Unicode character property

The Unicode Standard assigns character properties to each code point.[1] These properties can be used to handle "characters" (code points) in processes, like in line-breaking, script direction right-to-left or applying controls. Slightly inconsequently, some "character properties" are also defined for code points that have no character assigned, and code points that are labeled like "<not a character>". The character properties are described in Standard Annex #44.[2]

Properties have levels of forcefulness: normative, informative, contributory, or provisional. For simplicity of specification, a character property can be assigned by specifying a continuous range of code points that have the same property.

Name

A Unicode character is assigned a unique Name (na).[1] The name is composed of uppercase letters A–Z, digits 0–9, - (hyphen-minus) and <space>. Some sequences are excluded: names beginning with a space or hyphen, names ending with a space or hyphen, repeated spaces or hyphens, and space after hyphen are not allowed. The name is guaranteed to be unique within Unicode, and can be used to identify a code point and its character. Ideographic characters, of which there are tens of thousands, are named in the pattern "cjk unified ideograph-hhhh". For example, U+4E00 一 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E00. Formatting characters are named too: U+00A0   NO-BREAK SPACE.

The following classes of code point do not have a Name (na=""): Controls (General Category: Cc), Private use (Co), Surrogate (Cs), Non-characters (Cn) and Reserved (Cn). They may be referenced, informally, by a generic or specific meta-name, called "Code Point Labels": <control>, <control-0088>, <reserved>, <noncharacter-hhhh>, <private-use-hhhh>, <surrogate>. Since these labels contain <>-brackets, they can never appear as a Name, which prevents confusion.

Version 1.0 names

In version 2.0 of Unicode, many names were changed. From then on the rule "a name will never change" came into effect, including the strict (normative) use of alias names. Disused version 1.0-names were moved to the property Alias, to provide some backward compatibility.

Character name alias

Starting from Unicode version 2.0, the published name for a code point will never change. Therefore, in the event of a character name being misspelled or if the character name is completely wrong or seriously misleading, a formal Character Name Alias may be assigned to the character, and this alias may be used by applications instead of the actual defective character name.[1] For example, U+FE18 ︘ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRAKCET has the character name alias "PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET" in order to mitigate the misspelling of "bracket" as "brakcet" in the actual character name; U+A015 ꀕ YI SYLLABLE WU has the character name alias "YI SYLLABLE ITERATION MARK" because contrary to the character name it does not have a fixed syllabic value.

In addition to character name aliases which are corrections to defective character names, some characters are assigned aliases which are alternative names or abbreviations. Five types of character name aliases are defined in the Unicode Standard:

• Correction: corrections for misspelled or seriously incorrect character names;
• Control: ISO 6429 names for C0 and C1 control functions (which are not assigned character names in the Unicode Standard);
• Alternate: alternative names for some format characters (only U+FEFF "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE" which has the alias "BYTE ORDER MARK");
• Figment: Documented labels for some C1 control code functions which are not actual names in any standard;
• Abbreviation: Abbreviations or acronyms for control codes, format characters, spaces, and variation selectors.

All formal character name aliases follow the rules for permissible character names, and are guaranteed to be unique within both the character name alias and the character name namespaces (for this reason, the ISO 6429 name "BELL" is not defined as an alias for U+0007 because U+1F514 is named "BELL").[1]

As of Unicode version 12.1, twenty-eight formal character name aliases are defined as corrections for defective character names.[3]

List of character name corrections (alias names)
Character		Name	Alias
01A2	Ƣ	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OI	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GHA
01A3	ƣ	LATIN SMALL LETTER OI	LATIN SMALL LETTER GHA
0709	܉	SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED RIGHT	SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED LEFT
0CDE	ೞ	KANNADA LETTER FA	KANNADA LETTER LLLA
0E9D	ຝ	LAO LETTER FO TAM	LAO LETTER FO FON
0E9F	ຟ	LAO LETTER FO SUNG	LAO LETTER FO FAY
0EA3	ຣ	LAO LETTER LO LING	LAO LETTER RO
0EA5	ລ	LAO LETTER LO LOOT	LAO LETTER LO
0FD0	࿐	TIBETAN MARK BSKA- SHOG GI MGO RGYAN	TIBETAN MARK BKA- SHOG GI MGO RGYAN
11EC	ᇬ	HANGUL JONGSEONG IEUNG-KIYEOK	HANGUL JONGSEONG YESIEUNG-KIYEOK
11ED	ᇭ	HANGUL JONGSEONG IEUNG-SSANGKIYEOK	HANGUL JONGSEONG YESIEUNG-SSANGKIYEOK
11EE	ᇮ	HANGUL JONGSEONG SSANGIEUNG	HANGUL JONGSEONG SSANGYESIEUNG
11EF	ᇯ	HANGUL JONGSEONG IEUNG-KHIEUKH	HANGUL JONGSEONG YESIEUNG-KHIEUKH
2118	℘	SCRIPT CAPITAL P	WEIERSTRASS ELLIPTIC FUNCTION
2448	⑈	OCR DASH	MICR ON US SYMBOL
2449	⑉	OCR CUSTOMER ACCOUNT NUMBER	MICR DASH SYMBOL
2B7A	⭺	LEFTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW WITH DOUBLE HORIZONTAL STROKE	LEFTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW WITH DOUBLE VERTICAL STROKE
2B7C	⭼	RIGHTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW WITH DOUBLE HORIZONTAL STROKE	RIGHTWARDS TRIANGLE-HEADED ARROW WITH DOUBLE VERTICAL STROKE
A015	ꀕ	YI SYLLABLE WU	YI SYLLABLE ITERATION MARK
FE18	︘	PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRAKCET	PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET
122D4	𒋔	CUNEIFORM SIGN SHIR TENU	CUNEIFORM SIGN NU11 TENU
122D5	𒋕	CUNEIFORM SIGN SHIR OVER SHIR BUR OVER BUR	CUNEIFORM SIGN NU11 OVER NU11 BUR OVER BUR
16E56	𖹖	MEDEFAIDRIN CAPITAL LETTER HP	MEDEFAIDRIN CAPITAL LETTER H
16E57	𖹗	MEDEFAIDRIN CAPITAL LETTER NY	MEDEFAIDRIN CAPITAL LETTER NG
16E76	𖹶	MEDEFAIDRIN SMALL LETTER HP	MEDEFAIDRIN SMALL LETTER H
16E77	𖹷	MEDEFAIDRIN SMALL LETTER NY	MEDEFAIDRIN SMALL LETTER NG
1B001	𛀁	HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC YE	HENTAIGANA LETTER E-1
1D0C5	𝃅	BYZANTINE MUSICAL SYMBOL FHTORA SKLIRON CHROMA VASIS	BYZANTINE MUSICAL SYMBOL FTHORA SKLIRON CHROMA VASIS

Apart from these normative names, informal names may be shown in the Unicode code charts. These are other commonly used names for a character, and need not be restricted to letters A–Z, digits 0–9, - (hyphen-minus) and <space>. These informal names are not guaranteed to be unique, and may be changed or removed in later versions of the standard.

General Category

Each code point is assigned a value for General Category. This is one of the character properties that are also defined for unassigned code points, and code points that are defined "not a character".

General Category (Unicode Character Property)[lower-alpha 1]
Value	Category Major, minor	Basic type[lower-alpha 2]	Character assigned[lower-alpha 2]	Count (as of 13.0)	Remarks
L, Letter
Lu	Letter, uppercase	Graphic	Character	1,791
Ll	Letter, lowercase	Graphic	Character	2,155
Lt	Letter, titlecase	Graphic	Character	31	Ligatures containing uppercase followed by lowercase letters (e.g., Dž, Lj, Nj, and Dz)
Lm	Letter, modifier	Graphic	Character	260	A modifier letter
Lo	Letter, other	Graphic	Character	127,004	An ideograph or a letter in a unicase alphabet
M, Mark
Mn	Mark, nonspacing	Graphic	Character	1,839
Mc	Mark, spacing combining	Graphic	Character	443
Me	Mark, enclosing	Graphic	Character	13
N, Number
Nd	Number, decimal digit	Graphic	Character	650	All these, and only these, have Numeric Type = De[lower-alpha 3]
Nl	Number, letter	Graphic	Character	236	Numerals composed of letters or letterlike symbols (e.g., Roman numerals)
No	Number, other	Graphic	Character	895	E.g., vulgar fractions, superscript and subscript digits
P, Punctuation
Pc	Punctuation, connector	Graphic	Character	10	Includes "_" underscore
Pd	Punctuation, dash	Graphic	Character	25	Includes several hyphen characters
Ps	Punctuation, open	Graphic	Character	75	Opening bracket characters
Pe	Punctuation, close	Graphic	Character	73	Closing bracket characters
Pi	Punctuation, initial quote	Graphic	Character	12	Opening quotation mark. Does not include the ASCII "neutral" quotation mark. May behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage
Pf	Punctuation, final quote	Graphic	Character	10	Closing quotation mark. May behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage
Po	Punctuation, other	Graphic	Character	593
S, Symbol
Sm	Symbol, math	Graphic	Character	948	Mathematical symbols (e.g., +, −, =, ×, ÷, √, ∊, ≠). Does not include parentheses and brackets, which are in categories Ps and Pe. Also does not include !, *, -, or /, which despite frequent use as mathematical operators, are primarily considered to be "punctuation".
Sc	Symbol, currency	Graphic	Character	62	Currency symbols
Sk	Symbol, modifier	Graphic	Character	123
So	Symbol, other	Graphic	Character	6,431
Z, Separator
Zs	Separator, space	Graphic	Character	17	Includes the space, but not TAB, CR, or LF, which are Cc
Zl	Separator, line	Format	Character	1	Only U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR (LSEP)
Zp	Separator, paragraph	Format	Character	1	Only U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR (PSEP)
C, Other
Cc	Other, control	Control	Character	65 (will never change)[lower-alpha 3]	No name,[lower-alpha 4] <control>
Cf	Other, format	Format	Character	161	Includes the soft hyphen, joining control characters (zwnj and zwj), control characters to support bi-directional text, and language tag characters
Cs	Other, surrogate	Surrogate	Not (but abstract)	2,048 (will never change)[lower-alpha 3]	No name,[lower-alpha 4] <surrogate>
Co	Other, private use	Private-use	Not (but abstract)	137,468 total (will never change)[lower-alpha 3] (6,400 in BMP, 131,068 in Planes 15–16)	No name,[lower-alpha 4] <private-use>
Cn	Other, not assigned	Noncharacter	Not	66 (will never change)[lower-alpha 3]	No name,[lower-alpha 4] <noncharacter>
		Reserved	Not	830,606	No name,[lower-alpha 4] <reserved>
"Table 4-4: General Category" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. March 2020. "Table 2-3: Types of code points" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. March 2020. Unicode Character Encoding Stability Policies: Property Value Stability Stability policy: Some gc groups will never change. gc=Nd corresponds with Numeric Type=De (decimal). "Table 4-9: Construction of Code Point Labels" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. March 2020. A Code Point Label may be used to identify a nameless code point. E.g. <control-hhhh>, <control-0088>. The Name remains blank, which can prevent inadvertently replacing, in documentation, a Control Name with a true Control code. Unicode also uses <not a character> for <noncharacter>.

