Enclosed Ideographic Supplement
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement is a Unicode block containing forms of characters and words from Chinese, Japanese and Korean enclosed within or stylised as squares, brackets, or circles. It contains three such characters containing one or more kana, and many containing CJK ideographs. Many of its characters were added for compatibility with the Japanese ARIB STD-B24 standard. Six symbols from Chinese folk religion were added in Unicode version 10.
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement | |
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Range | U+1F200..U+1F2FF (256 code points) |
Plane | SMP |
Scripts | Hiragana (1 char.) Common (63 char.) |
Assigned | 64 code points |
Unused | 192 reserved code points |
Source standards | ARIB STD-B24 |
Unicode version history | |
5.2 (2009) | 44 (+44) |
6.0 (2010) | 57 (+13) |
9.0 (2016) | 58 (+1) |
10.0 (2017) | 64 (+6) |
Unicode documentation | |
Code chartโโฃโWeb page | |
Note: [1][2] |
Block
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
U+1F20x | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | |||||||||||||
U+1F21x | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ |
U+1F22x | ๐ | ๐ก | ๐ข | ๐ฃ | ๐ค | ๐ฅ | ๐ฆ | ๐ง | ๐จ | ๐ฉ | ๐ช | ๐ซ | ๐ฌ | ๐ญ | ๐ฎ | ๐ฏ |
U+1F23x | ๐ฐ | ๐ฑ | ๐ฒ | ๐ณ | ๐ด | ๐ต | ๐ถ | ๐ท | ๐ธ | ๐น | ๐บ | ๐ป | ||||
U+1F24x | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | |||||||
U+1F25x | ๐ | ๐ | ||||||||||||||
U+1F26x | ๐ | ๐ก | ๐ข | ๐ฃ | ๐ค | ๐ฅ | ||||||||||
U+1F27x | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F28x | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F29x | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F2Ax | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F2Bx | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F2Cx | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F2Dx | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F2Ex | ||||||||||||||||
U+1F2Fx | ||||||||||||||||
Notes |
Emoji
The Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block contains fifteen emoji: U+1F201โU+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F, U+1F232โU+1F23A and U+1F250โU+1F251.[3][4]
The block has eight standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following four base characters: U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F and U+1F237.[5]
U+ | 1F202 | 1F21A | 1F22F | 1F237 |
default presentation | text | emoji | emoji | text |
base code point | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ฏ | ๐ท |
base+VS15 (text) | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐ฏ๏ธ | ๐ท๏ธ |
base+VS16 (emoji) | ๐๏ธ | ๐๏ธ | ๐ฏ๏ธ | ๐ท๏ธ |
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block:
Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
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5.2 | U+1F200, 1F210..1F231, 1F240..1F248 | 44 | N3353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 | |
L2/07-259 | Suignard, Michel (2007-08-02), Japanese TV Symbols | ||||
L2/07-391 | N3341 | Suignard, Michel (2007-09-18), Japanese TV Symbols | |||
L2/08-077R2 | N3397 | Suignard, Michel (2008-03-11), Japanese TV symbols | |||
L2/08-128 | Iancu, Laurenศiu (2008-03-22), Names and allocation of some Japanese TV symbols from N3397 | ||||
L2/08-158 | Pentzlin, Karl (2008-04-16), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols" | ||||
L2/08-188 | N3468 | Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2008-04-22), Collected comments on Japanese TV Symbols (WG2 N3397) | |||
L2/08-077R3 | N3469 | Suignard, Michel (2008-04-23), Japanese TV symbols | |||
L2/08-215 | Pentzlin, Karl (2008-05-07), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols" | ||||
L2/08-289 | Pentzlin, Karl (2008-08-05), Proposal to rename and reassign some Japanese TV Symbols from L2/08-077R3 | ||||
L2/08-292 | Stรถtzner, Andreas (2008-08-06), Improvement suggestions for n3469 | ||||
L2/08-307 | Scherer, Markus (2008-08-08), Feedback on the Japanese TV Symbols Proposal (L2/08-077R3) | ||||
L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 | |||
L2/08-161R2 | Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C17", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 186 Japanese TV symbols for encoding in a future version of the standard. | ||||
L2/09-234 | N3603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 | |||
L2/09-104 | Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C21", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes | ||||
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] | N4182 | Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429) | |||
6.0 | U+1F201..1F202, 1F232..1F23A, 1F250..1F251[lower-alpha 3] | 13 | L2/09-025R2 | N3582[lower-alpha 4] | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols |
L2/09-026R | N3583 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding | |||
L2/09-027R2 | N3681 | Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data | |||
L2/10-132 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data | ||||
L2/15-050R[lower-alpha 5][lower-alpha 3] | Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji | ||||
9.0 | U+1F23B | 1 | L2/15-238 | N4671 | Proposal to include additional Japanese TV symbols to ISO/IEC 10646, 2015-07-23 |
L2/15-312 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurenศiu (2015-11-01), "10. Japanese TV symbols", Recommendations to UTC #145 November 2015 on Script Proposals | ||||
L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C30", UTC #145 Minutes, Accept U+1F23B plus the list of 18 ARIB symbols based on the consent docket L2/15-270, for encoding in Unicode 9.0. | ||||
N4739 | "M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 | ||||
10.0 | U+1F260..1F265 | 6 | L2/14-278 | Afshar, Shervin; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-11-01), Six New Symbols from Chinese Folk Religion | |
L2/14-250 | Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "Consensus 141-C28", UTC #141 Minutes, Accept the 6 symbol characters U+1F260..U+1F265 for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in L2/14-278R. | ||||
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References
- "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
- "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
- "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.