List of Unicode characters

lowercase in XML documents. The nnnn or hhhh may

be any number of digits and may include leading zeros.
The hhhh may mix uppercase and lowercase, though uppercase is the usual style.
In contrast, a character entity reference refers to a character by the name of an entity which has the desired character as its replacement text. The entity must either be
predened (built into the markup language) or explicitly
declared in a Document Type Denition (DTD). The format is the same as for any entity reference:
&name;
where name is the case-sensitive name of the entity. The
semicolon is required.

2 Control codes
This is a list of Unicode characters.
Main articles: Unicode control characters and C0 and
C1 control codes
See also: ASCII control characters in the article ASCII
See also: Control Pictures
65 characters, including DEL but not SP. All belong to
the common script.

3 Latin script
1

Character reference overview

Main article: Latin script in Unicode

See also: List of XML and HTML character entity The Unicode Standard (version 7.0) classies 1,338 characters as belonging to the Latin script.
references and Unicode input
An HTML or XML numeric character reference refers to
a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code
point, and uses the format

3.1 Basic Latin

Main article: Basic Latin (Unicode block)
Special characters redirects here. For the Wikipedia
editors handbook page, see Help:Special characters.
See also: ASCII printable characters in the article ASCII

&#nnnn;
or

95 characters; the 52 alphabet characters belong to the

Latin script. The remaining 43 belong to the common
script.
The 33 characters classied as ASCII Punctuation &

&#xhhhh;
where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh
is the code point in hexadecimal form. The x must be
1

CYRILLIC

Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special 96 characters; all belong to the Latin script; three in the
characters. See Latin-1 Supplement and Unicode MES-2 subset. For the rest, see IPA Extensions.
symbols for additional special characters.

3.2

Latin-1 Supplement

Main article: Latin-1 Supplement (Unicode block)

4.2 Spacing modier letters

Main article: Spacing Modier Letters

80 characters; 15 in the MES-2 subset.

96 characters; the 62 letters, and two ordinal indicators
belong to the Latin script. The remaining 32 belong to
the common script.
4.3 Phonetic Extensions

3.3

Latin Extended-A

Main article: Latin Extended-A

Phonetic Extensions
Phonetic Extensions Supplement

128 characters; all belong to the Latin script.

5 Combining Diacritical Marks

3.4

Main article: Combining character

Latin Extended-B

Main article: Latin Extended-B

Combining Diacritical Marks
208 characters; all belong to the Latin script; 33 in the
MES-2 subset.

Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement

Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols

3.5

Latin Extended Additional

Main article: Latin Extended Additional

6 Greek and Coptic

256 characters; all belong to the Latin script; 23 in the Main article: Greek and Coptic
MES-2 subset. For the rest, see Latin Extended Addi- See also: Coptic (Unicode block)
tional.

3.6

Additional Latin Extended

Latin Extended-C
Latin Extended-D
Latin Extended-E

Phonetic scripts

Main articles: Phonetic transcription and Phonetic

symbols in Unicode

4.1

IPA Extensions

144 code points; 135 assigned characters; 85 in the MES2 subset.

6.1 Greek Extended

Main article: Greek Extended
For polytonic orthography. 256 code points; 233 assigned
characters, all in the MES-2 subset (#670 902).

7 Cyrillic
Main articles: Cyrillic script in Unicode and Cyrillic
(Unicode block)
See also: Glagolitic (Unicode block)

Main article: IPA Extensions

256 characters; 191 in the MES-2 subset.

7.1

Cyrillic supplements

Bengali (Unicode block)

Cyrillic Supplement

Gurmukhi (Unicode block)

Cyrillic Extended-A

Gujarati (Unicode block)

Cyrillic Extended-B

Oriya (Unicode block)

Tamil (Unicode block)

Armenian
Armenian (Unicode block)

Telugu (Unicode block)

Kannada (Unicode block)
Malayalam (Unicode block)

Semitic languages

Further information: Semitic languages

Sinhala (Unicode block)

Other Brahmic and Indic scripts in Unicode include:
Balinese (Unicode block)

Arabic script in Unicode, including the Persian alphabet, Jawi alphabet and others

Batak (Unicode block)

Arabic Supplement

Buhid (Unicode block)

Arabic Extended-A

Hanunoo (Unicode block)

Unicode and HTML for the Hebrew alphabet

Khmer (Unicode block)

Mandaic (Unicode block)

Khmer Symbols

Samaritan (Unicode block)

Lao (Unicode block)

Syriac (Unicode block)

Lepcha (Unicode block)

Tinagh (Unicode block)

Limbu (Unicode block)

Mon script Unicode

10

Thaana

Thaana (Unicode block)

New Tai Lue (Unicode block)

Ol Chiki (Unicode block)
Sundanese (Unicode block)

11

N'Ko

NKo (Unicode block)

12

Brahmic (Indic) scripts

Syloti Nagri (Unicode block)

Tagalog (Unicode block)
Tagbanwa (Unicode block)
Tai Le (Unicode block)
Tai Tham (Unicode block)

Main article: Brahmic scripts in Unicode

Thai (Unicode block)

The range from U+0900 to U+0DFF includes

Devanagari, Bengali script, Gurmukhi, Gujarati
script, Oriya script, Tamil script, Telugu script, Kannada
script, Malayalam script, and the Sinhala alphabet.

