Unicode block

In Unicode, a block is defined as one contiguous range of code points. Blocks are named uniquely and have no overlap. They have a starting code point of the form hhh0 and an ending code point of the form hhhF. A block explicitly can include code points that are unassigned and non-characters.[1] Code points not belonging to any of the named blocks, e.g. in the unassigned planes 3–13, have the value block="No_block".

Conversely, every assigned code point has a property "Block name", which names in which block the character is. This is determined by the code point only, although a block name will have a descriptive nature: "Tibetan" or "Supplemental Arrows-A". All assigned code points have a single block name.

Subdivisions, such as "Chess symbols" in the block Miscellaneous symbols, are not a "block". The subgroup name is an informative editorial addition only.

The number of code points in a Unicode block is a multiple of 16. Unicode blocks range in size from the minimum of 16 to a maximum of 65,536 code points.

Unicode 10.0 defines 280 blocks:[2]

  • 162 in plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
  • 108 in plane 1, the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP)
  • 6 in plane 2, the Supplementary Ideographic Plane (SIP)
  • 2 in plane 14 (E in hexadecimal), the Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (SSP)
  • One each in planes 15 (Fhex) and 16 (10hex), called Supplementary Private Use Area-A and -B
Unicode blocks and contained scripts
Plane Block range Block name Code points[a] Assigned characters Scripts[b][c][d][e][f]
 
0 BMP U+0000..U+007F Basic Latin[g] 128 128 Latin (52 characters), Common (76 characters)
U+0080..U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement[h] 128 128 Latin (64 characters), Common (64 characters)
U+0100..U+017F Latin Extended-A 128 128 Latin
U+0180..U+024F Latin Extended-B 208 208 Latin
U+0250..U+02AF IPA Extensions 96 96 Latin
U+02B0..U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters 80 80 Bopomofo (2 characters), Latin (14 characters), Common (64 characters)
U+0300..U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks 112 112 Inherited
U+0370..U+03FF Greek and Coptic 144 135 Coptic (14 characters), Greek (117 characters), Common (4 characters)
U+0400..U+04FF Cyrillic 256 256 Cyrillic (254 characters), Inherited (2 characters)
U+0500..U+052F Cyrillic Supplement 48 48 Cyrillic
0 BMP U+0530..U+058F Armenian 96 89 Armenian (88 characters), Common (1 character)
U+0590..U+05FF Hebrew 112 87 Hebrew
U+0600..U+06FF Arabic 256 255 Arabic (237 characters), Common (6 characters), Inherited (12 characters)
U+0700..U+074F Syriac 80 77 Syriac
U+0750..U+077F Arabic Supplement 48 48 Arabic
U+0780..U+07BF Thaana 64 50 Thaana
U+07C0..U+07FF NKo 64 59 Nko
U+0800..U+083F Samaritan 64 61 Samaritan
U+0840..U+085F Mandaic 32 29 Mandaic
U+0860..U+086F Syriac Supplement 16 11 Syriac
0 BMP U+08A0..U+08FF Arabic Extended-A 96 73 Arabic (72 characters), Common (1 character)
U+0900..U+097F Devanagari 128 128 Devanagari (124 characters), Common (2 characters), Inherited (2 characters)