Punctuation

Characters have separate properties to denote they are a punctuation character. The properties all have a Yes/No values: Dash, Quotation_Mark, Sentence_Terminal, Terminal_Punctuation.

Whitespace

Whitespace is a commonly used concept for a typographic effect. Basically it covers invisible characters that have a spacing effect in rendered text. It includes spaces, tabs, and new line formatting controls. In Unicode, such a character has the property set "WSpace=yes". In version 13.0, there are 25 whitespace characters.

Unicode characters with property White_Space=yes[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2]
Name	Code point		Width box	May break?	In IDN?	Script	Block	General category	Notes
character tabulation	U+0009	9		Yes	No	Common	Basic Latin	Other, control	HT, Horizontal Tab. HTML/XML named entity: 	, LaTeX: '\tab'
line feed	U+000A	10	Is a line-break			Common	Basic Latin	Other, control	LF, Line feed. HTML/XML named entity: 

line tabulation	U+000B	11	Is a line-break			Common	Basic Latin	Other, control	VT, Vertical Tab
form feed	U+000C	12	Is a line-break			Common	Basic Latin	Other, control	FF, Form feed
carriage return	U+000D	13	Is a line-break			Common	Basic Latin	Other, control	CR, Carriage return
space	U+0020	32		Yes	No	Common	Basic Latin	Separator, space	Most common (normal ASCII space)
next line	U+0085	133	Is a line-break			Common	Latin-1 Supplement	Other, control	NEL, Next line
no-break space	U+00A0	160		No	No	Common	Latin-1 Supplement	Separator, space	Non-breaking space: identical to U+0020, but not a point at which a line may be broken. HTML/XML named entity:  , LaTeX: '\ '
ogham space mark	U+1680	5760		Yes	No	Ogham	Ogham	Separator, space	Used for interword separation in Ogham text. Normally a vertical line in vertical text or a horizontal line in horizontal text, but may also be a blank space in "stemless" fonts. Requires an Ogham font.
en quad	U+2000	8192		Yes	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	Width of one en. U+2002 is canonically equivalent to this character; U+2002 is preferred.
em quad	U+2001	8193		Yes	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	Also known as "mutton quad". Width of one em. U+2003 is canonically equivalent to this character; U+2003 is preferred.
en space	U+2002	8194		Yes	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	Also known as "nut". Width of one en. U+2000 En Quad is canonically equivalent to this character; U+2002 is preferred. HTML/XML named entity:  , LaTeX: '\enspace'
em space	U+2003	8195		Yes	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	Also known as "mutton". Width of one em. U+2001 Em Quad is canonically equivalent to this character; U+2003 is preferred. HTML/XML named entity:  , LaTeX: '\quad'
three-per-em space	U+2004	8196		Yes	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	Also known as "thick space". One third of an em wide. HTML/XML named entity:  
four-per-em space	U+2005	8197		Yes	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	Also known as "mid space". One fourth of an em wide. HTML/XML named entity:  
six-per-em space	U+2006	8198		Yes	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	One sixth of an em wide. In computer typography, sometimes equated to U+2009.
figure space	U+2007	8199		No	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	Figure space. In fonts with monospaced digits, equal to the width of one digit. HTML/XML named entity:  
punctuation space	U+2008	8200		Yes	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	As wide as the narrow punctuation in a font, i.e. the advance width of the period or comma.[4] HTML/XML named entity:  
thin space	U+2009	8201		Yes	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	Thin space; one-fifth (sometimes one-sixth) of an em wide. Recommended for use as a thousands separator for measures made with SI units. Unlike U+2002 to U+2008, its width may get adjusted in typesetting.[5] HTML/XML named entity:  ; LaTeX: '\,'
hair space	U+200A	8202		Yes	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	Thinner than a thin space. HTML/XML named entity:   (does not work in all browsers)
line separator	U+2028	8232	Is a line-break			Common	General Punctuation	Separator, line
paragraph separator	U+2029	8233	Is a line-break			Common	General Punctuation	Separator, paragraph
narrow no-break space	U+202F	8239		No	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	Narrow no-break space. Similar in function to U+00A0 No-Break Space. When used with Mongolian, its width is usually one third of the normal space; in other context, its width sometimes resembles that of the Thin Space (U+2009).
medium mathematical space	U+205F	8287		Yes	No	Common	General Punctuation	Separator, space	MMSP. Used in mathematical formulae. Four-eighteenths of an em.[6] In mathematical typography, the widths of spaces are usually given in integral multiples of an eighteenth of an em, and 4/18 em may be used in several situations, for example between the a and the + and between the + and the b in the expression a + b.[7] HTML/XML named entity:  
ideographic space	U+3000	12288		Yes	No	Common	CJK Symbols and Punctuation	Separator, space	As wide as a CJK character cell (fullwidth). Used, for example, in tai tou.

Related Unicode characters property White_Space=no
Name	Code point		Width box	May break?	In IDN?	Script	Block	General category	Notes
mongolian vowel separator	U+180E	6158	᠎	Yes	No	Mongolian	Mongolian	Other, Format	MVS. A narrow space character, used in Mongolian to cause the final two characters of a word to take on different shapes.[8] It is no longer classified as space character (i.e. in Zs category) in Unicode 6.3.0, even though it was in previous versions of the standard.
zero width space	U+200B	8203	​	Yes	No	?	General Punctuation	Other, Format	ZWSP, zero-width space. Used to indicate word boundaries to text processing systems when using scripts that do not use explicit spacing. It is similar to the soft hyphen, with the difference that the latter is used to indicate syllable boundaries, and should display a visible hyphen when the line breaks at it. HTML/XML named entity: ​[9][lower-alpha 3]
zero width non-joiner	U+200C	8204	‌	Yes	Context-dependent[14]	?	General Punctuation	Other, Format	ZWNJ, zero-width non-joiner. When placed between two characters that would otherwise be connected, a ZWNJ causes them to be printed in their final and initial forms, respectively. HTML/XML named entity: ‌
zero width joiner	U+200D	8205	‍	Yes	Context-dependent[15]	?	General Punctuation	Other, Format	ZWJ, zero-width joiner. When placed between two characters that would otherwise not be connected, a ZWJ causes them to be printed in their connected forms. Can also be used to display joining forms in isolation. Depending on whether a ligature or conjunct is expected by default, can either induce (as in emoji and in Sinhala) or suppress (as in Devanagari) substitution with a single glyph, whilst still permitting use of individual joining forms (unlike ZWNJ). HTML/XML named entity: ‍
word joiner	U+2060	8288	⁠	No	No	?	General Punctuation	Other, Format	WJ, word joiner. Similar to U+200B, but not a point at which a line may be broken. HTML/XML named entity: ⁠
zero width non-breaking space	U+FEFF	65279		No	No	?	Arabic Presentation Forms-B	Other, Format	Zero-width non-breaking space. Used primarily as a Byte Order Mark. Use as an indication of non-breaking is deprecated as of Unicode 3.2; see U+2060 instead.

White_Space is a binary Unicode property.[lower-alpha 4] "Unicode 13.0 UCD: PropList.txt". 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2020-03-12. Although ​ is one HTML5 named entity for U+200B, the additional names NegativeMediumSpace, NegativeThickSpace, NegativeThinSpace and NegativeVeryThinSpace (which are names used in the Wolfram Language for negative-advance spaces, which it maps to the Private Use Area)[10][11][12][13] are also defined by HTML5 as aliases for U+200B (e.g. ​).[9] "Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database".

Other general characteristics

Ideographic, alphabetic, noncharacter.

Display-related properties

Shaping, width.

Bidirectional writing

Six character properties pertain to bi-directional writing: Bidi_Class, Bidi_Control, Bidi_Mirrored, Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph, Bidi_Paired_Bracket and Bidi_Paired_Bracket_Type.

One of Unicode's major features is support of bi-directional (Bidi) text display right-to-left (R-to-L) and left-to-right (L-to-R). The Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm UAX9[16] describes the process of presenting text with altering script directions. For example, it enables a Hebrew quote in an English text. The Bidi_Character_Type marks a character's behaviour in directional writing. To override a direction, Unicode has defined special formatting control characters (Bidi-Controls). These characters can enforce a direction, and by definition only affect bi-directional writing.

