Unicode Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes
Dr. Herong Yang, Version 5.00

Code Point Blocks

This section provides a list of major releases of the Unicode standard and their publishing dates.

Unicode code points are organized into blocks. Here is a list of code point blocks defined in Unicode 5.1.0:

   Start          End
    Code         Code
   Point        Point   Block Name

  U+0000 ...   U+007F   Basic Latin
  U+0080 ...   U+00FF   Latin-1 Supplement
  U+0100 ...   U+017F   Latin Extended-A
  U+0180 ...   U+024F   Latin Extended-B
  U+0250 ...   U+02AF   IPA Extensions
  U+02B0 ...   U+02FF   Spacing Modifier Letters
  U+0300 ...   U+036F   Combining Diacritical Marks
  U+0370 ...   U+03FF   Greek and Coptic
  U+0400 ...   U+04FF   Cyrillic
  U+0500 ...   U+052F   Cyrillic Supplement
  U+0530 ...   U+058F   Armenian
  U+0590 ...   U+05FF   Hebrew
  U+0600 ...   U+06FF   Arabic
  U+0700 ...   U+074F   Syriac
  U+0750 ...   U+077F   Arabic Supplement
  U+0780 ...   U+07BF   Thaana
  U+07C0 ...   U+07FF   NKo
  U+0900 ...   U+097F   Devanagari
  U+0980 ...   U+09FF   Bengali
  U+0A00 ...   U+0A7F   Gurmukhi
  U+0A80 ...   U+0AFF   Gujarati
  U+0B00 ...   U+0B7F   Oriya
  U+0B80 ...   U+0BFF   Tamil
  U+0C00 ...   U+0C7F   Telugu
  U+0C80 ...   U+0CFF   Kannada
  U+0D00 ...   U+0D7F   Malayalam
  U+0D80 ...   U+0DFF   Sinhala
  U+0E00 ...   U+0E7F   Thai
  U+0E80 ...   U+0EFF   Lao
  U+0F00 ...   U+0FFF   Tibetan
  U+1000 ...   U+109F   Myanmar
  U+10A0 ...   U+10FF   Georgian
  U+1100 ...   U+11FF   Hangul Jamo
  U+1200 ...   U+137F   Ethiopic
  U+1380 ...   U+139F   Ethiopic Supplement
  U+13A0 ...   U+13FF   Cherokee
  U+1400 ...   U+167F   Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
  U+1680 ...   U+169F   Ogham
  U+16A0 ...   U+16FF   Runic
  U+1700 ...   U+171F   Tagalog
  U+1720 ...   U+173F   Hanunoo
  U+1740 ...   U+175F   Buhid
  U+1760 ...   U+177F   Tagbanwa
  U+1780 ...   U+17FF   Khmer
  U+1800 ...   U+18AF   Mongolian
  U+1900 ...   U+194F   Limbu
  U+1950 ...   U+197F   Tai Le
  U+1980 ...   U+19DF   New Tai Lue
  U+19E0 ...   U+19FF   Khmer Symbols
  U+1A00 ...   U+1A1F   Buginese
  U+1B00 ...   U+1B7F   Balinese
  U+1B80 ...   U+1BBF   Sundanese
  U+1C00 ...   U+1C4F   Lepcha
  U+1C50 ...   U+1C7F   Ol Chiki
  U+1D00 ...   U+1D7F   Phonetic Extensions
  U+1D80 ...   U+1DBF   Phonetic Extensions Supplement
  U+1DC0 ...   U+1DFF   Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement
  U+1E00 ...   U+1EFF   Latin Extended Additional
  U+1F00 ...   U+1FFF   Greek Extended
  U+2000 ...   U+206F   General Punctuation
  U+2070 ...   U+209F   Superscripts and Subscripts
  U+20A0 ...   U+20CF   Currency Symbols
  U+20D0 ...   U+20FF   Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols
  U+2100 ...   U+214F   Letterlike Symbols
  U+2150 ...   U+218F   Number Forms
  U+2190 ...   U+21FF   Arrows
  U+2200 ...   U+22FF   Mathematical Operators
  U+2300 ...   U+23FF   Miscellaneous Technical
  U+2400 ...   U+243F   Control Pictures
  U+2440 ...   U+245F   Optical Character Recognition
  U+2460 ...   U+24FF   Enclosed Alphanumerics
  U+2500 ...   U+257F   Box Drawing
  U+2580 ...   U+259F   Block Elements
  U+25A0 ...   U+25FF   Geometric Shapes
  U+2600 ...   U+26FF   Miscellaneous Symbols
  U+2700 ...   U+27BF   Dingbats
  U+27C0 ...   U+27EF   Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
  U+27F0 ...   U+27FF   Supplemental Arrows-A
  U+2800 ...   U+28FF   Braille Patterns
  U+2900 ...   U+297F   Supplemental Arrows-B
  U+2980 ...   U+29FF   Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
  U+2A00 ...   U+2AFF   Supplemental Mathematical Operators
  U+2B00 ...   U+2BFF   Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
  U+2C00 ...   U+2C5F   Glagolitic
  U+2C60 ...   U+2C7F   Latin Extended-C
  U+2C80 ...   U+2CFF   Coptic
  U+2D00 ...   U+2D2F   Georgian Supplement
