Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation

Summary

Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation is a Unicode block containing symbols and punctuation marks used by ideographic scripts such as Tangut and Nüshu.

Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation
RangeU+16FE0..U+16FFF
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsHan (4 char.)
Khitan small script (1 char.)
Nüshu (1 char.)
Tangut (1 char.)
Assigned7 code points
Unused25 reserved code points
Unicode version history
9.0 (2016)1 (+1)
10.0 (2017)2 (+1)
12.0 (2019)4 (+2)
13.0 (2020)7 (+3)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation[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+16FEx 𖿠 𖿡 𖿢 𖿣  KSS 
F
U+16FFx 𖿰 𖿱
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History edit

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
9.0 U+16FE0 1 L2/10-095 N3797, N3797-A, N3797-B Final proposal for encoding the Tangut script in the SMP of the UCS, 2010-04-05
L2/10-131 N3821 Anderson, Deborah; Cook, Richard (2010-04-16), Comments on Tangut proposal N3797
L2/11-214 N4033, N4033A, N4033B West, Andrew (2011-05-22), Report on Tangut Encoding
L2/12-313 N4325 West, Andrew; et al. (2012-10-02), Proposal to encode the Tangut script in the UCS
L2/14-023 N4522 West, Andrew; Everson, Michael; Xiaomang, Han; Jia, Changye; Jing, Yongshi; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2014-01-21), Proposal to encode the Tangut script in the UCS
L2/14-100 Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "Consensus 139-C14", UTC #139 Minutes
N4553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.12b", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
L2/16-129 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2016-05-05), Name change for U+16FE0
L2/16-121 Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "Consensus 147-C20", UTC #147 Minutes, Change the name of U+16FE0 from TANGUT REPETITION MARK to TANGUT ITERATION MARK for Unicode 9.0.
10.0 U+16FE1 1 L2/09-170 N3635 (pdf, doc) Ad hoc report on Nüshu, 2009-04-21
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
L2/12-362 N4341 Updated Proposal for encoding Nyushu in the SMP, 2012-09-10
L2/12-370 N4376 Aalto, Tero (2012-10-24), Nüshu ad hoc report
N4451 Anderson, Deborah (2013-06-05), Mapping of Nushu characters (from N4376 and N4341) and Additional Comments
L2/16-052 N4603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.03f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63, Rename 1B100 to NUSHU ITERATION MARK and move it to 16FE1 in Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation block
L2/16-203 Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "B.11.3.2", UTC #148 Minutes
12.0 U+16FE2..16FE3 2 L2/17-310 N4847 West, Andrew; Chan, Eiso (2017-09-07), Proposal to encode two marks for ancient Chinese texts
L2/17-367 N4885 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa (2017-09-18), "4. Iteration/Punctuation marks", Comments on WG2 #66 (Sept. 2017) documents
N4953 (pdf, doc) "M66.16h", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
L2/17-362 Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C11", UTC #153 Minutes
13.0 U+16FE4 1 L2/18-121R N4943R West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav; Everson, Michael (2018-05-19), Cluster Formation Model for Khitan Small Script
L2/18-210 N4977 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Constable, Peter; Moore, Lisa; Jeziorek, Marek; Yang, Ben (2018-06-09), "1", Comments on WG2 #67 documents (June 2018)
L2/18-213 N5002 Anderson, Deborah; Constable, Peter (2018-06-20), Khitan Small Script Ad Hoc Report (London)
L2/18-214 Silva, Eduardo Marín (2018-06-27), "KHITAN SMALL SCRIPT FILLER", Feedback on: Additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2017 (5th ed.) beyond Amendment 2 (L2/18-211)
L2/18-241 Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2018-07-25), "9", Recommendations to UTC # 156 July 2018 on Script Proposals
L2/18-300 Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2018-09-14), "9. b.", Recommendations to UTC #157 on Script Proposals
L2/18-272 Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "C.10", UTC #157 Minutes
L2/18-183 Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "C.12 Cluster Formation Model for Khitan Small Script", UTC #156 Minutes
N5020 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "9.2.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
U+16FF0..16FF1 2 L2/17-373R N4915 Collins, Lee; Nhàn, Ngô Thanh (2017-11-06), Proposal to Encode Two Vietnamese Alternate Reading Marks
L2/17-362 Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C20", UTC #153 Minutes
L2/18-281 N5011 West, Andrew; Knightley, John; Chan, Eiso (2018-08-31), Comments on proposed Vietnamese Reading Marks
L2/18-318 N5026 Collins, Lee; Nhàn, Ngô Thanh (2018-10-20), Response to L2/18-281 (Comments on proposed Vietnamese Reading Marks)
L2/18-272 Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "C.6", UTC #157 Minutes
N5020 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "9.1.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also edit

References edit

  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.