U+0980..U+09FF Bengali 128 95 Bengali
U+0A00..U+0A7F Gurmukhi 128 79 Gurmukhi
U+0A80..U+0AFF Gujarati 128 91 Gujarati
U+0B00..U+0B7F Oriya 128 90 Oriya
U+0B80..U+0BFF Tamil 128 72 Tamil
U+0C00..U+0C7F Telugu 128 96 Telugu
U+0C80..U+0CFF Kannada 128 88 Kannada
U+0D00..U+0D7F Malayalam 128 117 Malayalam
0 BMP U+0D80..U+0DFF Sinhala 128 90 Sinhala
U+0E00..U+0E7F Thai 128 87 Thai (86 characters), Common (1 character)
U+0E80..U+0EFF Lao 128 67 Lao
U+0F00..U+0FFF Tibetan 256 211 Tibetan (207 characters), Common (4 characters)
U+1000..U+109F Myanmar 160 160 Myanmar
U+10A0..U+10FF Georgian 96 88 Georgian (87 characters), Common (1 character)
U+1100..U+11FF Hangul Jamo 256 256 Hangul
U+1200..U+137F Ethiopic 384 358 Ethiopic
U+1380..U+139F Ethiopic Supplement 32 26 Ethiopic
U+13A0..U+13FF Cherokee 96 92 Cherokee
0 BMP U+1400..U+167F Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics 640 640 Canadian Aboriginal
U+1680..U+169F Ogham 32 29 Ogham
U+16A0..U+16FF Runic 96 89 Runic (86 characters), Common (3 characters)
U+1700..U+171F Tagalog 32 20 Tagalog
U+1720..U+173F Hanunoo 32 23 Hanunoo (21 characters), Common (2 characters)
U+1740..U+175F Buhid 32 20 Buhid
U+1760..U+177F Tagbanwa 32 18 Tagbanwa
U+1780..U+17FF Khmer 128 114 Khmer
U+1800..U+18AF Mongolian 176 156 Mongolian (153 characters), Common (3 characters)
U+18B0..U+18FF Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended 80 70 Canadian Aboriginal
0 BMP U+1900..U+194F Limbu 80 68 Limbu
U+1950..U+197F Tai Le 48 35 Tai Le
U+1980..U+19DF New Tai Lue 96 83 New Tai Lue
U+19E0..U+19FF Khmer Symbols 32 32 Khmer
U+1A00..U+1A1F Buginese 32 30 Buginese
U+1A20..U+1AAF Tai Tham 144 127 Tai Tham
U+1AB0..U+1AFF Combining Diacritical Marks Extended 80 15 Inherited
U+1B00..U+1B7F Balinese 128 121 Balinese
U+1B80..U+1BBF Sundanese 64 64 Sundanese
U+1BC0..U+1BFF Batak 64 56 Batak
0 BMP U+1C00..U+1C4F Lepcha 80 74 Lepcha
U+1C50..U+1C7F Ol Chiki 48 48 Ol Chiki
U+1C80..U+1C8F Cyrillic Extended-C 16 9 Cyrillic
U+1CC0..U+1CCF Sundanese Supplement 16 8 Sundanese
U+1CD0..U+1CFF Vedic Extensions 48 42 Common (15 characters), Inherited (27 characters)
U+1D00..U+1D7F Phonetic Extensions 128 128 Cyrillic (2 characters), Greek (15 characters), Latin (111 characters)
U+1D80..U+1DBF Phonetic Extensions Supplement 64 64 Greek (1 character), Latin (63 characters)
U+1DC0..U+1DFF Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement 64 63 Inherited
U+1E00..U+1EFF Latin Extended Additional 256 256 Latin
U+1F00..U+1FFF Greek Extended 256 233 Greek
0 BMP U+2000..U+206F General Punctuation 112 111 Common (109 characters), Inherited (2 characters)
U+2070..U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts 48 42 Latin (15 characters), Common (27 characters)
U+20A0..U+20CF Currency Symbols 48 32 Common
U+20D0..U+20FF Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols 48 33 Inherited
U+2100..U+214F Letterlike Symbols 80 80 Greek (1 character), Latin (4 characters), Common (75 characters)
U+2150..U+218F Number Forms 64 60 Latin (41 characters), Common (19 characters)