Each code point has a property called Bidi_Class. It defines its behaviour in a bidirectional text as interpreted by the algorithm:

Bidirectional character type (Unicode character property Bidi_Class)^[1]

Type^[2]	Description	Strength	Directionality	General scope	Bidi_Control character^[3]
L	Left-to-Right	Strong	L-to-R	Most alphabetic and syllabic characters, Chinese characters, non-European or non-Arabic digits, LRM character, ...	U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK (LRM)
R	Right-to-Left	Strong	R-to-L	Adlam, Hebrew, Mandaic, Mende Kikakui, N'Ko, Samaritan, ancient scripts like Kharoshthi and Nabataean, RLM character, ...	U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK (RLM)
AL	Arabic Letter	Strong	R-to-L	Arabic, Hanifi Rohingya, Sogdian, Syriac, and Thaana alphabets, and most punctuation specific to those scripts, ALM character, ...	U+061C ARABIC LETTER MARK (ALM)
EN	European Number	Weak		European digits, Eastern Arabic-Indic digits, Coptic epact numbers, ...
ES	European Separator	Weak		plus sign, minus sign, ...
ET	European Number Terminator	Weak		degree sign, currency symbols, ...
AN	Arabic Number	Weak		Arabic-Indic digits, Arabic decimal and thousands separators, Rumi digits, Hanifi Rohingya digits, ...
CS	Common Number Separator	Weak		colon, comma, full stop, no-break space, ...
NSM	Nonspacing Mark	Weak		Characters in General Categories Mark, nonspacing, and Mark, enclosing (Mn, Me)
BN	Boundary Neutral	Weak		Default ignorables, non-characters, control characters other than those explicitly given other types
B	Paragraph Separator	Neutral		paragraph separator, appropriate Newline Functions, higher-level protocol paragraph determination
S	Segment Separator	Neutral		Tabs
WS	Whitespace	Neutral		space, figure space, line separator, form feed, General Punctuation block spaces (smaller set than the Unicode whitespace list)
ON	Other Neutrals	Neutral		All other characters, including object replacement character
LRE	Left-to-Right Embedding	Explicit	L-to-R	LRE character only	U+202A LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING (LRE)
LRO	Left-to-Right Override	Explicit	L-to-R	LRO character only	U+202D LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE (LRO)
RLE	Right-to-Left Embedding	Explicit	R-to-L	RLE character only	U+202B RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING (RLE)
RLO	Right-to-Left Override	Explicit	R-to-L	RLO character only	U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE (RLO)
PDF	Pop Directional Format	Explicit		PDF character only	U+202C POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING (PDF)
LRI	Left-to-Right Isolate	Explicit	L-to-R	LRI character only	U+2066 LEFT-TO-RIGHT ISOLATE (LRI)
RLI	Right-to-Left Isolate	Explicit	R-to-L	RLI character only	U+2067 RIGHT-TO-LEFT ISOLATE (RLI)
FSI	First Strong Isolate	Explicit		FSI character only	U+2068 FIRST STRONG ISOLATE (FSI)
PDI	Pop Directional Isolate	Explicit		PDI character only	U+2069 POP DIRECTIONAL ISOLATE (PDI)
Notes 1.^ Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UAX#9), As of Unicode version 12.0 2.^ Possible Bidirectional character types for character property: Bidi_Class or 'type' 3.^ Bidi_Control characters: Twelve Bidi_Control formatting characters are defined. They are invisible, and have no effect apart from directionality. Nine of them have a unique, overruling BiDi-type that is used by the algorithm. Their type is also their acronym (e.g. character 'LRE' has BiDi type 'LRE').

In normal situations, the algorithm can determine the direction of a text by this character property. To control more complex Bidi situations, e.g. when an English text has a Hebrew quote, extra options are added to Unicode. Twelve characters have the property Bidi_Control=Yes: ALM, FSI, LRE, LRI, LRM, LRO, PDF, PDI, RLE, RLI, RLM and RLO as named in the table. These are invisible formatting control characters, only used by the algorithm and with no effect outside of bidirectional formatting.[16] Despite the name, they are formatting characters, not control characters, and have General category "Other, format (Cf)" in the Unicode definition.

Basically, the algorithm determines a sequence of characters with the same strong direction type (R-to-L or L-to-R), taking in account an overruling by the special Bidi-controls. Number strings (Weak types) are assigned a direction according to their strong environment, as are Neutral characters. Finally, the characters are displayed per a string's direction.

Two character properties are relevant to determining a mirror image of a glyph in bidirectional text: Bidi_Mirrored=Yes indicates that the glyph should be mirrored when written R-to-L. The property Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph=U+hhhh can then point to the mirrored character. For example, brackets "()" are mirrored this way. Shaping cursive scripts such as Arabic, and mirroring glyphs that have a direction, is not part of the algorithm.

Casing

The Case value is Normative in Unicode. It pertains to those scripts with uppercase (aka capital, majuscule) and the lowercase (aka small, minuscule) letters. Case-difference occurs in Adlam, Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic, Cyrillic, Deseret, Glagolitic, Greek, Khutsuri and Mkhedruli Georgian, Latin, Medefaidrin, Old Hungarian, Osage and Warang Citi scripts.

(upper, lower, title, folding—both simple and full)

Numeric values and types

Decimal

Characters are classified with a Numeric type.[1] Characters such as fractions, subscripts, superscripts, Roman numerals, currency numerators, encircled numbers, and script-specific digits are type Numeric. They have a numeric value that can be decimal, including zero and negatives, or a vulgar fraction. If there is not such a value, as with most of the characters, the numeric type is "None".

The characters that do have a numeric value are separated in three groups: Decimal (De), Digit (Di) and Numeric (Nu, i.e. all other). "Decimal" means the character is a straight decimal digit. Only characters that are part of a contiguous encoded range 0..9 have numeric type Decimal. Other digits, like superscripts, have numeric type Digit. All numeric characters like fractions and Roman numerals end up with the type "Numeric". The intended effect is that a simple parser can use these decimal numeric values, without being distracted by say a numeric superscript or a fraction. Seventy-three CJK Ideographs that represent a number, including those used for accounting, are typed Numeric.

On the other hand, characters that could have a numeric value as a second meaning are still marked Numeric type "None", and have no numeric value (""). E.g. Latin letters can be used in paragraph numbering like "II.A.1.b", but the letters "I", "A" and "b" are not numeric (type "None") and have no numeric value.

Numeric Type^[a]^[b] (Unicode character property)
Numeric type	Code	Has numeric value	Example	Remarks
Not numeric	None	No	A X (Latin) ! Д μ に	Numeric Value="NaN"
Decimal	De	Yes	0 1 9 ६ (Devanagari 6) ೬ (Kannada 6) 𝟨 (Mathematical, styled sans serif)	Straight digit (decimal-radix). Corresponds both ways with General Category=Nd^[a]
Digit	Di	Yes	¹ (superscript) ① ⒈ (digit with full stop)	Decimal, but in typographic context
Numeric	Nu	Yes	¾ ௰ (Tamil number ten) Ⅹ (Roman numeral) 六 (Han number 6)	Numeric value, but not decimal-radix
a. ^ "Section 4.6: Numeric Value" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. March 2020.
b. ^ "Unicode 13.0 Derived Numeric Types". Unicode Character Database. Unicode Consortium. 2019-09-08.

Hexadecimal digits

Hexadecimal characters are those in the series with hexadecimal values 0...9ABCDEF (sixteen characters, decimal value 0–15). The character property Hex_Digit is set to Yes when a character is in such a series:

Characters in Unicode marked Hex_Digit=Yes^[a]
0123456789ABCDEF	Basic Latin, capitals	Also ASCII_Hex_Digit=Yes
0123456789abcdef	Basic Latin, small letters	Also ASCII_Hex_Digit=Yes
０１２３４５６７８９ＡＢＣＤＥＦ	Fullwidth forms, capitals
０１２３４５６７８９ａｂｃｄｅｆ	Fullwidth forms, small letters
a. ^ "Unicode 13.0 UCD: PropList.txt". 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2020-03-12.

Forty-four characters are marked as Hex_Digit. The ones in the Basic Latin block are also marked as ASCII_Hex_Digit.

Unicode has no separate characters for hexadecimal values. A consequence is, that when using regular characters it is not possible to determine whether hexadecimal value is intended, or even whether a value is intended at all. That should be determined at a higher level, e.g. by prepending "0x" to a hexadecimal number or by context. The only feature is that Unicode can note that a sequence can or can not be a hexadecimal value.

Block

A block is a uniquely named, contiguous range of code points. It is identified by its first and last code point. Blocks do not overlap. A block may contain code points that are reserved, not-assigned etc. Each character that is assigned, has a single "block name" value from the 308 names assigned as of Unicode version 13.0 Unassigned code points outside of an existing block, have the default value "No_block".

