CJK Symbols and Punctuation

Group of Unicode symbols

For a list of all CJK characters encoded in Unicode, see CJK Unified Ideographs.

For other uses, see East Asian punctuation.

Unicode character block

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.

## Block

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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 | 〽 |  〾  | 〿
Notes

1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

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):

Variation sequences for punctuation alignment  U+ | 3001 | 3002 | Description

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base code point | 、 | 。 |
base + VS01 | 、︀ | 。︀ | corner-justified form
base + VS02 | 、︁ | 。︁ | centered form

## Orientation

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Quotation marks and other punctuation have expected differences in behaviour in vertical and horizontal text. The quotation marks 「...」, 『...』 and 〝...〟 rotate 90 degrees, as follows:

Expected behaviour of CJK quotation marks in vertical and horizontal text. The red registration corners mark the glyph metrics and show how the glyph aligns within the em-box of a CJK character.

See also General Punctuation, for variation selectors and CJK behaviour of the Latin quotation marks ‘...’ and “...”.

## Chinese character

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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]

## Emoji

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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]

Emoji variation sequences  U+ | 3030 | 303D

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base code point | 〰 | 〽
base+VS15 (text) | 〰︎ | 〽︎
base+VS16 (emoji) | 〰️ | 〽️

## History

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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]

* U+3004 IDEOGRAPHIC DITTO MARK was merged with U+4EDD (仝) in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, freeing up code point U+3004
* U+32FF JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL STANDARD SYMBOL was moved from the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block to U+3004 (〄)

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[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | IRG ID | Document

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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."
L2/23-167 |  |  | Koo, Night (2023-07-01), Proposal to update representative glyph of U+3029 SUZHOU NUMERAL NINE
L2/23-227 |  |  | Chan, Eiso (2023-10-07), Feedback on L2/23-167 (Proposal to update representative glyph of U+3029 SUZHOU NUMERAL NINE)
L2/23-237R |  |  | Lunde, Ken (2023-11-02), "14 [Affects U+3029]", CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #177 Meeting
L2/23-231 |  |  | Constable, Peter (2023-12-08), "Section 14 [Affects U+3029]", UTC #177 Minutes
L2/23-281 |  |  | Koo, Night (2023-11-28), Update Suzhou numerals in CJK Symbols font (GitHub issue) [Affects U+3021-3029]
L2/24-012 |  |  | Lunde, Ken (2024-01-11), "19 [Affects U+3021-3029]", CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #178 Meeting
L2/24-006 |  |  | Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), "Section 19 [Affects U+3021-3029]", UTC #178 Minutes
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
L2/23-281 |  |  | Koo, Night (2023-11-28), "19:none", Update Suzhou numerals in CJK Symbols font (GitHub issue)
L2/24-012 |  |  | Lunde, Ken (2024-01-11), "19", CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #178 Meeting
L2/24-006 |  |  | Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), "Section 19", UTC #178 Minutes
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
L2/23-281 |  |  | Koo, Night (2023-11-28), Update Suzhou numerals in CJK Symbols font (GitHub issue)
L2/24-012 |  |  | Lunde, Ken (2024-01-11), "19", CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #178 Meeting
L2/24-006 |  |  | Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), "Section 19", UTC #178 Minutes
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[b][c] | N4182 |  | Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)

1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
2. ^ See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
3. ^ Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents

## See also

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* Hangul Jamo (Unicode block)
* Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation

## References

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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. ^ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
4. ^ Lunde, Ken (2018-01-21). "L2/17-436: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for fullwidth East Asian punctuation" (PDF).
5. ^ "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
6. ^ GB/T 15835-2011《出版物上数字用法》. China Guojia Biaozhun. https://journals.usst.edu.cn/uploadfile/file/GBT 15835-2011《出版物上数字用法》.pdf
7. ^ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2024-08-15.
8. ^ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2024-05-01.
9. ^ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
10. ^ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
11. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
12. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.

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CJK ideographs in Unicode[a]

| Block name| Plane| Chart range| Characters| Han unification| Scripts contained in block

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CJK Unified Ideographs
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I
CJK Radicals Supplement
Kangxi Radicals
Ideographic Description Characters
CJK Symbols and Punctuation
CJK Strokes
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
CJK Compatibility
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
CJK Compatibility Forms
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

0 BMP
0 BMP
2 SIP
2 SIP
2 SIP
2 SIP
2 SIP
3 TIP
3 TIP
2 SIP
0 BMP
0 BMP
0 BMP
0 BMP
0 BMP
0 BMP
0 BMP
0 BMP
0 BMP
1 SMP
2 SIP

4E00–9FFF
3400–4DBF
20000–2A6DF
2A700–2B73F
2B740–2B81F
2B820–2CEAF
2CEB0–2EBEF
30000–3134F
31350–323AF
2EBF0–2EE5F
2E80–2EFF
2F00–2FDF
2FF0–2FFF
3000–303F
31C0–31EF
3200–32FF
3300–33FF
F900–FAFF
FE30–FE4F
1F200–1F2FF
2F800–2FA1F

20,992
6,592
42,720
4,154
222
5,762
7,473
4,939
4,192
622
115
214

255
256
472

542

Unified
Unified
Unified
Unified
Unified
Unified
Unified
Unified
Unified
Unified
Not unified
Not unified
Not unified
Not unified
Not unified
Not unified
Not unified
12 are unified
Not unified
Not unified
Not unified

Han
Han
Han
Han
Han
Han
Han
Han
Han
Han
Han
Han
Common
Han, Hangul, Common, Inherited
Common
Hangul, Katakana, Common
Katakana, Common
Han
Common
Hiragana, Common
Han

Totals|  |

99,737

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As of version 16.0

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