In the

Unicode Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, ...

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

code point In character encoding terminology, a code point, codepoint or code position is a numerical value that maps to a specific character. Code points usually represent a single grapheme—usually a letter, digit, punctuation mark, or whitespace—bu ...

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 In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of 16. Unlike the decimal system representing numbers using 10 symbols, h ...

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 capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode (in fact this number of code points is dictated by the design of UTF-16). The encoding is variable-length, as cod ...

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

words A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or practical 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 conse ...

, plus the BMP as a single word.

UTF-8 UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from ''Unicode'' (or ''Universal Coded Character Set'') ''Transformation Format 8-bit''. UTF-8 is capable of ...

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 unit ...

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 ad ...

s, which, unlike planes, do not have a fixed size. The 327 blocks defined in Unicode cover 26% 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 very different co ...

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

writing Writing is a medium of human communication which involves the representation of a language through a system of physically Epigraphy, inscribed, Printing press, mechanically transferred, or Word processor, digitally represented Symbols (semiot ...

. 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 communications. 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 a ...

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

, leaving just 16 code points in a single unallocated range (2FE0..2FEF). , the BMP comprises the following 164 blocks: * 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 1 ...

: ISO/IEC 646:1991-IRV aka

ASCII ASCII ( ), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Because ...

) (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. Thi ...

(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 sign ...

(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 Palatalization may refer to: *Palatalizat ...

(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, act ...

(0300–036F) *

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

(0370–03FF) * Cyrillic (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 across the ...

(0530–058F) *

Aramaic The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, ܐܪܡܝܐ, Arāmāyā; oar, 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; arc, 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀; tmr, אֲרָמִית), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated i ...

Scripts: **

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

(0590–05FF) **

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...

(0600–06FF) **

Syriac Syriac may refer to: * Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic *Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region * Syriac alphabet ** Syriac (Unicode block) ** Syriac Supplement * Neo-Aramaic languages ...

(0700–074F) **

Arabic Supplement Arabic Supplement is a Unicode block that encodes Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in c ...

(0750–077F) **

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

(0780–07BF) **

N'Ko N'Ko () is a script devised by Solomana Kante in 1949, as a modern writing system for the Mandé languages of West Africa. The term ''N'Ko'', which means ''I say'' in all Mandé languages, is also used for the Mandé literary standard writt ...

(07C0–07FF) ** Samaritan (0800–083F) ** Mandaic (0840–085F) **

Syriac Supplement Syriac Supplement is a Unicode block containing supplementary Syriac letters used for writing the Suriyani Malayalam dialect. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characte ...

(0860–086F) ** Arabic Extended-B (0870–089F) **

Arabic Extended-A Arabic Extended-A is a Unicode block encoding Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages.The Unicode ConsortiumThe Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.0 (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. )Chapter 8/re ...

(08A0–08FF) *

Brahmic The Brahmic scripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugida writing systems. They are used throughout the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and parts of East Asia. They are descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India ...

scripts: **

Devanagari Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental writing system), based on the a ...

(0900–097F) **

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the ...

(0980–09FF) **

Gurmukhi Gurmukhī ( pa, ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ, , Shahmukhi: ) is an abugida developed from the Laṇḍā scripts, standardized and used by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad (1504–1552). It is used by Punjabi Sikhs to write the language, commonl ...

(0A00–0A7F) **

Gujarati Gujarati may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India * Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat * Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them * Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub- ...

(0A80–0AFF) ** Oriya (0B00–0B7F) **

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia ** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nati ...

(0B80–0BFF) **

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

(0C00–0C7F) **

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

(0C80–0CFF) **

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam wa ...

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

Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken diale ...

(0F00–0FFF) **

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

(1000–109F) * 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 Unicode 5.2.

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

Cherokee The Cherokee (; chr, ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯᎢ, translit=Aniyvwiyaʔi or Anigiduwagi, or chr, ᏣᎳᎩ, links=no, translit=Tsalagi) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, th ...

(13A0–13FF) *

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Canadian syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is a family of writing systems used in a number of Indigenous Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Inuit, and (formerly) Athabaskan language families. These languages had no formal writing sy ...

(1400–167F) *

Ogham Ogham (Modern Irish: ; mga, ogum, ogom, later mga, ogam, label=none ) 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 langua ...

(1680–169F) *

Runic Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised ...

(16A0–16FF) *

Philippine The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

scripts: **

Tagalog Tagalog may refer to: Language * Tagalog language, a language spoken in the Philippines ** Old Tagalog, an archaic form of the language ** Batangas Tagalog, a dialect of the language * Tagalog script, the writing system historically used for Tagal ...