Unicode blocks and contained scripts
Plane	Block range	Block name	Code points[lower-alpha 1]	Assigned characters	Scripts[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4][lower-alpha 5][lower-alpha 6]
0 BMP	U+0000..U+007F	Basic Latin[lower-alpha 7]	128	128	Latin (52 characters), Common (76 characters)
	U+0080..U+00FF	Latin-1 Supplement[lower-alpha 8]	128	128	Latin (64 characters), Common (64 characters)
	U+0100..U+017F	Latin Extended-A	128	128	Latin
	U+0180..U+024F	Latin Extended-B	208	208	Latin
	U+0250..U+02AF	IPA Extensions	96	96	Latin
	U+02B0..U+02FF	Spacing Modifier Letters	80	80	Bopomofo (2 characters), Latin (14 characters), Common (64 characters)
	U+0300..U+036F	Combining Diacritical Marks	112	112	Inherited
	U+0370..U+03FF	Greek and Coptic	144	135	Coptic (14 characters), Greek (117 characters), Common (4 characters)
	U+0400..U+04FF	Cyrillic	256	256	Cyrillic (254 characters), Inherited (2 characters)
	U+0500..U+052F	Cyrillic Supplement	48	48	Cyrillic
0 BMP	U+0530..U+058F	Armenian	96	91	Armenian
	U+0590..U+05FF	Hebrew	112	88	Hebrew
	U+0600..U+06FF	Arabic	256	255	Arabic (237 characters), Common (6 characters), Inherited (12 characters)
	U+0700..U+074F	Syriac	80	77	Syriac
	U+0750..U+077F	Arabic Supplement	48	48	Arabic
	U+0780..U+07BF	Thaana	64	50	Thaana
	U+07C0..U+07FF	NKo	64	62	Nko
	U+0800..U+083F	Samaritan	64	61	Samaritan
	U+0840..U+085F	Mandaic	32	29	Mandaic
	U+0860..U+086F	Syriac Supplement	16	11	Syriac
0 BMP	U+08A0..U+08FF	Arabic Extended-A	96	84	Arabic (83 characters), Common (1 character)
	U+0900..U+097F	Devanagari	128	128	Devanagari (122 characters), Common (2 characters), Inherited (4 characters)
	U+0980..U+09FF	Bengali	128	96	Bengali
	U+0A00..U+0A7F	Gurmukhi	128	80	Gurmukhi
	U+0A80..U+0AFF	Gujarati	128	91	Gujarati
	U+0B00..U+0B7F	Oriya	128	91	Oriya
	U+0B80..U+0BFF	Tamil	128	72	Tamil
	U+0C00..U+0C7F	Telugu	128	98	Telugu
	U+0C80..U+0CFF	Kannada	128	89	Kannada
	U+0D00..U+0D7F	Malayalam	128	118	Malayalam
0 BMP	U+0D80..U+0DFF	Sinhala	128	91	Sinhala
	U+0E00..U+0E7F	Thai	128	87	Thai (86 characters), Common (1 character)
	U+0E80..U+0EFF	Lao	128	82	Lao
	U+0F00..U+0FFF	Tibetan	256	211	Tibetan (207 characters), Common (4 characters)
	U+1000..U+109F	Myanmar	160	160	Myanmar
	U+10A0..U+10FF	Georgian	96	88	Georgian (87 characters), Common (1 character)
	U+1100..U+11FF	Hangul Jamo	256	256	Hangul
	U+1200..U+137F	Ethiopic	384	358	Ethiopic
	U+1380..U+139F	Ethiopic Supplement	32	26	Ethiopic
	U+13A0..U+13FF	Cherokee	96	92	Cherokee
0 BMP	U+1400..U+167F	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics	640	640	Canadian Aboriginal
	U+1680..U+169F	Ogham	32	29	Ogham
	U+16A0..U+16FF	Runic	96	89	Runic (86 characters), Common (3 characters)
	U+1700..U+171F	Tagalog	32	20	Tagalog
	U+1720..U+173F	Hanunoo	32	23	Hanunoo (21 characters), Common (2 characters)
	U+1740..U+175F	Buhid	32	20	Buhid
	U+1760..U+177F	Tagbanwa	32	18	Tagbanwa
	U+1780..U+17FF	Khmer	128	114	Khmer
	U+1800..U+18AF	Mongolian	176	157	Mongolian (154 characters), Common (3 characters)
	U+18B0..U+18FF	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended	80	70	Canadian Aboriginal
0 BMP	U+1900..U+194F	Limbu	80	68	Limbu
	U+1950..U+197F	Tai Le	48	35	Tai Le
	U+1980..U+19DF	New Tai Lue	96	83	New Tai Lue
	U+19E0..U+19FF	Khmer Symbols	32	32	Khmer
	U+1A00..U+1A1F	Buginese	32	30	Buginese
	U+1A20..U+1AAF	Tai Tham	144	127	Tai Tham
	U+1AB0..U+1AFF	Combining Diacritical Marks Extended	80	17	Inherited
	U+1B00..U+1B7F	Balinese	128	121	Balinese
	U+1B80..U+1BBF	Sundanese	64	64	Sundanese
	U+1BC0..U+1BFF	Batak	64	56	Batak
0 BMP	U+1C00..U+1C4F	Lepcha	80	74	Lepcha
	U+1C50..U+1C7F	Ol Chiki	48	48	Ol Chiki
	U+1C80..U+1C8F	Cyrillic Extended-C	16	9	Cyrillic
	U+1C90..U+1CBF	Georgian Extended	48	46	Georgian
	U+1CC0..U+1CCF	Sundanese Supplement	16	8	Sundanese
	U+1CD0..U+1CFF	Vedic Extensions	48	43	Common (16 characters), Inherited (27 characters)
	U+1D00..U+1D7F	Phonetic Extensions	128	128	Cyrillic (2 characters), Greek (15 characters), Latin (111 characters)
	U+1D80..U+1DBF	Phonetic Extensions Supplement	64	64	Greek (1 character), Latin (63 characters)
	U+1DC0..U+1DFF	Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement	64	63	Inherited
	U+1E00..U+1EFF	Latin Extended Additional	256	256	Latin
0 BMP	U+1F00..U+1FFF	Greek Extended	256	233	Greek
	U+2000..U+206F	General Punctuation	112	111	Common (109 characters), Inherited (2 characters)
	U+2070..U+209F	Superscripts and Subscripts	48	42	Latin (15 characters), Common (27 characters)
	U+20A0..U+20CF	Currency Symbols	48	32	Common
	U+20D0..U+20FF	Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols	48	33	Inherited
	U+2100..U+214F	Letterlike Symbols	80	80	Greek (1 character), Latin (4 characters), Common (75 characters)
	U+2150..U+218F	Number Forms	64	60	Latin (41 characters), Common (19 characters)
	U+2190..U+21FF	Arrows	112	112	Common
	U+2200..U+22FF	Mathematical Operators	256	256	Common
	U+2300..U+23FF	Miscellaneous Technical	256	256	Common
0 BMP	U+2400..U+243F	Control Pictures	64	39	Common
	U+2440..U+245F	Optical Character Recognition	32	11	Common
	U+2460..U+24FF	Enclosed Alphanumerics	160	160	Common
	U+2500..U+257F	Box Drawing	128	128	Common
	U+2580..U+259F	Block Elements	32	32	Common
	U+25A0..U+25FF	Geometric Shapes	96	96	Common
	U+2600..U+26FF	Miscellaneous Symbols	256	256	Common
	U+2700..U+27BF	Dingbats	192	192	Common
	U+27C0..U+27EF	Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A	48	48	Common
	U+27F0..U+27FF	Supplemental Arrows-A	16	16	Common
0 BMP	U+2800..U+28FF	Braille Patterns	256	256	Braille
	U+2900..U+297F	Supplemental Arrows-B	128	128	Common
	U+2980..U+29FF	Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B	128	128	Common
	U+2A00..U+2AFF	Supplemental Mathematical Operators	256	256	Common
	U+2B00..U+2BFF	Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows	256	253	Common
	U+2C00..U+2C5F	Glagolitic	96	94	Glagolitic
	U+2C60..U+2C7F	Latin Extended-C	32	32	Latin
	U+2C80..U+2CFF	Coptic	128	123	Coptic
	U+2D00..U+2D2F	Georgian Supplement	48	40	Georgian
	U+2D30..U+2D7F	Tifinagh	80	59	Tifinagh
0 BMP	U+2D80..U+2DDF	Ethiopic Extended	96	79	Ethiopic
	U+2DE0..U+2DFF	Cyrillic Extended-A	32	32	Cyrillic
	U+2E00..U+2E7F	Supplemental Punctuation	128	83	Common
	U+2E80..U+2EFF	CJK Radicals Supplement	128	115	Han
	U+2F00..U+2FDF	Kangxi Radicals	224	214	Han
	U+2FF0..U+2FFF	Ideographic Description Characters	16	12	Common
	U+3000..U+303F	CJK Symbols and Punctuation	64	64	Han (15 characters), Hangul (2 characters), Common (43 characters), Inherited (4 characters)
	U+3040..U+309F	Hiragana	96	93	Hiragana (89 characters), Common (2 characters), Inherited (2 characters)
	U+30A0..U+30FF	Katakana	96	96	Katakana (93 characters), Common (3 characters)
	U+3100..U+312F	Bopomofo	48	43	Bopomofo
0 BMP	U+3130..U+318F	Hangul Compatibility Jamo	96	94	Hangul
	U+3190..U+319F	Kanbun	16	16	Common
	U+31A0..U+31BF	Bopomofo Extended	32	32	Bopomofo
	U+31C0..U+31EF	CJK Strokes	48	36	Common
	U+31F0..U+31FF	Katakana Phonetic Extensions	16	16	Katakana
	U+3200..U+32FF	Enclosed CJK Letters and Months	256	255	Hangul (62 characters), Katakana (47 characters), Common (146 characters)
	U+3300..U+33FF	CJK Compatibility	256	256	Katakana (88 characters), Common (168 characters)
	U+3400..U+4DBF	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A	6,592	6,592	Han
	U+4DC0..U+4DFF	Yijing Hexagram Symbols	64	64	Common
	U+4E00..U+9FFF	CJK Unified Ideographs	20,992	20,989	Han
0 BMP	U+A000..U+A48F	Yi Syllables	1,168	1,165	Yi
	U+A490..U+A4CF	Yi Radicals	64	55	Yi
	U+A4D0..U+A4FF	Lisu	48	48	Lisu
	U+A500..U+A63F	Vai	320	300	Vai
	U+A640..U+A69F	Cyrillic Extended-B	96	96	Cyrillic
	U+A6A0..U+A6FF	Bamum	96	88	Bamum
	U+A700..U+A71F	Modifier Tone Letters	32	32	Common
	U+A720..U+A7FF	Latin Extended-D	224	180	Latin (175 characters), Common (5 characters)
	U+A800..U+A82F	Syloti Nagri	48	45	Syloti Nagri
	U+A830..U+A83F	Common Indic Number Forms	16	10	Common
0 BMP	U+A840..U+A87F	Phags-pa	64	56	Phags Pa
	U+A880..U+A8DF	Saurashtra	96	82	Saurashtra
	U+A8E0..U+A8FF	Devanagari Extended	32	32	Devanagari
	U+A900..U+A92F	Kayah Li	48	48	Kayah Li (47 characters), Common (1 character)
	U+A930..U+A95F	Rejang	48	37	Rejang
	U+A960..U+A97F	Hangul Jamo Extended-A	32	29	Hangul
	U+A980..U+A9DF	Javanese	96	91	Javanese (90 characters), Common (1 character)
	U+A9E0..U+A9FF	Myanmar Extended-B	32	31	Myanmar
	U+AA00..U+AA5F	Cham	96	83	Cham
	U+AA60..U+AA7F	Myanmar Extended-A	32	32	Myanmar
0 BMP	U+AA80..U+AADF	Tai Viet	96	72	Tai Viet
	U+AAE0..U+AAFF	Meetei Mayek Extensions	32	23	Meetei Mayek
	U+AB00..U+AB2F	Ethiopic Extended-A	48	32	Ethiopic
	U+AB30..U+AB6F	Latin Extended-E	64	60	Latin (56 characters), Greek (1 character), Common (3 characters)
	U+AB70..U+ABBF	Cherokee Supplement	80	80	Cherokee
	U+ABC0..U+ABFF	Meetei Mayek	64	56	Meetei Mayek
	U+AC00..U+D7AF	Hangul Syllables	11,184	11,172	Hangul
	U+D7B0..U+D7FF	Hangul Jamo Extended-B	80	72	Hangul
	U+D800..U+DB7F	High Surrogates	896	0	Unknown
	U+DB80..U+DBFF	High Private Use Surrogates	128	0	Unknown
0 BMP	U+DC00..U+DFFF	Low Surrogates	1,024	0	Unknown
	U+E000..U+F8FF	Private Use Area	6,400	6,400	Unknown
	U+F900..U+FAFF	CJK Compatibility Ideographs	512	472	Han
	U+FB00..U+FB4F	Alphabetic Presentation Forms	80	58	Armenian (5 characters), Hebrew (46 characters), Latin (7 characters)
	U+FB50..U+FDFF	Arabic Presentation Forms-A	688	611	Arabic (609 characters), Common (2 characters)
	U+FE00..U+FE0F	Variation Selectors	16	16	Inherited
	U+FE10..U+FE1F	Vertical Forms	16	10	Common