U+2190..U+21FF Arrows 112 112 Common
U+2200..U+22FF Mathematical Operators 256 256 Common
U+2300..U+23FF Miscellaneous Technical 256 256 Common
U+2400..U+243F Control Pictures 64 39 Common
0 BMP U+2440..U+245F Optical Character Recognition 32 11 Common
U+2460..U+24FF Enclosed Alphanumerics 160 160 Common
U+2500..U+257F Box Drawing 128 128 Common
U+2580..U+259F Block Elements 32 32 Common
U+25A0..U+25FF Geometric Shapes 96 96 Common
U+2600..U+26FF Miscellaneous Symbols 256 256 Common
U+2700..U+27BF Dingbats 192 192 Common
U+27C0..U+27EF Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A 48 48 Common
U+27F0..U+27FF Supplemental Arrows-A 16 16 Common
U+2800..U+28FF Braille Patterns 256 256 Braille
0 BMP U+2900..U+297F Supplemental Arrows-B 128 128 Common
U+2980..U+29FF Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B 128 128 Common
U+2A00..U+2AFF Supplemental Mathematical Operators 256 256 Common
U+2B00..U+2BFF Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows 256 207 Common
U+2C00..U+2C5F Glagolitic 96 94 Glagolitic
U+2C60..U+2C7F Latin Extended-C 32 32 Latin
U+2C80..U+2CFF Coptic 128 123 Coptic
U+2D00..U+2D2F Georgian Supplement 48 40 Georgian
U+2D30..U+2D7F Tifinagh 80 59 Tifinagh
U+2D80..U+2DDF Ethiopic Extended 96 79 Ethiopic
0 BMP U+2DE0..U+2DFF Cyrillic Extended-A 32 32 Cyrillic
U+2E00..U+2E7F Supplemental Punctuation 128 74 Common
U+2E80..U+2EFF CJK Radicals Supplement 128 115 Han
U+2F00..U+2FDF Kangxi Radicals 224 214 Han
U+2FF0..U+2FFF Ideographic Description Characters 16 12 Common
U+3000..U+303F CJK Symbols and Punctuation 64 64 Han (15 characters), Hangul (2 characters), Common (43 characters), Inherited (4 characters)
U+3040..U+309F Hiragana 96 93 Hiragana (89 characters), Common (2 characters), Inherited (2 characters)
U+30A0..U+30FF Katakana 96 96 Katakana (93 characters), Common (3 characters)
U+3100..U+312F Bopomofo 48 42 Bopomofo
U+3130..U+318F Hangul Compatibility Jamo 96 94 Hangul
0 BMP U+3190..U+319F Kanbun 16 16 Common
U+31A0..U+31BF Bopomofo Extended 32 27 Bopomofo
U+31C0..U+31EF CJK Strokes 48 36 Common
U+31F0..U+31FF Katakana Phonetic Extensions 16 16 Katakana
U+3200..U+32FF Enclosed CJK Letters and Months 256 254 Hangul (62 characters), Katakana (47 characters), Common (145 characters)
U+3300..U+33FF CJK Compatibility 256 256 Katakana (88 characters), Common (168 characters)
U+3400..U+4DBF CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 6,592 6,582 Han
U+4DC0..U+4DFF Yijing Hexagram Symbols 64 64 Common
U+4E00..U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs 20,992 20,971 Han
U+A000..U+A48F Yi Syllables 1,168 1,165 Yi
0 BMP U+A490..U+A4CF Yi Radicals 64 55 Yi
U+A4D0..U+A4FF Lisu 48 48 Lisu
U+A500..U+A63F Vai 320 300 Vai
U+A640..U+A69F Cyrillic Extended-B 96 96 Cyrillic
U+A6A0..U+A6FF Bamum 96 88 Bamum
U+A700..U+A71F Modifier Tone Letters 32 32 Common
U+A720..U+A7FF Latin Extended-D 224 160 Latin (155 characters), Common (5 characters)
U+A800..U+A82F Syloti Nagri 48 44 Syloti Nagri
U+A830..U+A83F Common Indic Number Forms 16 10 Common
U+A840..U+A87F Phags-pa 64 56 Phags Pa
