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Block

The block has variation sequences defined for East Asian punctuation positional variants.¹² They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS01) and U+FE01 VARIATION SELECTOR-2 (VS02):

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: U+3007 〇 IDEOGRAPHIC NUMBER ZERO. Although it is not covered under "Unified Ideographs", it is treated as a CJK character for all other intents and purposes.³

Emoji

The CJK Symbols and Punctuation block contains two emoji: U+3030 and U+303D.⁴⁵

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.⁶

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 10646:⁷⁸⁹

• 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:

See also

• Hangul Jamo (Unicode block)
• Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation

References

1. Lunde, Ken (2018-01-21). "L2/17-436: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for fullwidth East Asian punctuation" (PDF). https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17436r-sv-eastsian-punct.pdf ↩

2. "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.txt ↩

3. 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 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 ↩

4. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2024-08-15. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/ ↩

5. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2024-05-01. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt ↩

6. "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt ↩

7. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/Notice.pdf ↩

8. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09. https://www.unicode.org ↩

9. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html ↩

10. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ↩

11. See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10458-emoji-var.pdf ↩

12. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents /wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Pictographs#History ↩