	U+FE20..U+FE2F	Combining Half Marks	16	16	Cyrillic (2 characters), Inherited (14 characters)
	U+FE30..U+FE4F	CJK Compatibility Forms	32	32	Common
	U+FE50..U+FE6F	Small Form Variants	32	26	Common
	U+FE70..U+FEFF	Arabic Presentation Forms-B	144	141	Arabic (140 characters), Common (1 character)
	U+FF00..U+FFEF	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms	240	225	Hangul (52 characters), Katakana (55 characters), Latin (52 characters), Common (66 characters)
	U+FFF0..U+FFFF	Specials	16	5	Common
1 SMP	U+10000..U+1007F	Linear B Syllabary	128	88	Linear B
	U+10080..U+100FF	Linear B Ideograms	128	123	Linear B
	U+10100..U+1013F	Aegean Numbers	64	57	Common
	U+10140..U+1018F	Ancient Greek Numbers	80	79	Greek
	U+10190..U+101CF	Ancient Symbols	64	14	Greek (1 character), Common (13 characters)
	U+101D0..U+101FF	Phaistos Disc	48	46	Common (45 characters), Inherited (1 character)
	U+10280..U+1029F	Lycian	32	29	Lycian
	U+102A0..U+102DF	Carian	64	49	Carian
	U+102E0..U+102FF	Coptic Epact Numbers	32	28	Common (27 characters), Inherited (1 character)
	U+10300..U+1032F	Old Italic	48	39	Old Italic
1 SMP	U+10330..U+1034F	Gothic	32	27	Gothic
	U+10350..U+1037F	Old Permic	48	43	Old Permic
	U+10380..U+1039F	Ugaritic	32	31	Ugaritic
	U+103A0..U+103DF	Old Persian	64	50	Old Persian
	U+10400..U+1044F	Deseret	80	80	Deseret
	U+10450..U+1047F	Shavian	48	48	Shavian
	U+10480..U+104AF	Osmanya	48	40	Osmanya
	U+104B0..U+104FF	Osage	80	72	Osage
	U+10500..U+1052F	Elbasan	48	40	Elbasan
	U+10530..U+1056F	Caucasian Albanian	64	53	Caucasian Albanian
1 SMP	U+10600..U+1077F	Linear A	384	341	Linear A
	U+10800..U+1083F	Cypriot Syllabary	64	55	Cypriot
	U+10840..U+1085F	Imperial Aramaic	32	31	Imperial Aramaic
	U+10860..U+1087F	Palmyrene	32	32	Palmyrene
	U+10880..U+108AF	Nabataean	48	40	Nabataean
	U+108E0..U+108FF	Hatran	32	26	Hatran
	U+10900..U+1091F	Phoenician	32	29	Phoenician
	U+10920..U+1093F	Lydian	32	27	Lydian
	U+10980..U+1099F	Meroitic Hieroglyphs	32	32	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
	U+109A0..U+109FF	Meroitic Cursive	96	90	Meroitic Cursive
1 SMP	U+10A00..U+10A5F	Kharoshthi	96	68	Kharoshthi
	U+10A60..U+10A7F	Old South Arabian	32	32	Old South Arabian
	U+10A80..U+10A9F	Old North Arabian	32	32	Old North Arabian
	U+10AC0..U+10AFF	Manichaean	64	51	Manichaean
	U+10B00..U+10B3F	Avestan	64	61	Avestan
	U+10B40..U+10B5F	Inscriptional Parthian	32	30	Inscriptional Parthian
	U+10B60..U+10B7F	Inscriptional Pahlavi	32	27	Inscriptional Pahlavi
	U+10B80..U+10BAF	Psalter Pahlavi	48	29	Psalter Pahlavi
	U+10C00..U+10C4F	Old Turkic	80	73	Old Turkic
	U+10C80..U+10CFF	Old Hungarian	128	108	Old Hungarian
1 SMP	U+10D00..U+10D3F	Hanifi Rohingya	64	50	Hanifi Rohingya
	U+10E60..U+10E7F	Rumi Numeral Symbols	32	31	Arabic
	U+10E80..U+10EBF	Yezidi	64	47	Yezidi
	U+10F00..U+10F2F	Old Sogdian	48	40	Old Sogdian
	U+10F30..U+10F6F	Sogdian	64	42	Sogdian
	U+10FB0..U+10FDF	Chorasmian	48	28	Chorasmian
	U+10FE0..U+10FFF	Elymaic	32	23	Elymaic
	U+11000..U+1107F	Brahmi	128	109	Brahmi
	U+11080..U+110CF	Kaithi	80	67	Kaithi
	U+110D0..U+110FF	Sora Sompeng	48	35	Sora Sompeng
1 SMP	U+11100..U+1114F	Chakma	80	71	Chakma
	U+11150..U+1117F	Mahajani	48	39	Mahajani
	U+11180..U+111DF	Sharada	96	96	Sharada
	U+111E0..U+111FF	Sinhala Archaic Numbers	32	20	Sinhala
	U+11200..U+1124F	Khojki	80	62	Khojki
	U+11280..U+112AF	Multani	48	38	Multani
	U+112B0..U+112FF	Khudawadi	80	69	Khudawadi
	U+11300..U+1137F	Grantha	128	86	Grantha (85 characters), Inherited (1 character)
	U+11400..U+1147F	Newa	128	97	Newa
	U+11480..U+114DF	Tirhuta	96	82	Tirhuta
1 SMP	U+11580..U+115FF	Siddham	128	92	Siddham
	U+11600..U+1165F	Modi	96	79	Modi
	U+11660..U+1167F	Mongolian Supplement	32	13	Mongolian
	U+11680..U+116CF	Takri	80	67	Takri
	U+11700..U+1173F	Ahom	64	58	Ahom
	U+11800..U+1184F	Dogra	80	60	Dogra
	U+118A0..U+118FF	Warang Citi	96	84	Warang Citi
	U+11900..U+1195F	Dives Akuru	96	72	Dives Akuru
	U+119A0..U+119FF	Nandinagari	96	65	Nandinagari
	U+11A00..U+11A4F	Zanabazar Square	80	72	Zanabazar Square
1 SMP	U+11A50..U+11AAF	Soyombo	96	83	Soyombo
	U+11AC0..U+11AFF	Pau Cin Hau	64	57	Pau Cin Hau
	U+11C00..U+11C6F	Bhaiksuki	112	97	Bhaiksuki
	U+11C70..U+11CBF	Marchen	80	68	Marchen
	U+11D00..U+11D5F	Masaram Gondi	96	75	Masaram Gondi
	U+11D60..U+11DAF	Gunjala Gondi	80	63	Gunjala Gondi
	U+11EE0..U+11EFF	Makasar	32	25	Makasar
	U+11FB0..U+11FBF	Lisu Supplement	16	1	Lisu
	U+11FC0..U+11FFF	Tamil Supplement	64	51	Tamil
	U+12000..U+123FF	Cuneiform	1,024	922	Cuneiform
1 SMP	U+12400..U+1247F	Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation	128	116	Cuneiform
	U+12480..U+1254F	Early Dynastic Cuneiform	208	196	Cuneiform
	U+13000..U+1342F	Egyptian Hieroglyphs	1,072	1,071	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
	U+13430..U+1343F	Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls	16	9	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
	U+14400..U+1467F	Anatolian Hieroglyphs	640	583	Anatolian Hieroglyphs
	U+16800..U+16A3F	Bamum Supplement	576	569	Bamum
	U+16A40..U+16A6F	Mro	48	43	Mro
	U+16AD0..U+16AFF	Bassa Vah	48	36	Bassa Vah
	U+16B00..U+16B8F	Pahawh Hmong	144	127	Pahawh Hmong
	U+16E40..U+16E9F	Medefaidrin	96	91	Medefaidrin
1 SMP	U+16F00..U+16F9F	Miao	160	149	Miao
	U+16FE0..U+16FFF	Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation	32	7	Han (2 characters), Khitan Small Script (1 character), Nushu (1 character), Tangut (1 character), Common (2 characters)
	U+17000..U+187FF	Tangut	6,144	6,136	Tangut
	U+18800..U+18AFF	Tangut Components	768	768	Tangut
	U+18B00..U+18CFF	Khitan Small Script	512	470	Khitan small script
	U+18D00..U+18D8F	Tangut Supplement	144	9	Tangut
	U+1B000..U+1B0FF	Kana Supplement	256	256	Hiragana (255 characters), Katakana (1 character)
	U+1B100..U+1B12F	Kana Extended-A	48	31	Hiragana
	U+1B130..U+1B16F	Small Kana Extension	64	7	Hiragana (3 characters), Katakana (4 characters)
	U+1B170..U+1B2FF	Nushu	400	396	Nüshu
1 SMP	U+1BC00..U+1BC9F	Duployan	160	143	Duployan
	U+1BCA0..U+1BCAF	Shorthand Format Controls	16	4	Common
	U+1D000..U+1D0FF	Byzantine Musical Symbols	256	246	Common
	U+1D100..U+1D1FF	Musical Symbols	256	231	Common (209 characters), Inherited (22 characters)
	U+1D200..U+1D24F	Ancient Greek Musical Notation	80	70	Greek
	U+1D2E0..U+1D2FF	Mayan Numerals	32	20	Common
	U+1D300..U+1D35F	Tai Xuan Jing Symbols	96	87	Common
	U+1D360..U+1D37F	Counting Rod Numerals	32	25	Common
	U+1D400..U+1D7FF	Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols	1,024	996	Common
	U+1D800..U+1DAAF	Sutton SignWriting	688	672	SignWriting
1 SMP	U+1E000..U+1E02F	Glagolitic Supplement	48	38	Glagolitic
	U+1E100..U+1E14F	Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong	80	71	Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong
	U+1E2C0..U+1E2FF	Wancho	64	59	Wancho
	U+1E800..U+1E8DF	Mende Kikakui	224	213	Mende Kikakui
	U+1E900..U+1E95F	Adlam	96	88	Adlam
	U+1EC70..U+1ECBF	Indic Siyaq Numbers	80	68	Common
	U+1ED00..U+1ED4F	Ottoman Siyaq Numbers	80	61	Common
	U+1EE00..U+1EEFF	Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols	256	143	Arabic
	U+1F000..U+1F02F	Mahjong Tiles	48	44	Common
	U+1F030..U+1F09F	Domino Tiles	112	100	Common
1 SMP	U+1F0A0..U+1F0FF	Playing Cards	96	82	Common
	U+1F100..U+1F1FF	Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement	256	200	Common
	U+1F200..U+1F2FF	Enclosed Ideographic Supplement	256	64	Hiragana (1 character), Common (63 characters)
	U+1F300..U+1F5FF	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs	768	768	Common
	U+1F600..U+1F64F	Emoticons	80	80	Common
	U+1F650..U+1F67F	Ornamental Dingbats	48	48	Common
	U+1F680..U+1F6FF	Transport and Map Symbols	128	114	Common
1 SMP	U+1F700..U+1F77F	Alchemical Symbols	128	116	Common
	U+1F780..U+1F7FF	Geometric Shapes Extended	128	101	Common
	U+1F800..U+1F8FF	Supplemental Arrows-C	256	150	Common
	U+1F900..U+1F9FF	Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs	256	254	Common
	U+1FA00..U+1FA6F	Chess Symbols	112	98	Common
	U+1FA70..U+1FAFF	Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A	144	57	Common
	U+1FB00..U+1FBFF	Symbols for Legacy Computing	256	212	Common
2 SIP	U+20000..U+2A6DF	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B	42,720	42,718	Han
	U+2A700..U+2B73F	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C	4,160	4,149	Han
	U+2B740..U+2B81F	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D	224	222	Han
	U+2B820..U+2CEAF	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E	5,776	5,762	Han
	U+2CEB0..U+2EBEF	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F	7,488	7,473	Han
	U+2F800..U+2FA1F	CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement	544	542	Han
3 TIP	U+30000..U+3134F	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G	4,944	4,939	Han
14 SSP	U+E0000..U+E007F	Tags	128	97	Common
	U+E0100..U+E01EF	Variation Selectors Supplement	240	240	Inherited
15 PUA-A	U+F0000..U+FFFFF	Supplementary Private Use Area-A	65,536	65,534	Unknown
16 PUA-B	U+100000..U+10FFFF	Supplementary Private Use Area-B	65,536	65,534	Unknown
Code point count includes unassigned code points: non-character, reserved The script has one or multiple characters in the block, as defined by the Script Property. This is independent of the block name "Common" and "Unknown" (Zyyy) and "Inherited" (Zinh or Qaai) refer to Scripts in ISO 15924 Unicode Blocks data file. As of Unicode version 13.0 UAX 24: Unicode Script Property (4 alpha code) UAX 24: Script data file Called "C0 Controls and Basic Latin" in ISO/IEC 10646 Called "C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement" in ISO/IEC 10646

