CJK Symbols and Punctuation is a Unicode block containing symbols and punctuation used for writing the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. It also contains one Chinese character.

Block

The block has variation sequences defined for East Asian punctuation positional variants. They use (VS01) and (VS02): Variation sequences for punctuation alignment U+ 3001 3002 Description base code point 、 。 base + VS01 、︀ 。︀ corner-justified form base + VS02 、︁ 。︁ centered form

Orientation Quotation marks and other punctuation have expected differences in behaviour in vertical and horizontal text. The quotation marks 「...」, 『...』 and 〝...〟 rotate 90 degrees, as follows:

See also General Punctuation, for variation selectors and CJK behaviour of the Latin quotation marks ‘...’ and “...”.

Chinese character The CJK Symbols and Punctuation block contains one Chinese character: . Although it is not covered under "Unified Ideographs", it is treated as a CJK character for all other intents and purposes.GB/T 15835-2011《出版物上数字用法》. China Guojia Biaozhun. https://journals.usst.edu.cn/uploadfile/file/GBT%2015835-2011%E3%80%8A%E5%87%BA%E7%89%88%E7%89%A9%E4%B8%8A%E6%95%B0%E5%AD%97%E7%94%A8%E6%B3%95%E3%80%8B.pdf

Emoji The CJK Symbols and Punctuation block contains two emoji: U+3030 and U+303D.

The block has four standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the two emoji, both of which default to a text presentation.

Emoji variation sequences U+ 3030 303D base code point 〰 〽 base+VS15 (text) base+VS16 (emoji)

History In Unicode 1.0.1, two changes were made to this block in order to make Unicode 1.0.1 a proper subset of ISO 10646: U+3004 IDEOGRAPHIC DITTO MARK was merged with U+4EDD (仝) in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, freeing up code point U+3004 U+32FF JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL STANDARD SYMBOL was moved from the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block to U+3004 (〄)

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

Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID IRG ID Document 1.0.0 U+3000..3003, 3005..3037, 303F 56 (to be determined) N4606 doc) 1.0.1 U+3004 1 (to be determined) 3.0 U+3038..303A 3 N1182 N202 N1203 doc) N1629 N486 N1629R N1923 doc) N2003 N2065 N2122 U+303E 1 N1431 N406 N1453 N1486 N437 N1489 N1490 N436 N1491 doc) doc) N453 doc) N1728 N1703 N1905 3.2 U+303B..303D 3 N2092 N2195 txt) N2258 N2278 N2253 N2328 N4182

See also Hangul Jamo (Unicode block) Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation Chinese punctuation

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