Blocks

This category lists the Unicode Blocks.

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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.  Code points not belonging to any of the named blocks, e.g. in the unassigned planes 4–13, have the value block="No_block".

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

Subdivisions, such as "¿UNKNOWN?" in the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, is not a "block".  The subgroup name is an informative editorial addition only, referred to as a Set.

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

Version 12[]

Unicode Version 12.0 - March 05, 2019 added 11 new blocks for a total of 303 blocks:

1. Elymaic (U+10F30 to U+10FFF) (39 symbols)
2. Dives Akuru (U+11900-U+1195F) (72 symbols)
3. Nandinagari (U+119A0 to U+119FF) (65 symbols)
4. Tamil Supplement (U+???? to U+????) (51 symbols)
5. Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls (U+???? to U+????) (9 symbols)
6. Small Kana Extension (U+???? to U+????) (7 symbols)
7. Khitan Small Script (U+???? to U+????) (456 symbols)
8. Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong (U+???? to U+????) (71 symbols)
9. Wancho (U+1E2C0 to U+1E2FF) (55 symbols)
10. Ottoman Siyaq Numbers (U+???? to U+????) (61 symbols)
11. CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G (U+???? to U+????) (5,001 symbols)

Version 12.1[]

Unicode Version 12.1 - May 07, 2019 added 1 new symbol to 0 new blocks for a total of 303 blocks:

1. Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (U+3200 to U+32FF) (1 symbol)

Version 13[]

Unicode Version 13.0 - March 10, 2020 will add 8 new blocks for a total of 311 blocks:

1. Yezidi (U+10E80 to U+10EBF) (47 symbols)
2. Chorasmian (U+10FB0 to U+10FDF) (28 symbols)
3. Dives Akuru (U+11900 to U+1195F) (72 symbols)
4. Lisu Supplement (U+11FB0 to U+11FBF) (1 symbol)
5. Khitan Small Script (U+18B00 to U+18CFF) (470 symbols)
6. Tangut Supplement (U+18D00 to U+18D08) (8 symbols)
7. Symbols for Legacy Computing (U+1FB00 to U+1FBFF) (212 symbols)
8. CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G (U+30000 to U+3134A) (4,939 symbols)

Version 15.1[]

As of Unicode Version 15.0 - September 13, 2022 there are ??? blocks:

??? in plane 0 (0 hex), the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

??? in plane 1 (1 hex), the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP)

??? in plane 2 (2 hex), the Supplementary Ideographic Plane (SIP)

??? in plane 3 (3 hex), the Tertiary Ideographic Plane (TIP)

0 in plane 4 (4 hex), the Unassigned Plane (?)

0 in plane 5 (5 hex), the Unassigned Plane (?)

0 in plane 6 (6 hex), the Unassigned Plane (?)

0 in plane 7 (7 hex), the Unassigned Plane (?)

0 in plane 8 (8 hex), the Unassigned Plane (?)

0 in plane 9 (9 hex), the Unassigned Plane (?)

0 in plane 10 (A in hexadecimal) (A hex), the Unassigned Plane (?)

0 in plane 11 (B in hexadecimal) (B hex), the Unassigned Plane (?)

0 in plane 12 (D in hexadecimal) (C hex), the Unassigned Plane (?)

0 in plane 13 (D in hexadecimal) (D hex), the Unassigned Plane (?)

??? in plane 14 (E in hexadecimal) (E hex), the Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (SSP)

1 in plane 15 (F in hexadecimal) (F hex), the Supplementary Private Use Area-A Plane (SPUA)

1 in plane 16 (10 in hexadecimal) (10 hex), the Supplementary Private Use Area-B Plane (SPUB)