14400..U+1467F | Anatolian Hieroglyphs | 640 | 583 | Anatolian Hieroglyphs |
1 SMP | U+16100..U+1613F | Gurung Khema | 64 | 58 | Gurung Khema |
1 SMP | U+16800..U+16A3F | Bamum Supplement | 576 | 569 | Bamum |
1 SMP | U+16A40..U+16A6F | Mro | 48 | 43 | Mro |
1 SMP | U+16A70..U+16ACF | Tangsa | 96 | 89 | Tangsa |
1 SMP | U+16AD0..U+16AFF | Bassa Vah | 48 | 36 | Bassa Vah |
1 SMP | U+16B00..U+16B8F | Pahawh Hmong | 144 | 127 | Pahawh Hmong |
1 SMP | U+16D40..U+16D7F | Kirat Rai | 64 | 58 | Kirat Rai |
1 SMP | U+16E40..U+16E9F | Medefaidrin | 96 | 91 | Medefaidrin |
1 SMP | U+16F00..U+16F9F | Miao | 160 | 149 | Miao |
1 SMP | U+16FE0..U+16FFF | Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation | 32 | 7 | Han (4 characters), Khitan Small Script (1 character), Nushu (1 character), Tangut (1 character) |
1 SMP | U+17000..U+187FF | Tangut | 6,144 | 6,136 | Tangut |
1 SMP | U+18800..U+18AFF | Tangut Components | 768 | 768 | Tangut |
1 SMP | U+18B00..U+18CFF | Khitan Small Script | 512 | 471 | Khitan Small Script |
1 SMP | U+18D00..U+18D7F | Tangut Supplement | 128 | 9 | Tangut |
1 SMP | U+1AFF0..U+1AFFF | Kana Extended-B | 16 | 13 | Katakana |
1 SMP | U+1B000..U+1B0FF | Kana Supplement | 256 | 256 | Hiragana (255 characters), Katakana (1 character) |
1 SMP | U+1B100..U+1B12F | Kana Extended-A | 48 | 35 | Hiragana (32 characters), Katakana (3 characters) |
1 SMP | U+1B130..U+1B16F | Small Kana Extension | 64 | 9 | Hiragana (4 characters), Katakana (5 characters) |
1 SMP | U+1B170..U+1B2FF | Nushu | 400 | 396 | Nüshu |
1 SMP | U+1BC00..U+1BC9F | Duployan | 160 | 143 | Duployan |
1 SMP | U+1BCA0..U+1BCAF | Shorthand Format Controls | 16 | 4 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1CC00..U+1CEBF | Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement | 704 | 686 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1CF00..U+1CFCF | Znamenny Musical Notation | 208 | 185 | Common (116 characters), Inherited (69 characters) |
1 SMP | U+1D000..U+1D0FF | Byzantine Musical Symbols | 256 | 246 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1D100..U+1D1FF | Musical Symbols | 256 | 233 | Common (211 characters), Inherited (22 characters) |
1 SMP | U+1D200..U+1D24F | Ancient Greek Musical Notation | 80 | 70 | Greek |
1 SMP | U+1D2C0..U+1D2DF | Kaktovik Numerals | 32 | 20 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1D2E0..U+1D2FF | Mayan Numerals | 32 | 20 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1D300..U+1D35F | Tai Xuan Jing Symbols | 96 | 87 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1D360..U+1D37F | Counting Rod Numerals | 32 | 25 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1D400..U+1D7FF | Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols | 1,024 | 996 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1D800..U+1DAAF | Sutton SignWriting | 688 | 672 | SignWriting |
1 SMP | U+1DF00..U+1DFFF | Latin Extended-G | 256 | 37 | Latin |
1 SMP | U+1E000..U+1E02F | Glagolitic Supplement | 48 | 38 | Glagolitic |
1 SMP | U+1E030..U+1E08F | Cyrillic Extended-D | 96 | 63 | Cyrillic |
1 SMP | U+1E100..U+1E14F | Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong | 80 | 71 | Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong |
1 SMP | U+1E290..U+1E2BF | Toto | 48 | 31 | Toto |
1 SMP | U+1E2C0..U+1E2FF | Wancho | 64 | 59 | Wancho |
1 SMP | U+1E4D0..U+1E4FF | Nag Mundari | 48 | 42 | Mundari |
1 SMP | U+1E5D0..U+1E5FF | Ol Onal | 48 | 44 | Ol Onal |
1 SMP | U+1E7E0..U+1E7FF | Ethiopic Extended-B | 32 | 28 | Ethiopic |
1 SMP | U+1E800..U+1E8DF | Mende Kikakui | 224 | 213 | Mende Kikakui |
1 SMP | U+1E900..U+1E95F | Adlam | 96 | 88 | Adlam |
1 SMP | U+1EC70..U+1ECBF | Indic Siyaq Numbers | 80 | 68 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1ED00..U+1ED4F | Ottoman Siyaq Numbers | 80 | 61 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1EE00..U+1EEFF | Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols | 256 | 143 | Arabic |
1 SMP | U+1F000..U+1F02F | Mahjong Tiles | 48 | 44 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1F030..U+1F09F | Domino Tiles | 112 | 100 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1F0A0..U+1F0FF | Playing Cards | 96 | 82 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1F100..U+1F1FF | Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement | 256 | 200 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1F200..U+1F2FF | Enclosed Ideographic Supplement | 256 | 64 | Hiragana (1 character), Common (63 characters) |
