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Supplemental Punctuation Block

Range: U+2E00–U+2E7F Capacity: 128 code points Assigned: 94 characters Unassigned: 34 Plane 0 (BMP)

The Supplemental Punctuation block encompasses code points in the range U+2E00–U+2E7F within Basic Multilingual Plane.

New Testament editorial symbols

14 characters
U+2E00
CHARACTER
RIGHT ANGLE SUBSTITUTION MARKER
Po
U+2E01
CHARACTER
RIGHT ANGLE DOTTED SUBSTITUTION MARKER
Po
U+2E02
CHARACTER
LEFT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
Pi
U+2E03
CHARACTER
RIGHT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
Pf
U+2E04
CHARACTER
LEFT DOTTED SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
Pi
U+2E05
CHARACTER
RIGHT DOTTED SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
Pf
U+2E06
CHARACTER
RAISED INTERPOLATION MARKER
Po
U+2E07
CHARACTER
RAISED DOTTED INTERPOLATION MARKER
Po
U+2E08
CHARACTER
DOTTED TRANSPOSITION MARKER
Po
U+2E09
CHARACTER
LEFT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET
Pi
U+2E0A
CHARACTER
RIGHT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET
Pf
U+2E0B
CHARACTER
RAISED SQUARE
Po
U+2E0C
CHARACTER
LEFT RAISED OMISSION BRACKET
Pi
U+2E0D
CHARACTER
RIGHT RAISED OMISSION BRACKET
Pf

Ancient Greek textual symbols

9 characters
U+2E0E
CHARACTER
EDITORIAL CORONIS
Po
U+2E0F
CHARACTER
PARAGRAPHOS
Po
U+2E10
CHARACTER
FORKED PARAGRAPHOS
Po
U+2E11
CHARACTER
REVERSED FORKED PARAGRAPHOS
Po
U+2E12
CHARACTER
HYPODIASTOLE
Po
U+2E13
CHARACTER
DOTTED OBELOS
Po
U+2E14
CHARACTER
DOWNWARDS ANCORA
Po
U+2E15
CHARACTER
UPWARDS ANCORA
Po
U+2E16
CHARACTER
DOTTED RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE
Po

Ancient Near-Eastern linguistic symbol

1 characters
U+2E17
CHARACTER
DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
Pd

General punctuation

2 characters
U+2E18
CHARACTER
INVERTED INTERROBANG
Po
U+2E19
CHARACTER
PALM BRANCH
Po

Dictionary punctuation

4 characters
U+2E1A
CHARACTER
HYPHEN WITH DIAERESIS
Pd
U+2E1B
CHARACTER
TILDE WITH RING ABOVE
Po
U+2E1E
CHARACTER
TILDE WITH DOT ABOVE
Po
U+2E1F
CHARACTER
TILDE WITH DOT BELOW
Po

Brackets

12 characters
U+2E1C
CHARACTER
LEFT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET
Pi
U+2E1D
CHARACTER
RIGHT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET
Pf
U+2E20
CHARACTER
LEFT VERTICAL BAR WITH QUILL
Pi
U+2E21
CHARACTER
RIGHT VERTICAL BAR WITH QUILL
Pf
U+2E26
CHARACTER
LEFT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET
Ps
U+2E27
CHARACTER
RIGHT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET
Pe
U+2E28
CHARACTER
LEFT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS
Ps
U+2E29
CHARACTER
RIGHT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS
Pe
U+2E55
CHARACTER
LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH STROKE
Ps
U+2E56
CHARACTER
RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH STROKE
Pe
U+2E57
CHARACTER
LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH DOUBLE STROKE
Ps
U+2E58
CHARACTER
RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH DOUBLE STROKE
Pe

Half brackets

4 characters
U+2E22
CHARACTER
TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET
Ps
U+2E23
CHARACTER
TOP RIGHT HALF BRACKET
Pe
U+2E24
CHARACTER
BOTTOM LEFT HALF BRACKET
Ps
U+2E25
CHARACTER
BOTTOM RIGHT HALF BRACKET
Pe

Historic punctuation

22 characters
U+2E2A
CHARACTER
TWO DOTS OVER ONE DOT PUNCTUATION
Po
U+2E2B
CHARACTER
ONE DOT OVER TWO DOTS PUNCTUATION
Po
U+2E2C
CHARACTER
SQUARED FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION
Po
U+2E2D
CHARACTER
FIVE DOT MARK
Po
U+2E2E
CHARACTER
REVERSED QUESTION MARK
Po
U+2E2F
CHARACTER
VERTICAL TILDE
Lm
U+2E30
CHARACTER
RING POINT
Po
U+2E31
CHARACTER
WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT
Po
U+2E33
CHARACTER
RAISED DOT
Po
U+2E34
CHARACTER
RAISED COMMA
Po
U+2E3F
CHARACTER
CAPITULUM
Po
U+2E4A
CHARACTER
DOTTED SOLIDUS
Po
U+2E4B
CHARACTER
TRIPLE DAGGER
Po
U+2E4C
CHARACTER
MEDIEVAL COMMA
Po
U+2E4D
CHARACTER
PARAGRAPHUS MARK
Po
U+2E4E
CHARACTER
PUNCTUS ELEVATUS MARK
Po
U+2E4F
CHARACTER
CORNISH VERSE DIVIDER
Po
U+2E50
CHARACTER
CROSS PATTY WITH RIGHT CROSSBAR
So
U+2E51
CHARACTER
CROSS PATTY WITH LEFT CROSSBAR
So
U+2E52
CHARACTER
TIRONIAN SIGN CAPITAL ET
Po
U+2E53
CHARACTER
MEDIEVAL EXCLAMATION MARK
Po
U+2E54
CHARACTER
MEDIEVAL QUESTION MARK
Po