(1700–171F) ** Hanunoo (1720–173F) ** Buhid (1740–175F) **

Tagbanwa The Tagbanwa people (Tagbanwa: ) are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Philippines, and can be mainly found in the central and northern Palawan. Research has shown that the Tagbanwa are possible descendants of the Tabon Man, thus making ...

(1760–177F) * Khmer (1780–17FF) * Mongolian (1800–18AF) *

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended is a Unicode block containing extensions to the Canadian syllabics contained in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Unicode block for some dialects of Cree, Ojibwe, Dene, and Carrier Carr ...

(18B0–18FF) *

scripts: ** Limbu (1900–194F) * Tai scripts: ** Tai Le (1950–197F) ** New Tai Lue (1980–19DF) **

Khmer Symbols Khmer 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 and documentation purpose ...

(19E0–19FF) ** Buginese (1A00–1A1F) ** Tai Tham (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 dialects. I ...

(1AB0–1AFF) *

Indonesian Indonesian is anything of, from, or related to Indonesia, an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It may refer to: * Indonesians, citizens of Indonesia ** Native Indonesians, diverse groups of local inhabitants of the archipelago ** Indonesia ...

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

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

(1BC0–1BFF) * Lepcha (1C00–1C4F) *

Ol Chiki The Ol Chiki () script, also known as Ol Chemetʼ (Santali: ''ol'' 'writing', ''chemet'' 'learning'), Ol Ciki, Ol, and sometimes as the Santali alphabet invented by Pandit Raghunath Murmu in the year 1925, is the official writing system for San ...

(1C50–1C7F) *

Cyrillic Extended-C Cyrillic Extended-C is a Unicode block containing Cyrillic characters for facsimile reprinting Old Believer Old Believers or Old Ritualists, ''starovery'' or ''staroobryadtsy'' are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ...

(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 The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems u ...

(1C90–1CBF) * Sundanese Supplement (1CC0–1CCF) *

Vedic Extensions Vedic Extensions is a Unicode block containing characters for representing tones and other vedic symbols in Devanagari and other Indic scripts. Related symbols (also used in many scripts to represent vedic accents) are defined in two other blocks ...

(1CD0–1CFF) * Latin 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 notation ...

(1D00–1D7F) **

Phonetic Extensions Supplement Phonetic Extensions Supplement is a Unicode block containing characters for specialized and deprecated forms of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defi ...

(1D80–1DBF) **

Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement is a Unicode block containing combining characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Medievalist notations, and German dialectology (Teuthonista). It is an extension of the diacritic characters found in the ...

(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 Diacritic, diacritical marks. Ninety of the characters are used in the Vietnamese alphabet. T ...

(1E00–1EFF) *

Greek Extended Greek Extended is a Unicode block containing the accented vowels necessary for writing polytonic Greek. The regular, unaccented Greek characters as well as the characters with tonos and diaeresis can be found in the Greek and Coptic block. ...

(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 very different co ...

: **

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 a ...

(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 may refer to: * Combine harvester use in agriculture * Combining capacity, in chemistry * Combining character, in digital typography * Combining form, in linguistics * Combining grapheme joiner, Unicode character that has no visible gl ...

(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 expl ...

(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 L ...

(2200–22FF) **

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

(2300–23FF) **

Control Pictures Control Pictures 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 ...

(2400–243F) **

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

(2440–245F) **

Enclosed Alphanumerics Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block of 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 Multilingual Plane, ...

(2460–24FF) ** Box Drawing (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 th ...

(2580–259F) **

Geometric Shapes Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF. U+25A0–U+25CF The BLACK CIRCLE is displayed when typing in a password field, in order to hide characters from a screen recorder or shoulder surfing. U ...

(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, tri ...

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

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-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 administrative and do ...

(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 s ...

(2980–29FF) **

Supplemental Mathematical Operators Supplemental Mathematical Operators is a Unicode block containing various mathematical symbols, including N-ary operators, summations and integrals, intersections and unions, logical and relational operators, and subset/superset relations. Block ...

(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 con ...

(2B00–2BFF) *

Glagolitic The Glagolitic script (, , ''glagolitsa'') is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed to have been created in the 9th century by Saint Cyril, a monk from Thessalonica. He and his brother Saint Methodius were sent by the Byzan ...

(2C00–2C5F) *

Latin Extended-C Latin Extended-C is a Unicode block containing Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as ...

(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 capitals encoded in the ...

(2D00–2D2F) *

Tifinagh Tifinagh ( Tuareg Berber language: or , ) is a script used to write the Berber languages. Tifinagh is descended from the ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet. The traditional Tifinagh, sometimes called Tuareg Tifinagh, is still favored by the Tua ...

(2D30–2D7F) *

Ethiopic Extended Ethiopic Extended is a Unicode block containing Geʽez Geez (; ' , and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient Ethiopian Semitic language. The language originates from what is now northern Ethi ...

