Enclosed Ideographic Supplement

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Enclosed Ideographic Supplement
RangeU+1F200..U+1F2FF
(256 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Hiragana (1 char.)
Common (63 char.)
Assigned64 code points
Unused192 reserved code points
Source standards ARIB STD-B24
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)44 (+44)
6.0 (2010)57 (+13)
9.0 (2016)58 (+1)
10.0 (2017)64 (+6)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]
Graphical representation of the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement Unicode block UCB Enclosed Ideographic Supplement.png
Graphical representation of the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement Unicode block

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 kana, and many containing CJK ideographs. Many of its characters were added for compatibility with the Japanese ARIB STD-B24 standard. Six symbols from Chinese folk religion were added in Unicode version 10.

Contents

Block

Enclosed Ideographic Supplement [1] [2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1F20x🈀🈁🈂
U+1F21x🈐🈑🈒🈓🈔🈕🈖🈗🈘🈙🈚🈛🈜🈝🈞🈟
U+1F22x🈠🈡🈢🈣🈤🈥🈦🈧🈨🈩🈪🈫🈬🈭🈮🈯
U+1F23x🈰🈱🈲🈳🈴🈵🈶 🈷 🈸🈹🈺🈻
U+1F24x🉀🉁🉂🉃🉄🉅🉆🉇🉈
U+1F25x🉐🉑
U+1F26x🉠🉡🉢🉣🉤🉥
U+1F27x
U+1F28x
U+1F29x
U+1F2Ax
U+1F2Bx
U+1F2Cx
U+1F2Dx
U+1F2Ex
U+1F2Fx
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block contains fifteen emoji: U+1F201–U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F, U+1F232–U+1F23A and U+1F250–U+1F251. [3] [4]

The block has eight standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following four base characters: U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F and U+1F237. [5]

Emoji variation sequences
U+1F2021F21A1F22F1F237
default presentationtextemojiemojitext
base code point🈂🈚🈯🈷
base+VS15 (text)🈂︎🈚︎🈯︎🈷︎
base+VS16 (emoji)🈂️🈚️🈯️🈷️

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement 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. ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  4. ↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  5. ↑ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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