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
RangeU+1F200..U+1F2FF
(256 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsHiragana (1 char.)
Common (63 char.)
Assigned64 code points
Unused192 reserved code points
Source standardsARIB 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 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,
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement

Block

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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

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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

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  4. ^ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  5. ^ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.