(2D80–2DDF) * Cyrillic Extended-A (2DE0–2DFF) * Supplemental Punctuation (2E00–2E7F) * CJK scripts and symbols: **

CJK Radicals Supplement CJK Radicals Supplement is a Unicode block containing alternative, often positional, forms of the Kangxi radicals The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters. The radical ...

(2E80–2EFF) **

Kangxi Radicals The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters. The radicals are numbered in stroke count order. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order Traditi ...

(2F00–2FDF) **

Ideographic Description Characters Ideographic Description Characters is a Unicode block containing graphic characters used for describing CJK ideographs. They are used in Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) to provide a description of an ideograph, in terms of what other id ...

(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'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" ori ...

(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 f ...

(30A0–30FF) **

Bopomofo Bopomofo (), or Mandarin Phonetic Symbols, also named Zhuyin (), is a Chinese transliteration system for Mandarin Chinese and other related languages and dialects. More commonly used in Taiwanese Mandarin, it may also be used to transcribe ...

(3100–312F) **

Hangul Compatibility Jamo Hangul Compatibility Jamo is a Unicode block containing Hangul characters for compatibility with the South Korean national standard KS X 1001 KS X 1001, "''Code for Information Interchange (Hangul and Hanja)''", formerly called KS C 5601, ...

(3130–318F) **

Kanbun A is a form of Classical Chinese used in Japan from the Nara period to the mid-20th century. Much of Japanese literature was written in this style and it was the general writing style for official and intellectual works throughout the period. A ...

(3190–319F) **

Bopomofo Extended Bopomofo Extended is a Unicode block containing additional Bopomofo characters for writing phonetic Min Nan, Hakka Chinese, Cantonese, Hmu, and Ge. The basic set of Bopomofo characters can be found in the Bopomofo Bopomofo (), or Mandari ...

(31A0–31BF) **

CJK Strokes CJK strokes () are the calligraphic strokes needed to write the Chinese characters in regular script used in East Asian calligraphy. CJK strokes are the classified set of line patterns that may be arranged and combined to form Chinese characte ...

(31C0–31EF) ** Katakana Phonetic Extensions (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 ...

(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 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 administrative and doc ...

(3400–4DBF) **

Yijing Hexagram Symbols Yijing Hexagram Symbols is a Unicode block containing the 64 hexagrams from the ''I Ching''. History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Yijing Hexagram Symbols block: ...

(4DC0–4DFF) **

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 ...

(4E00–9FFF) *

Yi Syllables Yi Syllables 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. ...

(A000–A48F) *

Yi Radicals Yi Radicals is a Unicode block containing radical (Chinese character), character elements used for organizing Yi language, Yi dictionaries in the standard Liangshan Yi script. List of radicals Block History The following Unicode-related docume ...

(A490–A4CF) *

Lisu Lisu may refer to: *Lisu people, an ethnic group of Southeast Asia *Lisu language, spoken by the Lisu people * Old Lisu Alphabet or Fraser Alphabet *Lisu syllabary *Lisu (Unicode block), the block of Unicode characters for the Lisu language. * Lisu ...

(A4D0–A4FF) * Vai (A500–A63F) *

Cyrillic Extended-B Cyrillic Extended-B 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 ...

(A640–A69F) *

Bamum Bamum, also spelled Bamoum, Bamun, or Bamoun, may refer to: *The Bamum people *The Bamum kingdom *The Bamum language *The Bamum script The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by Ibrahim Njoya, ...

(A6A0–A6FF) *

Modifier Tone Letters Modifier Tone Letters is a Unicode block containing tone markings for Chinese, Chinantec, Africanist, and other phonetic transcriptions. It does not contain the standard IPA tone marks, which are found in Spacing Modifier Letters. are used to m ...

(A700–A71F) *

Latin Extended-D Latin Extended-D is a Unicode block containing Latin characters for phonetic, Mayanist, and Medieval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, simi ...

(A720–A7FF) *

scripts: **

Syloti Nagri Sylheti Nagri or Sylheti Nagari ( syl, , ISO: , ), known in classical manuscripts as Sylhet Nagri (, ''Sileṭ Nagri'') amongst many other names (see below), was an Indic script used to write the Sylheti language and Eastern Bengali languages. ...

(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 Hangul Jamo Extended-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 administrative and documentation ...

(A960–A97F) *

scripts: ** Javanese (A980–A9DF) ** Myanmar Extended-B (A9E0–A9FF) **

Cham Cham or CHAM may refer to: Ethnicities and languages *Chams, people in Vietnam and Cambodia **Cham language, the language of the Cham people ***Cham script *** Cham (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Cham script *Cham Albania ...

