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Enclosed CJK Letters and Months

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Plane
  
BMP

Unused
  
2 reserved code points

Assigned
  
254 code points

Source standards
  
ARIB STD-B24

Range
  
U+3200..U+32FF (256 code points)

Scripts
  
Hangul (62 char.) Katakana (47 char.) Common (145 char.)

Enclosed CJK Letters and Months is a Unicode block containing circled and parenthesized Katakana, Hangul, and CJK ideographs. During the unification with ISO 10646 for version 1.1, the Japanese Industrial Standard Symbol was reassigned from the code point U+32FF at the end of the block to U+3004. Also included in the block are miscellaneous glyphs that would more likely fit in CJK Compatibility or Enclosed Alphanumerics: a few unit abbreviations, circled numbers from 21 to 50, and circled multiples of 10 from 10 to 80 enclosed in black squares (representing speed limit signs).

The Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block contains two emoji: U+3297 and U+3299.

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.

References

Enclosed CJK Letters and Months Wikipedia