Unicode is a standardized encoding system for representing text in computers and other devices. It assigns a unique number, called a code point, to each character in a character set. Unicode groups and blocks are ways of organizing and categorizing the code points.
Unicode groups are broad categories that group together code points with similar characteristics. Some examples of Unicode groups include alphabetical characters, punctuation, symbols, and emoji.
Unicode blocks are smaller, more specific ranges of code points that are used to represent specific characters or character sets. For example, there is a block for basic Latin characters, another block for Greek characters, and another block for Chinese characters.
Each code point is assigned to a specific Unicode block based on the character or set of characters it represents. This organization allows for efficient encoding and decoding of text, as well as easier search and retrieval of specific characters.
Group name | Block ranges |
---|---|
Basic Latin | U+0 - U+7F |
Latin-1 Supplement | U+80 - U+FF |
Latin Extended-A | U+100 - U+17F |
Latin Extended-B | U+180 - U+24F |
IPA Extensions | U+250 - U+2AF |
Spacing Modifier Letters | U+2B0 - U+2FF |
Combining Diacritical Marks | U+300 - U+36F |
Greek and Coptic | U+370 - U+3FF |
Cyrillic | U+400 - U+4FF |
Cyrillic Supplement | U+500 - U+527 |
Armenian | U+531 - U+58A |
Hebrew | U+591 - U+5F4 |
Arabic | U+600 - U+6FF |
Syriac | U+700 - U+74F |
Arabic Supplement | U+750 - U+77F |
Thaana | U+780 - U+7B1 |
NKo | U+7C0 - U+7FA |
Samaritan | U+800 - U+83E |
Mandaic | U+840 - U+85E |
Devanagari | U+900 - U+97F |
Bengali | U+981 - U+9FB |
Gurmukhi | U+A01 - U+A75 |
Gujarati | U+A81 - U+AF1 |
Oriya | U+B01 - U+B77 |
Tamil | U+B82 - U+BFA |
Telugu | U+C01 - U+C7F |
Kannada | U+C82 - U+CF2 |
Malayalam | U+D02 - U+D7F |
Sinhala | U+D82 - U+DF4 |
Thai | U+E01 - U+E5B |
Lao | U+E81 - U+EDD |
Tibetan | U+F00 - U+FDA |
Myanmar | U+1000 - U+109F |
Georgian | U+10A0 - U+10FC |
Hangul Jamo | U+1100 - U+11FF |
Ethiopic | U+1200 - U+137C |
Ethiopic Supplement | U+1380 - U+1399 |
Cherokee | U+13A0 - U+13F4 |
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics | U+1400 - U+167F |
Ogham | U+1680 - U+169C |
Runic | U+16A0 - U+16F0 |
Tagalog | U+1700 - U+1714 |
Hanunoo | U+1720 - U+1736 |
Buhid | U+1740 - U+1753 |
Tagbanwa | U+1760 - U+1773 |
Khmer | U+1780 - U+17F9 |
Mongolian | U+1800 - U+18AA |
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended | U+18B0 - U+18F5 |
Limbu | U+1900 - U+194F |
Tai Le | U+1950 - U+1974 |
New Tai Lue | U+1980 - U+19DF |
Khmer Symbols | U+19E0 - U+19FF |
Buginese | U+1A00 - U+1A1F |
Tai Tham | U+1A20 - U+1AAD |
Balinese | U+1B00 - U+1B7C |
Sundanese | U+1B80 - U+1BB9 |
Batak | U+1BC0 - U+1BFF |
Lepcha | U+1C00 - U+1C4F |
Ol Chiki | U+1C50 - U+1C7F |
Vedic Extensions | U+1CD0 - U+1CF2 |
Phonetic Extensions | U+1D00 - U+1D7F |
Phonetic Extensions Supplement | U+1D80 - U+1DBF |
Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement | U+1DC0 - U+1DFF |
Latin Extended Additional | U+1E00 - U+1EFF |