0 BMP U+A880..U+A8DF Saurashtra 96 82 Saurashtra
U+A8E0..U+A8FF Devanagari Extended 32 30 Devanagari
U+A900..U+A92F Kayah Li 48 48 Kayah Li (47 characters), Common (1 character)
U+A930..U+A95F Rejang 48 37 Rejang
U+A960..U+A97F Hangul Jamo Extended-A 32 29 Hangul
U+A980..U+A9DF Javanese 96 91 Javanese (90 characters), Common (1 character)
U+A9E0..U+A9FF Myanmar Extended-B 32 31 Myanmar
U+AA00..U+AA5F Cham 96 83 Cham
U+AA60..U+AA7F Myanmar Extended-A 32 32 Myanmar
U+AA80..U+AADF Tai Viet 96 72 Tai Viet
0 BMP U+AAE0..U+AAFF Meetei Mayek Extensions 32 23 Meetei Mayek
U+AB00..U+AB2F Ethiopic Extended-A 48 32 Ethiopic
U+AB30..U+AB6F Latin Extended-E 64 54 Latin (52 characters), Greek (1 character), Common (1 character)
U+AB70..U+ABBF Cherokee Supplement 80 80 Cherokee
U+ABC0..U+ABFF Meetei Mayek 64 56 Meetei Mayek
U+AC00..U+D7AF Hangul Syllables 11,184 11,172 Hangul
U+D7B0..U+D7FF Hangul Jamo Extended-B 80 72 Hangul
U+D800..U+DB7F High Surrogates 896 0 Unknown
U+DB80..U+DBFF High Private Use Surrogates 128 0 Unknown
U+DC00..U+DFFF Low Surrogates 1,024 0 Unknown
0 BMP U+E000..U+F8FF Private Use Area 6,400 6,400 Unknown
U+F900..U+FAFF CJK Compatibility Ideographs 512 472 Han
U+FB00..U+FB4F Alphabetic Presentation Forms 80 58 Armenian (5 characters), Hebrew (46 characters), Latin (7 characters)
U+FB50..U+FDFF Arabic Presentation Forms-A 688 611 Arabic (609 characters), Common (2 characters)
U+FE00..U+FE0F Variation Selectors 16 16 Inherited
U+FE10..U+FE1F Vertical Forms 16 10 Common
U+FE20..U+FE2F Combining Half Marks 16 16 Cyrillic (2 characters), Inherited (14 characters)
U+FE30..U+FE4F CJK Compatibility Forms 32 32 Common
U+FE50..U+FE6F Small Form Variants 32 26 Common
U+FE70..U+FEFF Arabic Presentation Forms-B 144 141 Arabic (140 characters), Common (1 character)
U+FF00..U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 240 225 Hangul (52 characters), Katakana (55 characters), Latin (52 characters), Common (66 characters)
U+FFF0..U+FFFF Specials 16 5 Common
1 SMP U+10000..U+1007F Linear B Syllabary 128 88 Linear B
U+10080..U+100FF Linear B Ideograms 128 123 Linear B
U+10100..U+1013F Aegean Numbers 64 57 Common
U+10140..U+1018F Ancient Greek Numbers 80 79 Greek
U+10190..U+101CF Ancient Symbols 64 13 Greek (1 character), Common (12 characters)
U+101D0..U+101FF Phaistos Disc 48 46 Common (45 characters), Inherited (1 character)
U+10280..U+1029F Lycian 32 29 Lycian
U+102A0..U+102DF Carian 64 49 Carian
U+102E0..U+102FF Coptic Epact Numbers 32 28 Common (27 characters), Inherited (1 character)
U+10300..U+1032F Old Italic 48 39 Old Italic
1 SMP U+10330..U+1034F Gothic 32 27 Gothic
U+10350..U+1037F Old Permic 48 43 Old Permic
U+10380..U+1039F Ugaritic 32 31 Ugaritic
U+103A0..U+103DF Old Persian 64 50 Old Persian
U+10400..U+1044F Deseret 80 80 Deseret
U+10450..U+1047F Shavian 48 48 Shavian
U+10480..U+104AF Osmanya 48 40 Osmanya
U+104B0..U+104FF Osage 80 72 Osage
U+10500..U+1052F Elbasan 48 40 Elbasan
U+10530..U+1056F Caucasian Albanian 64 53 Caucasian Albanian
1 SMP U+10600..U+1077F Linear A 384 341 Linear A
