| CJK Symbols and Punctuation | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+3000..U+303F (64 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Han (15 char.) Hangul (2 char.) Common (43 char.) Inherited (4 char.) |
| Assigned | 64 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 56 (+56) |
| 1.0.1 (1992) | 56 (+0) |
| 1.1 (1993) | 57 (+1) |
| 3.0 (1999) | 61 (+4) |
| 3.2 (2002) | 64 (+3) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1] [2] In Unicode 1.0.1, during the process of unifying with ISO 10646, the "IDEOGRAPHIC DITTO MARK" (仝) was unified with the unified ideograph at U+4EDD, allowing the Japanese Industrial Standard symbol to be moved from U+32FF in the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block to the vacated code point at U+3004. [3] | |
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.
| CJK Symbols and Punctuation [1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+300x | ID SP | 、 | 。 | 〃 | 〄 | 々 | 〆 | 〇 | 〈 | 〉 | 《 | 》 | 「 | 」 | 『 | 』 |
| U+301x | 【 | 】 | 〒 | 〓 | 〔 | 〕 | 〖 | 〗 | 〘 | 〙 | 〚 | 〛 | 〜 | 〝 | 〞 | 〟 |
| U+302x | 〠 | 〡 | 〢 | 〣 | 〤 | 〥 | 〦 | 〧 | 〨 | 〩 | 〪 | 〫 | 〬 | 〭 | 〮 | 〯 |
| U+303x | 〰 | 〱 | 〲 | 〳 | 〴 | 〵 | 〶 | 〷 | 〸 | 〹 | 〺 | 〻 | 〼 | 〽 | 〾 | 〿 |
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The block has variation sequences defined for East Asian punctuation positional variants. [4] [5] They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS01) and U+FE01 VARIATION SELECTOR-2 (VS02):
| U+ | 3001 | 3002 | Description |
| base code point | 、 | 。 | |
| base + VS01 | 、︀ | 。︀ | corner-justified form |
| base + VS02 | 、︁ | 。︁ | centered form |
The CJK Symbols and Punctuation block contains one Chinese character: U+3007〇IDEOGRAPHIC NUMBER ZERO. Although it is not covered under "Unified Ideographs", it is treated as a CJK character for all other intents and purposes. [6]
The CJK Symbols and Punctuation block contains two emoji: U+3030 and U+303D. [7] [8]
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. [9]
| U+ | 3030 | 303D |
| base code point | 〰 | 〽 |
| base+VS15 (text) | 〰︎ | 〽︎ |
| base+VS16 (emoji) | 〰️ | 〽️ |
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: [10] [11] [12]
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block:
| Version | Final code points [lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | IRG ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+3000..3003, 3005..3037, 303F | 56 | (to be determined) | |||
| L2/11-402 | Iancu, Laurențiu (2011-10-20), Proposal to change the General_Category of Hangul tone marks U+302E and U+302F | |||||
| L2/14-198 | N4606 | Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2014-08-06), Proposal for the modification of the sample character layout of WAVE_DASH (U+301C) | ||||
| L2/14-177 | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "WAVE_DASH (B.15.3)", UTC #140 Minutes | |||||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.11v", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63, Reverse the shape of current glyph for 301C WAVE DASH as requested in document N4606 | ||||
| L2/17-056 | Lunde, Ken (2017-02-13), Proposal to add standardized variation sequences | |||||
| L2/17-436 | Lunde, Ken (2018-01-21), Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for fullwidth East Asian punctuation | |||||
| L2/18-039 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "24. Fullwidth East Asian Punctuation", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 154-C17", UTC #155 Minutes, Add 16 standardized variation sequences based on L2/17-436R, for Unicode 12.0. | |||||
| 1.0.1 | U+3004 | 1 | (to be determined) | |||
| 3.0 | U+3038..303A | 3 | L2/97-017 | N1182 | N202 | Proposal to add 210 KangXi Radicals and 3 HANGZHOU Numbers in BMP for compatibility, 1995-03-23 |
| N1203 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.11", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva | |||||
| N1303 (html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo | |||||
| L2/97-284 | N1629 | N486 | Zhang, Zhoucai (1997-07-07), Kangxi Radicals and Hangzhou Numerals | |||
| L2/97-255R | Aliprand, Joan (1997-12-03), "4.B.1 Hangzhou Numerals", Approved Minutes - UTC #73 & L2 #170 joint meeting, Palo Alto, CA - August 4-5, 1997, Motion [#73-M9]: That the UTC concurs with SC2/WG2 Resolution M32.11, and accepts the 3 Hangzhou numeral characters. | |||||
