Supplemental Punctuation

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Supplemental Punctuation
RangeU+2E00..U+2E7F
(128 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Common
Assigned94 code points
Unused34 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.1 (2005)26 (+26)
5.1 (2008)49 (+23)
5.2 (2009)50 (+1)
6.1 (2012)60 (+10)
7.0 (2014)67 (+7)
9.0 (2016)69 (+2)
10.0 (2017)74 (+5)
11.0 (2018)79 (+5)
12.0 (2019)80 (+1)
13.0 (2020)83 (+3)
14.0 (2021)94 (+11)
Chart
Code chart
Note: [1] [2]

Supplemental Punctuation is a Unicode block containing historic and specialized punctuation characters, including biblical editorial symbols, ancient Greek punctuation, and German dictionary marks.

Contents

Additional punctuation characters are in the General Punctuation block and sprinkled in dozens of other Unicode blocks.

Block

Supplemental Punctuation [1] [2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+2E0x ⸀ ⸁ ⸂ ⸃ ⸄ ⸅ ⸆ ⸇ ⸈ ⸉ ⸊ ⸋ ⸌ ⸍ ⸎ ⸏
U+2E1x ⸐ ⸑ ⸒ ⸓ ⸔ ⸕ ⸖ ⸗ ⸘ ⸙ ⸚ ⸛ ⸜ ⸝ ⸞ ⸟
U+2E2x ⸠ ⸡ ⸢ ⸣ ⸤ ⸥ ⸦ ⸧ ⸨ ⸩ ⸪ ⸫ ⸬ ⸭ ⸮ ⸯ
U+2E3x ⸰ ⸱ ⸲ ⸳ ⸴ ⸵ ⸶ ⸷ ⸸ ⸹  2M 
⸺ 		 3M 
⸻ 		⸼⸽⸾⸿
U+2E4x⹀⹁⹂⹃⹄⹅⹆⹇⹈⹉⹊⹋⹌⹍⹎ ⹏
U+2E5x ⹐ ⹑ ⹒ ⹓ ⹔ ⹕ ⹖ ⹗ ⹘ ⹙ ⹚ ⹛ ⹜ ⹝
U+2E6x
U+2E7x
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 14.0
2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Supplemental Punctuation block:

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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