CJK Compatibility Forms

A number of presentation forms encoded in this block are found in the Republic of China (Taiwan) national standard CNS 11643. These vertical forms of punctuation characters are provided for compatibility with those legacy implementations that encode these characters explicitly when Chinese text is being set in vertical rather than horizontal lines. The preferred Unicode encoding is to encode the nominal characters that correspond to these vertical variants. Then, at display time, the appropriate glyph is selected according to the line orientation.

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Unicode's CJK Compatibility Forms code block reserves the 32 code points from U+FE30 to U+FE4F, of which all 32 are currently assigned.

Combining Half Marks <-- CJK Compatibility Forms --> Small Form Variants

Number of characters added in each version of the Unicode standard :
Unicode 1.1 : 28
Unicode 3.2 : 2
Unicode 4.0 : 2

Number of characters in each General Category :

Punctuation, Connector  Pc :  5
Punctuation, Dash       Pd :  2
Punctuation, Open       Ps :  9
Punctuation, Close      Pe :  9
Punctuation, Other      Po :  7

All the characters in this code block are in bidirectional category Other Neutral ON

The columns below should be interpreted as :

1. The Unicode code for the character
2. The character in question
3. The Unicode name for the character
4. The Unicode General Category for the character
5. The Unicode version when this character was added

If the characters below show up poorly, or not at all, see Unicode Support for possible solutions.

 

CJK Compatibility Forms

     Glyphs for vertical variants

U+FE30   ︰   presentation form for vertical two dot leader Po 1.1

U+FE31   ︱   presentation form for vertical em dash Pd 1.1

U+FE32   ︲   presentation form for vertical en dash Pd 1.1

U+FE33   ︳   presentation form for vertical low line Pc 1.1

U+FE34   ︴   presentation form for vertical wavy low line Pc 1.1

U+FE35   ︵   presentation form for vertical left parenthesis Ps 1.1

sgml &OverParenthesis;

ref U+23DC   ⏜   top parenthesis (Miscellaneous Technical)

U+FE36   ︶   presentation form for vertical right parenthesis Pe 1.1

sgml &UnderParenthesis;

ref U+23DD   ⏝   bottom parenthesis (Miscellaneous Technical)

U+FE37   ︷   presentation form for vertical left curly bracket Ps 1.1

sgml &OverBrace;

ref U+23DE   ⏞   top curly bracket (Miscellaneous Technical)

U+FE38   ︸   presentation form for vertical right curly bracket Pe 1.1

sgml &UnderBrace;

ref U+23DF   ⏟   bottom curly bracket (Miscellaneous Technical)

U+FE39   ︹   presentation form for vertical left tortoise shell bracket Ps 1.1

ref U+23E0   ⏠   top tortoise shell bracket (Miscellaneous Technical)

U+FE3A   ︺   presentation form for vertical right tortoise shell bracket Pe 1.1

ref U+23E1   ⏡   bottom tortoise shell bracket (Miscellaneous Technical)

U+FE3B   ︻   presentation form for vertical left black lenticular bracket Ps 1.1

U+FE3C   ︼   presentation form for vertical right black lenticular bracket Pe 1.1

U+FE3D   ︽   presentation form for vertical left double angle bracket Ps 1.1

U+FE3E   ︾   presentation form for vertical right double angle bracket Pe 1.1

U+FE3F   ︿   presentation form for vertical left angle bracket Ps 1.1

U+FE40   ﹀   presentation form for vertical right angle bracket Pe 1.1

U+FE41   ﹁   presentation form for vertical left corner bracket Ps 1.1

U+FE42   ﹂   presentation form for vertical right corner bracket Pe 1.1

U+FE43   ﹃   presentation form for vertical left white corner bracket Ps 1.1

U+FE44   ﹄   presentation form for vertical right white corner bracket Pe 1.1

     Sidelining emphasis marks

U+FE45   ﹅   sesame dot Po 3.2

ref U+FE51   ﹑   small ideographic comma (Small Form Variants)

U+FE46   ﹆   white sesame dot Po 3.2

* sesame dots are used beside vertical text for emphasis

     Glyphs for vertical variants

U+FE47   ﹇   presentation form for vertical left square bracket Ps 4.0

ref U+23B4   ⎴   top square bracket (Miscellaneous Technical)

U+FE48   ﹈   presentation form for vertical right square bracket Pe 4.0

ref U+23B5   ⎵   bottom square bracket (Miscellaneous Technical)

     Overscores and underscores

U+FE49   ﹉   dashed overline Po 1.1

U+FE4A   ﹊   centreline overline Po 1.1

U+FE4B   ﹋   wavy overline Po 1.1

U+FE4C   ﹌   double wavy overline Po 1.1

U+FE4D   ﹍   dashed low line Pc 1.1

U+FE4E   ﹎   centreline low line Pc 1.1

U+FE4F   ﹏   wavy low line Pc 1.1

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