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CJK Unified Ideographs (Unicode block)

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Plane
  
BMP

Assigned
  
20,950 code points

Scripts
  
Han

1.0.1
  
20,902 (+20,902)

Range
  
U+4E00..U+9FFF (20,992 code points)

Unused
  
42 reserved code points

CJK Unified Ideographs is a Unicode block containing the most common CJK ideographs used in modern Chinese and Japanese.

  • List of CJK Unified Ideographs, part 1 of 4
  • List of CJK Unified Ideographs, part 2 of 4
  • List of CJK Unified Ideographs, part 3 of 4
  • List of CJK Unified Ideographs, part 4 of 4
  • The block has hundreds of variation sequences defined for standardized variants.

    It also has tens of thousands of ideographic variation sequences registered in the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (IVD). These sequences specify the desired glyph variant for a given Unicode character.

    References

    CJK Unified Ideographs (Unicode block) Wikipedia