1 SMP | U+1F300..U+1F5FF | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | 768 | 768 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1F600..U+1F64F | Emoticons | 80 | 80 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1F650..U+1F67F | Ornamental Dingbats | 48 | 48 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1F680..U+1F6FF | Transport and Map Symbols | 128 | 118 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1F700..U+1F77F | Alchemical Symbols | 128 | 124 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1F780..U+1F7FF | Geometric Shapes Extended | 128 | 103 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1F800..U+1F8FF | Supplemental Arrows-C | 256 | 162 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1F900..U+1F9FF | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs | 256 | 256 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1FA00..U+1FA6F | Chess Symbols | 112 | 98 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1FA70..U+1FAFF | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A | 144 | 114 | Common |
1 SMP | U+1FB00..U+1FBFF | Symbols for Legacy Computing | 256 | 249 | Common |
2 SIP | U+20000..U+2A6DF | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B | 42,720 | 42,720 | Han |
2 SIP | U+2A700..U+2B73F | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C | 4,160 | 4,154 | Han |
2 SIP | U+2B740..U+2B81F | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D | 224 | 222 | Han |
2 SIP | U+2B820..U+2CEAF | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E | 5,776 | 5,762 | Han |
2 SIP | U+2CEB0..U+2EBEF | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F | 7,488 | 7,473 | Han |
2 SIP | U+2EBF0..U+2EE5F | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I | 624 | 622 | Han |
2 SIP | U+2F800..U+2FA1F | CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement | 544 | 542 | Han |
3 TIP | U+30000..U+3134F | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G | 4,944 | 4,939 | Han |
3 TIP | U+31350..U+323AF | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H | 4,192 | 4,192 | Han |
14 SSP | U+E0000..U+E007F | Tags | 128 | 97 | Common |
14 SSP | U+E0100..U+E01EF | Variation Selectors Supplement | 240 | 240 | Inherited |
15 PUA-A | U+F0000..U+FFFFF | Supplementary Private Use Area-A | 65,536 | 65,534 | Unknown |
16 PUA-B | U+100000..U+10FFFF | Supplementary Private Use Area-B | 65,536 | 65,534 | Unknown |
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Moved blocks
[edit]The Unicode Stability Policy requires that a character, once assigned, may not be moved or removed, although it may be deprecated. This applies to Unicode 2.0 and all subsequent versions.
Prior to this, the following former blocks were moved:
Block range | Historical block name |
Version when added | Version when removed | Range now occupied by | Superseded by block | Code points | Assigned characters | Scripts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
U+1000..U+105F | Tibetan[5] | 1.0.0 | 1.0.1 | Myanmar | Tibetan | 96 | 71 | Tibetan |
U+3400..U+3D2D | Hangul[6] | 1.0.0 | 2.0 | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A | Hangul Syllables | 2350 | 2350 | Hangul |
U+3D2E..U+44B7 | Hangul Supplementary-A[6] | 1.1 | 2.0 | 1930 | 1930 | |||
U+44B8..U+4DFF | Hangul Supplementary-B[6] | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A and Yijing Hexagram Symbols | 2376 | 2376 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Unicode Blocks data file, Unicode version 15.1". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ^ "Glossary". www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ^ "Private-Use Characters, Noncharacters & Sentinels FAQ". www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
- ^ "Unicode Core Specification, Chapter 4: Character Properties" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-09-15.
- ^ "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Version 1.0. Unicode Consortium.
- ^ a b c "Appendix E: Block Names" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Version 1.1. Unicode Consortium.
External links
[edit]- Official website of the Unicode Consortium (in English)