| L2/98-112 | N1629R | Zhang, Zhoucai (1998-03-19), Kangxi Radicals, Hangzhou Numerals | ||||
| L2/98-332 | N1923 | Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 15, AMENDMENT 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1998-10-28 | ||||
| L2/99-073 | N1968 (html, doc) | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3213, PDAM ballot on WD for 10646-1/Amd. 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1999-02-08 | ||||
| L2/99-119 | Text for FPDAM ballot of ISO/IEC 10646, Amd. 15 - Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1999-04-07 | |||||
| L2/99-232 | N2003 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), "6.1.1 PDAM15 - Kang Xi & CJK Radicals", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15 | ||||
| L2/99-252 | N2065 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3311, ISO 10646-1/FPDAM 15 - Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1999-08-19 | ||||
| L2/99-300 | N2122 | Paterson, Bruce (1999-09-21), Revised Text for FDAM ballot of ISO/IEC 10646-1/FDAM 15, AMENDMENT 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement | ||||
| L2/00-044 | Summary of FDAM voting: ISO 10646 Amendment 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 2000-01-31 | |||||
| U+303E | 1 | N1431 | N406, N406A | Ideographic Variation Mark, 1996-06-27 | ||
| N1453 | Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), "9.7 Ideographic Variation Mark", WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31 | |||||
| L2/97-023 | N1486 | N437 | IRG #8 Resolutions, 1997-01-16 | |||
| N1489 | Supplement to Ideographic Components and Composition Schemes, 1997-01-16 | |||||
| N1490 | N436 | "Response related to N1431 (Ideographic Variation Mark)", Response to WG2 question on Ideographic Structure Characters, 1997-01-16 | ||||
| L2/97-024 | N1491 | IRG proposal: Ideographic variant character, 1997-01-19 | ||||
| L2/97-030 | N1503 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1997-04-01), "9.5", Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting #32, Singapore; 1997-01-20--24 | ||||
| L2/97-114 | N1544 (html, doc) | N453 | Sato, T. K. (1997-04-08), Questions on the "Han structure method" described in WG2 N1490 (IRG N436) | |||
| N1678 (pdf, doc) | Further explanation on Variation Mark, 1997-12-18 | |||||
| L2/98-100 | N1728 | Ad-hoc report on ideographic variation indicator, 1998-03-18 | ||||
| L2/98-158 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-05-26), "Ideographic Variation Indicator", Draft Minutes - UTC #76 & NCITS Subgroup L2 #173 joint meeting, Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania, April 20-22, 1998 | |||||
| L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "9.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 | ||||
| L2/98-321 | N1905 | Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 23, AMENDMENT 23: Bopomofo Extended and other characters, 1998-10-22 | ||||
| 3.2 | U+303B..303D | 3 | L2/99-238 | Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15 | ||
| N2092 | Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13 | |||||
| L2/00-024 | Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised | |||||
| L2/00-098, L2/00-098-page5 | N2195 | Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee, 2000-03-15 | ||||
| L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf, txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.20", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 | ||||
| L2/00-298 | N2258 | Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2 | ||||
| L2/00-342 | N2278 | Sato, T. K.; Everson, Michael; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-09-20), Ad hoc Report on Japan feedback N2257 and N2258 | ||||
| L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.16 JIS X0213 Symbols", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 | ||||
| L2/01-114 | N2328 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3503, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000/PDAM 1, 2001-03-09 | ||||
| L2/11-438 [lower-alpha 2] [lower-alpha 3] | N4182 | Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429) | ||||
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