(AA00–AA5F) ** Myanmar Extended-A (AA60–AA7F) ** Tai Viet (AA80–AADF) **

Meetei Mayek Extensions Meetei Mayek Extensions 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 ...

(AAE0–AAFF) *

Ethiopic Extended-A Ethiopic Extended-A is a Unicode block containing Geʽez Geez (; ' , and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient Ethiopian Semitic language. The language originates from what is now northern Et ...

(AB00–AB2F) *

Latin Extended-E Latin Extended-E is a Unicode block containing Latin script characters used in German dialectology (Teuthonista Teuthonista is a phonetic transcription system used predominantly for the transcription of (High) German dialects. It is very s ...

(AB30–AB6F) * Cherokee Supplement (AB70–ABBF) *

Meetei Mayek ) , altname = , type = Abugida , languages = Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language) , region = * Manipur , sample = "Meitei Mayek" (literally meaning "Meitei script" in Meitei language) writte ...

(ABC0–ABFF) *

Hangul Syllables Hangul Syllables is a Unicode block containing precomposed Hangul syllable blocks for modern Korean. The syllables can be directly mapped by algorithm to sequences of two or three characters in the Hangul Jamo Unicode block: * one of U+1100–U+ ...

(AC00–D7AF) *

Hangul Jamo Extended-B Hangul Jamo Extended-B 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 ...

(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 ...

: ** 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 Unicode Consortium. Three private use areas are defined: one in the Basic Multilingual Plane (), and one each in, and nearl ...

(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 Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a Unicode block encoding contextual forms and ligatures of letter variants needed for Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Central Asian languages. This block also allocates 32 noncharacters in Unicode, designed specifically f ...

(FB50–FDFF) *

Variation Selectors Variation Selectors is the block name of a Unicode code point block containing 16 variation selectors. Each variation selector is used to specify a specific glyph variant for a preceding character. They are currently used to specify standardiz ...

(FE00–FE0F) *

Vertical Forms Vertical Forms is a Unicode block containing vertical punctuation for compatibility characters with the Chinese Standard GB 18030 GB 18030 is a Chinese government standard, described as ''Information Technology — Chinese coded character ...

(FE10–FE1F) *

Combining Half Marks Combining Half Marks is a Unicode block containing diacritical combining characters for spanning multiple characters. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the ...

(FE20–FE2F) *

CJK Compatibility Forms CJK Compatibility Forms is a Unicode block containing vertical glyph variants for east Asian compatibility. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was CNS 11643 Compatibility, in reference to CNS 11643. History The following Unicode-related documents ...

(FE30–FE4F) * Small Form Variants (FE50–FE6F) *

Arabic Presentation Forms-B Arabic Presentation Forms-B is a Unicode block encoding spacing forms of Arabic diacritics, and contextual letter forms. The special codepoint ZWNBSP is also here, which is only meant for a byte order mark The byte order mark (BOM) is a parti ...

(FE70–FEFF) *

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms In CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) computing, graphic characters are traditionally classed into fullwidth (in Taiwan and Hong Kong: 全形; in CJK: 全角) and halfwidth (in Taiwan and Hong Kong: 半形; in CJK: 半角) characters. Unlike ...

(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,

Egyptian hieroglyphs Egyptian hieroglyphs (, ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with some 1,000 distinct characters.There were about 1, ...

, and

cuneiform Cuneiform is a logo- syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedg ...

scripts. It also includes English reform orthographies like Shavian and Deseret, and some modern scripts like

Osage The Osage Nation, a Native American tribe in the United States, is the source of most other terms containing the word "osage". Osage can also refer to: * Osage language, a Dhaegin language traditionally spoken by the Osage Nation * Osage (Unicode ...

, Warang Citi, Adlam, Wancho and

Toto Toto may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters Pets * Toto (Oz), Toto (''Oz''), a dog in the novel and film ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' * Toto, in Japanese ''The Cat Returns#Plot, The Cat Returns'' Characters of agency * a ...

. Symbols and notations include historic and modern

musical notation Music notation or musical notation is any system used to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice through the use of written, printed, or otherwise-produced symbols, including notation fo ...

; 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 emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed convers ...

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 ...

mahjong Mahjong or mah-jongg (English pronunciation: ) 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 commonly played by four players (with some three-pl ...

, and

dominoes Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces, commonly known as dominoes. 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 ca ...

. , the SMP comprises the following 151 blocks: *

Archaic Greek Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from circa 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period. In the archaic period, Greeks settled across the M ...

and Other Left-to-right scripts: **

Linear B Syllabary Linear B Syllabary is a Unicode block containing characters for the syllabic writing of Mycenaean Greek. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Linear B Sy ...

