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General Punctuation
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General Punctuation is a Unicode block containing punctuation, spacing, and formatting characters for use with all scripts and writing systems. Included are the defined-width spaces, joining formats, directional formats, smart quotes, archaic and novel punctuation such as the interrobang, and invisible mathematical operators.
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Additional punctuation characters are in the Supplemental Punctuation block and sprinkled in dozens of other Unicode blocks.
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| General Punctuation[1][2][3] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+200x | NQ SP |
MQ SP |
EN SP |
EM SP |
3/M SP |
4/M SP |
6/M SP |
F SP |
P SP |
TH SP |
H SP |
ZW SP |
ZW NJ |
ZW J |
LRM | RLM |
| U+201x | ‐ | NB ‑ |
‒ | – | — | ― | ‖ | ‗ | ‘ | ’ | ‚ | ‛ | “ | ” | „ | ‟ |
| U+202x | † | ‡ | • | ‣ | ․ | ‥ | … | ‧ | L SEP |
P SEP |
LRE | RLE | LRO | RLO | NNB SP | |
| U+203x | ‰ | ‱ | ′ | ″ | ‴ | ‵ | ‶ | ‷ | ‸ | ‹ | › | ※ | ‼ | ‽ | ‾ | ‿ |
| U+204x | ⁀ | ⁁ | ⁂ | ⁃ | ⁄ | ⁅ | ⁆ | ⁇ | ⁈ | ⁉ | ⁊ | ⁋ | ⁌ | ⁍ | ⁎ | ⁏ |
| U+205x | ⁐ | ⁑ | ⁒ | ⁓ | ⁔ | ⁕ | ⁖ | ⁗ | ⁘ | ⁙ | ⁚ | ⁛ | ⁜ | ⁝ | ⁞ | MM SP |
| U+206x | WJ | ƒ() | × | , | + | LRI | RLI | FSI | PDI | I SS |
A SS |
I AFS |
A AFS |
NA DS |
NO DS | |
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
Several characters in this block are usually not rendered with a directly visible glyph. Ten whitespace characters—U+2002 through U+200B (fixed en or 1⁄2 em, em, 1⁄3 em, 1⁄4 em, 1⁄6 em, figure and punctuation space, variable thin or 1⁄5 em and hair space, fixed zero-width space)—and U+205F (math medium or 2⁄9 em space) differ by horizontal width, while U+2000 and U+2001 (en and em quad) are effectively aliases of U+2002 and U+2003, respectively; another two, U+202F and U+2060 (ill-termed word joiner), are variants of U+2009 or U+2004 and U+200B that prohibit line breaks. Three zero-width characters, U+200B through U+200D (space, non-joiner and joiner), differ in how they affect ligation and shaping of adjacent letters such as contextual forms in Arabic. Eleven invisible characters—U+200E, U+200F (left-to-right and right-to-left mark), U+202A through U+202E (embeds, pops and overrides) and U+2066 through U+2069 (isolates)—control the directionality of text unless higher-level markup overrides them. There are explicit line and paragraph separators at U+2028 and U+2029.
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Variation selectors
Starting with Unicode 16 (2024), the block has variation sequences defined for East Asian punctuation positional variants of the curly quotation marks ‘...’ and “...”. They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS01) and U+FE01 VARIATION SELECTOR-2 (VS02):[3]
| U+ | 2018 | 2019 | 201C | 201D | Description |
| base code point | ‘ | ’ | “ | ” | |
| base + VS01 | ‘︀ | ’︀ | “︀ | ”︀ | non-fullwidth form |
| base + VS02 | ‘︁ | ’︁ | “︁ | ”︁ | justified fullwidth form |
The non-fullwidth forms are expected to be separated with a space on one side, the fullwidth forms are not:
In vertical text, the fullwidth forms should display somewhat differently, and even as regular CJK quotation marks 「...」 and 『...』 if the vertical orientation property is set to "Hans":
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Emoji
The General Punctuation block contains two emoji: U+203C and U+2049.[4][5]
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]
| U+ | 203C | 2049 |
| base code point | ‼ | ⁉ |
| base+VS15 (text) | ‼︎ | ⁉︎ |
| base+VS16 (emoji) | ‼️ | ⁉️ |
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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the General Punctuation block:
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References
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