CJK Symbols and Punctuation

For a list of all CJK characters encoded in Unicode, see CJK Unified Ideographs.

For other uses, see East Asian punctuation.

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.

CJK Symbols and Punctuation
Range	U+3000..U+303F (64 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Han (15 char.) Hangul (2 char.) Common (43 char.) Inherited (4 char.)
Assigned	64 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	56 (+56)
1.0.1 (1992)	56 (+0)
1.1 (1993)	57 (+1)
3.0 (1999)	61 (+4)
3.2 (2002)	64 (+3)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2] In Unicode 1.0.1, during the process of unifying with ISO 10646, the "IDEOGRAPHIC DITTO MARK" (仝) was unified with the unified ideograph at U+4EDD, allowing the Japanese Industrial Standard symbol to be moved from U+32FF in the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block to the vacated code point at U+3004.[3]

Block

CJK Symbols and Punctuation[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+300x

ID  SP

、

。

〃

〄

々

〆

〇

〈

〉

《

》

「

」

『

』

U+301x

【

】

〒

〓

〔

〕

〖

〗

〘

〙

〚

〛

〜

〝

〞

〟

U+302x

〠

〡

〢

〣

〤

〥

〦

〧

〨

〩

〪

〫

〬

〭

〮

〯

U+303x

〰

〱

〲

〳

〴

〵

〶

〷

〸

〹

〺

〻

〼

〽

〾

〿

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

The block has variation sequences defined for East Asian punctuation positional variants.^[4][5] They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS01) and U+FE01 VARIATION SELECTOR-2 (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:

Expected behaviour of CJK quotation marks in vertical and horizontal text. The red registration corners mark the glyph metrics and show how the glyph aligns within the em-box of a CJK character.

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.^[6]

Emoji

The CJK Symbols and Punctuation block contains two emoji: U+3030 and U+303D.^[7][8]

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.^[9]

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:^[10][11][12]

