Characters

Special purpose	BOM Combining grapheme joiner Left-to-right mark / Right-to-left mark Soft hyphen Variant form Word joiner Zero-width joiner Zero-width non-joiner Zero-width space
Lists	Characters CJK Unified Ideographs Combining character Duplicate characters Numerals Scripts Spaces Symbols Halfwidth and fullwidth Alias names and abbreviations Whitespace characters

Processing

Algorithms	Bidirectional text Collation ISO/IEC 14651 Equivalence Variation sequences International Ideographs Core
Comparison	BOCU-1 CESU-8 Punycode SCSU UTF-1 UTF-7 UTF-8 UTF-16/UCS-2 UTF-32/UCS-4 UTF-EBCDIC

On pairs of
code points

Usage

Related standards

Related topics

Scripts and symbols in Unicode
Common and inherited scripts	Combining marks Diacritics Punctuation marks Spaces Numbers
Modern scripts	Adlam Arabic Armenian Balinese Bamum Batak Bengali Bopomofo Braille Buhid Burmese Canadian Aboriginal Chakma Cham Cherokee CJK Unified Ideographs (Han) Cyrillic Deseret Devanagari Geʽez Georgian Greek Gujarati Gunjala Gondi Gurmukhi Hangul Hanifi Rohingya Hanja Hanunuoo Hebrew Hiragana Javanese Kanji Kannada Katakana Kayah Li Khmer Lao Latin Lepcha Limbu Lisu (Fraser) Lontara Malayalam Masaram Gondi Mende Kikakui Medefaidrin Miao (Pollard) Mongolian Mru N'Ko New Tai Lue Nüshu Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Odia Ol Chiki Osage Osmanya Pahawh Hmong Pau Cin Hau Pracalit (Newa) Ranjana Rejang Samaritan Saurashtra Shavian Sinhala Sorang Sompeng Sundanese Syriac Tagbanwa Tai Le Tai Tham Tai Viet Tamil Tangsa Telugu Thaana Thai Tibetan Tifinagh Tirhuta Toto Vai Wancho Warang Citi Yi
Ancient and historic scripts	Ahom Anatolian hieroglyphs Ancient North Arabian Avestan Bassa Vah Bhaiksuki Brāhmī Carian Caucasian Albanian Coptic Cuneiform Cypriot Cypro-Minoan Dives Akuru Dogra Egyptian hieroglyphs Elbasan Elymaic Glagolitic Gothic Grantha Hatran Imperial Aramaic Inscriptional Pahlavi Inscriptional Parthian Kaithi Kharosthi Khitan small script Khojki Khudawadi Khwarezmian (Chorasmian) Linear A Linear B Lycian Lydian Mahajani Makasar Mandaic Manichaean Marchen Meetei Mayek Meroitic Modi Multani Nabataean Nandinagari Ogham Old Hungarian Old Italic Old Permic Old Persian cuneiform Old Sogdian Old Turkic Old Uyghur Palmyrene ʼPhags-pa Phoenician Psalter Pahlavi Runic Sharada Siddham Sogdian South Arabian Soyombo Sylheti Nagri Tagalog (Baybayin) Takri Tangut Ugaritic Vithkuqi Yezidi Zanabazar Square
Notational scripts	Duployan SignWriting
Symbols, emojis	Cultural, political, and religious symbols Currency Control Pictures Mathematical operators and symbols List by subject Phonetic symbols (including IPA) Emoji
Category: Unicode Category: Unicode blocks

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Usage[edit]

The box is aimed at Unicode-related pages. Guidelines do recommend not to create a box with numerous entries, like with names of 165 Unicode-blocks.

Initial visibility: currently defaults to collapsed

To set this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used:

|state=collapsed: ((Unicode navigation|state=collapsed)) to show the template collapsed, i.e., hidden apart from its title bar
|state=expanded: ((Unicode navigation|state=expanded)) to show the template expanded, i.e., fully visible
|state=autocollapse: ((Unicode navigation|state=autocollapse))
- shows the template collapsed to the title bar if there is a ((navbar)), a ((sidebar)), or some other table on the page with the collapsible attribute
- shows the template in its expanded state if there are no other collapsible items on the page

If the |state= parameter in the template on this page is not set, the template's initial visibility is taken from the |default= parameter in the Collapsible option template. For the template on this page, that currently evaluates to collapsed.

Unicode terms used[edit]

A block in Unicode is a named, single continuous group of code points, e.g. Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block with range U+2600–26FF. Each character is in one block. A block can include non/assigned code points, non/character codepoints etcetera.
A script is related to speech (like the alphabet), symbols are related to their meaning (like chess-symbols). Symbols also include controls and Unicode-specials like Byte order mark(BOM). All defined Unicode characters are either in a script or a symbol.
Charts are examples of glyphs, i.e. a rendered character (the "A" you read)
Due to legacy character sets like ASCII, and due to intended usage of Unicode, multiple issues arise from pairs of characters with an overlapping meaning etc.
Special characters have a Unicode-defined behavior.
Miscellaneous lists are lists of characters that are not in one block. Cultural symbols like religious crosses are in different blocks.

Unicode version[edit]

Scripts: Unicode as of version 5.2; Batak, Brāhmī, Mandaic: added as per version 6.0

v t e Unicode templates
General	((Unicode navigation))
Inline	((Unichar)) ((U+)) ((GB18030)) ((#invoke:Unicode convert))
Character properties	Bidi Class General Category Diacritics in Unicode Punctuation marks in Unicode Hexadecimal digit Numeric Type Whitespace Alias names and abbreviations
Code points	Planes Unicode blocks Private Use Area
Scripts	((ISO 15924 script codes and related Unicode data))
CJK-specific	((CJK ideographs in Unicode)) ((CJKV)) ((Unihan)) ((Lang-zh))
Wikipedia related	((Contains special characters)) (with 'Uncommon Unicode' or more specifically) ((PUA)) (MOS:PUA)
Unicode blocks Unicode charts Unicode templates

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Unicode terms used[edit]

Unicode version[edit]

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