Greek Extended | U+1F00 - U+1FFE |
General Punctuation | U+2000 - U+206F |
Superscripts and Subscripts | U+2070 - U+209C |
Currency Symbols | U+20A0 - U+20B9 |
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols | U+20D0 - U+20F0 |
Letterlike Symbols | U+2100 - U+214F |
Number Forms | U+2150 - U+2189 |
Arrows | U+2190 - U+21FF |
Mathematical Operators | U+2200 - U+22FF |
Miscellaneous Technical | U+2300 - U+23F3 |
Control Pictures | U+2400 - U+2426 |
Optical Character Recognition | U+2440 - U+244A |
Enclosed Alphanumerics | U+2460 - U+24FF |
Box Drawing | U+2500 - U+257F |
Block Elements | U+2580 - U+259F |
Geometric Shapes | U+25A0 - U+25FF |
Miscellaneous Symbols | U+2600 - U+26FF |
Dingbats | U+2701 - U+27BF |
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A | U+27C0 - U+27EF |
Supplemental Arrows-A | U+27F0 - U+27FF |
Braille Patterns | U+2800 - U+28FF |
Supplemental Arrows-B | U+2900 - U+297F |
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B | U+2980 - U+29FF |
Supplemental Mathematical Operators | U+2A00 - U+2AFF |
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows | U+2B00 - U+2B59 |
Glagolitic | U+2C00 - U+2C5E |
Latin Extended-C | U+2C60 - U+2C7F |
Coptic | U+2C80 - U+2CFF |
Georgian Supplement | U+2D00 - U+2D25 |
Tifinagh | U+2D30 - U+2D7F |
Ethiopic Extended | U+2D80 - U+2DDE |
Cyrillic Extended-A | U+2DE0 - U+2DFF |
Supplemental Punctuation | U+2E00 - U+2E31 |
CJK Radicals Supplement | U+2E80 - U+2EF3 |
Kangxi Radicals | U+2F00 - U+2FD5 |
Ideographic Description Characters | U+2FF0 - U+2FFB |
CJK Symbols and Punctuation | U+3000 - U+303F |
Hiragana | U+3041 - U+309F |
Katakana | U+30A0 - U+30FF |
Bopomofo | U+3105 - U+312D |
Hangul Compatibility Jamo | U+3131 - U+318E |
Kanbun | U+3190 - U+319F |
Bopomofo Extended | U+31A0 - U+31BA |
CJK Strokes | U+31C0 - U+31E3 |
Katakana Phonetic Extensions | U+31F0 - U+31FF |
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months | U+3200 - U+32FE |
CJK Compatibility | U+3300 - U+33FF |
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A | U+3400 - U+4DB5 |
Yijing Hexagram Symbols | U+4DC0 - U+4DFF |
CJK Unified Ideographs | U+4E00 - U+9FCB |
Yi Syllables | U+A000 - U+A48C |
Yi Radicals | U+A490 - U+A4C6 |
Lisu | U+A4D0 - U+A4FF |
Vai | U+A500 - U+A62B |
Cyrillic Extended-B | U+A640 - U+A697 |
Bamum | U+A6A0 - U+A6F7 |
Modifier Tone Letters | U+A700 - U+A71F |
Latin Extended-D | U+A720 - U+A7FF |
Syloti Nagri | U+A800 - U+A82B |
Common Indic Number Forms | U+A830 - U+A839 |
Phags-pa | U+A840 - U+A877 |
Saurashtra | U+A880 - U+A8D9 |
Devanagari Extended | U+A8E0 - U+A8FB |
Kayah Li | U+A900 - U+A92F |
Rejang | U+A930 - U+A95F |
Hangul Jamo Extended-A | U+A960 - U+A97C |
Javanese | U+A980 - U+A9DF |
Cham | U+AA00 - U+AA5F |
Myanmar Extended-A | U+AA60 - U+AA7B |
Tai Viet | U+AA80 - U+AADF |
Ethiopic Extended-A | U+AB01 - U+AB2E |
Meetei Mayek | U+ABC0 - U+ABF9 |
Hangul Syllables | U+AC00 - U+D7A3 |
Hangul Jamo Extended-B | U+D7B0 - U+D7FB |
High Surrogates | U+D800 - U+DB7F |
High Private Use Surrogates | U+DB80 - U+DBFF |