• 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	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	IRG ID	Document
1.0.0	U+3000..3003, 3005..3037, 303F	56				(to be determined)
			L2/11-402			Iancu, Laurențiu (2011-10-20), Proposal to change the General_Category of Hangul tone marks U+302E and U+302F
			L2/14-198	N4606		Komatsu, Hiroyuki (2014-08-06), Proposal for the modification of the sample character layout of WAVE_DASH (U+301C)
			L2/14-177			Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "WAVE_DASH (B.15.3)", UTC #140 Minutes
			L2/16-052	N4603 (pdf, doc)		Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.11v", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63, Reverse the shape of current glyph for 301C WAVE DASH as requested in document N4606
			L2/17-056			Lunde, Ken (2017-02-13), Proposal to add standardized variation sequences
			L2/17-436			Lunde, Ken (2018-01-21), Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for fullwidth East Asian punctuation
			L2/18-039			Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "24. Fullwidth East Asian Punctuation", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals
			L2/18-115			Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Consensus 154-C17", UTC #155 Minutes, Add 16 standardized variation sequences based on L2/17-436R, for Unicode 12.0.
			L2/23-167			Koo, Night (2023-07-01), Proposal to update representative glyph of U+3029 SUZHOU NUMERAL NINE
			L2/23-227			Chan, Eiso (2023-10-07), Feedback on L2/23-167 (Proposal to update representative glyph of U+3029 SUZHOU NUMERAL NINE)
			L2/23-237R			Lunde, Ken (2023-11-02), "14 [Affects U+3029]", CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #177 Meeting
			L2/23-231			Constable, Peter (2023-12-08), "Section 14 [Affects U+3029]", UTC #177 Minutes
			L2/23-281			Koo, Night (2023-11-28), Update Suzhou numerals in CJK Symbols font (GitHub issue) [Affects U+3021-3029]
			L2/24-012			Lunde, Ken (2024-01-11), "19 [Affects U+3021-3029]", CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #178 Meeting
			L2/24-006			Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), "Section 19 [Affects U+3021-3029]", UTC #178 Minutes
1.0.1	U+3004	1				(to be determined)
3.0	U+3038..303A	3	L2/97-017	N1182	N202	Proposal to add 210 KangXi Radicals and 3 HANGZHOU Numbers in BMP for compatibility, 1995-03-23
				N1203		Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.11", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
				N1303 (html, doc)		Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo
			L2/97-284	N1629	N486	Zhang, Zhoucai (1997-07-07), Kangxi Radicals and Hangzhou Numerals
			L2/97-255R			Aliprand, Joan (1997-12-03), "4.B.1 Hangzhou Numerals", Approved Minutes – UTC #73 & L2 #170 joint meeting, Palo Alto, CA – August 4-5, 1997, Motion [#73-M9]: That the UTC concurs with SC2/WG2 Resolution M32.11, and accepts the 3 Hangzhou numeral characters.
			L2/98-112	N1629R		Zhang, Zhoucai (1998-03-19), Kangxi Radicals, Hangzhou Numerals
			L2/98-332	N1923		Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 15, AMENDMENT 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1998-10-28
			L2/99-073	N1968 (html, doc)		Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3213, PDAM ballot on WD for 10646-1/Amd. 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1999-02-08
			L2/99-119			Text for FPDAM ballot of ISO/IEC 10646, Amd. 15 - Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1999-04-07
			L2/99-232	N2003		Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), "6.1.1 PDAM15 - Kang Xi & CJK Radicals", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15
			L2/99-252	N2065		Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3311, ISO 10646-1/FPDAM 15 - Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1999-08-19
			L2/99-300	N2122		Paterson, Bruce (1999-09-21), Revised Text for FDAM ballot of ISO/IEC 10646-1/FDAM 15, AMENDMENT 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement
			L2/00-044			Summary of FDAM voting: ISO 10646 Amendment 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 2000-01-31
			L2/23-281			Koo, Night (2023-11-28), "19:none", Update Suzhou numerals in CJK Symbols font (GitHub issue)
			L2/24-012			Lunde, Ken (2024-01-11), "19", CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #178 Meeting
			L2/24-006			Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), "Section 19", UTC #178 Minutes
	U+303E	1		N1431	N406, N406A	Ideographic Variation Mark, 1996-06-27
				N1453		Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), "9.7 Ideographic Variation Mark", WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31
			L2/97-023	N1486	N437	IRG #8 Resolutions, 1997-01-16
				N1489		Supplement to Ideographic Components and Composition Schemes, 1997-01-16
				N1490	N436	"Response related to N1431 (Ideographic Variation Mark)", Response to WG2 question on Ideographic Structure Characters, 1997-01-16
			L2/97-024	N1491		IRG proposal: Ideographic variant character, 1997-01-19
			L2/97-030	N1503 (pdf, doc)		Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1997-04-01), "9.5", Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting #32, Singapore; 1997-01-20--24
			L2/97-114	N1544 (html, doc)	N453	Sato, T. K. (1997-04-08), Questions on the "Han structure method" described in WG2 N1490 (IRG N436)
				N1678 (pdf, doc)		Further explanation on Variation Mark, 1997-12-18
			L2/98-100	N1728		Ad-hoc report on ideographic variation indicator, 1998-03-18
			L2/98-158			Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-05-26), "Ideographic Variation Indicator", Draft Minutes – UTC #76 & NCITS Subgroup L2 #173 joint meeting, Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania, April 20-22, 1998
			L2/98-286	N1703		Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "9.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
			L2/98-321	N1905		Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 23, AMENDMENT 23: Bopomofo Extended and other characters, 1998-10-22
			L2/23-281			Koo, Night (2023-11-28), Update Suzhou numerals in CJK Symbols font (GitHub issue)
			L2/24-012			Lunde, Ken (2024-01-11), "19", CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #178 Meeting
			L2/24-006			Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), "Section 19", UTC #178 Minutes
3.2	U+303B..303D	3	L2/99-238			Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15
				N2092		Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13
			L2/00-024			Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised
			L2/00-098, L2/00-098-page5	N2195		Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee, 2000-03-15
			L2/00-234	N2203 (rtf, txt)		Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.20", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
			L2/00-298	N2258		Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2
			L2/00-342	N2278		Sato, T. K.; Everson, Michael; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-09-20), Ad hoc Report on Japan feedback N2257 and N2258
			L2/01-050	N2253		Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.16 JIS X0213 Symbols", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
			L2/01-114	N2328		Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3503, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000/PDAM 1, 2001-03-09
			L2/11-438[b][c]	N4182		Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429 Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents

See also

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