Palaeotype transliteration symbol

1 characters
U+2E32
CHARACTER
TURNED COMMA
Po

Palaeotype transliteration symbols

5 characters
U+2E35
CHARACTER
TURNED SEMICOLON
Po
U+2E36
CHARACTER
DAGGER WITH LEFT GUARD
Po
U+2E37
CHARACTER
DAGGER WITH RIGHT GUARD
Po
U+2E38
CHARACTER
TURNED DAGGER
Po
U+2E39
CHARACTER
TOP HALF SECTION SIGN
Po

Dashes

2 characters
U+2E3A
CHARACTER
TWO-EM DASH
Pd
U+2E3B
CHARACTER
THREE-EM DASH
Pd

Alternate forms of punctuation

3 characters
U+2E3C
CHARACTER
STENOGRAPHIC FULL STOP
Po
U+2E3D
CHARACTER
VERTICAL SIX DOTS
Po
U+2E3E
CHARACTER
WIGGLY VERTICAL LINE
Po

Double hyphen

1 characters
U+2E40
CHARACTER
DOUBLE HYPHEN
Pd

Reversed punctuation

2 characters
U+2E41
CHARACTER
REVERSED COMMA
Po
U+2E42
CHARACTER
DOUBLE LOW-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
Ps

Miscellaneous punctuation

2 characters
U+2E43
CHARACTER
DASH WITH LEFT UPTURN
Po
U+2E44
CHARACTER
DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK
Po

Typicon punctuation

5 characters
U+2E45
CHARACTER
INVERTED LOW KAVYKA
Po
U+2E46
CHARACTER
INVERTED LOW KAVYKA WITH KAVYKA ABOVE
Po
U+2E47
CHARACTER
LOW KAVYKA
Po
U+2E48
CHARACTER
LOW KAVYKA WITH DOT
Po
U+2E49
CHARACTER
DOUBLE STACKED COMMA
Po

Parentheses top and bottom halves

4 characters
U+2E59
CHARACTER
TOP HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS
Ps
U+2E5A
CHARACTER
TOP HALF RIGHT PARENTHESIS
Pe
U+2E5B
CHARACTER
BOTTOM HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS
Ps
U+2E5C
CHARACTER
BOTTOM HALF RIGHT PARENTHESIS
Pe

Oblique hyphen

1 characters
U+2E5D
CHARACTER
OBLIQUE HYPHEN
Pd

Supplemental Punctuation Technical Factsheet

Block Name Supplemental Punctuation
Canonical Code Point Range U+2E00 – U+2E7F
Decimal Range 11,776 – 11,903
Total Code Point Capacity 128 code points
Assigned Characters 94 assigned (73.4% allocated)
Unassigned Reserved Capacity 34 unassigned
Unicode Plane Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Primary Writing System / Script "Common"
Introduced In Unicode 1.0.0
Standard Specification Unicode Standard 17.0.0 (UCD Blocks.txt)

Writing Systems & Scripts in Supplemental Punctuation

"Common" 94 chars
100% of block Browse Script →

Character Categories in Supplemental Punctuation

"Po" "Po" 56 chars
59.6% of block Browse Category →
"Ps" "Ps" 9 chars
9.6% of block Browse Category →
"Pe" "Pe" 8 chars
8.5% of block Browse Category →
"Pi" "Pi" 6 chars
6.4% of block Browse Category →
"Pf" "Pf" 6 chars
6.4% of block Browse Category →
"Pd" "Pd" 6 chars
6.4% of block Browse Category →
"So" "So" 2 chars
2.1% of block Browse Category →
"Lm" "Lm" 1 char
1.1% of block Browse Category →

Unicode Version Additions Timeline

Unicode "4.1" 26 characters Explore → Unicode "5.1" 23 characters Explore → Unicode "5.2" 1 characters Explore → Unicode "6.1" 10 characters Explore → Unicode "7.0" 7 characters Explore → Unicode "9.0" 2 characters Explore → Unicode "10.0" 5 characters Explore → Unicode "11.0" 5 characters Explore → Unicode "12.0" 1 characters Explore → Unicode "13.0" 3 characters Explore → Unicode "14.0" 11 characters Explore →