(10000–1007F) ** Linear B Ideograms (10080–100FF) **

Aegean Numbers Aegean numbers was an additive sign-value numeral system used by the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. They are attested in Linear A and Linear B scripts. They may have survived in the Cypro-Minoan script, where a single sign with "100" ...

(10100–1013F) **

Ancient Greek Numbers Ancient Greek Numbers is a Unicode block containing acrophonic numerals used in ancient Greece, including ligatures Ligature may refer to: * Ligature (medicine), a piece of suture used to shut off a blood vessel or other anatomical structure * ...

(10140–1018F) **

Ancient Symbols Ancient Symbols is a Unicode block containing Roman characters for currency, weights, and measures. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ancient Symbols blo ...

(10190–101CF) **

Phaistos Disc The Phaistos Disc (also spelled Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc) is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan civilization, Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (second millennium BC). ...

(101D0–101FF) ** Lycian (10280–1029F) **

Carian The Carian language is an extinct language of the Luwic subgroup of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. The Carian language was spoken in Caria, a region of western Anatolia between the ancient regions of Lycia and Lydia, ...

(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 Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

(10330–1034F) **

Old Permic The Old Permic script ( kv, Важ Перым гижӧм, 𐍮𐍐‎𐍕 𐍟‎𐍔‎𐍠𐍨𐍜 𐍒‎𐍣‎𐍕𐍩𐍜‎, ''Važ Perym gužom''), sometimes known by its initial 2 characters as Abur or Anbur, is a "highly idiosyncratic ad ...

(10350–1037F) **

Ugaritic Ugaritic () is an extinct Northwest Semitic language, classified by some as a dialect of the Amorite language and so the only known Amorite dialect preserved in writing. It is known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeolog ...

(10380–1039F) **

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

(103A0–103DF) ** Deseret (10400–1044F) ** Shavian (10450–1047F) ** Osmanya (10480–104AF) **

(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 central ...

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

Linear A Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 to 1450 BC to write the hypothesized Minoan language or languages. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civi ...

(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 In ...

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

Cypriot Syllabary The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from about the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE, when it was replaced by the Greek alphabet. A pioneer of that change was King Evagoras of Salamis. It is descended f ...

(10800–1083F) **

Imperial Aramaic Imperial Aramaic is a linguistic term, coined by modern scholars in order to designate a specific historical variety of Aramaic language. The term is polysemic, with two distinctive meanings, wider (sociolinguistic) and narrower ( dialectologic ...

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

Nabataean The Nabataeans or Nabateans (; Nabataean Aramaic: , , vocalized as ; Arabic: , , singular , ; compare grc, Ναβαταῖος, translit=Nabataîos; la, Nabataeus) were an ancient Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the southern Le ...

(10880–108AF) ** Hatran (108E0–108FF) ** Phoenician (10900–1091F) ** Lydian (10920–1093F) **

Meroitic Hieroglyphs The Meroitic script consists of two alphasyllabic scripts developed to write the Meroitic language at the beginning of the Meroitic Period (3rd century BC) of the Kingdom of Kush. The two scripts are Meroitic Cursive, derived from Demotic Egypt ...

(10980–1099F) **

Meroitic Cursive The Meroitic script consists of two alphasyllabic scripts developed to write the Meroitic language at the beginning of the Meroitic Period (3rd century BC) of the Kingdom of Kush. The two scripts are Meroitic Cursive, derived from Demotic Egyp ...

(109A0–109FF) **

Kharoshthi The Kharoṣṭhī script, also spelled Kharoshthi (Kharosthi: ), was an ancient Indo-Iranian script used by various Aryan peoples in north-western regions of the Indian subcontinent, more precisely around present-day northern Pakistan and ...

(10A00–10A5F) **

Old South Arabian Old South Arabian (or Ṣayhadic or Yemenite) is a group of four closely related extinct languages spoken in the far southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. They were written in the Ancient South Arabian script. There were a number of ot ...

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

Manichaean Manichaeism (; in New Persian ; ) is a former major religionR. van den Broek, Wouter J. Hanegraaff ''Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times''SUNY Press, 1998 p. 37 founded in the 3rd century AD by the Parthian prophet Mani (A ...

(10AC0–10AFF) **

Avestan Avestan (), or historically Zend, is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages: Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd millennium BCE) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BCE). They are known only from their conjoined use as the scri ...

(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 Arsacid ...

(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 Psalte ...

(10B80–10BAF) **

Old Turkic Old Turkic (also East Old Turkic, Orkhon Turkic language, Old Uyghur) is the earliest attested form of the Turkic languages, found in Göktürk and Uyghur Khaganate inscriptions dating from about the eighth to the 13th century. It is the ...

(10C00–10C4F) ** Old Hungarian (10C80–10CFF) ** Hanifi Rohingya (10D00–10D3F) **

Rumi Numeral Symbols Rumi Numeral Symbols is a Unicode block containing numeric characters used in Fez, Morocco Fez or Fes (; ar, فاس, fās; zgh, ⴼⵉⵣⴰⵣ, fizaz; french: Fès) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès, ...