Tibetan (Unicode block)

Devanagari (Unicode block)

Vedic Extensions

13 Georgian
Georgian (Unicode block)
Georgian Supplement

29 BOX DRAWING

14

Ethiopic

Ge'ez script Unicode

15

Native American scripts

Cherokee (Unicode block)

22 Letterlike Symbols
Main article: Letterlike Symbols (Unicode block)

23 Number Forms
Main article: Number Forms (Unicode block)

Unied Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (Unicode

block)
Unied Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended

16

Mongolian

24 Arrows
Main articles: Arrow (symbol) and Arrows (Unicode
block)

Mongolian (Unicode block)

24.1 Supplemental Arrows

17

Buginese

Supplemental Arrows-A
Supplemental Arrows-B

Buginese (Unicode block)

25 Mathematical Operators
18

Unicode symbols

Main article: Unicode symbols

19

General Punctuation

Main article: General Punctuation

See also: Supplemental Punctuation
112 code points; 111 assigned characters; 24 in the MES2 subset.

Main articles: Mathematical operators and symbols in

Unicode and Mathematical Operators

26 Miscellaneous Technical
Main article: Miscellaneous Technical

27 Optical Character Recognition

Optical Character Recognition (Unicode block)

20

Superscripts and Subscripts

28 Enclosed Alphanumerics

Main article:
block)

21

Superscripts and Subscripts (Unicode

Currency Symbols

Main article: Currency Symbols (Unicode block)

Main article: Enclosed Alphanumerics (Unicode block)

29 Box Drawing
Main article: Box Drawing (Unicode block)

30

Block Elements

Ideographic
block)

Main article: Block Elements

See also: Box-drawing characters

Description

Characters

(Unicode

CJK Symbols and Punctuation

Hiragana (Unicode block)
Katakana (Unicode block)

31

Geometric Shapes

Bopomofo (Unicode block)

Hangul Compatibility Jamo

Main article: Geometric Shapes

List of hangul jamo

Kanbun (Unicode block)

32

Miscellaneous Symbols

Main article: Miscellaneous Symbols

CJK Unied Ideographs

Yi Syllables

39 Alphabetic Presentation Forms

33

Dingbats
Main article: Alphabetic Presentation Forms

Dingbats (Unicode block)

34

40 Specials

Braille Patterns

Main article: Specials (Unicode block)

Braille Patterns

35

Miscellaneous
Symbols

Mathematical

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B

36

Supplemental
Operators

Mathematical

Supplemental Mathematical Operators

37

Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows

Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows

38

Chinese, Japanese and Korean

41 Ancient scripts
Ogham (Unicode block)
Runic (Unicode block)
Linear B Syllabary
Linear B Ideograms
Aegean Numbers (Unicode block)
Ancient Greek Numbers (Unicode block)
Ancient Symbols (Unicode block)
Phaistos Disc (Unicode block)
Lycian (Unicode block)
Carian (Unicode block)
Old Italic (Unicode block)
Gothic (Unicode block)
Ugaritic (Unicode block)

CJK Radicals Supplement

Old Persian (Unicode block)

Kangxi Radicals (Unicode block)

Deseret (Unicode block)

48
Shavian (Unicode block)
Osmanya (Unicode block)
Cypriot Syllabary (Unicode block)
Imperial Aramaic (Unicode block)

EXTERNAL LINKS

46 See also
Comparison of Unicode encodings
Free software Unicode typefaces
GNU Unifont

Phoenician (Unicode block)

List of Unicode radicals

Lydian (Unicode block)

List of Unicode fonts

Meroitic Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)

List of typefaces

Meroitic Cursive (Unicode block)

Typographic unit

Kharoshthi (Unicode block)

Unicode Consortium

Avestan (Unicode block)

Unicode fallback font

Inscriptional Parthian (Unicode block)

Unicode typeface

Inscriptional Pahlavi (Unicode block)

Universal Character Set characters

Old Turkic (Unicode block)

Brahmi (Unicode block)
Kaithi (Unicode block)
Cuneiform (Unicode block)
Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation
Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)

42

Musical symbols

Modern
Byzantine
Ancient Greek

43

Emoji

Emoji

44

Alchemical symbols

Alchemical Symbols

45

Game symbols

Mahjong Tiles
Domino Tiles
Playing cards

47 References
[1] Deprecated as of Unicode version 5.2.0 U+0149 Latin
small letter n preceded by apostrophe was encoded for use
in Afrikaans. The character is deprecated, and its use is
strongly discouraged. In nearly all cases it is better represented by a sequence of an apostrophe followed by n.
pg. 208

Unicode 7.0 Character Code Charts, Unicode, Inc.

CWA 13873:2000 Multilingual European Subsets
in ISO/IEC 10646-1 CEN Workshop Agreement
13873
Multilingual European Character Set 2 (MES-2)
Rationale, Markus Kuhn, 1998

48 External links
Ocial web site of the Unicode Consortium (English)
decodeunicode.org Unicode-Wiki with images of
all 98,884 graphical unicode characters (German/English, full text search)
unicodinator.com a visual Unicode navigator
Letters with diacritical marks, grouped alphabetically, Pinyin.info
UTF-8 encoding table and Unicode characters

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