CJK Symbols and Punctuation 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 symbols and punctuation used for writing the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. It also contains one
Chinese character
Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as ''kanji' ...
.
Block
The block has
variation sequences defined for East Asian punctuation positional variants. They use (VS01) and (VS02):
Chinese character
The CJK Symbols and Punctuation block contains one
Chinese character
Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as ''kanji' ...
: . Although it is not covered under "Unified Ideographs", it is treated as a CJK character for all other intents and purposes.
Emoji
The CJK Symbols and Punctuation block contains two
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 emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conv ...
:
U+3030 and U+303D.
The block has four
standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the
two emoji, both of which default to a text presentation.
History
In Unicode 1.0.1, two changes were made to this block in order to make Unicode 1.0.1 a proper subset of
ISO 10646
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:
*U+3004 IDEOGRAPHIC DITTO MARK was merged with U+4EDD (仝) in the
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 ...
block, freeing up code point U+3004
*U+32FF JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL STANDARD SYMBOL was moved from the
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 ...
block to U+3004 (〄)
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block:
See also
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Hangul Jamo (Unicode block)
Hangul Jamo ( ko, 한글 자모, ) is a Unicode block containing positional (''choseong'', ''jungseong'', and ''jongseong'') forms of the Hangul consonant and vowel clusters. They can be used to dynamically compose syllables that are not avail ...
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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 definin ...
References
{{CJK ideographs in Unicode
Unicode blocks
Punctuation
Chinese-language computing
Japanese-language computing
Korean-language computing