(10E60–10E7F) **

Yezidi Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The maj ...

(10E80–10EBF) **

Arabic Extended-C Arabic Extended-C is a Unicode block encoding Qur'anic marks used in Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental co ...

(10EC0–10EFF) ** Old Sogdian (10F00–10F2F) ** Sogdian (10F30–10F6F) **

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

(10F70–10FAF) ** Chorasmian (10FB0–10FDF) **

Elymaic The Elymaic alphabet is a right-to-left, non-joining abjad. It is derived from the Aramaic alphabet. Elymaic was used in the ancient state of Elymais, which was a vassal state, semi-independent state of the 2nd century BCE to the early 3rd century C ...

(10FE0–10FFF) *

scripts: **

Brahmi Brahmi (; ; ISO: ''Brāhmī'') is a writing system of ancient South Asia. "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' o ...

(11000–1107F) **

Kaithi Kaithi (), also called Kayathi () or Kayasthi (), is a historical Brahmic script that was used widely in parts of Northern and Eastern India, primarily in the present-day states of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar. In particular, it was ...

(11080–110CF) ** Sora Sompeng (110D0–110FF) **

Chakma Chakma may refer to: *Chakma people, a Tibeto-Burman people of Bangladesh and Northeast India *Chakma language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them **Chakma script ***Chakma (Unicode block) Chakma is a Unicode block containing characters for ...

(11100–1114F) **

Mahajani Mahajani is a Laṇḍā mercantile script that was historically used in northern India for writing accounts and financial records in Marwari, Hindi and Punjabi. It is a Brahmic script and is written left-to-right. Mahajani refers to the Hin ...

(11150–1117F) ** Sharada (11180–111DF) ** Sinhala Archaic Numbers (111E0–111FF) **

Khojki Khojkī, Khojakī, or Khwājā Sindhī ( sd, خوجڪي ( 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 ...

(11200–1124F) ** Multani (11280–112AF) ** Khudawadi (112B0–112FF) ** Grantha (11300–1137F) **

Newa Newar (), or Newari and known officially in Nepal as Nepal Bhasa, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Newar people, the indigenous inhabitants of Nepal Mandala, which consists of the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding regions in Ne ...

(11400–1147F) **

Tirhuta The Tirhuta or Maithili script is the primary historical script for the Maithili language, as well as one of the historical scripts for Sanskrit. It is believed to have originated in the 10th century CE. It is very similar to Bengali–Assa ...

(11480–114DF) ** Siddham (11580–115FF) ** Modi (11600–1165F) ** Mongolian Supplement (11660–1167F) **

Takri The Tākri script (Takri ( Chamba): ; Takri (Jammu/Dogra): ; sometimes called Tankri ) is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts. It is derived from the Sharada script formerly employed for Kashmiri. It is the sister script ...

(11680–116CF) ** Ahom (11700–1174F) **

Dogra The Dogras or Dogra people, are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group in India and Pakistan consisting of the Dogri language speakers. They live predominantly in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, and in adjoining areas of Punjab, Himac ...

(11800–1184F) ** Warang Citi (118A0–118FF) **

Dives Akuru Dhives Akuru, later called Dhivehi Akuru (meaning "letters" letters) is a script formerly used for the Maldivian language. The name can be alternatively spelled Dives Akuru or Divehi Akuru, as the "d" is unaspirated. History Dhives Akuru de ...

(11900–1195F) **

Nandinagari Nandinagari is a Brahmic script derived from the Nāgarī script which appeared in the 7th century AD.George Cardona and Danesh Jain (2003), The Indo-Aryan Languages, Routledge, , page 75 This script and its variants were used in the central Dec ...

(119A0–119FF) ** Zanabazar Square (11A00–11A4F) ** Soyombo (11A50–11AAF) *

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A is a Unicode block containing extensions to the Canadian syllabics contained in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Unicode block. The extension adds missing characters for Nattilik and hi ...

(11AB0–11ABF) * Brahmic scripts: **

Pau Cin Hau Pau Cin Hau is the founder and the name of a religion followed by some Tedim, Hakha in Chin state and Kale in Sagaing division in the north-western part of Myanmar. Pau Cin Hau was born in the Tedim (Tiddim) in 1859; and lived until 1948. He st ...

(11AC0–11AFF) ** Devanagari Extended-A (11B00–11B5F) ** Bhaiksuki (11C00–11C6F) ** Marchen (11C70–11CBF) ** Masaram Gondi (11D00–11D5F) ** Gunjala Gondi (11D60–11DAF) **

Makasar Makassar (, mak, ᨆᨀᨔᨑ, Mangkasara’, ) is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. It is the largest city in the region of Eastern Indonesia and the country's fifth-largest urban center after Jakarta, Surabaya, Med ...

