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CJK Symbols and Punctuation is a
See also General Punctuation, for variation selectors and CJK behaviour of the Latin quotation marks ‘...’ and “...”.
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 logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of the four independently invented writing systems accepted by scholars, they represent the only on ...
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Block
The block has variation sequences defined for East Asian punctuation positional variants. They use (VS01) and (VS02):Orientation
Quotation marks and other punctuation have expected differences in behaviour in vertical and horizontal text. The quotation marks 「...」, 『...』 and 〝...〟 rotate 90 degrees, as follows:
See also General Punctuation, for variation selectors and CJK behaviour of the Latin quotation marks ‘...’ and “...”.
Chinese character
The CJK Symbols and Punctuation block contains oneChinese character
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of the four independently invented writing systems accepted by scholars, they represent the only on ...
: . 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 twoemoji
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 ...
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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: *U+3004 IDEOGRAPHIC DITTO MARK was merged with U+4EDD (仝) in theCJK 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 ...
block, freeing up code point U+3004
*U+32FF JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL STANDARD SYMBOL was moved from the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months 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
* Hangul Jamo (Unicode block) * Ideographic Symbols and PunctuationReferences
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