CJK Compatibility Ideographs

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CJK Compatibility Ideographs
RangeU+F900..U+FAFF
(512 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Han
Assigned472 code points
Unused40 reserved code points
Source standards KS X 1001
Big5
IBM 32
JIS X 0213
ARIB STD-B24
KPS 10721-2000
Unicode version history
1.0.1 (1992)302 (+302)
3.2 (2002)361 (+59)
4.1 (2005)467 (+106)
5.2 (2009)470 (+3)
6.1 (2012)472 (+2)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]
Range was initially part of the Private Use Area in Unicode 1.0.0, [3] and removed from it in Unicode 1.0.1.

CJK Compatibility Ideographs is a Unicode block created to contain mostly Han characters that were encoded in multiple locations in other established character encodings, in addition to their CJK Unified Ideographs assignments, in order to retain round-trip compatibility between Unicode and those encodings. However, it also contains 12 unified ideographs sourced from Japanese character sets from IBM.

Contents

The block has dozens of ideographic variation sequences registered in the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (IVD). [4] [5] These sequences specify the desired glyph variant for a given Unicode character.

Character sources

Sources for the original collection of CJK Compatibility Ideographs include:

In ensuing versions of the standard, more characters have been added to the block from:

The "IBM 32" characters

IBM Japanese double-byte EBCDIC includes several kanji which do not exist in, or do not round-trip from, JIS X 0208. These were included as gaiji in extensions to Shift JIS and EUC-JP from IBM (e.g. code page 942), NEC, the Open Software Foundation, and Microsoft (e.g. Windows code page 932). However, they were not used as a source for the original Unified Repertoire and Ordering (URO). Instead, 32 of the IBM extension kanji, those which had not been included in the URO from other sources, were included in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block in the range U+FA0EU+FA2D.

Of these 32 characters:

  • U+FA0ECJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA0E
  • U+FA0FCJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA0F
  • U+FA11CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA11
  • U+FA13CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA13
  • U+FA14CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA14
  • U+FA1FCJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA1F
  • U+FA21CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA21
  • U+FA23CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA23
  • U+FA24CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA24
  • U+FA27CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA27
  • U+FA28CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA28
  • U+FA29CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA29

Block

CJK Compatibility Ideographs [1] [2] [3]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+F90x
U+F91x
U+F92x
U+F93x錄
U+F94x
U+F95x
U+F96x
U+F97x勵
U+F98x
U+F99x
U+F9Ax
U+F9Bx樂
U+F9Cx
U+F9Dx
U+F9Ex
U+F9Fx刺
U+FA0x
U+FA1x
U+FA2x
U+FA3x憎
U+FA4x
U+FA5x
U+FA6x
U+FA7x奔
U+FA8x
U+FA9x
U+FAAx
U+FABx謹
U+FACx
U+FADx
U+FAEx
U+FAFx
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
3. ^ Yellow areas indicate the 12 unified CJK characters encoded in this block.

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block:

See also

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. "3.5: Private Use Area" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 1.0, Volume 1. Unicode Consortium. 1991. pp. 118–119. ISBN   0-201-56788-1.
  4. "Ideographic Variation Database". Unicode Consortium.
  5. "UTS #37, Unicode Ideographic Variation Database". Unicode Consortium.
  6. Ideographic Research Group (2024-11-19). "UCS Ideograph Non-Unifiable Component Variations Summary List (NUCV)". UCV & NUCV Lists (PDF). ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2/IRG N2746.
  7. "PropList.txt". Unicode Consortium.
  8. Freytag, Asmus; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2021-06-14). "Known Anomalies in Unicode Character Names". Unicode Consortium. Unicode Technical Note #27. These 12 characters are unified CJK ideographs, not compatibility ideographs, despite their names.