Script

Each assigned character can have a single value for its "Script" property, signifying to which script it belongs.[17] The value is a four-letter code in the range Aaaa-Zzzz, as available in ISO 15924, which is mapped to a writing system. Apart from when describing the background and usage of a script, Unicode does not use a connection between a script and languages that use that script. So "Hebrew" refers to the Hebrew script, not to the Hebrew language.

The special code Zyyy for "Common" allows a single value for a character that is used in multiple scripts. The code Zinh "Inherited script", used for combining characters and certain other special-purpose code points, indicates that a character "inherits" its script identity from the character with which it is combined. (Unicode formerly used the private code Qaai for this purpose.) The code Zzzz "Unknown" is used for all characters that do not belong to a script (i.e. the default value), such as symbols and formatting characters. Overall, characters of a single script can be scattered over multiple blocks, like Latin characters. And the other way around too: multiple scripts can be present is a single block, e.g. block Letterlike Symbols contains characters from the Latin, Greek and Common scripts.

When the Script is "" (blank), according to Unicode the character does not belong to a script. This pertains to symbols, because the existing ISO script codes "Zmth" (Mathematical notation), "Zsym" (Symbol), and "Zsye" (Symbol, emoji variant) are not used in Unicode. The "Script" property is also blank for code points that are not a typographic character like controls, substitutes, and private use code points.

If there is a specific script alias name in ISO 15924, it is used in the character name: U+0041 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, and U+05D0 א HEBREW LETTER ALEF.

