Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation

Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation
Range	U+16FE0..U+16FFF (32 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Han (4 char.) Khitan small script (1 char.) Nüshu (1 char.) Tangut (1 char.)
Assigned	7 code points
Unused	25 reserved code points
Unicode version history
9.0 (2016)	1 (+1)
10.0 (2017)	2 (+1)
12.0 (2019)	4 (+2)
13.0 (2020)	7 (+3)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation is a Unicode block containing symbols and punctuation marks used by ideographic scripts such as Tangut and Nüshu.

Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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A

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C

D

E

F

U+16FEx

𖿠

𖿡

𖿢

𖿣

KSS  F

U+16FFx

𖿰

𖿱

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

History

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

Version	Final code points	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
9.0	U+16FE0	1	L2/10-095	N3797, N3797-A, N3797-B	Final proposal for encoding the Tangut script in the SMP of the UCS, 2010-04-05
			L2/10-131	N3821	Anderson, Deborah; Cook, Richard (2010-04-16), Comments on Tangut proposal N3797
			L2/11-214	N4033, N4033A, N4033B	West, Andrew (2011-05-22), Report on Tangut Encoding
			L2/12-313	N4325	West, Andrew; et al. (2012-10-02), Proposal to encode the Tangut script in the UCS
			L2/14-023	N4522	West, Andrew; Everson, Michael; Xiaomang, Han; Jia, Changye; Jing, Yongshi; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2014-01-21), Proposal to encode the Tangut script in the UCS
			L2/14-100		Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "Consensus 139-C14", UTC #139 Minutes
				N4553 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.12b", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
			L2/16-129		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2016-05-05), Name change for U+16FE0
			L2/16-121		Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "Consensus 147-C20", UTC #147 Minutes, Change the name of U+16FE0 from TANGUT REPETITION MARK to TANGUT ITERATION MARK for Unicode 9.0.
10.0	U+16FE1	1	L2/09-170	N3635 (pdf, doc)	Ad hoc report on Nüshu, 2009-04-21
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
			L2/12-362	N4341	Updated Proposal for encoding Nyushu in the SMP, 2012-09-10
			L2/12-370	N4376	Aalto, Tero (2012-10-24), Nüshu ad hoc report
				N4451	Anderson, Deborah (2013-06-05), Mapping of Nushu characters (from N4376 and N4341) and Additional Comments
			L2/16-052	N4603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.03f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63, Rename 1B100 to NUSHU ITERATION MARK and move it to 16FE1 in Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation block
			L2/16-203		Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "B.11.3.2", UTC #148 Minutes
12.0	U+16FE2..16FE3	2	L2/17-310	N4847	West, Andrew; Chan, Eiso (2017-09-07), Proposal to encode two marks for ancient Chinese texts
			L2/17-367	N4885	Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa (2017-09-18), "4. Iteration/Punctuation marks", Comments on WG2 #66 (Sept. 2017) documents
				N4953 (pdf, doc)	"M66.16h", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
			L2/17-362		Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C11", UTC #153 Minutes
13.0	U+16FE4	1	L2/18-121R	N4943R	West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav; Everson, Michael (2018-05-19), Cluster Formation Model for Khitan Small Script
			L2/18-210	N4977	Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Constable, Peter; Moore, Lisa; Jeziorek, Marek; Yang, Ben (2018-06-09), "1", Comments on WG2 #67 documents (June 2018)
			L2/18-213	N5002	Anderson, Deborah; Constable, Peter (2018-06-20), Khitan Small Script Ad Hoc Report (London)
			L2/18-214		Silva, Eduardo Marín (2018-06-27), "KHITAN SMALL SCRIPT FILLER", Feedback on: Additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2017 (5th ed.) beyond Amendment 2 (L2/18-211)
			L2/18-241		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2018-07-20), "9", Recommendations to UTC # 156 July 2018 on Script Proposals
			L2/18-300		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2018-09-14), "9. b.", Recommendations to UTC #157 on Script Proposals
			L2/18-272		Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "C.10", UTC #157 Minutes
			L2/18-183		Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "C.12 Cluster Formation Model for Khitan Small Script", UTC #156 Minutes
				N5020 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "9.2.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
	U+16FF0..16FF1	2	L2/17-373R	N4915	Collins, Lee; Nhàn, Ngô Thanh (2017-11-06), Proposal to Encode Two Vietnamese Alternate Reading Marks
			L2/17-362		Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C20", UTC #153 Minutes
			L2/18-281	N5011	West, Andrew; Knightley, John; Chan, Eiso (2018-08-31), Comments on proposed Vietnamese Reading Marks
			L2/18-318	N5026	Collins, Lee; Nhàn, Ngô Thanh (2018-10-20), Response to L2/18-281 (Comments on proposed Vietnamese Reading Marks)
			L2/18-272		Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "C.6", UTC #157 Minutes
				N5020 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "9.1.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67

See also

• CJK Unified Ideographs
• CJK Symbols and Punctuation
• Khitan Small Script (Unicode block)
• Nushu (Unicode block)
• Tangut (Unicode block)
• Tangut Components (Unicode block)
• Tangut Supplement (Unicode block)