(11EE0–11EFF) **

Kawi Kawi may refer to: * Kawi language, oldest attested phase of the Javanese language * Kawi script, writing system used across Southeast Asia from the 8th century to around 1500 AD ::Kawi (Unicode block), the script in Unicode * Mount Kawi, a volcano ...

(11F00–11F5F) *

Lisu Supplement Lisu Supplement is a Unicode block containing supplementary characters of the Fraser alphabet, which is used to write the Lisu language. This is a supplement to the main Lisu block, with currently only a single character used for the Naxi langua ...

(11FB0–11FBF) *

Tamil Supplement Tamil Supplement is a Unicode block containing Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia ** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians ...

(11FC0–11FFF) *

Cuneiform Cuneiform is a logo- syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedg ...

(12000–123FF) *

Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation In Unicode, the Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform script is covered in three blocks in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP): * U+12000–U+123FF Cuneiform * U+12400–U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation * U+12480–U+1254F Ear ...

(12400–1247F) *

Early Dynastic Cuneiform Early Dynastic Cuneiform is the name of a Unicode block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP), at U+12480–U+1254F, introduced in version 8.0 (June 2015). It is a supplement to the earlier encoding of the cuneiform script in th ...

(12480–1254F) *

Cypro-Minoan The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM) is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus during the late Bronze Age (c. 1550–1050 BC). The term "Cypro-Minoan" was coined by Arthur Evans in 1909 based on its visual similarity to Linear A on ...

(12F90–12FFF) *

Egyptian Hieroglyphs Egyptian hieroglyphs (, ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with some 1,000 distinct characters.There were about 1, ...

(13000–1342F) * Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls (13430–1345F) *

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, not Hittite, and the ter ...

(14400–1467F) * Bamum Supplement (16800–16A3F) * Mro (16A40–16A6F) * Tangsa (16A70–16ACF) * Bassa Vah (16AD0–16AFF) *

Pahawh Hmong Pahawh Hmong ( RPA: Phaj hauj Hmoob , Pahawh: ; known also as ''Ntawv Pahawh, Ntawv Keeb, Ntawv Caub Fab, Ntawv Soob Lwj'') is an indigenous semi-syllabic script, invented in 1959 by Shong Lue Yang, to write two Hmong languages, Hmong Daw ''(H ...

(16B00–16B8F) *

Medefaidrin Medefaidrin (Medefidrin), or ', is a constructed language and script created as a Christian sacred language by an Ibibio congregation in 1930s Nigeria. It has its roots in glossolalia ('speaking in tongues'). History Speakers consider Medefa ...

(16E40–16E9F) * Miao (16F00–16F9F) *

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 ...

(16FE0–16FFF) * Tangut (17000–187FF) *

Tangut Components Tangut Components is a Unicode block containing components and radicals used in the modern study of the Tangut script. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the ...

(18800–18AFF) *

Khitan Small Script The Khitan small script () was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language (the other was the Khitan large script). It was used during the 10th–12th century by the Khitan people, who had created the Liao Empire in presen ...

(18B00–18CFF) *

Tangut Supplement Tangut Supplement is a Unicode block containing characters from the Tangut script, which was used for writing the Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people in the Western Xia Empire, and in China during the Yuan dynasty and early Ming dynasty. ...

(18D00–18D7F) * Kana Extended-B (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 Unico ...

(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 History The following Uni ...

(1B130–1B16F) * Nushu (1B170–1B2FF) * Duployan (1BC00–1BC9F) * Shorthand Format Controls (1BCA0–1BCAF) *

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Musical notation Music notation or musical notation is any system used to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice through the use of written, printed, or otherwise-produced symbols, including notation fo ...

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Znamenny Musical Notation Znamenny Musical Notation is a Unicode block containing characters for Znamenny musical notation from Russia. Few fonts support this block as of 2021. Ones that do and are free for personal use include '' Symbola'' 14.0 and Slavonic' 1.00 (non ...

(1CF00–1CFCF) ***

Byzantine Musical Symbols Byzantine Musical Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Byzantine-era musical notation. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Byza ...

(1D000–1D0FF) ***

Musical Symbols Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or ...

(1D100–1D1FF) ***

Ancient Greek Musical Notation Ancient Greek Musical Notation 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 docume ...

(1D200–1D24F) **

Kaktovik Numerals The Kaktovik numerals or Kaktovik Iñupiaq numerals are a base-20 system of numerical digits created by Alaskan Iñupiat. They are visually iconic, with shapes that indicate the number being represented. The Iñupiaq language has a base-20 ...