Scripts in ISO 15924^[a]^[b] and in Unicode^[c]^[d]
ISO 15924				Script in Unicode^[e]
Code	ISO formal name	Directionality	Unicode Alias^[f]	Version	Characters	Notes	Description
						​
Adlm	Adlam	R-to-L	Adlam	9.0	88		Ch 19.9
Afak	Afaka	Varies	ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[18]
Aghb	Caucasian Albanian	L-to-R	Caucasian Albanian	7.0	53	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.10
Ahom	Ahom, Tai Ahom	L-to-R	Ahom	8.0	58	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.15
Arab	Arabic	R-to-L	Arabic	1.0	1,291		Ch 9.2
Aran	Arabic (Nastaliq variant)	Mixed	ZZ— Typographic variant of Arabic (§ Arab)
Armi	Imperial Aramaic	R-to-L	Imperial Aramaic	5.2	31	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.4
Armn	Armenian	L-to-R	Armenian	1.0	96		Ch 7.6
Avst	Avestan	R-to-L	Avestan	5.2	61	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.7
Bali	Balinese	L-to-R	Balinese	5.0	121		Ch 17.3
Bamu	Bamum	L-to-R	Bamum	5.2	657		Ch 19.6
Bass	Bassa Vah	L-to-R	Bassa Vah	7.0	36	Ancient/historic	Ch 19.7
Batk	Batak	L-to-R	Batak	6.0	56		Ch 17.6
Beng	Bengali (Bangla)	L-to-R	Bengali	1.0	96		Ch 12.2
Bhks	Bhaiksuki	L-to-R	Bhaiksuki	9.0	97	Ancient/historic	Ch 14.3
Blis	Blissymbols	Varies	ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[18]
Bopo	Bopomofo	L-to-R	Bopomofo	1.0	77		Ch 18.3
Brah	Brahmi	L-to-R	Brahmi	6.0	109	Ancient/historic	Ch 14.1
Brai	Braille	L-to-R	Braille	3.0	256		Ch 21.1
Bugi	Buginese	L-to-R	Buginese	4.1	30		Ch 17.2
Buhd	Buhid	L-to-R	Buhid	3.2	20		Ch 17.1
Cakm	Chakma	L-to-R	Chakma	6.1	71		Ch 13.11
Cans	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics	L-to-R	Canadian Aboriginal	3.0	710		Ch 20.2
Cari	Carian	L-to-R	Carian	5.1	49	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.4
Cham	Cham	L-to-R	Cham	5.1	83		Ch 16.10
Cher	Cherokee	L-to-R	Cherokee	3.0	172		Ch 20.1
Chrs	Chorasmian	Mixed	Chorasmian	13.0	28	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.8
Cirt	Cirth	Varies	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Copt	Coptic	L-to-R	Coptic	1.0	137	Ancient/historic, Disunified from Greek in 4.1	Ch 7.3
Cpmn	Cypro-Minoan	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Cprt	Cypriot syllabary	R-to-L	Cypriot	4.0	55	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.3
Cyrl	Cyrillic	L-to-R	Cyrillic	1.0	443	Includes typographic variant Old Church Slavonic (§ Cyrs)	Ch 7.4
Cyrs	Cyrillic (Old Church Slavonic variant)	Varies	ZZ— Typographic variant of Cyrillic (§ Cyrl)			Ancient/historic
Deva	Devanagari (Nagari)	L-to-R	Devanagari	1.0	154		Ch 12.1
Diak	Dives Akuru	L-to-R	Dives Akuru	13.0	72	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.14
Dogr	Dogra	L-to-R	Dogra	11.0	60	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.17
Dsrt	Deseret (Mormon)	L-to-R	Deseret	3.1	80		Ch 20.4
Dupl	Duployan shorthand, Duployan stenography	L-to-R	Duployan	7.0	143		Ch 21.5
Egyd	Egyptian demotic	Mixed	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Egyh	Egyptian hieratic	Mixed	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Egyp	Egyptian hieroglyphs	L-to-R	Egyptian Hieroglyphs	5.2	1,080	Ancient/historic	Ch 11.4
Elba	Elbasan	L-to-R	Elbasan	7.0	40	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.9
Elym	Elymaic	R-to-L	Elymaic	12.0	23	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.9
Ethi	Ethiopic (Geʻez)	L-to-R	Ethiopic	3.0	495		Ch 19.1
Geok	Khutsuri (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri)	L-to-R	Georgian			Unicode groups "Khutsori", "Asomtavruli" and "Nuskhuri" into 'Georgian' (§ Geok). Also "Mkhedruli" and "Mtavruli" are 'Georgian' (§ Geor)	Ch 7.7
Geor	Georgian (Mkhedruli and Mtavruli)	L-to-R	Georgian	1.0	173	In Unicode, also includes Geok (Nuskhuri)	Ch 7.7
Glag	Glagolitic	L-to-R	Glagolitic	4.1	132	Ancient/historic	Ch 7.5
Gong	Gunjala Gondi	L-to-R	Gunjala Gondi	11.0	63		Ch 13.15
Gonm	Masaram Gondi	L-to-R	Masaram Gondi	10.0	75		Ch 13.14
Goth	Gothic	L-to-R	Gothic	3.1	27	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.8
Gran	Grantha	L-to-R	Grantha	7.0	85	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.13
Grek	Greek	L-to-R	Greek	1.0	518	Directionality sometimes as boustrophedon	Ch 7.2
Gujr	Gujarati	L-to-R	Gujarati	1.0	91		Ch 12.4
Guru	Gurmukhi	L-to-R	Gurmukhi	1.0	80		Ch 12.3
Hanb	Han with Bopomofo (alias for Han + Bopomofo)	Varies	ZZ— See § Hani, § Bopo
Hang	Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul)	L-to-R	Hangul	1.0	11,739	Hangul syllables relocated in 2.0	Ch 18.6
Hani	Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja)	L-to-R	Han	1.0	94,204		Ch 18.1
Hano	Hanunoo (Hanunóo)	L-to-R	Hanunoo	3.2	21		Ch 17.1
Hans	Han (Simplified variant)	Varies	ZZ— Subset of Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja) (§ Hani)
Hant	Han (Traditional variant)	Varies	ZZ— Subset of § Hani
Hatr	Hatran	R-to-L	Hatran	8.0	26	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.12
Hebr	Hebrew	R-to-L	Hebrew	1.0	134		Ch 9.1
Hira	Hiragana	L-to-R	Hiragana	1.0	379		Ch 18.4
Hluw	Anatolian Hieroglyphs (Luwian Hieroglyphs, Hittite Hieroglyphs)	L-to-R	Anatolian Hieroglyphs	8.0	583	Ancient/historic	Ch 11.6
Hmng	Pahawh Hmong	L-to-R	Pahawh Hmong	7.0	127		Ch 16.11
Hmnp	Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong	L-to-R	Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong	12.0	71		Ch 16.12
Hrkt	Japanese syllabaries (alias for Hiragana + Katakana)	Varies	Katakana or Hiragana			See § Hira, § Kana	Ch 18.4
Hung	Old Hungarian (Hungarian Runic)	R-to-L	Old Hungarian	8.0	108	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.7
Inds	Indus (Harappan)	Mixed	ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[18]
Ital	Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)	L-to-R	Old Italic	3.1	39	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.5
Jamo	Jamo (alias for Jamo subset of Hangul)	Varies	ZZ— Subset of § Hang
Java	Javanese	L-to-R	Javanese	5.2	90		Ch 17.4
Jpan	Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)	Varies	ZZ— See § Hani, § Hira and § Kana
Jurc	Jurchen	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Kali	Kayah Li	L-to-R	Kayah Li	5.1	47		Ch 16.9
Kana	Katakana	L-to-R	Katakana	1.0	304		Ch 18.4
Khar	Kharoshthi	R-to-L	Kharoshthi	4.1	68	Ancient/historic	Ch 14.2
Khmr	Khmer	L-to-R	Khmer	3.0	146		Ch 16.4
Khoj	Khojki	L-to-R	Khojki	7.0	62	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.7
Kitl	Khitan large script	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Kits	Khitan small script	T-to-B	Khitan Small Script	13.0	471	Ancient/historic	Ch 18.12
Knda	Kannada	L-to-R	Kannada	1.0	89		Ch 12.8
Kore	Korean (alias for Hangul + Han)	L-to-R	ZZ— See § Hani, § Hang
Kpel	Kpelle	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[18]
Kthi	Kaithi	L-to-R	Kaithi	5.2	67	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.2
Lana	Tai Tham (Lanna)	L-to-R	Tai Tham	5.2	127		Ch 16.7
Laoo	Lao	L-to-R	Lao	1.0	82		Ch 16.2
Latf	Latin (Fraktur variant)	Varies	ZZ— Typographic variant of Latin (§ Latn)
Latg	Latin (Gaelic variant)	L-to-R	ZZ— Typographic variant of Latin (§ Latn)
Latn	Latin	L-to-R	Latin	1.0	1,374	See also: Latin script in Unicode	Ch 7.1
Leke	Leke	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Lepc	Lepcha (Róng)	L-to-R	Lepcha	5.1	74		Ch 13.12
Limb	Limbu	L-to-R	Limbu	4.0	68		Ch 13.6
Lina	Linear A	L-to-R	Linear A	7.0	341	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.1
Linb	Linear B	L-to-R	Linear B	4.0	211	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.2
Lisu	Lisu (Fraser)	L-to-R	Lisu	5.2	49		Ch 18.9
Loma	Loma	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[18]
Lyci	Lycian	L-to-R	Lycian	5.1	29	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.4
Lydi	Lydian	R-to-L	Lydian	5.1	27	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.4
Mahj	Mahajani	L-to-R	Mahajani	7.0	39	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.6
Maka	Makasar	L-to-R	Makasar	11.0	25	Ancient/historic	Ch 17.8
Mand	Mandaic, Mandaean	R-to-L	Mandaic	6.0	29		Ch 9.5
Mani	Manichaean	R-to-L	Manichaean	7.0	51	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.5
Marc	Marchen	L-to-R	Marchen	9.0	68	Ancient/historic	Ch 14.5
Maya	Mayan hieroglyphs	Mixed	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Medf	Medefaidrin (Oberi Okaime, Oberi Ɔkaimɛ)	L-to-R	Medefaidrin	11.0	91		Ch 19.10
Mend	Mende Kikakui	R-to-L	Mende Kikakui	7.0	213		Ch 19.8
Merc	Meroitic Cursive	R-to-L	Meroitic Cursive	6.1	90	Ancient/historic	Ch 11.5
Mero	Meroitic Hieroglyphs	R-to-L	Meroitic Hieroglyphs	6.1	32	Ancient/historic	Ch 11.5
Mlym	Malayalam	L-to-R	Malayalam	1.0	118		Ch 12.9
Modi	Modi, Moḍī	L-to-R	Modi	7.0	79	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.11
Mong	Mongolian	T-to-B	Mongolian	3.0	167	Mong includes Clear and Manchu scripts	Ch 13.5
Moon	Moon (Moon code, Moon script, Moon type)	Mixed	ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[18]
Mroo	Mro, Mru	L-to-R	Mro	7.0	43		Ch 13.8
Mtei	Meitei Mayek (Meithei, Meetei)	L-to-R	Meetei Mayek	5.2	79		Ch 13.7
Mult	Multani	L-to-R	Multani	8.0	38	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.9
Mymr	Myanmar (Burmese)	L-to-R	Myanmar	3.0	223		Ch 16.3
Nand	Nandinagari	L-to-R	Nandinagari	12.0	65	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.12
Narb	Old North Arabian (Ancient North Arabian)	R-to-L	Old North Arabian	7.0	32	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.1
Nbat	Nabataean	R-to-L	Nabataean	7.0	40	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.10
Newa	Newa, Newar, Newari, Nepāla lipi	L-to-R	Newa	9.0	97		Ch 13.3
Nkdb	Naxi Dongba (na²¹ɕi³³ to³³ba²¹, Nakhi Tomba)	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Nkgb	Nakhi Geba (na²¹ɕi³³ gʌ²¹ba²¹, 'Na-'Khi ²Ggŏ-¹baw, Nakhi Geba)	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[18]
Nkoo	N’Ko	R-to-L	NKo	5.0	62		Ch 19.4
Nshu	Nüshu	L-to-R	Nushu	10.0	397		Ch 18.8
Ogam	Ogham	Mixed	Ogham	3.0	29	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.12
Olck	Ol Chiki (Ol Cemet’, Ol, Santali)	L-to-R	Ol Chiki	5.1	48		Ch 13.10
Orkh	Old Turkic, Orkhon Runic	R-to-L	Old Turkic	5.2	73	Ancient/historic	Ch 14.8
Orya	Oriya (Odia)	L-to-R	Oriya	1.0	91		Ch 12.5
Osge	Osage	L-to-R	Osage	9.0	72		Ch 20.3
Osma	Osmanya	L-to-R	Osmanya	4.0	40		Ch 19.2
Ougr	Old Uyghur	Mixed	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Palm	Palmyrene	R-to-L	Palmyrene	7.0	32	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.11
Pauc	Pau Cin Hau	L-to-R	Pau Cin Hau	7.0	57		Ch 16.13
Pcun	Proto-Cuneiform	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Pelm	Proto-Elamite	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Perm	Old Permic	L-to-R	Old Permic	7.0	43	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.11
Phag	Phags-pa	T-to-B	Phags-pa	5.0	56	Ancient/historic	Ch 14.4
Phli	Inscriptional Pahlavi	R-to-L	Inscriptional Pahlavi	5.2	27	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.6
Phlp	Psalter Pahlavi	R-to-L	Psalter Pahlavi	7.0	29	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.6
Phlv	Book Pahlavi	Mixed	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Phnx	Phoenician	R-to-L	Phoenician	5.0	29	Ancient/historic^[g]	Ch 10.3
Piqd	Klingon (KLI pIqaD)	L-to-R	ZZ— Rejected for inclusion in Unicode[19][20]
Plrd	Miao (Pollard)	L-to-R	Miao	6.1	149		Ch 18.10
Prti	Inscriptional Parthian	R-to-L	Inscriptional Parthian	5.2	30	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.6
Psin	Proto-Sinaitic	Mixed	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Qaaa-Qabx	Reserved for private use (range)		ZZ— Not in Unicode
Ranj	Ranjana	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Rjng	Rejang (Redjang, Kaganga)	L-to-R	Rejang	5.1	37		Ch 17.5
Rohg	Hanifi Rohingya	R-to-L	Hanifi Rohingya	11.0	50		Ch 16.14
Roro	Rongorongo	Mixed	ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[18]
Runr	Runic	L-to-R	Runic	3.0	86	Ancient/historic	Ch 8.6
Samr	Samaritan	R-to-L	Samaritan	5.2	61		Ch 9.4
Sara	Sarati	Mixed	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Sarb	Old South Arabian	R-to-L	Old South Arabian	5.2	32	Ancient/historic	Ch 10.2
Saur	Saurashtra	L-to-R	Saurashtra	5.1	82		Ch 13.13
Sgnw	SignWriting	T-to-B	SignWriting	8.0	672		Ch 21.6
Shaw	Shavian (Shaw)	L-to-R	Shavian	4.0	48		Ch 8.13
Shrd	Sharada, Śāradā	L-to-R	Sharada	6.1	96		Ch 15.3
Shui	Shuishu	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Sidd	Siddham, Siddhaṃ, Siddhamātṛkā	L-to-R	Siddham	7.0	92	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.5
Sind	Khudawadi, Sindhi	L-to-R	Khudawadi	7.0	69		Ch 15.8
Sinh	Sinhala	L-to-R	Sinhala	3.0	111		Ch 13.2
Sogd	Sogdian	R-to-L	Sogdian	11.0	42	Ancient/historic	Ch 14.10
Sogo	Old Sogdian	R-to-L	Old Sogdian	11.0	40	Ancient/historic	Ch 14.9
Sora	Sora Sompeng	L-to-R	Sora Sompeng	6.1	35		Ch 15.16
Soyo	Soyombo	L-to-R	Soyombo	10.0	83	Ancient/historic	Ch 14.7
Sund	Sundanese	L-to-R	Sundanese	5.1	72		Ch 17.7
Sylo	Syloti Nagri	L-to-R	Syloti Nagri	4.1	45	Ancient/historic	Ch 15.1
Syrc	Syriac	R-to-L	Syriac	3.0	88	Includes variants Estrangelo (§ Syre), Western (§ Syrj), and Eastern (§ Syrn)	Ch 9.3
Syre	Syriac (Estrangelo variant)	Mixed	ZZ— Typographic variant of Syriac (§ Syrc)
Syrj	Syriac (Western variant)	Mixed	ZZ— Typographic variant of Syriac (§ Syrc)
Syrn	Syriac (Eastern variant)	Mixed	ZZ— Typographic variant of Syriac (§ Syrc)
Tagb	Tagbanwa	L-to-R	Tagbanwa	3.2	18		Ch 17.1
Takr	Takri, Ṭākrī, Ṭāṅkrī	L-to-R	Takri	6.1	67		Ch 15.4
Tale	Tai Le	L-to-R	Tai Le	4.0	35		Ch 16.5
Talu	New Tai Lue	L-to-R	New Tai Lue	4.1	83		Ch 16.6
Taml	Tamil	L-to-R	Tamil	1.0	123		Ch 12.6
Tang	Tangut	L-to-R	Tangut	9.0	6,914	Ancient/historic	Ch 18.11
Tavt	Tai Viet	L-to-R	Tai Viet	5.2	72		Ch 16.8
Telu	Telugu	L-to-R	Telugu	1.0	98		Ch 12.7
Teng	Tengwar	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Tfng	Tifinagh (Berber)	L-to-R	Tifinagh	4.1	59		Ch 19.3
Tglg	Tagalog (Baybayin, Alibata)	L-to-R	Tagalog	3.2	20		Ch 17.1
Thaa	Thaana	R-to-L	Thaana	3.0	50		Ch 13.1
Thai	Thai	L-to-R	Thai	1.0	86		Ch 16.1
Tibt	Tibetan	L-to-R	Tibetan	2.0	207	Added in 1.0, removed in 1.1 and reintroduced in 2.0	Ch 13.4
Tirh	Tirhuta	L-to-R	Tirhuta	7.0	82		Ch 15.10
Toto	Toto	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Ugar	Ugaritic	L-to-R	Ugaritic	4.0	31	Ancient/historic	Ch 11.2
Vaii	Vai	L-to-R	Vai	5.1	300		Ch 19.5
Visp	Visible Speech	L-to-R	ZZ— Not in Unicode
Wara	Warang Citi (Varang Kshiti)	L-to-R	Warang Citi	7.0	84		Ch 13.9
Wcho	Wancho	L-to-R	Wancho	12.0	59		Ch 13.16
Wole	Woleai	Mixed	ZZ— Not in Unicode, proposal is explored[18]
Xpeo	Old Persian	L-to-R	Old Persian	4.1	50	Ancient/historic	Ch 11.3
Xsux	Cuneiform, Sumero-Akkadian	L-to-R	Cuneiform	5.0	1,234	Ancient/historic	Ch 11.1
Yezi	Yezidi	R-to-L	Yezidi	13.0	47	Ancient/historic	Ch 9.6
Yiii	Yi	L-to-R	Yi	3.0	1,220		Ch 18.7
Zanb	Zanabazar Square (Zanabazarin Dörböljin Useg, Xewtee Dörböljin Bicig, Horizontal Square Script)	L-to-R	Zanabazar Square	10.0	72	Ancient/historic	Ch 14.6
Zinh	Code for inherited script	Inherited	Inherited		573
Zmth	Mathematical notation	L-to-R	ZZ— Not a 'script' in Unicode
Zsym	Symbols		ZZ— Not a 'script' in Unicode
Zsye	Symbols (emoji variant)		ZZ— Not a 'script' in Unicode
Zxxx	Code for unwritten documents		ZZ— Not a 'script' in Unicode
Zyyy	Code for undetermined script	Mixed	Common		8,087
Zzzz	Code for uncoded script		Unknown		970,188	In Unicode: All other code points
Notes ^ ISO 15924 publications As of 25 January 2021 ^ ISO 15924 Normative text file As of 25 January 2021 ^ ISO 15924 Changes (including Aliases for Unicode; as of 25 January 2021) ^ Unicode version 13.0 ^ Unicode charts ^ Unicode uses the "Property Value Alias" (Alias) as the script-name. These Alias names are part of Unicode and are published informatively next to ISO 15924. An alias script name may be used in a character name: Palm, Palmyrene → U+10860 𐡠 PALMYRENE LETTER ALEPH. ^ In Unicode, the Phoenician script is intended for the representation of text in Paleo-Hebrew, Archaic Phoenician, Phoenician, Early Aramaic, Late Phoenician cursive, Phoenician papyri, Siloam Hebrew, Hebrew seals, Ammonite, Moabite, and Punic.[21]

