Enclosed Ideographic Supplement

Not to be confused with Enclosed CJK Letters and Months.

Enclosed Ideographic Supplement is a Unicode block containing forms of characters and words from Chinese, Japanese and Korean enclosed within or stylised as squares, brackets, or circles. It contains three such characters containing one or more kana, and many containing CJK ideographs. Many of its characters were added for compatibility with the Japanese ARIB STD-B24 standard. Six symbols from Chinese folk religion were added in Unicode version 10.

Enclosed Ideographic Supplement
Range	U+1F200..U+1F2FF (256 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Hiragana (1 char.) Common (63 char.)
Assigned	64 code points
Unused	192 reserved code points
Source standards	ARIB STD-B24
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)	44 (+44)
6.0 (2010)	57 (+13)
9.0 (2016)	58 (+1)
10.0 (2017)	64 (+6)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Enclosed Ideographic Supplement

Block

Enclosed Ideographic Supplement[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+1F20x

🈀

🈁

🈂

U+1F21x

🈐

🈑

🈒

🈓

🈔

🈕

🈖

🈗

🈘

🈙

🈚

🈛

🈜

🈝

🈞

🈟

U+1F22x

🈠

🈡

🈢

🈣

🈤

🈥

🈦

🈧

🈨

🈩

🈪

🈫

🈬

🈭

🈮

🈯

U+1F23x

🈰

🈱

🈲

🈳

🈴

🈵

🈶

🈷

🈸

🈹

🈺

🈻

U+1F24x

🉀

🉁

🉂

🉃

🉄

🉅

🉆

🉇

🉈

U+1F25x

🉐

🉑

U+1F26x

🉠

🉡

🉢

🉣

🉤

🉥

U+1F27x

U+1F28x

U+1F29x

U+1F2Ax

U+1F2Bx

U+1F2Cx

U+1F2Dx

U+1F2Ex

U+1F2Fx

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block contains fifteen emoji: U+1F201–U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F, U+1F232–U+1F23A and U+1F250–U+1F251.^[3][4]

The block has eight standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following four base characters: U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F and U+1F237.^[5]

Emoji variation sequences

U+	1F202	1F21A	1F22F	1F237
default presentation	text	emoji	emoji	text
base code point	🈂	🈚	🈯	🈷
base+VS15 (text)	🈂︎	🈚︎	🈯︎	🈷︎
base+VS16 (emoji)	🈂️	🈚️	🈯️	🈷️

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
5.2	U+1F200, 1F210..1F231, 1F240..1F248	44		N3353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
			L2/07-259		Suignard, Michel (2007-08-02), Japanese TV Symbols
			L2/07-391	N3341	Suignard, Michel (2007-09-18), Japanese TV Symbols
			L2/08-077R2	N3397	Suignard, Michel (2008-03-11), Japanese TV symbols
			L2/08-128		Iancu, Laurențiu (2008-03-22), Names and allocation of some Japanese TV symbols from N3397
			L2/08-158		Pentzlin, Karl (2008-04-16), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
			L2/08-188	N3468	Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2008-04-22), Collected comments on Japanese TV Symbols (WG2 N3397)
			L2/08-077R3	N3469	Suignard, Michel (2008-04-23), Japanese TV symbols
			L2/08-215		Pentzlin, Karl (2008-05-07), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
			L2/08-289		Pentzlin, Karl (2008-08-05), Proposal to rename and reassign some Japanese TV Symbols from L2/08-077R3
			L2/08-292		Stötzner, Andreas (2008-08-06), Improvement suggestions for n3469
			L2/08-307		Scherer, Markus (2008-08-08), Feedback on the Japanese TV Symbols Proposal (L2/08-077R3)
			L2/08-318	N3453 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
			L2/08-161R2		Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C17", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 186 Japanese TV symbols for encoding in a future version of the standard.
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
			L2/09-104		Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C21", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes
			L2/11-438[b][c]	N4182	Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
6.0	U+1F201..1F202, 1F232..1F23A, 1F250..1F251[c]	13	L2/09-025R2	N3582[d]	Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
			L2/09-026R	N3583	Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
			L2/09-027R2	N3681	Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
			L2/10-132		Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
			L2/15-050R[e][c]		Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji
9.0	U+1F23B	1	L2/15-238	N4671	Proposal to include additional Japanese TV symbols to ISO/IEC 10646, 2015-07-23
			L2/15-312		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2015-11-01), "10. Japanese TV symbols", Recommendations to UTC #145 November 2015 on Script Proposals
			L2/15-254		Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C30", UTC #145 Minutes, Accept U+1F23B plus the list of 18 ARIB symbols based on the consent docket L2/15-270, for encoding in Unicode 9.0.
				N4739	"M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
10.0	U+1F260..1F265	6	L2/14-278		Afshar, Shervin; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-11-01), Six New Symbols from Chinese Folk Religion
			L2/14-250		Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "Consensus 141-C28", UTC #141 Minutes, Accept the 6 symbol characters U+1F260..U+1F265 for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in L2/14-278R.
			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
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 Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621 See also L2/13-207, L2/14-054, L2/14-063, L2/15-051A, L2/15-051B

See also

• CJK Unified Ideographs
• Hiragana (Unicode block)
• Katakana (Unicode block)