(1D2C0–1D2DF) **

Mayan Numerals The Mayan numeral system was the system to represent numbers and calendar dates in the Maya civilization. It was a vigesimal (base-20) positional numeral system. The numerals are made up of three symbols; zero (a shell), one (a dot) and ...

(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 formula ...

: *** Tai Xuan Jing Symbols (1D300–1D35F) ***

Counting Rod Numerals Counting Rod Numerals is a Unicode block containing traditional Chinese counting rod symbols, which mathematicians used for calculation in ancient China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. The orientation of the Unicode characters follows Song dynasty co ...

(1D360–1D37F) ***

Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block comprising styled forms of Latin and Greek letters and decimal digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different letter styles. The letters in various fonts ofte ...

(1D400–1D7FF) ** Sutton SignWriting (1D800–1DAAF) * Latin Extended-G (1DF00–1DFFF) * Glagolitic Supplement (1E000–1E02F) *

Cyrillic Extended-D Cyrillic Extended-D is a Unicode block containing superscript and subscript Cyrillic characters used in Cyrillic-based phonetic transcription. The block contains the first Cyrillic characters defined outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane In ...

(1E030–1E08F) *

Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong ( Hmong: ; RPA: ''Ntawv Nyiajkeeb Puajtxwm Hmoob'') is an alphabet script devised for White Hmong and Green Hmong in the 1980s by Reverend Chervang Kong for use within his United Christians Liberty Evangelical Church. T ...

(1E100–1E14F) *

(1E290–1E2BF) * Wancho (1E2C0–1E2FF) * Nag Mundari (1E4D0–1E4FF) * Ethiopic Extended-B (1E7E0–1E7FF) * Mende Kikakui (1E800–1E8DF) * Adlam (1E900–1E95F) *

: ** Indic Siyaq Numbers (1EC70–1ECBF) ** Ottoman Siyaq Numbers (1ED00–1ED4F) ** Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols (1EE00–1EEFF) ** Game tiles and cards: ***

Mahjong Tiles Mahjong tiles () are tiles of Chinese origin that are used to play mahjong as well as mahjong solitaire and other games. Although they are most commonly tiles, they may refer to playing cards with similar contents as well. Development Th ...

(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 fi ...

(1F0A0–1F0FF) ** Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (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 fr ...

(1F300–1F5FF) **

Emoticons An emoticon (, , rarely , ), short for "emotion icon", also known simply as an emote, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers, and letters—to express a person's feelings ...

(1F600–1F64F) **

Ornamental Dingbats Ornamental Dingbats is a Unicode block containing ornamental leaves, punctuation, and ampersands, quilt squares, and checkerboard patterns. It is a subset of dingbat fonts Webdings, Wingdings, and Wingdings 2. History The following Unicode-r ...

(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 chara ...

(1F680–1F6FF) **

Alchemical Symbols Alchemical symbols, originally devised as part of alchemy, were used to denote some elements and some compounds until the 18th century. Although notation like this was mostly standardized, style and symbol varied between alchemists, so this pag ...

(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 font weight, weights of variously spoked asterisks, Star (glyph), stars, and various colo ...

(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 pu ...

(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 Supplemen ...

(1F900–1F9FF) **

Chess Symbols Chess Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for fairy chess and related notations beyond the basic Western chess symbols in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, as well as symbols representing game pieces for xiangqi ''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 Aqu ...

(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 six blocks: * CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B (20000–2A6DF) *

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C __FORCETOC__ CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C is a Unicode block containing rare and historic CJK ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. The block has dozens of ideographic variation sequences registered in the Unicod ...

(2A700–2B73F) *

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D 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 doc ...

(2B740–2B81F) *

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E is a Unicode block containing rare and historic CJK ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. The block has dozens of ideographic variation sequences registered in the Unicode Ideographic Vari ...

(2B820–2CEAF) * CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F (2CEB0–2EBEF) * 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 an ancient form of Chinese characters that were engraved on oracle bonesanimal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromantic divination. Oracle bone script was used in the late 2nd millennium BC, and is the earliest kno ...

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Small Seal Script The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by the government of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Chinese Qin dynasty. Name ...

. , 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 hexadecimal) is designated as the Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (SSP). It comprises the following two blocks, : * Tags (E0000–E007F) * Variation Selectors Supplement (E0100–E01EF) – used to indicate alternate glyphs for characters.

Private Use Area Planes

The two planes 15 and 16 (planes and in hexadecimal) 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 character encoding).

References

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Plane Plane(s) most often refers to: * Aero- or airplane, a powered, fixed-wing aircraft * Plane (geometry), a flat, 2-dimensional surface Plane or planes may also refer to: Biology * Plane (tree) or ''Platanus'', wetland native plant * ''Planes'' ...