Normalization properties

Decompositions, decomposition type, canonical combining class, composition exclusions, and more.

Age

Age is the version of the Standard in which the code point was first designated. The version number is shortened to the numbering major.minor, although there more detailed version numbers are used: versions 4.0.0 and 4.0.1 both are named 4.0 as Age. Given the releases, Age can be from the range: 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and 13.0.[22] The long values for Age begin in a V and use an underscore instead of a dot: V1_1, for example.[2] Codepoints without a specifically assigned age value have the value "NA", with the long form "Unassigned".

Deprecated

Once a character has been defined, it will not be withdrawn or changed in defining properties (code point, name). But it can be declared deprecated: A coded character whose use is strongly discouraged.[23] As of Unicode version 10.0, fifteen characters are deprecated:

• U+0149 LATIN SMALL LETTER N PRECEDED BY APOSTROPHE: use the sequence ʼ0020 006E (ʼ n) instead
• U+0673 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA BELOW: use the sequence 0627 065F (اٟ) instead
• U+0F77 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR: use the sequence 0FB2 0F81 (ྲཱྀ) instead
• U+0F79 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC LL: use the sequence 0FB3 0F81 (ླཱྀ) instead
• U+17A3 KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QAQ: use 17A2 KHMER LETTER QA (អ) instead
• U+17A4 KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QAA: use the sequence 17A2 17B6 (អា) instead
• U+206A INHIBIT SYMMETRIC SWAPPING
• U+206B ACTIVATE SYMMETRIC SWAPPING
• U+206C INHIBIT ARABIC FORM SHAPING
• U+206D ACTIVATE ARABIC FORM SHAPING
• U+206E NATIONAL DIGIT SHAPES
• U+206F NOMINAL DIGIT SHAPES
• U+2329 LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET: use U+3008 LEFT ANGLE BRACKET (〈) instead
• U+232A RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET: use U+3009 RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET (〉) instead
• U+E0001 LANGUAGE TAG

The format characters U+206A through U+206F and U+E0001 should not be used at all, but for the other deprecated characters there are recommended alternatives, as shown above.

Boundaries

The Unicode Standard specifies the following boundary-related properties:

• Grapheme cluster
• Word
• Line
• Sentence

References

1. "The Unicode Standard, Chapter 4: Character Properties" (PDF). Unicode, Inc. March 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
2. "Unicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database". The Unicode Standard. 2017-06-14.
3. "UCD: Name Aliases". Unicode Character Database. Unicode Consortium. 2019-03-08.
4. "Character design standards – space characters". Character design standards. Microsoft. 1998–1999. Archived from the original on August 23, 2000. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
5. The Unicode Standard 5.0, printed edition, p.205
6. "General Punctuation" (PDF). The Unicode Standard 5.1. Unicode Inc. 1991–2008. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
7. Sargent, Murray III (2006-08-29). "Unicode Nearly Plain Text Encoding of Mathematics (Version 2)". Unicode Technical Note #28. Unicode Inc. pp. 19–20. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
8. Gillam, Richard (2002). Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-70052-2.
9. Hickson, Ian. "12.5 Named character references". HTML Standard. WHATWG.
10. Wolfram. "\[NegativeThickSpace]". Wolfram Language Documentation.
11. Wolfram. "\[NegativeMediumSpace]". Wolfram Language Documentation.
12. Wolfram. "\[NegativeThinSpace]". Wolfram Language Documentation.
13. Wolfram. "\[NegativeVeryThinSpace]". Wolfram Language Documentation.
14. Faltstrom, P., ed. (August 2010). "Zero Width Non-Joiner". The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA). IETF. sec. A.1. doi:10.17487/RFC5892. RFC 5892. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
15. Faltstrom, P., ed. (August 2010). "Zero Width Joiner". The Unicode Code Points and Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA). IETF. sec. A.2. doi:10.17487/RFC5892. RFC 5892. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
16. "Unicode Standard Annex #9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm". The Unicode Standard. 2017-05-14.
17. "Unicode Standard Annex #24: Unicode Script Property". The Unicode Standard. 2015-06-01.
18. "Proposed New Scripts". Unicode Consortium. 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
19. Michael Everson (1997-09-18). "Proposal to encode Klingon in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2".
20. The Unicode Consortium (2001-08-14). "Approved Minutes of the UTC 87 / L2 184 Joint Meeting".
21. "Middle East-II, Ancient Scripts" (PDF). 13.0.0. The Unicode Consortiumtitle=Middle-East scripts II. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
22. "UCD: Derived Age". Unicode Character Database. Unicode Consortium. 2019-09-08.
23. "The Unicode Standard, Chapter 3.4 Characters and Encoding, D13: Deprecated character" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. March 2020.