U+10800..U+1083F Cypriot Syllabary 64 55 Cypriot
U+10840..U+1085F Imperial Aramaic 32 31 Imperial Aramaic
U+10860..U+1087F Palmyrene 32 32 Palmyrene
U+10880..U+108AF Nabataean 48 40 Nabataean
U+108E0..U+108FF Hatran 32 26 Hatran
U+10900..U+1091F Phoenician 32 29 Phoenician
U+10920..U+1093F Lydian 32 27 Lydian
U+10980..U+1099F Meroitic Hieroglyphs 32 32 Meroitic Hieroglyphs
U+109A0..U+109FF Meroitic Cursive 96 90 Meroitic Cursive
1 SMP U+10A00..U+10A5F Kharoshthi 96 65 Kharoshthi
U+10A60..U+10A7F Old South Arabian 32 32 Old South Arabian
U+10A80..U+10A9F Old North Arabian 32 32 Old North Arabian
U+10AC0..U+10AFF Manichaean 64 51 Manichaean
U+10B00..U+10B3F Avestan 64 61 Avestan
U+10B40..U+10B5F Inscriptional Parthian 32 30 Inscriptional Parthian
U+10B60..U+10B7F Inscriptional Pahlavi 32 27 Inscriptional Pahlavi
U+10B80..U+10BAF Psalter Pahlavi 48 29 Psalter Pahlavi
U+10C00..U+10C4F Old Turkic 80 73 Old Turkic
U+10C80..U+10CFF Old Hungarian 128 108 Old Hungarian
1 SMP U+10E60..U+10E7F Rumi Numeral Symbols 32 31 Arabic
U+11000..U+1107F Brahmi 128 109 Brahmi
U+11080..U+110CF Kaithi 80 66 Kaithi
U+110D0..U+110FF Sora Sompeng 48 35 Sora Sompeng
U+11100..U+1114F Chakma 80 67 Chakma
U+11150..U+1117F Mahajani 48 39 Mahajani
U+11180..U+111DF Sharada 96 94 Sharada
U+111E0..U+111FF Sinhala Archaic Numbers 32 20 Sinhala
U+11200..U+1124F Khojki 80 62 Khojki
U+11280..U+112AF Multani 48 38 Multani
1 SMP U+112B0..U+112FF Khudawadi 80 69 Khudawadi
U+11300..U+1137F Grantha 128 85 Grantha
U+11400..U+1147F Newa 128 92 Newa
U+11480..U+114DF Tirhuta 96 82 Tirhuta
U+11580..U+115FF Siddham 128 92 Siddham
U+11600..U+1165F Modi 96 79 Modi
U+11660..U+1167F Mongolian Supplement 32 13 Mongolian
U+11680..U+116CF Takri 80 66 Takri
U+11700..U+1173F Ahom 64 57 Ahom
U+118A0..U+118FF Warang Citi 96 84 Warang Citi
1 SMP U+11A00..U+11A4F Zanabazar Square 80 72 Zanabazar Square
U+11A50..U+11AAF Soyombo 96 80 Soyombo
U+11AC0..U+11AFF Pau Cin Hau 64 57 Pau Cin Hau
U+11C00..U+11C6F Bhaiksuki 112 97 Bhaiksuki
U+11C70..U+11CBF Marchen 80 68 Marchen
U+11D00..U+11D5F Masaram Gondi 96 75 Masaram Gondi
U+12000..U+123FF Cuneiform 1,024 922 Cuneiform
U+12400..U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation 128 116 Cuneiform
U+12480..U+1254F Early Dynastic Cuneiform 208 196 Cuneiform
U+13000..U+1342F Egyptian Hieroglyphs 1,072 1,071 Egyptian Hieroglyphs
1 SMP U+14400..U+1467F Anatolian Hieroglyphs 640 583 Anatolian Hieroglyphs
U+16800..U+16A3F Bamum Supplement 576 569 Bamum
U+16A40..U+16A6F Mro 48 43 Mro
U+16AD0..U+16AFF Bassa Vah 48 36 Bassa Vah
U+16B00..U+16B8F Pahawh Hmong 144 127 Pahawh Hmong
U+16F00..U+16F9F Miao 160 133 Miao
U+16FE0..U+16FFF Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation 32 2 Nushu (1 character), Tangut (1 character)
U+17000..U+187FF Tangut 6,144 6,125 Tangut
U+18800..U+18AFF Tangut Components 768 755 Tangut
U+1B000..U+1B0FF Kana Supplement 256 256 Hiragana (255 characters), Katakana (1 character)
1 SMP U+1B100..U+1B12F Kana Extended-A 48 31 Hiragana
U+1B170..U+1B2FF Nushu 400 396 Nüshu
U+1BC00..U+1BC9F Duployan 160 143 Duployan
