Common Unicode Characters
The Common script designates punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, digits, and typographical glyphs used across global writing systems rather than belonging to any single script.
Other Scripts:
Script vs. Block Distinction: In the Unicode Standard, a Script identifies a functional writing system and frequently spans multiple distinct blocks (e.g. Common characters appear across 93 blocks). Conversely, a Block is merely a contiguous geometric range of code points that may contain characters belonging to different scripts.
Unicode Block Distribution
Characters belonging to the Common script are distributed across 93 distinct Unicode blocks.
"Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols"
996 chars
"Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs"
768 chars
"Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement"
695 chars
"Mathematical Operators"
256 chars
"Miscellaneous Technical"
256 chars
"Miscellaneous Symbols"
256 chars
"Supplemental Mathematical Operators"
256 chars
"Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs"
256 chars
"Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows"
254 chars
"Symbols for Legacy Computing"
250 chars
"Byzantine Musical Symbols"
246 chars
"Musical Symbols"
211 chars
"Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement"
200 chars
"Dingbats"
192 chars
"Supplemental Arrows-C"
171 chars
"CJK Compatibility"
168 chars
"Enclosed Alphanumerics"
160 chars
"Enclosed CJK Letters and Months"
146 chars
"Box Drawing"
128 chars
"Supplemental Arrows-B"
128 chars
"Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B"
128 chars
"Alchemical Symbols"
128 chars
"Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A"
120 chars
"Transport and Map Symbols"
119 chars
"Znamenny Musical Notation"
116 chars
"Arrows"
112 chars
"General Punctuation"
109 chars
"Geometric Shapes Extended"
103 chars
"Chess Symbols"
102 chars
"Domino Tiles"
100 chars
"Tags"
97 chars
"Geometric Shapes"
96 chars
"Supplemental Punctuation"
94 chars
"Tai Xuan Jing Symbols"
87 chars
"Playing Cards"
82 chars
"Emoticons"
80 chars
"Basic Latin"
75 chars
"Letterlike Symbols"
75 chars
"Indic Siyaq Numbers"
68 chars
"Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms"
66 chars
"Latin-1 Supplement"
64 chars
"Spacing Modifier Letters"
64 chars
"Yijing Hexagram Symbols"
64 chars
"Enclosed Ideographic Supplement"
63 chars
"Ottoman Siyaq Numbers"
61 chars
"Aegean Numbers"
57 chars
"Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A"
48 chars
"Ornamental Dingbats"
48 chars
"Phaistos Disc"
45 chars
"Mahjong Tiles"
44 chars
"CJK Symbols and Punctuation"
43 chars
"Control Pictures"
42 chars
"CJK Strokes"
39 chars
"Currency Symbols"
34 chars
"Miscellaneous Symbols Supplement"
34 chars
"Block Elements"
32 chars
"Modifier Tone Letters"
32 chars
"CJK Compatibility Forms"
32 chars
"Superscripts and Subscripts"
27 chars
"Coptic Epact Numbers"
27 chars
"Small Form Variants"
26 chars
"Counting Rod Numerals"
25 chars
"Kaktovik Numerals"
20 chars
"Mayan Numerals"
20 chars
"Number Forms"
19 chars
"Vedic Extensions"
16 chars
"Supplemental Arrows-A"
16 chars
"Ideographic Description Characters"
16 chars
"Kanbun"
16 chars
"Ancient Symbols"
13 chars
"Optical Character Recognition"
11 chars
"Common Indic Number Forms"
10 chars
"Vertical Forms"
10 chars
"Arabic"
6 chars
"Latin Extended-D"
5 chars
"Specials"
5 chars
"Greek and Coptic"
4 chars
"Tibetan"
4 chars
"Shorthand Format Controls"
4 chars
"Runic"
3 chars
"Mongolian"
3 chars
"Katakana"
3 chars
"Latin Extended-E"
3 chars
"Devanagari"
2 chars
"Hanunoo"
2 chars
"Hiragana"
2 chars
"Arabic Presentation Forms-A"
2 chars
"Arabic Extended-A"
1 chars
"Thai"
1 chars
"Georgian"
1 chars
"Kayah Li"
1 chars
"Javanese"
1 chars
"Arabic Presentation Forms-B"
1 chars
General Category Breakdown
Typological distribution of Common characters across formal Unicode general categories.
"So"
"So"
5,779
"Sm"
"Sm"
951
"Ll"
"Ll"
506
"No"
"No"
496
"Lu"
"Lu"
468
"Po"
"Po"
196
"Cf"
"Cf"
140
"Nd"
"Nd"
90
"Sk"
"Sk"
88
"Ps"
"Ps"
76
"Pe"
"Pe"
74
"Cc"
"Cc"
64
"Sc"
"Sc"
48
"Lm"
"Lm"
46
"Pd"
"Pd"
21
"Lo"
"Lo"
19
"Zs"
"Zs"
16
"Pi"
"Pi"
12
"Pc"
"Pc"
10
"Pf"
"Pf"
10
"Mc"
"Mc"
10
"Zl"
"Zl"
1
"Zp"
"Zp"
1
Unicode Version Additions
Timeline of when characters in the Common script were standardized in Unicode.
v"1.1"
1,952 characters
v"2.0"
1 characters
v"2.1"
2 characters
v"3.0"
92 characters
v"3.1"
1,531 characters
v"3.2"
779 characters
v"4.0"
272 characters
v"4.1"
146 characters
v"5.0"
55 characters
v"5.1"
327 characters
v"5.2"
218 characters
v"6.0"
992 characters
v"6.1"
34 characters
v"6.2"
1 characters
v"6.3"
4 characters
v"7.0"
710 characters
v"8.0"
60 characters
v"9.0"
100 characters
v"10.0"
85 characters
v"11.0"
228 characters
v"12.0"
211 characters
v"12.1"
1 characters
v"13.0"
283 characters
v"14.0"
167 characters
v"15.0"
49 characters
v"15.1"
5 characters
v"16.0"
747 characters
v"17.0"
70 characters