  U+2D30 ...   U+2D7F   Tifinagh
  U+2D80 ...   U+2DDF   Ethiopic Extended
  U+2DE0 ...   U+2DFF   Cyrillic Extended-A
  U+2E00 ...   U+2E7F   Supplemental Punctuation
  U+2E80 ...   U+2EFF   CJK Radicals Supplement
  U+2F00 ...   U+2FDF   Kangxi Radicals
  U+2FF0 ...   U+2FFF   Ideographic Description Characters
  U+3000 ...   U+303F   CJK Symbols and Punctuation
  U+3040 ...   U+309F   Hiragana
  U+30A0 ...   U+30FF   Katakana
  U+3100 ...   U+312F   Bopomofo
  U+3130 ...   U+318F   Hangul Compatibility Jamo
  U+3190 ...   U+319F   Kanbun
  U+31A0 ...   U+31BF   Bopomofo Extended
  U+31C0 ...   U+31EF   CJK Strokes
  U+31F0 ...   U+31FF   Katakana Phonetic Extensions
  U+3200 ...   U+32FF   Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
  U+3300 ...   U+33FF   CJK Compatibility
  U+3400 ...   U+4DBF   CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
  U+4DC0 ...   U+4DFF   Yijing Hexagram Symbols
  U+4E00 ...   U+9FFF   CJK Unified Ideographs
  U+A000 ...   U+A48F   Yi Syllables
  U+A490 ...   U+A4CF   Yi Radicals
  U+A500 ...   U+A63F   Vai
  U+A640 ...   U+A69F   Cyrillic Extended-B
  U+A700 ...   U+A71F   Modifier Tone Letters
  U+A720 ...   U+A7FF   Latin Extended-D
  U+A800 ...   U+A82F   Syloti Nagri
  U+A840 ...   U+A87F   Phags-pa
  U+A880 ...   U+A8DF   Saurashtra
  U+A900 ...   U+A92F   Kayah Li
  U+A930 ...   U+A95F   Rejang
  U+AA00 ...   U+AA5F   Cham
  U+AC00 ...   U+D7AF   Hangul Syllables
  U+D800 ...   U+DB7F   High Surrogates
  U+DB80 ...   U+DBFF   High Private Use Surrogates
  U+DC00 ...   U+DFFF   Low Surrogates
  U+E000 ...   U+F8FF   Private Use Area
  U+F900 ...   U+FAFF   CJK Compatibility Ideographs
  U+FB00 ...   U+FB4F   Alphabetic Presentation Forms
  U+FB50 ...   U+FDFF   Arabic Presentation Forms-A
  U+FE00 ...   U+FE0F   Variation Selectors
  U+FE10 ...   U+FE1F   Vertical Forms
  U+FE20 ...   U+FE2F   Combining Half Marks
  U+FE30 ...   U+FE4F   CJK Compatibility Forms
  U+FE50 ...   U+FE6F   Small Form Variants
  U+FE70 ...   U+FEFF   Arabic Presentation Forms-B
  U+FF00 ...   U+FFEF   Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
  U+FFF0 ...   U+FFFF   Specials
 U+10000 ...  U+1007F   Linear B Syllabary
 U+10080 ...  U+100FF   Linear B Ideograms
 U+10100 ...  U+1013F   Aegean Numbers
 U+10140 ...  U+1018F   Ancient Greek Numbers
 U+10190 ...  U+101CF   Ancient Symbols
 U+101D0 ...  U+101FF   Phaistos Disc
 U+10280 ...  U+1029F   Lycian
 U+102A0 ...  U+102DF   Carian
 U+10300 ...  U+1032F   Old Italic
 U+10330 ...  U+1034F   Gothic
 U+10380 ...  U+1039F   Ugaritic
 U+103A0 ...  U+103DF   Old Persian
 U+10400 ...  U+1044F   Deseret
 U+10450 ...  U+1047F   Shavian
 U+10480 ...  U+104AF   Osmanya
 U+10800 ...  U+1083F   Cypriot Syllabary
 U+10900 ...  U+1091F   Phoenician
 U+10920 ...  U+1093F   Lydian
 U+10A00 ...  U+10A5F   Kharoshthi
 U+12000 ...  U+123FF   Cuneiform
 U+12400 ...  U+1247F   Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation
 U+1D000 ...  U+1D0FF   Byzantine Musical Symbols
 U+1D100 ...  U+1D1FF   Musical Symbols
 U+1D200 ...  U+1D24F   Ancient Greek Musical Notation
 U+1D300 ...  U+1D35F   Tai Xuan Jing Symbols
 U+1D360 ...  U+1D37F   Counting Rod Numerals
 U+1D400 ...  U+1D7FF   Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
 U+1F000 ...  U+1F02F   Mahjong Tiles
 U+1F030 ...  U+1F09F   Domino Tiles
 U+20000 ...  U+2A6DF   CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B
 U+2F800 ...  U+2FA1F   CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement
 U+E0000 ...  U+E007F   Tags
 U+E0100 ...  U+E01EF   Variation Selectors Supplement
 U+F0000 ...  U+FFFFF   Supplementary Private Use Area-A
U+100000 ... U+10FFFF   Supplementary Private Use Area-B

Sections in This Chapter

What Is Unicode?

Examples of Unicode Characters

Unique Features of Unicode

Unicode Standard Releases

Code Point Blocks

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2009
Code Point Blocks