U+1BCA0..U+1BCAF Shorthand Format Controls 16 4 Common
U+1D000..U+1D0FF Byzantine Musical Symbols 256 246 Common
U+1D100..U+1D1FF Musical Symbols 256 231 Common (209 characters), Inherited (22 characters)
U+1D200..U+1D24F Ancient Greek Musical Notation 80 70 Greek
U+1D300..U+1D35F Tai Xuan Jing Symbols 96 87 Common
U+1D360..U+1D37F Counting Rod Numerals 32 18 Common
U+1D400..U+1D7FF Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols 1,024 996 Common
1 SMP U+1D800..U+1DAAF Sutton SignWriting 688 672 SignWriting
U+1E000..U+1E02F Glagolitic Supplement 48 38 Glagolitic
U+1E800..U+1E8DF Mende Kikakui 224 213 Mende Kikakui
U+1E900..U+1E95F Adlam 96 87 Adlam
U+1EE00..U+1EEFF Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols 256 143 Arabic
U+1F000..U+1F02F Mahjong Tiles 48 44 Common
U+1F030..U+1F09F Domino Tiles 112 100 Common
U+1F0A0..U+1F0FF Playing Cards 96 82 Common
U+1F100..U+1F1FF Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement 256 191 Common
U+1F200..U+1F2FF Enclosed Ideographic Supplement 256 64 Hiragana (1 character), Common (63 characters)
1 SMP U+1F300..U+1F5FF Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 768 768 Common
U+1F600..U+1F64F Emoticons 80 80 Common
U+1F650..U+1F67F Ornamental Dingbats 48 48 Common
U+1F680..U+1F6FF Transport and Map Symbols 128 107 Common
U+1F700..U+1F77F Alchemical Symbols 128 116 Common
U+1F780..U+1F7FF Geometric Shapes Extended 128 85 Common
U+1F800..U+1F8FF Supplemental Arrows-C 256 148 Common
U+1F900..U+1F9FF Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs 256 148 Common
2 SIP U+20000..U+2A6DF CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B 42,720 42,711 Han
U+2A700..U+2B73F CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C 4,160 4,149 Han
U+2B740..U+2B81F CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D 224 222 Han
U+2B820..U+2CEAF CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E 5,776 5,762 Han
U+2CEB0..U+2EBEF CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F 7,488 7,473 Han
U+2F800..U+2FA1F CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 544 542 Han
14 SSP U+E0000..U+E007F Tags 128 97 Common
U+E0100..U+E01EF Variation Selectors Supplement 240 240 Inherited
15 PUA-A U+F0000..U+FFFFF Supplementary Private Use Area-A 65,536 65,534 Unknown
16 PUA-B U+100000..U+10FFFF Supplementary Private Use Area-B 65,536 65,534 Unknown
  1. ^ Code point count includes unassigned code points: non-character, reserved
  2. ^ The script has one or multiple characters in the block, as defined by the Script Property. This is independent of the block name
  3. ^ "Common" and "Unknown" (Zyyy) and "Inherited" (Zinh or Qaai) refer to Scripts in ISO 15924
  4. ^ Unicode Blocks data file. As of Unicode version 10.0
  5. ^ UAX 24: Unicode Script Property (4 alpha code)
  6. ^ UAX 24: Script data file
  7. ^ Called "C0 Controls and Basic Latin" in ISO/IEC 10646
  8. ^ Called "C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement" in ISO/IEC 10646
  1. ^ Unicode glossary
  2. ^ Unicode 10.0.0 UCD

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