Low Surrogates | U+DC00 - U+DFFF |
Private Use Area | U+E000 - U+F8FF |
CJK Compatibility Ideographs | U+F900 - U+FAD9 |
Alphabetic Presentation Forms | U+FB00 - U+FB4F |
Arabic Presentation Forms-A | U+FB50 - U+FDFD |
Variation Selectors | U+FE00 - U+FE0F |
Vertical Forms | U+FE10 - U+FE19 |
Combining Half Marks | U+FE20 - U+FE26 |
CJK Compatibility Forms | U+FE30 - U+FE4F |
Small Form Variants | U+FE50 - U+FE6B |
Arabic Presentation Forms-B | U+FE70 - U+FEFF |
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | U+FF01 - U+FFEE |
Specials | U+FFF9 - U+FFFD |
Linear B Syllabary | U+10000 - U+1005D |
Linear B Ideograms | U+10080 - U+100FA |
Aegean Numbers | U+10100 - U+1013F |
Ancient Greek Numbers | U+10140 - U+1018A |
Ancient Symbols | U+10190 - U+1019B |
Phaistos Disc | U+101D0 - U+101FD |
Lycian | U+10280 - U+1029C |
Carian | U+102A0 - U+102D0 |
Old Italic | U+10300 - U+10323 |
Gothic | U+10330 - U+1034A |
Ugaritic | U+10380 - U+1039F |
Old Persian | U+103A0 - U+103D5 |
Deseret | U+10400 - U+1044F |
Shavian | U+10450 - U+1047F |
Osmanya | U+10480 - U+104A9 |
Cypriot Syllabary | U+10800 - U+1083F |
Imperial Aramaic | U+10840 - U+1085F |
Phoenician | U+10900 - U+1091F |
Lydian | U+10920 - U+1093F |
Kharoshthi | U+10A00 - U+10A58 |
Old South Arabian | U+10A60 - U+10A7F |
Avestan | U+10B00 - U+10B3F |
Inscriptional Parthian | U+10B40 - U+10B5F |
Inscriptional Pahlavi | U+10B60 - U+10B7F |
Old Turkic | U+10C00 - U+10C48 |
Rumi Numeral Symbols | U+10E60 - U+10E7E |
Brahmi | U+11000 - U+1106F |
Kaithi | U+11080 - U+110C1 |
Cuneiform | U+12000 - U+1236E |
Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation | U+12400 - U+12473 |
Egyptian Hieroglyphs | U+13000 - U+1342E |
Bamum Supplement | U+16800 - U+16A38 |
Kana Supplement | U+1B000 - U+1B001 |
Byzantine Musical Symbols | U+1D000 - U+1D0F5 |
Musical Symbols | U+1D100 - U+1D1DD |
Ancient Greek Musical Notation | U+1D200 - U+1D245 |
Tai Xuan Jing Symbols | U+1D300 - U+1D356 |
Counting Rod Numerals | U+1D360 - U+1D371 |
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols | U+1D400 - U+1D7FF |
Mahjong Tiles | U+1F000 - U+1F02B |
Domino Tiles | U+1F030 - U+1F093 |
Playing Cards | U+1F0A0 - U+1F0DF |
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement | U+1F100 - U+1F1FF |
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement | U+1F200 - U+1F251 |
Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs | U+1F300 - U+1F5FF |
Emoticons | U+1F601 - U+1F64F |
Transport And Map Symbols | U+1F680 - U+1F6C5 |
Alchemical Symbols | U+1F700 - U+1F773 |
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B | U+20000 - U+2A6D6 |
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C | U+2A700 - U+2B734 |
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D | U+2B740 - U+2B81D |
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement | U+2F800 - U+2FA1D |
Tags | U+E0001 - U+E007F |
Variation Selectors Supplement | U+E0100 - U+E01EF |
Supplementary Private Use Area-A | U+F0000 - U+FFFFD |
Supplementary Private Use Area-B | U+100000 - U+10FFFD |